The Mills Family: February 2010

Hello family and friends! Sorry it has been so long........

Here it is, 2010, and we are already a month and a half into it. Yikes! Happy belated New Year!!!

Libby continues to keep us busy and it is difficult to get any computer work done while she is awake. She likes to look at the pictures of herself on the "wallpaper" and hit the keys. If you ignore her, well, it doesn't always go over to well. Since today we are snowed in and didn't make it into work, Libby is napping, so I thought I would throw a quick update for all of you.

Libby in now 17 months and has moved from the infant room at daycare to the toddler room. We switched daycare providers as the one we are now with has the daycare contract with the new YMCA being built here in Alexandria, and we really wanted to get Libby in there. We loved the gals at the old daycare infant room, and felt bad changing, but we have been very happy with the toddler staff at the new place. Libby has become much more vocal now that she is around older kids, and will repeat words that she hears. Ball, car, night night, nana, no, good, hi and bye are used quite a bit right now, and she has said please along with several other words occasionally. She LOVES to dance right now, any type of music and any place, she will dance. It is so cute!!! We took her crib down a couple of weeks ago and put the toddler bed in her room. She loves the new bed and like being a "big girl". We have put the "potty chair" in the bathroom, and she like sitting on it, but that is with a diaper on. If we sit her on it before her bath, she is not too sure of her bare bottom falling down through the hole. I guess she is growing up fast....

December 2009 came and went very fast. It started out on a sad note as Troy's grandma on his dad's side (Rosa) passed away at the age of 92. It was a blessing though as she was not living the life she was used to. We miss her but know she is better off. But the month didn't slow down at all. On the weekend before Christmas, Troy's family decided to rent a few rooms at the Holiday Inn here in Alexandria and celebrate Christmas. It worked out very well at Abby and Maddy (Stacy and Dave's twins) and Libby got to swim and run around and play together. The adults even had a great time. Christmas Eve was spent with Denise's parents and Christmas Day with Denise's parents and sister and brother and law (Lisa and Eric) and their two girls, Emily and Anna. Libby, Emily and Anna had a blast together as they were chasing each other and hugging and wrestling in grandma and grandpa's living room.

2010 came in and we made the trip to Browerville to celebrate Christmas with Troy's mom's side of the family. Again, Libby, Abby and Maddy had a blast, along with Mason and Ayden.

Outside of that, it has basically been work that has consumed a lot of our time. Troy's job with PrimeWest continues to be busy and does not look to be slowing down anytime soon. Denise's job with Verizon has gotten busy as well as they are in the middle of a bunch of upgrades right now. This requires her to work several nights over a four week span, but at least she can do it from home. This week is the last week of it, hopefully for a while.........

We have been making it up to Bemidji for Bemidji State Hockey. We thought last year was a wild ride, but this year has been even better. With a 18-6-2 record, they are ranked #5 in the nation right now. It is also the last year for the John Glas Fieldhouse, the home of the Beavers for 43 years. Next year they will be moving into the Bemidji Regional Events Center, a 4500 seat arena, that will have individual seats instead of benches. I KNOW Denise is looking forward to that! We have our "seating assignment" time next Tuesday, and we have a good idea where we would like to sit. Hopefully it all works out.

That is about all from here, I guess. I will leave you with what you want to see anyway, pictures of Libby!!!!