Another, New Time Lapse Video

This one is different I promise. Check it out at my photography site:

http://caseyhyer.com/blog/?p=757

Finally walking

After pretty much refusing to walk, Millie got out of bed on Sunday and walked across her whole room. Then we got to church and she walked down the whole row. Then she walked all over the entrance of our church during Sunday School. And I'm pretty sure she loved it. She'll always give us this look like, 'I'm going for it'. Then she runs off squealing.

It's pretty cute to see her excited about running around.

She has been running while pushing one of these around for a while. But it will be nice to not have her crawling around dirty restaurants.

Pretty Busy

Millie is getting pretty mobile and is loving emptying out every container, cupboard, or drawer that she can find. She still has some serious stranger anxiety, but at home she is miss independent. Wandering from one spot to the next trying to figure out where everything is and how she can bring mass havoc and destruction everywhere she goes. Now we just need to figure out how to get this little lady to walk, then things can be even more chaotic!

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween everybody!

Halloween at Stampin Up

We are knee deep in Halloween here at Stampin Up. It is the biggest day of the year here. This year we did a Lord of the Rings theme and it was pretty amazing!

I have many pictures from the day but here is a sweet video in the mean time

Wheeler Farm Time Lapse

Here's another Time Lapse. For more info check out Casey's photo blog www.caseyhyer.com/blog/

Wheeler Farm Stop Motion from Casey Hyer on Vimeo.

Wheeler Farm Stop Motion from Casey Hyer on Vimeo.

New Time Lapse Video

So, I’ve been shooting more and more video lately, trying to learn all that I can and practice as much as possible. It has been a slightly slower process that I thought. Between all my other work, family, climbing and scouts it is kind of hard to fit it all in (that’s weird). I have done a few time lapse videos lately though. I just shot this one and was pretty excited to upload it.


There are photos from the shoot at my normal site: http://caseyhyer.com/blog/?p=745



Lake Mary Stop Motion Video from Casey Hyer on Vimeo.

14 months

Millie's life right now:

~ loves walking while holding on to our hands. she could do this all day and be content. she gets really mad if I make her sit down, all she wants to do is walk. Lately she has starting walking with the assistance of her little car, thank goodness.

~ She cruises around on all the furniture and has taken multiple steps on her own. She could walk full on but she's not interested. She is a speed crawler and that works just fine for her. I bet she wonders why anyone would be stupid enough to walk when they could crawl just as fast.

~ loves balls, dogs, sparkling water, black licorice, and showers.

~ gives the best open mouthed kisses. Besides people she kisses her stuffed animals, dolls, glow worm and our phones. That's right, our phones.

~ crawls around everywhere and gets into everything. She takes everything out of our drawers and cupboards. Our house is always a mess.

~ is very opinionated and knows just what she wants. If things don't go her way she can throw an impressive tantrum. Ask Casey to do an impersonation, it's pretty dead on. I'm trying not to raise a diva but man, she's got an attitude!

~ can say dad, ma ma, ball, duck, bob, backpack, map, boots. She can also repeat lots of words.

~ is the best sleeper ever! 12 hours straight at night and a 3 hour nap during the day. Thank you!

~ shakes her head no to just about everything and everyone.

~ has some major stranger and separation anxiety. She gets really mad if anyone besides me or Casey tries to hold her, pick her up, touch her or even look at her. She swats them away and is not very polite about it. There are a few people she will tolerate but not many.

~ Her two most favorite things are hanging out with her cousin Ethan and watching Dora. She also loves going on bike rides and playing outside.

~She is obsessed with Dora hence the words she can say. This is mostly my fault but not all of it. I need to start weening her off of it. She throws tantrums when she wants to watch it and I won't let her.

~ Has about 8 teeth. I'm not really positive because she doesn't like me looking. It was not a fun experience when 6 of them came in at the same time.

~ thinks she's pretty funny and will laugh at herself.

~ growls like a bear to scare us.

~loves listening to music and dancing. She likes to do this first thing every morning, and every evening before bed.

~ is either super sweet full of laughs and smiles, or she is over dramatic and emotional throwing a tantrum.

Tantrums or not, she is still stinkin' cute and we love her to pieces.

Wheeler Farm

I was reading Millie some animal books the other day and she was acting a little more interested, so I decided that we need to head off to see some of these animals that we have heard so much about.

It's weird to me that she will not really ever be on a farm because I grew up playing on both of my grandparents farms and loved it. I went to the hospital at least 12 times because of those awesome experiences. It's things like driving trackers when your 8, or driving trucks with your cousins pushing the clutch while you drive the steering wheel and shift because you can't reach the pedals, and jumping four-wheelers that mold kids.

On the other hand, I haven't seen too many kids around that have lost limbs due to farming accidents like I use to when I was a kid.

Liberty Park

It has been a great summer filled with many Liberty Park trips. We love it, it's super close, its huge, full of water features, swings and birds (Tracy Aviary).

Here are a few pics from a few weeks ago.

Millie loves this little room at Tracy Aviary full of birds. Especially this little guy to the right. He did nibble her finger shortly after this photo, but I think she forgives him.

She also like to drink the gross water that comes out of these fountains.

This is her bear crawl that she has been doing for the past few weeks. She has walked a little bit, but really sees no point in it. We try to get her to do it, but she just sits down as soon as she realizes what we're up to.

Millie's new place to hang out

Millie time-lapse video

This kind of sums up what happens at breakfast. Playing while eating, fighting the food, fighting with all her might as she gets her face wiped off, take a minute to forget why she was fighting, find something else to play with in the room. Then its all smiles until the next round.

Cousins

Here are a few of Millie's cousins. All of them are about a month apart. Pretty cute crew!

Millie's words at 13 months

These are most of the words that she really knows. She also knows duck (duck duck) but I forgot about that one.

Back from Dana Point

We just got back from seeing some of Alisa's extended family in Dana Point, California. It was good to see them since we don't get to see them very often. It was also really great to spend time with Alisa.

We also surfed, got burned, and went to the Getty in LA. Great trip guys!

Edvard Munch, Starry Night

The Dad Life

Dad Life from Church on the Move on Vimeo.


Thanks to Scotty-B for this find.

Alisa's Birthday!

Happy Birthday Alisa!
You are amazing! You are an amazing wife, Mother, and just all round person.

And after hiking, hanging out with your family and cleaning up a ton of throw-up....... I hope you had a good day!