miller family blog

2010-04-27T23:18:00.002-06:00

More pictures of Emalie. She is a blessing in our lives!Emalie was laying on the bed, talking to the princesses on the wipes. Emalie's first tub bath. she loved it. Four weeks old, I was trying to get a cute picture of her, but she kept sticking her tongue out. She has been doing that since the day she was born. It's too cute.

2010-04-27T22:46:00.003-06:00

EMALIE MAE MILLER

It's taken me a month, but in my defense, I do have a new baby. And here she is aking her blogspot debut!

2010-04-01T15:47:00.001-06:00

Just a quick note..... She's here. Emalie Mae Miller joined our family on Tuesday March 30, at 2:20pm, weighing 7lbs 4 oz, and 20" long. I will be posting pictures soon. Love to you all!

2010-03-13T09:39:00.001-07:00

Ok, so I oculdn't get the slide show to work onhere, so I am posting the link, so people can see pictures of Kaylie's baptism. Enjoy!!

http://www.slide.com/r/3j8QK-Jg2j8YraK641gzWY-d4jAJVJ_w?previous_view=mscd_embedded_url&view=original

2010-03-12T14:45:00.005-07:00

Well, so much for keeping up with the blog....... It has been a very busy couple of months around here. With work we have switched to a new system, so I have been traingin, refreshing, and working to do my part during cutover. All in all, It is a very different system, but I think it will benefit jetblue inthe log run. We made it through Christmas, and Kaylie's birthday, cutover, me working and doing mandatory overtime, and Kaylies baptism, so now we can relax and concentrate on the baby. I am now 37 1/2 weeks along, so we should have a baby in the next 2 weeks. But in the mean time I will try to fill ou in onthe last few months. In decembe Jessie and Cammi had the opportunity to go to Hawaii with my parents, what a fun and interesting experience for them. They took lots of pictures, and had lotsof fresh fruit and shaved ice. Cammi still talks about the Rambutans and Mangoes, and the yummy shave ice. Now she wants to go to BYU hawaii and work at the PCC. We'll see since she has some weird attachment to mom. It would be fun for her though. Jessie really enjoyed being out in the sun and at the beach. She has always loved being inthe sun. She collected lots of small shells and put together little bags with the footprnts poem for her friends and family. It was a really genuine and sweet thing to do. Her least favorite thing about Hawaii... getting chased by the chickens and roosters.

Christmas was an adventure. We had a little fun at the girls expense this year. WE knew what the girls wanted and messed with their heads a little. For starters Kaylie, was so disappointed when she unwrapped her pakage of light bulbs, Sobbing she said " I don't even know how to change alight bulb!!!" A few presents later she opened her easy bake oven, which was the reason for the light bulbs, She was VERY happy from that point on, but it was a clasic reaction. Cammi was jealous because I got a new phone, not any phone, but the one that she wanted. We have it all on tape too! Jessie, really wanted new converse shoes, so she was very excited and a little confused when she opened one box and found one shoe. I told her maybe Santa felt she needed to work on a few things and maybe she would get the other one for her birthday. Needless to say, she didn't have to wait that long. By the end of themorning, everyone was happy with their "loot". until dad found a few forgotten packages at the back of the tree. Jessie and Cmmi tore into them only to find them wrapped a few times, and again with tape. It was so funny watching them try to get through all the layers to find their prizes, a new upgrade for their phones.

2 pregnant bellies December 2009

Kaylie turned 8 in January, unfortunately, at this point, (mid march) we are still trying to find time for her birthday party, I know, I am a bad mom, but like I said things have been crazy. We travled down to St George at the beginning of February for Dakens Baptism and Kellans baby blesisng. It was so nice to see them and to spend the weekend with family. Aly rode down with us, so we made it a girls road trip, since both me had to work. WE had a bunch of fun!

Fast forward to the beginning of March, Kaylie got Bapised. It was a very nice uneventful weekend with mom and dad able to come up and our family joining us for a fun day. Kaylie asked her dad to baptize and confirm her, which he did proudly. Nana made her baptism dress, and it fit her perfectly. She looked so happy in her beautiful white dress, and was glowing. Like I said now we can relax and get ready for the baby. I know this is a long post, so I will finish up by adding some pictures. We love you all, and hope that we can get better at posting to our blog.

Love, the Millers!

2009-11-04T18:14:00.002-07:00

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE!!!
I have been really bad about keeping up with my blog lately, so I am vowing to get better. It's a work in process. So here is hte latest. We are now almost 19 weeks along almost half way there. All is going well. We had our ultrasound last friday. The Dr let us move it up a week so we could do it while mom was here. Baby is growing very good, laying sideways. I am not showing where I should be showing. My lower abdomen is still normal but the baby is pushing all my insides up and out so I am puffy above the belt. It's kind of funny. Most of you have heard by now, but I'll share for those who don't. The lord saw fit to bless us with another girl. So come spring, Emalie Mae will be joining out family.
On a lesser scale of exciting, our family has been visited by the swine flu. I think Cammi and Kaylie had a touch of it last week, but it hit me full on, on Saturday. Out of nowhere. So beware, it hits out of nowhere. After 2 days of pain, and severe sore throat, I finally went to the doctor and was diagnosed, now I am on Tamiflu. Hopefully it stops here and doesn't hit anyone else.
I will try to get some new pictures up soon, but you know me. Hope everyone had a happy halloween.

