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Here you go, Nikki!

Happy 4th (yesterday) to you all! Nikki convinced me to put some pictures on my blog. Are you all in shock? We went to the Ann Arbor parade with my friend Becky, her husband Andres and her bro Kyle. Millie was afraid of most everything but she had fun.
We went to see fireworks at Whitmore Lake (about 20 min away). Millie was very tired, but she enjoyed herself.
This morning, we went on the bus to the farmer's market downtown. Millie really enjoyed that. We like to buy her a cup of fresh blueberries there, and she always looks forward to that.
That will do for today...

Here goes nothin'

I was very impressed that you all took the time to say hello and acknowledge my recent blogging. I feel important now. Nikki requested that I actually put some photos on my blog and that's what I'm going to attempt. We'll see how it goes.

This picture to the left (I hope it ends up being to the left) is of Millie in the bounce house at Relay For Life. Our family was on a team for this event in Ann Arbor last weekend. It was a lot of fun. It's a 24 hour event to raise money for the American Cancer Society. Scott Dewey, a member of our team, was able to get a company to let us borrow this bounce house so we could charge people at the events money to use it and then donate it. If you haven't participated in Relay before, I strongly encourage you to do so.




Hi. I am going through previous posts that i never published. i don't remember why i didn't publish them but i thought it would be fun to put them up, especially because i am not able to download new pics are this time. this is from 7-5-08

greetings on a windy day

Hello all you readers of my blog. If you read this, I don't require any comments except simply that you sign your name in the "comments" box so that I know you're still around. Can you do that for me? Also, I've lost track of a few friends blogs, and this will help me get back to them.

I have started to dry my clothes on a clothes lines and on drying racks outside. It's kind of fun to do this. I've also started to wash my dishes by hand quite often and it's quite therapeutic to put my hands in the water and wash stuff.

Millie laughs like a mad woman when I pretend to run into the wall and then I laugh at her like one because it's so funny.

Millie and I love to take rides around town- I ride the bike and she is toted around in the bike trailer on the back. She smiles and says "weeee" frequently.

Kyle and I went kayaking for our 6 year aniversary on Saturday. I'd never been before and it was so very fun.

That will do.

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So I always imagine what I would write in a blog post when I'm not at my computer. I can always think of really amusing things, but as soon as I sit down at my computer, nothing ever comes to mind- at all. But here I am writing anyways.
I like the blossoms in the spring. There is this tree by Kyle's school with purple blossoms on it. It that wasn't cool enough, I noticed yesterday that it also has blossoms all over the trunk and the branches, not just on the stems. It's a beautiful site.
Today I walked back from a BBQ at Ave Maria (Kyle's law school) and noticed that the lilacs are soon going to bloom. Lilacs are a favorite flower of mine- they're beautiful and they smell wonderful.
Today is Kyle's last day of classes, so he'll be getting super busy studying for finals starting...now. Tonight I will walk to the school to bring him dinner with a friend whose husband also goes to the school.
Okay, that will do it. Ta ta for now.

Happy birthday Nikki! I hope you have a great day and a rockin party or something. You could always fly out here to Mich tomorrow for Millie's party and we could do a double party. We're playing a fishing game with the kids that you could come and enjoy (where you fish for prizes and whatnot). I think you would enjoy it. Okay, I love you to pieces!
Tye mARIE

A life in the day of Tye

(note the title of this blog and how I messed it up- good times...)
Here is a brief synopsis of my day today, being Monday...

7:30- wakes up to the sounds of Millie
get Millie out of her diaper and into panties
sit on the potty so that Millie will sit on her little potty
listen to the sounds of Millie on the pot
Breakfast
8:15- time for Millie to go potty again
9:00- potty again
9:30- take Kyle to school
go to grocery store
- Millie potty at grocery store
10:00- put away groceries
- Millie potty
10:45- arrive at the Hands-On Museum in down town Ann Arbor (a way fun place for kiddos)
- Millie potty
11:45- Millie potty
- leave museum
12:00- feed Millie a PB & J on whole wheat bread with milk
12:30- Millie potty
1:00- Millie's nap (yeah! we use a diaper for nap time- otherwise, I don't think she'd have time to fall asleep before she needed to go pee again)
2:45- Arrival of Ben (3) and Lydia (1) Duckworth for me to babysit for an hour
3:00- Millie wakes up
Millie back in panties and potty again
3:45- Millie potty
4:30- Millie potty
say goodbye to Ben and Lydia
start making dinner which was stir-fry--- Millie loves stir-fry and we have a good time cutting up the veggies- I give her a butter knife and the scraps from the veggies and she has a good time stabbing them while I do the real cutting)
5:15- Millie potty
5:30- eat dinner (without Kyle because he had a late class tonight)
6:15- Millie potty- this time it was something real messy and real stinky so she went into the bath afterwards
6:30- bath
found out Kyle will be staying at school until late tonight to finish an assignment- this way he can come home early tomorrow and spend a couple hours with Millie and I- this will be great because Millie misses her busy daddy)
7:00- to bed (diaper on for night-time)
7:00-8:00- made phone calls to people about random things, sent emails for primary and my Thursday playgroup, and to my friend about doing yoga this week, etc.
8:00-8:15- read the Book of Mormon- I'm glad that Nephi listened to the Lord instead of his brothers even though they were so brutal sometimes.
8:15-9:00- cleaned (dishes, laundrey, pick up toys, etc)
9:07- writing this line in this blog
Rest of the night... Do yoga with videotape of Rodney Yee and then go to bed...

Now do you feel like potty training a child? That's what I thought... The hardest part is how sore my back is from bending over to help her 50 times a day. But I suppose it will be worth it. I've heard that most children this young cannot hold it any longer than Millie so I guess this is to be expected.

Wee ha!