Times are Changing

I am not sure where time is flying to and how quickly it is going. March has been a bit of a whirlwind for our family.

Dalton, you have become such a young boy, there is not much of a toddler left in you. You worked hard (so did mommy and daddy) and you have successfully been potty trained for the day time after doing a potty training boot camp! You did awesome, like we knew you would. You also have moved into a big boy bed and love it and are sleeping like a champ! We have had to do alot of playing inside because of the weather, so daddy has made our basement your playground with tunnels, swings, fish, your bikes, balls, karaoke machine and some toddler "tough mudder stuff". You and daddy got some fish while mommy was gone for a few days and you LOVE them!

Dalton, you have been taking some swimming lessons since January and WOW! You impress mommy and daddy every time. You are now in a 4 person class, wait your turn, jump in the water, flip on your back, float and get to the wall! You are amazing! You also have increased your vocabulary so much and are starting to have "real interactive " conversations with us. You are doing well in "school" and appear to be exceeding all of their expectations! You now can count to at least 10 in Spanish! What?!?!?

You continue to increase your sense of independence and want to do almost everything on your own and become frustrated with us when we do it for you, but we are working through that. You are getting more and more of a personality and we think we are getting a glimpse into what you might be as a teenager and adult. You are truly funny and have us laughing a lot of time. You are a cuddle bug and want to be near us a lot of the time. You truly love your back being rubbed by mommy and request it. You play with mommy's hair. You kiss our booboos when we get hurt and show us compassion and concern when we are hurt or sad. You still love to have books read to you and you love being goofy with daddy especially in the morning. You bring us such joy and we are so happy with you in our lives! We are so proud of the little person you are today and who you will become!

The Miller/Hoffman family took a hug loss this month as well. On March 5, 2016, Nicole's father passed away. It is a big loss for our entire family. He was a great father and wonderful "poppy" who Dalton loved and adored. He will be truly missed but we know he is watching over us and will guide us daily! He promised to watch over you Dalton and help you play 1st base in Baseball. We promise you will continue to know your poppy through pictures, stories and memories!

We look forward to seeing what the rest of 2017 brings us!

Dalton's First Camping Trip

On Memorial Day weekend, we went camping! Dalton had a blast! He went in the creek several times, played in his pool, pet some horses, met new bugs (which he did not like), and ran around (most of the time barefoot)! Michael was able to kayak and fish! Nicole was able to relax and just hang out with Dalton! Dalton skipped his nap for the first time ever and he slept hard that night! It rained on us, do not worry we were in the tent and it was amazing to sleep in the rain! It was a great time!!!!

Hi All! So it has been awhile since we have wrote on our blog. Sorry!!!! So what have we been up to??

Well August Michael went on a week long hiking camping trip to Oregon with his brother in law... He stated he was the best trip of a life time!

Then in we received the amazing news that Melissa, Jeremy, Molly, Samantha, Logan and Milo were moving to South Carolina... this is awesome for us! They now only live 4 hours from us!! Woo Hoo! We are Aunt Cole and Knuckle Michael!!! Michael's mother came down and we all got to spend some quality time together in SC!

Nicole's parents came to visit us with Max. We went to a Virginia Tech game and went to witness a Civil War Reenactment. 

We also went to Michael's first NFL game with Joe and Emily, The Giants vs Panthers..

Michael and Jeremy went to their first OSU Buckeye game together!!!!!

Michael built a brand new deck for the front of the house and we landscaped around it!

So that is the short of the last few months! It has been a busy few months but it has been a good few months! Thank you for reading!!!

Nicole & Michael

Update long overdue

Hello all...

It has been a long time since last posts. A lot has happened since last post..

Michael and Nicole got married in July 2012 in Lake Arrowhead , Ca. We had a blast!  After our wonderful wedding with family and friends we headed off to Fiji for our honeymoon. We had an amazing time!

In fall of 2012 Nicole took a teaching position adjunct at Jefferson School of Health and Science. ...taught introductory to psychology!

Our twin niece and nephew were born! They are doing awesome!


On bad news...our barn had a fire and we lost almost everything in it. We have rebuilt it making it better!

We have been enjoying being married and enjoying time with friends and family!

We will be updating blog more frequently!

Ohio/Michigan

We recieved bad news in Sept. My grandmother passed away, she is a better place and reunited with my grandfather. Though it was a negative reason it was a good weekend filled with family!!!!

We left on Friday and stopped at Michael's mother and stepfathers in Ohio. We had a fun night of catching up, eating at the Chatterbox and playing Euchre late into the night!!! It was a good night!!!

After leaving Ohio we drove to Michigan to see my family...

Again even though it was for a negative reason it was nice to see family at my grandmothers memorial!! It was nice for Michael to be able to meet them! We ate at my grandmothers favorite resturant and then went to Stuccis for ice cream!!! I miss you all. There are pictures below of my family!

Fall is Here... so is Winter

Hello all...

So with October coming to an end... thought I would update everyone. It has a little over two months since I have been in VA and I think I am adjusting well. Fall is pretty in VA.. the leaves are turning making my drive to work so much more enjoyable!!!

This month has been full! We have continued to bowl on Monday nights and I am slowly getting better with Michael's help. I have my own ball, thank you to Laurie!!!!

I have started up in going to the gym... (I have to be in wedding shape right??) Michael started to run, however he injuried his leg, so he was out for a few weeks.

We have worked on the house more, we painted the kitchen to finish it up and have changed some of the old doors to pretty white doors!!!


Unforunately, my grandmother passed away recently, please read the other post. We made a trip up to MI and Ohio to hang with family! Michael was able to me all my uncles and aunts and cousins!!!

We have gone to a festival at a winery, enjoyed watching football games (even if Michael and I are opposing teams) we can agree on the VT Hokies!!! We have celebrated a friends birthday and have enjoyed the fire pits to keep us warm.

Last weekend we went to the Pumpkin patch! We enjoyed good food, good company and had fun finding pumpkins. Michael went pumpking chukin!! We then came home and carved out pumpkins!!!
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We got our first frost warning.. ugh. We also have gotten our first warning of a shower of snow.. not sure what that is but I will let you kow!! Hence... winter is approaching!!

I am looking forward to passing out candy for Halloween!!!

Happy Halloween All!!!!

Nicole and Michael

October is here.. meaning HALLOWEEN and Pumpkin Patches!!

So today I was very excited to go get my Halloween stuff out! It is my second favorite holiday!! Woo hoo! I am going to look to be adding to my collection.. will be hitting up Big Lots and Dollar Tree this week!!!

Additionally I am starting to look up pumpkin patches.. because I can not wait to go.. PUMPKIN PATCH!!!

Michael and I went to Lowes to get new doors for the house... he is currently working on replacing our doors. We are going with white! Woo hoo! Pictures will follow soon!

Happy October Everyone! May it be a spooky one!! :)