2009-09-22T10:39:00.002-06:00

It's me again, yes I am alive and kicking, although barely it feels. Life here never slows down. We have transitioned from allstars into fall ball, and soccer for Cammi. Steve's work schedule keeps hiim busy too. And to top it all off we found out we are pregnant back at the beginning of August. Yes it was a big surprize for us, one that we are still getting used to. We didn't tell anyone for a while. We have been dealing with all day sickness, and exhaustion. It is surreal and hasn't quite sunk in yet. I'll tel you if I'm excited when I am passed the sick part. The girls have put in an order for a little brother, I keep telling them I have no control over that, and it has already been decided. I am 12 weeks along now, so we should be able to find out sometime in the next 6 to 8weeks. Nice thing is that I am not showing yet, so people who don't know do not suspect anything. I figure there is only so long that we will be able to use the excuses we are using to play off why I am sick before people will figure it out. So tell me what are your guesses? Boy or Girl????

2009-06-08T13:56:00.002-06:00

It's been a month or two since I last posted. I have been busy coaching softbal, watching softball, and watching soccer. Never a dull moment around here. We are all alive and kicking. Some more than others. Ahh the teenage years. Jessie and Cammi are out of school and Kaylie gets out this Friday. I will post pictures as soon as I upload them tomy computer. So until then, ALOHA!

2009-03-31T13:21:00.004-06:00

OK OK OK! It's been a while since I last posted, but I can honestly say that winter up here,makes you hibernate! So that's what I did. I keep trying to wake up to spring but spring just wont cooperate! Here are some pics from our last family outing, down to Cedar City for Felicity's baby blessing.

Felicity Ann Hall

A nice pic of me and Jessie. It took a lot to get her to smile, and not be goofy. Just hanging out, still sleep deprived.

Cammi always seems to have a smile on her face. She is very mellow, and easy going. This pic really shows her personality.

Cammi my little goober!
Kaylie looking cute as always! I love her big Blue eyes.

I had to put this pic in. my two cute little nephews from down south. Boy do I come from a good looking family!

We went to the circus when we got back from the blessing. Here is a shot of both girls looking a little tired but pretty nice at the same time.

Just a cute pic of me and Will. He is so photogenic. I love his eyes!

2009-01-04T19:38:00.004-07:00

Their view of the game.

Nice seats. Thanks John.

'Nuff said!!

GO UTES! THAT'S HOW WE ROLL, TIDE!

Wow what an awesome game. Stephen and the guys had a blast and they were even shown on national tv for abour 3 seconds. In my last post I mentioned the adventure we had getting to New Orleans, well... That was nothing compared to the adventure getting home. We have to change status 4 hours before our flight time, so we had to do that at 2:10 am. So instead of getting some sleep we just stayed up and got changed over. We then packed up and left for the airport. So with no sleep we boarded our flight to New York, I was asleep before we finished taxiying to take off. and slept until we started our descent into New York. We had to stay in the airport until the checkin for the next lfight even though we knew we weren't going to get on. Once we did that we had to roll over to the next flight. That's when we were going to go into the city and have some fun, BUT... The agent that moved us over put us on the wrong flight, so we had to fix that, then the sequence got all mixed up, sequence in huge because it determines the order that you get on the plane and get your seat. Once all that was finished, we didn't have enough time to get into the city. so we just hung out in the airport. THEN... our flight was delayed an hour and a half. So after hanging in the new JetBlue terminal 5 for more than 12 hours, we finally boarded our flight, had a 30 min taxi time, and finally arrived in Salt Lake approx 2am. Was it worth it?? Yes, since Utah won, it was totally worth it! I have tons of pictures to add not too. Enjoy our little bit of the French Quarter, New Orleans!

The French Quarter has some incredible history and architecture.

During the day Bourbon street is quite nice. I wouldn't venture out after dark though. We went the night before, and it was sin central!

2009-01-02T20:33:00.002-07:00

SUGAR BOWL OR BUST!!!

We have some friends who are die hard Utah fans. So when they found out Utah was going to the Sugar bowl they invited Steve and Ben to come along with them. Our adventure... and I do not use the term lightly, began on New years eve. we had to list on the night fight so we could roll over to teh flight the next morning. We ended up flying out of SLC to Las Vegas, then to JFK, then to New Orleans. Needless to say it was a LONG day! We left slc at 9:10am and got into New Orleans at 10:30pm, SO far the UTES are winning, soon begins the new adventure of getting home.

2008-12-25T19:26:00.000-07:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!!

2008-12-05T11:23:00.003-07:00

FESTIVAL OF TREES

Every year there is a huge fundraiser for Primary Childrens hospital. It's called hte Festival of Trees, the first week of December. It is amazing! people and organizations donate decorated trees of all sizes, wreaths, gingerbread houses, and decorations, then they are auctioned off with all proceeds going to the hospital. Aly invited me to go the other day, and it taked almost 2 hours to go through everything. It is a huge exposition center, think convention center large scale, and it is filled from end to end with Christmas! We got a few pics of the trees that we really enjoyed, hope you like them too. There was an amazing blown glass tree with lights inside programed to music, with blown glass flower ornaments. A wooden tree with small cue balls rolling around it, I can't remember what the technical name is for it, and of course a JetBlue decorated tree.

2008-11-19T17:29:00.001-07:00

2008-11-19T17:26:00.003-07:00

Yea!!!! Tomorrow is the day. WE have our tickets, all we need is a nap and a bucket of popcorn!! Can't wait to go out with my friends in our jammies and watch what is sure to be the big movie of the holiday season!!!!!!!

2008-11-05T20:33:00.002-07:00

7 THINGS

Melissa tagged me so here goes.
7 random things about me.

