Monday, October 30, 2006

Grocery Shopping

2 comments Posted by The McMillins at 2:11 PM


Gretchen took Zach to get his pictures taken for his birthday! Then, she went grocery shopping right after that since she was already at Walmart. She had to get a lot of things for baking during the holidays. She got stopped many times for people to either talk to Zach or tell him or her how handsome he was. Everyone thought he was a adorable. Of course, he ate it up. He's SUCH a flirt!

While Gretchen was getting Zach's pictures done, Corey stayed home to pressure wash the house to clean it up. It was VERY dirty. We needed to get it done and Gretchen's parents are coming down this weekend so that just gave him an excuse to get it done. Gretchen scrubed the walls down with the "Magic Eraser". There were a lot of marks, scuffs and little fingerprints on the walls. She's got a lot to do this week!

 

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Fireman Zach!

0 comments Posted by The McMillins at 12:29 PM


This week has been pretty hectic. Corey just got off working 20 days. Finally, he has 4 days off. Gretchen has been busy trying to clean the house. She's trying to do some deep cleaning in the house.

We both got to go to Zach's school this week. They had the firemen there and we got to jump in there with Zach and be apart of it. We had fun and were glad that we could both attend with Zach. Corey even got to help one of the firemen.... WAY FOR HIM TO GET INVOLVED!! lol

We've been trying to get some Christmas shopping done. Gretchen wants to do a lot of baking this holiday season!

Gretchen has been going to the gym and has been on the "Fat Smash Diet" that Celebrity Fit Club uses. It works! She's lost 8 lbs so far. It's helping her eat healthier. That's the whole point of the diet anyway. It's really just changing your eating habits to eat healthier but this helps you do it in different phases. She wants to lose about 5 more lbs. SHE CAN DO IT!

Gretchen made some peanut butter fudge the other day and oh... was it good!! Everyone at Corey's work LOVED it! Gretchen had to cheat and have a few pieces. She couldn't miss out on that!

 

Friday, October 20, 2006

Zach is Sick

0 comments Posted by The McMillins at 3:39 PM

Gretchen was up until 2 A.M. last night making breakfast for her Bible Study for this morning. Zach woke her up at 5:30 A.M. this morning. So, she's pretty tired today.
Corey just got off of night work this morning. He had his Bible study at our house this morning after getting off work. So, Corey kept Zach at the house while Gretchen ran the food over to her Bible Study. She figured the other women wouldn't appreciate bringing a sick child to be around their kids. (I know we wouldn't like it)
Zach didn't want to take a nap today, even though he REALLY needed one today since he went to bed last night at 10:30 p.m. (b/c of being sick) and woke up at 5:30 a.m. So, she told him to lay down in his bed while we watched the Disney Channel. She rubbed his back and he was asleep within 5 minutes. He really needs his rest.
Nothing is really going on. Corey has been working a LOT of overtime the past 2 weeks. He's back on schedule now, though. Gretchen and Zach have only seen Corey 2 days in the past 2 weeks. It's been tough but we made it. Gretchen has been going Christmas shopping trying to get that out of the way so we can all enjoy the holidays. Plus, she wants to make sure she has plenty of time to do lots of baking and crafts! :)

 

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Christmas shopping!

0 comments Posted by The McMillins at 1:57 PM

Gretchen took Zach to school this morning. It's been so nice that she can have some time to herself and get things done. She went to the gym and then did some Christmas shopping and a little bit of birthday shopping. She's trying to find Diego party supplies so she doesn't have to order them online but it looks like she's going to have to.

She's been going to AC Moore almost everyday b/c she has these coupons that she can get scrapbooking supplies fairly cheap. She's doing a MARINE CORPS scrapbook for Corey. She's really gotten into scrapbooking... and cooking! Can you believe that? Plus, she wants to start sewing. Can you believe this is the same woman? lol

 

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Birthday Shopping

1 comments Posted by The McMillins at 7:08 PM


After dropping Zach off at school, we went to AC Moore. Corey was brave enough to go into the store with Gretchen. Gretchen had to get some stuff to scrapbook with. She's trying to do a scrapbook for Corey's Marine Corps Service. Also, Gretchen is still doing some more of Zach's. She just finished his whole first year.

Then, we went to Toys R Us. While we were there we got Zach's birthday gift from us, Gretchen's parents birthday gifts from them along with Christmas gifts from them. Gretchen's parents asked us to do his shopping for them so that they didn't have to haul it down here.

It was nice for us to spend some time together and to be able to do some shopping without Zach. We went out to eat together after we got done our shopping, read a couple chapters of this book that we are reading called, "Sheet Music" by Kevin Leman. Then, we picked Zach up from school.

When we get home from school, Zach always gets to eat lunch and then goes down for a nap (even though he doesn't always take one). Then, it's either scrapbooking time for Gretchen, snuggle time for Corey and Gretchen and/ or nap time for Corey as well. It's so nice to be able to spend time together as both a couple and as a family.

 

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

First Day!

0 comments Posted by The McMillins at 6:10 PM

Today was Corey's second day off, but felt like the first day since he had to sleep yesterday from coming off of night shift. He had Bible Study this morning while Gretchen took Zach to preschool for the first day. She's been really excited about Zach going. He's so smart and he really needs the socialization. It'll be good for him. It's at a christian preschool, which is even better.

The preschool is about 20 minutes away. So, Gretchen went shopping at AC Moore to look at scrapbooking stuff. She also got to do some birthday shopping for Zach, since his birthday is coming up and also did some Christmas shopping. It was nice to be able to do that alone. Tomorrow, Corey and Gretchen will be taking Zach to preschool which will give us some time alone.

When Gretchen and Zach got home this afternoon, we all had lunch together. Then, Zach and Corey took a nap. When they got up from their naps, the two of them went to go get a drink from the gas station together. Corey loves his Arizona Green Tea w/ Ginseng & Honey. They don't sell it at the grocery store so Corey has to go to the gas station to get it.

 

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