1. I love to watch Baseball. I bleed Dodger Blue. I have watched the dodgers since I was a little girl, first at grandmas house then with my mom. When I was little I wanted to be the first woman to play for the Dodgers. Obviously that didn't work out, but I still play softball. I watch football with Stephen but I can't follow basketball.

2. I have two jobs. I am a mortgage loan officer, but I can't seem to get any loans, boo hoo. So I work part time for JetBlue airways, and I love it. I love the perks, but I hardly get to use them. So sad, I work for an airline but I never get to go anywhere. Been there a year and I've only been to burbank long beach and San Diego. sad sad sad!

3. I love comedy's. I love to laugh. Funny movies, and funny tv, I am there.

4. I am a big cryer with movies and tv. Something could be pointless, and somewhat sad, and I am blubbering. I was tearing up with the season premier of ER.

5. I love the Holidays!!!! I love the sounds, smells, and sights of Christmas. I look forward to baking for my friends, and spending time with family. Especially Tamale day. I love to decorate, and enjoy the reason for the season.

6. I get cold really easy. Ever since I lost all my weight I freeze. My hands, feet, nose, and top of my thighs. I have to bundle up come winter and don't unravel until May! I take a lot of HOT baths during the winter up here.

7. My biggest fear is losing my family. I worry about losing Jessie to outside forces, I can only hope and pray that I have taught her enough to be strong. I worry about Cammi being to nice and being taken advantage of. and I worry about Kaylie a young girl in a big girl body. I worry that they will have to go through some of the things I did when I was growing up, like the teenage years, mean people, and feeling like an outcast.

I tag Jill, Lisa, Cammie, and Brooke.

2008-11-04T09:43:00.003-07:00

BUBBLE BUBBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE,

WITCHES BREW AND CAULDRONS BUBBLE

Haunted Hallows! Skeleton Bride!

Carving Pumpkins. eeeeuuuwww! Gross!

Getting ready for Halloween.

You can't really tell from the picture but we had cobwebs draped acrossed the entire entryway, with a smoking skull, and my skeleton bride. I am thoroughly enjoying getting into Halloween now!

Jessie went as a football player this year. She did pretty good too!

Cammi didn't decide until a few hours before trick or treating what she was going to be. So we opted to use her dress from Aly's wedding and go as the Blue Fairy from Pinocchio.

Kaylie has been telling me since last year that she wanted to be a Vampire. She never waivered. So nana made her this awesome vampire cape complete with bow tie and cumber bund. She was so excited to dress up and play the part.

I had to add this picture in! Barbara goes all out for Halloween. Last year she dressed up as Sally from Nightmare before Christmas, and it was awesome! It took me a few minuted before I even recognized her. This year she was classic!!! Quite literally! I love that she goes all out. She even made bloodshot eyeballs for our pre trick or treating party. We had so much fun!!!

2008-10-29T15:05:00.002-06:00

October?!?!?!

Here I sit on the porch, it's two day until Halloween, and it's about 70*. Almost too hot, but wonderful! Too nice to be inside today. I say this because all too soon, (Next Monday) it's is supposed to get cold, rainy, and snowy in the mountains. uuuggghhh!!!!!

Well another week has ocme and gone. Cammi has two make up soccer games this saturday. at 9am and 1pm, no rest for the weary! Oh and some exciting news!!! Remember when I wrote how disappointed Jessie was that she didn't make allstars? Well out of hte blue last week, Kaylie's t-ball coach called me. She is co coaching an accelerated softball team and they wanted Jessie to come and try out. We are so excited. So she went to practice on Monday, after not having played since early June, and she actually did pretty good. She was right on with her hitting, but she needs a little work with fielding and throwing. The head coach asked me where I thought she was in comparison to where she should/could be. I thought she did pretty good considering it's been 4 months. He agrees, and wants her to come to another practice so they can look at her some more. She knows some of the girls on the team from softball and school, so that was nice. I told her that this was not me, this was another parent who had seen her play the season, and knows she is good, and requested that she come and try out. We are so excited for her to get this chance. So please keep her in your thoughts and prayers! She could really use it eight now. PS the coach commented that she was really good with her hitting!

2008-10-25T18:27:00.005-06:00

So long Summer!

We were enjoying some of the few nice weather days before it really gets cold, so we were running the bikes out of gas. Well, it's all fun and games until someone looses an eye!! Poor Rich. His first ride on the little bike and he had to choose to either t bone the car or drop the bike. He chose the latter, and well the picture explains it all!!He ripped his pants and scuffed his arms a little bit, but he got right back on and tried it again. Jessie and Cammi were taking the little kids out for rides too on the Klugers 4 wheelers
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2008-10-23T15:05:00.003-06:00

What a day! The older girls and I went to the humanitarian center on Tuesday morning to do some service. A friend had called us and they needed help so we went. What an awesome experience! I figured the girls could miss a half day of school for service, and apparently the school felt the same way since they gave the girls an excused absence from their morning classes. Anyways, we got there about 8:15 and started right in. WE had about 9 people in our little group and we were doing hygeine kits. We started out checking kits already done to make sure they had everything in them, Then we got to put kits together, then back to checking, then back to creating. We filled two and a half pallets of boxes with kits. With 5 kits per box, we figured there were approx 600 kits per pallet, so our group in 3 hours did about 1500 kits. It was an incredible experience for us to go and not think about ourselves but to help other people. We are thinking of taking the mosers and doing a family thing and helping more. If you get the chance to go or to volunteer, DO IT!!!! It is so worth it!

2008-10-01T17:39:00.004-06:00

TAXI ANYONE?

It's been a few weeks since I last added anything to our blog. It's been busy as usual. Lately though I feel like I have been living in my car. I get home with enough time to grab a bite to eat, make a bathroom run, and then it seems like I am on my way out again! Work has been steady, and with Cammi's soccer games and practices, it feels like I am going non stop. Now add to that... Kaylie is off track so i am keeping her busy too. She is pretty good at keeping quiet when I am working but she always wants to go out to play, and will bug and bug until I say yea or nay.

I have taken on a new project here at home. Our little stream and pond in front has been choking on roots from the cattails and reeds that are growing. So last week I got a little bug in my britches and started digging. Barbara and Shari saw me digging and beating the dirt to death and mercifully came to help me. We made a pretty good team. WE got half of the stream cleaned out. The root base it turns out was about 6 inches deep and spans about 2 feet acrossed. It was so bad that it has pushed past the rock border of the stream and pushed out the stream causing it to leak. It is amazing how much space it really took up. Once we finish the stream I think we will call it good until spring when we can get back in the pond and start pulling out some of the overgrowth there. On a good note though... I thought for sure that I would not even be able to roll out of bed the day after tackling the stream, a lot of bending, digging and heavy lifting. I guess I am not as out of shape as I thought. I was barely sore the next day. I guess all the volleyball I have been playing the last few months has really helped. I am really tired now, and I am sure you are too after reading this epistle. At least it's october and still nice weather!

PS..... Here is a picture of my little garden at the end of July and today. Woo Hoo!!! I didn't kill my plants this year! I even have a little watermelon the size of Kaylie's fist!

2008-09-14T11:30:00.005-06:00

THE MERLINATOR!!!!

The day we left Bear Lake we stopped by Merlins Drive in. Another friend had told us about this place. They have a huge 1lb hamburger called the Merlinator. The meat patty is actually 1lb, then you add in all the toppings and bun and you one heck of a burger! So the challenge went out to the dads in our group to see if they could eat it. It was os funny. The owner brings it our wiht a bumper sticker, and takes a polaroid pic of you to go on the "WALL". Picture a take out container from any restaurant, and hte burger took up the whole thing. So alas, here is proof of the merlinator and all who finished!

The last picture is of Ben and Russ. We call them the Half Merlinators, since they had to split one. It was so funny watching the dads try to finish the "BIG" burger!

2008-09-10T18:49:00.007-06:00

BEAR LAKE

WE went up to Bear lake last week with some friends. We had a total of 4 families with ???? kids! We stayed at the KOA in a little storage shed cabin, and rode dirt bikes and had a ton of fun. The Phillips have an Arctic Cat Prowler, that was the hit with all the kids. mAll of the moms got to go out on a ride with no kids, and we laughed and giggled the whole time! We were bombarded by grasshoppers, not to mention there is about 6 inches of legroom in the back seat, so figure two moms in the back with arms and legs hanging out. Another big hit with the dads was our little ttr90 yamaha motorcycle. To give you an example Jessie is almost to big for the bike. But that didn't stop everyone from riding and having fun!

Now did I mention our cabin??? We drove up and I thought ok we're by the storage sheds. right? NOPE! it was our cabin. I have to admit thought they were very comfortable. I did have to get a picture of Ben and Barbara's lovely uneven paneling inside theirs.

Ok now here's the funny part. Here's our cabins, and here is Shari's cabin right acrossed the street. It was the ghetto and the suburbs!

2008-08-29T17:14:00.002-06:00

Tagged

What are the last three things I've purchased?
1. chair pads
2. poster paint
3. school binders

What are the last three songs you downloaded?
1. dang, fetch, oh my heck
2. football music
3.

What were the last three places you have visited?
1. The Burger Bar
2. Dodger Staduim
3. salt lake city airport

What are your three favorite movies?
1. Glory
2. Count of Monte Cristo
3. League of their Own

What are 3 of your favorite possessions?
1. family
2. pictures
3. camera

What are your 3 wishes?
1. for my family to be successful
2. get my home loan business going (shameless plug!)
3. loose that neverending 30 pounds

What are three things you haven't done yet?
1. parasailing
2. figured out my teenage daughters
3. been to another continent

What are your three favorite dishes?
1. anything Italian
2. general tsao's chicken
3. paradise cafe sandwiches

What are 3 things that freak you out?
1. spiders and roaches!!
2. tornados
3. bugs

Name 3 things your good at.
1. softball/volleyball
2. laughing at myself
3. enjoying life

Name 3 things you are currently coveting.
1. a skinny body
2.
3.

3 bloggers I tag
1. Aly
2. Laura
3. Jill

Have fun!!

2008-08-23T14:43:00.005-06:00

Have I said how much I enjoy my job??? I work for JetBlue airlines, and we are the official airline of the LA Dodgers. I bleed Dodger blue, so I was more than excitred when they offered us half price tickets! Steve, Cammi and I took a day trip to catch a game. Jessie was spending time with friends, and Kaylie had school. We had awesome seats, and a line drive during batting practice nearly took out Cammi, Steve caught the ball between his back and the seat, so we ended up with an authentic souvenir!!!

2008-08-23T08:43:00.006-06:00

Will, one week old and at his first soccer game!!!

Here's Cammi in her first competetive soccer tourney. She's #5. (white shirt)

Kaylie's first day of School with her new teacher Ms Browning.

2008-08-08T18:32:00.003-06:00

TWILIGHT!

Ok, so I'm hooked. My friend Jill, (thanks) gave me the book to read, a day later I borrowed New Moon, Two days later, she was reading Eclipse, so I bought it. Then she talked me into going with her to the twilight book party at barnes and nobles. What can I say, I am hooked! They were good books, great story and it was easy reading. I love Edward, and now I am sure Jill will talk me into going to a midnight showing of hte movie or something to that effect. Love you Jill! I'd go anyways!

2008-08-07T19:18:00.002-06:00

HE'S HERE!!!

For those of you who know my little sister Aly was pregnant. She and her little beach ball had been hanging out for a few weeks now, and she was over due, not fun for your first baby. Anyways... He made his debut at 3:11 this morning (7Aug), weighing in at 9lbs 5oz, and 22" long, big baby in a small body. We got to go and see him today and thought we'd share some pictures. Jessie called it, she said "she's going to have that baby when I'm at camp". Sure enough, Jessie comes home tomorrow, hopefully she doesn't feel too bad.

2008-07-25T18:21:00.002-06:00

HELP!

Can someone please help me!!! I am so computer retarded! If I try to change my background it erases everything except my posts. Including my friends and family list. How do I change it and keep my names so I don't have to go through and add it all back in?!?!?!

2008-07-23T12:23:00.002-06:00

There's a hole in the wall!

So I usually joke with Chris that I like to do things the hard way, I'm not bright enough to make it easy on myself. Here is my latest blunder!

We were moving Cammi back into the front bedroom after sharing the loft with Jessie for the last 6 months. Well we had cleaned the room and all we had left to do was move her bed. I, thinking I would get a jump start decided to start moving it myself. Beds are pretty easy to move. I had the mattress and a flight of stairs. I guess I figured soft mattress, hard wall, and I didn't figure on speed. So I got hte mattress to the top of the stairs and let er go! within a few seconds I heard a sickening crunch. Good thing Steve works construction and knows who to call, we had it fixed by that evening. Here's a few pictures!! Enjoy and have a good laugh at my expense.

2008-07-08T21:46:00.004-06:00

Kindergarten promotion!!! This year has gone by so fast, I almost feel like I missed half of it. Kaylie promoted up from Kindergarten, and they had a nice reception for the kids. Mr Plott called each student up to give them their envelope with report card and other stuff ,and a nice certificate/picture from the picture people. They put together a slide show and sang a song for the parents with words and sign language, then we all had to sing it. It went something like this..." No matter where you go, no matter what you do, please remember, I love you, i love you, please remember, I love you!" I almost brought tears to my eyes, especially since i am such a blubber baby! They had refreshments and autograph book time before we left. We were barely outside of the school when Kaylie said she already missed Mr. Plott. He has been such a great teacher for her, and we really appreciated all he did for her this year!

2008-07-08T21:12:00.006-06:00

So it's been a week or so, but it has been so busy around here. I know when am I not busy... I have no idea! Anyways, we had Aly's baby shower and Kaylies kindergarten graduation within a few days of each other. I have some fun pictures to add!!!!

ok so the face/belly picture is funny. I was really hot so I was laying with my head on the ac vent, and Aly came to stand over me, so I took a picture. It's actually been turned to be upright. I thought it was pretty funny and cut. It was a lot of fun spending the afternoon with all the sisters, sisters in law, and mom.

2008-06-21T12:58:00.006-06:00

On Friday Kaylie's class got to go to the zoo. I had the "pleasure" of riding the bus with my group of kids. Going there was ok but the way back was rough. Most of the kids were yelling and screaming, and hte two dads in front of me seemed to be back in high school, they were yelling out the window to cars and playing stupid games. It was almost comical. Anyways the zoo was fun but rushed, we only had 2 hours from the time we got there until we had to leave so we were rushed to get it all in with lunch too. Here are some fun pictures that we took. The guy was the dad of one of the little girlsin our group. He was a big kid himself.

2008-06-21T12:51:00.002-06:00

I got an early birthday present this week. a new camera. It's a nice one too. I was outside playing with it the other night after it cooled down, (jealous Missy?) Anyways. Kaylie was drawing with the sidewalk chalk and traced herself. She drew the dress she was wearing too complete with flowers. It was way cute the way she did it, so here is her masterpiece.

2008-06-20T15:06:00.002-06:00

it's been a few weeks since my last post. It has been crazy busy, and we are finally starting to slow down a bit. Girls softball is finally over. Jessie tried out for allstars but didn't make it becazuse the coach only looked at that day and not the whole season, and she was a little off that day. So needless to say she was devastated and thinks she's no good and had a bad season because of the way things went. I told the coach that he missed out because he missed two girls off of my team that were two of the best in our age group, who didn't have the best tryout, but oh well, what can you do. On to next year. Kaylie finished t ball and had a blast. She is so proud of the fact that she got a trophy for her team, (all the girls get a trophy). She shows it off to everyone. Now she is bouncing between softball or soccer for next year. Oh my heavens! Cammi tried out for and made it to the competitive league for soccer. It's not an allstar team just a more competative league. They had three teams and her with two of her team mates made it to the third team. So we aren't quite done with soccer yet. They practice three times a week with July off then back again in August. Steve and I are still playing adult coed softball and having fun. This week we had to play a double header, one was a make up game, and we were the only team playing back to back. I would not reccomend back to back in 90*+ weather. It was miserable and were drained. And we lost both games. a few of our players were on vacation so we were scrambling to pull a team together so we wouldn't forfeit. What a week! More later when I have new pictures to share!

2008-05-29T20:21:00.002-06:00

We had a game today. It's a team we already played and lost to terribly. It is coached by the league presidents husband, and surprize they have three VERY good pitchers. That's not my gripe though. It turned out to be an ok game, and yes we lost. Here's the problem. I had a very angry parent get in my face during the game. So lets start at the beginning. Her daughter is a very nice girl but very passive when it comes to softball. I try to talk to her and get her involved, but all she ever givews is one word answers. Well the girl fell at school a month ago and chipped a bone in her finger, so she was out for about 3 to 4 weeks. I have no problem with that, In fact I asked the mom if she could still come to practices and games to cheer on and support the team since she in a part of the team. I e mailed constantly as I do with the rest of the team, but no communication back. Well she came back to practice yesterday, to which I was excited to have her back, tried to talk to her, and asked if she was feeling ok, and all, got the same one word answers. Here's where it gets hard. WE have twelve girls and ten positions. So I always have to have some girls sub out. Every one has had to sub, and we haven't had any problems with it. Knowing that this was a big game, and that she was at practice the day before I went ahead and started the girl in right field. Now the girl is very nice, but she could not catch a single ball thatwe threw to her yesterday or today. I had two girls sub out the first inning, and two girls sub out second inning. She was one of the girls out second inning. Well the mom was livid, and verbally went after me in the dug out in the middle of the inning, saying that there are eleven other girls that should have been pulled out to sub before her daughter, It wasn't her fault that she was hurt, and that she didn't pay money to have her be be put out in right field the whole season and be taken out in this game. I calmly explained that there were eleven other girls that have been subbing out the whole time she was gone too, and that I wanted her to take it easy since she just came back. Mom got mad and told me that is why they waited a week before coming back,so she could take it easy. Now mom did not communicate this to me before now. So in order to get back to the game in which I was coaching, I told her to go ahead and take it up with the league president. she did, and the league pres pretty much backed me up. Funny thing though is that this mom started throwing out the whole sponsorship thing, ( her husband sponsored the team for the league). I knew this was going to happen when I was puting hte line up together, but what could I do. I have everyone else who has been to the practices, and games, and has worked hard. So I ask, what would you do? I felt that I was fair in starting her since she has not been able to come to practice before yesterday. Even the pres, said don't worry, you can't please everyone.

2008-05-23T08:46:00.002-06:00

Woo Hoo!!! As it ended up our team did play ball last night. I was really hoping we would be rained out because it was cold and wet, but no such luck. By the time we got to the field it was actually not too bad. We were home team, which is always good. I put Jessie in to pitch the first inning, and she did ok;. We got an out, and they scored 5 runs. I did have to pull her at the end of the inning though because she was just loosing it. So they scored 5 runs and we got 3 outs. Then we got up to bat. I don't know what we did or what was said, but they turned the bats on!!! We scored 7 runs with only 1 out. They only allow 7 runs per inning to prevent a complete blowout. Our smallest girl hit a monster double, a perfect hit over the left centerfielders head. And Jessie hit a solid single over the right fielders head. It could have been a double but it was on the wrong side of the field. Then we brought in our starting pitcher, and she struck out the first 2 batters, walked two and then struck out the last person. No runs scored!!! That is huge for us! We then came back and scored 7 more runs, and won the game 14 to 5. Jessie just happened to be the winning run to come acrossed the plate. I tell you, that girl is not afraid to steal and definitely not afraid to slide. I had a parent from the other team comment on her hit, and one of our parents commented on how she is one of the bedt players she has seen. Makes me proud!!! I think this will be her best year yet to try to make allstars.

2008-05-22T10:22:00.004-06:00

Ok, so I am a little upset with Mother Nature again! Here it is May 22, and it's snowing in the mountains. I mean come on! Tuesday is was 93*, beautiful with a breeze, then yesterday it drops to 54* with rain and cold winds. We went straight form winter to Summer and back again, no spring for us this year. I know I am in Utah amd the weather can change on a dime, but I was not expecting snow at the end of May! I am so ready for Summer to come and stay! I want to play softball and not be wearing three layers of clothes to keep from freezing. I want to coach my last few softball games and not be wearing three layers to keep from freezing! I'm cold!!!

On a lighter note my softball team came from behind on Saturday to win our game 10 to 9. It was an awesome game, that went perfect!! We took a 5 gallon jug of ice water because it wasa going to be hot, and we wanted the girls to keep hydrated. After the game some of the girls wanted to pour it over Steve since he is in class weeknights now and will miss the rest of the season. I figured since I had to drive home with him, maybe it wasn't a good idea, BUT... They could throw a couple of cups of water on him if they wanted to. So we took our team picture, then they attacked. We have some jokesters on our team, and they took charge. It really was fun. I am kind of sad that our season is almost over, I have actually enjoyed coaching this year. Hopefully the girls feel like they've learned something from me.

Now Cammi is still playing Soccer. She plays half the season in the fall then finishes it out in the spring. She has had a goal to kick the most goals this spring. See the coach told the girls that he would take the highest goal scorer out for ice cream. So she put her mind to it. She loves playing forward, and she has an awesome boot. So far with one game left this spring she has scored 6 goals. Impressive. She scored 3 goals in one game. It has been a lot of fun, they pick teams by neighborhood and schools, so she gets to play with two girls from our ward, and most from school. It's been a lot of fun, especially since it's warmed up a little on the weekends.

2008-04-23T13:09:00.000-06:00

2008-04-23T13:02:00.000-06:00

Pretty as a postcard! in May 2007 we got to take a trip to Yosemite with the Mosers. Steve and Bryan are always remiscing about their scout trips there as youth, so we took the whole family with some other friends too. It was incredible. I have never been, so it was an experience for me. This is the picture I took at the panoramic stop off when you first enter the valley. The weather was cooperative the first half of the week, then turned cold. We did hike up to lower Yosemite falls the first day. Hiked to Vernal falls the next day, took a bike ride acrossed the valley floor, and hiked the mariposa grove. It was a great trip, and we ended it by surprizing grandma Miller after Taylers baptism in Frasier park.

2008-04-23T12:54:00.000-06:00

OK, there is a story here. I have some pretty "special" friends. We missed a game night so they decorated our front porch with all holiday decorations. So being the "special" person that I am, we decided to turn it around on them. We kidnapped SANTA, and took him ona road trip. WE were driving to Cali for ALy's wedding, and we left a ransom note for said friend. We then proceeded to take pictures of Santa along the way. This nice lady, (SIL Rachel), helped us out by holding santa in front of the 7-11 acrossed the street from the LA temple. We took pictures by Magic Mountain, in front of Fosters Donuts in Bakersfield, and in front of the Alien Jerky sign in Baker on the way home. Upon returning home we delivered Santa safely home with a treat for our friends. We sent notes with pictures the whole trip, it was a lot of fun, maybe that will teach them to mess with a person who's already messed up in the head!!!!!

2008-04-23T12:51:00.000-06:00

Kaylie's first day of Kindergarten. She was so excited to finally get to go to school with her big sisters. She is in Mr Plott's class, and she is one of the biggest kids in her class. No surprize there. Ask her some day to tell you the story of Mr Wiggle and Mr Waggle!

2008-04-23T12:48:00.000-06:00

All the grandkids at the Miller 50th wedding anniversary celebration. June 2007

2008-04-23T10:43:00.000-06:00

Our little family picture last summer at Aly and Spencer's wedding. Aren't we cute and all grown up?!?!

2008-04-23T10:07:00.001-06:00

Well it's been a while since I posted to my blog. Like 18 months almost. Sorry, life gets busy with preteens and such. It never seems to stop too! We are still alive here in the mountains, albeit a little cold still. I wish mother nature would just let spring come and stay!!! It keeps getting nice and warm then a few days later we're getting snow, no fair!!! Most of you know that I am coaching Jessie's softball team this year. We have been lucky so far that we have not had to play in really bad weather. The worst was last Saturday when we had to play in gusting winds. Not fun, but we pulled out a win so not bad. It was unfortunately the only day that softball and Cammi's soccer games overlapped, so I had to miss Cammi's game. AND Kaylie had t ball practice during our game too. At least it's at the same field. Now like I said Mother nature has a way of fouling things up. We are supposed to playt another game tonight, but it is supposed to be raining and storming, so who knows. I'm not all the upset because this was the only night that my adult softball game overlapped with Jessie's game. Now what was that,that Elder Ballard said about simplifying???? I thought no prob we onoly have soccer and softball. Then it dawned on me that we have two softball teams, t ball and soccer, so we are constantly on the run!, At least we don't have piano or anything else going onrigh tnow too. I don't think this tired soul could handle much more. I mean after all I do work (from home), and I am mom. Did I mentiopn that Jessie just turned 13 last week and Cammi turned 12 two days ago??? WE figured 13 wqas a big birthday so we let Jessie have a party. WHAT WAS I THINKING!!!!! 25 teenagers in my unfinished basement eating, playing guitar hero, and running all over the place. HOLY COW! Stephen looked at Jessie and said, "never again!" It wouldn't have been so bad it they were good kids but we had some who were very disrespectful, and kept wandering through the house, did I mention the party was in the basement, not the rest of the house. Well we survived, and Jessie is happy but still a teenager. Cammi on the other hand looked at the party, and said, "My party's not going to be like this. Jessis's friends are weird." It's nice to be done with kid birthdays for the year. Hope all of you are enjoying life as much as we are!
Love the Millers!

2008-04-23T10:07:00.000-06:00

Well it's been a while since I posted to my blog. Like 18 months almost. Sorry, life gets busy with preteens and such.

2006-12-27T17:47:00.000-07:00

last but not least, this is what we do after all the presents and breakfast! looks like fun to me!

2006-12-27T17:45:00.000-07:00

Stephen usually wears t-shorts and jeans to work, so Santa felt the need to help him update his wardrobe a little bit.

2006-12-27T17:43:00.000-07:00

I am usually the one behind the camera. Jessie took this picture of me getting ready to open one of my presents. She needs the practice since she got a camera for Christmas too.

2006-12-27T17:42:00.000-07:00

Santa's little helper

2006-12-27T17:40:00.000-07:00

Cammi wanted to sleep in the bed, so Jessie let her sleep in her bed, while her and Kaylie had a sleepover on the floor. Looks like everyone is up and ready for Christmas morning!

2006-12-27T17:38:00.000-07:00

Christmas Eve, Jessie wanted everyone to sleep in her room, (it's bigger than the rest) so all three of the girls slept upstairs. We usually get them up Christmas morning with the video camera and all head to see what Santa brought for everyone.

2006-12-27T17:34:00.000-07:00

Nana found a Christmas dress for Kaylie a while back. our biggest concern was that it wouldn't fit, since she is so tall. Well, it fit and it looked so cute on her. She looks so grown up, hard to believe that my baby will be 5 years old next week!!!

2006-11-11T15:02:00.000-07:00

Here is one of the houses that Stephen has worked on. In fact, it is our house that we built to sell. Pretty isn't it?! And big too.

2006-11-11T15:00:00.000-07:00

Kaylie was a purple fairy. She loved her costume. I told her if she cleaned her room she could wear it all day. So she did. We went to Target, school, and all over. It was a fun day, and all my girls looked pretty good!

2006-11-11T14:58:00.000-07:00

Jessie was a lot easier. She was a Rock Star. WE had fun with this one. Spiked the hair a little bit, added some blue streaks, and green spray, and voila!! Rock Diva. She really looked the part, complete with attitude!

2006-11-11T14:56:00.000-07:00

We got creative with costumes this year. Cammi finally decided two days before Halloween what she was going to be. Final decision.... A Gypsy. I think we did pretty good with it. Plus she got to wear moms boots that she has been dying to wear!

2006-11-11T14:55:00.000-07:00

Ok, So Chris called me and said she bought me a Halloween costume. Pretty good I think. It was fun to wear all day long!

2006-11-11T14:53:00.000-07:00

Kaylie was getting ready for Halloween a few days early, She came in the office and asked me, "how do you like my costume mom?" Pretty original I think!

2006-10-03T16:31:00.000-06:00

Me and Ava, my cousins little girl. She hasn't quite mastered the art of posing. I flew down for a family wedding and baby blessing. It was so nice to see family and have fun with the little ones. I was lost without my own little ones trailing close behind. (Stephen let me fly all by myself!)

2006-10-03T16:21:00.000-06:00

We were looking for a new bed and found this. The girls had fun posing on this "BIG DADDY" size rocker. And we did manage to find a nice new king size bed. Big enough for everyone to snuggle in!

2006-08-03T15:40:00.000-06:00

2006-08-02T16:56:00.000-06:00

A fun time was had by all. The men even helped some of the older kids learn how to properly light a fountain. Even if we did get rained on a little bit, it was a lot of fun.

2006-08-02T16:54:00.000-06:00

Kaylie and Adam anxiously await the 1st annual Miller/Moser fireworks show.

2006-08-02T16:51:00.000-06:00

July 4th. Betwen the Mosers and us, we had a small arsenal. Bryan and Stephen were like little kids. We spent 2 hours lighting off 2-3 fountains at a time, what a show!!

2006-08-02T16:48:00.000-06:00

Since Jessie and Cammi got to do a makeover, I decided to let Kaylie get her face painted. She did really well keeping still while they did it, and she looked so cute.

2006-08-02T16:45:00.000-06:00

This is how their hair looked after the makeover. I thought is was definitely picture worthy. Pretty cool, now if only I could learn to do their hair like that!

2006-08-02T16:39:00.000-06:00

Jessie and Cammi got to go to Club Libby Lu for makeovers. They looked pretty cool and the helpers did it so fast. They had so much fun.

2006-08-02T16:34:00.000-06:00

I did it!!! I found the missing pictures from California. Here the girls meet Cruella DeVille. Doesn't she look thrilled to be around kids??

2006-07-28T09:47:00.000-06:00

OK, I'm usually the one behind the camera, so I had Cammi taake a picture of me for posterity's sake. It's been really nice lately, it doesn't feel like 100* +. We are really enjoying the mountain air where it cools down at night. Hugs to everyone! We miss you!

2006-07-25T21:30:00.000-06:00

Kaylie enjoys the first day of school too. Only one more year to go until she can join her sisters as a Daybreak Dolphin. She is always with me as I take the girls to school and meet the teachers and take pictures. Boy am I an embarassing parent or what?!?! We can't wait to start all over in Kindergarten next year!

2006-07-25T21:27:00.000-06:00

I can't believe Cammi is in 5th grade!!! I don't feel old enough to have 5th and 6th graders. Cammi Is so excited to have Ms Rushing, (Jessie's teacher last year). And it's funny that the moser kids share teachers with us this year too.

2006-07-25T21:23:00.000-06:00

Jessie is ready to start 6th grade. Dad told her she gets to rule the school now. It took saome explaining that it meant she was in the highest grade now and there is no body higher then the 6th graders.

2006-07-25T21:13:00.000-06:00

first day of school!!! Jessie is in 6th grade and Cammi is in 5th grade. Am I really that old?!?! they're quite the posers aren't they??!!

2006-07-25T11:18:00.000-06:00

Chloe Moser, our team mascot. We were celebrating Stephen's birthday. Chloe enjoyed the treats!

2006-07-25T11:13:00.000-06:00

Yea!! I finally got a picture on! Here is me and our friends Amber and Chris before our softball game. We have had so much fun playing this year. Our team tied for third place. Not bad for not having played in about 12 years.

2006-07-13T11:28:00.000-06:00

Ok i am really feeling bad right now. I was getting my pictures from my camera onto the computer so I could post some, and i lost them. They downloadded into the computer just not where I put them so I have to find them. I am almost sick over it. so as soon as I find them I will post them. Anyways we are all healthy and happy here. Stephen and I are enjoying playing softball and are a little sad that our season ends next week. It has been lots of fun and we have made some really good friends. We will miss it, but our bosses are keeping us busy. Stephen has been asked to be the unofficial videographer for Bryan and his football team. I am looking forward to this as I will probably be doing the stil lpictures while he is doing video. It will be fun to put it all together and see what comes out. Jessie and Cammi start school July 25, we are still getting used to this year round school thing. The only hard part is actually believing that I am old enough to have a 5th and 6th grader!!! Kaylie still has another year before she starts kindergarten, but she is practicing already. Well enough for now, I hope to get some pics up soon so you can see how well we are. Love and hugs to you all.
Steve and Suzi

2006-07-08T11:16:00.000-06:00

I'm new to this so hopefully it wont take me too long to figure it out. I hope to start getting pictures up soon, so you can all see how well we are doing here in the beautiful Wasatch mountains. Take care and love to all.
Suzi and the family