Latest Project

Last Fall I found a great Tutorial on how to make a Laptop case. So I made one for my sister Erin, for Christmas. It turned out better than I had anticipated. So this week I found the courage to try to attempt another one for our portable DVD player. Today the kids and I head off to Utah… and I thought a case would help protect the DVD player during our travels. It turned out pretty cute and I am surprised I got it finished in 2 days with having such a Busy week!!

The kids helped picked the colors. I think it turned out pretty good. It’s big enough that we can stick the charger or headphones in the bag as well. I would never call myself a great seamstress ever but with a Very detailed tutorial I can follow directions pretty well!

Connor

I couldn’t resist putting a picture of Connor from each year. I love looking back and seeing how much my kids have grown and changed.

*Connor, July 19, 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Connor’s 1st Birthday

*Connor’s 2nd Birthday, 2 weeks before he became a Big Brother!

*Connor’s 3rd Birthday.

*Connor right before his 4th Birthday. Such a stud.

July Birthdays!!

So the festivities started last week in Las Vegas where all 4 siblings met from all over to celebrate Erin’s 21st birthday!! Of course my parents are off enjoying themselves over in Europe somewhere… so they missed out :) We had a great time. Eric’s sooo soon to be wife Libby made Erin’s delicious birthday cupcakes and pretty much fed us all weekend. Eric found a good woman! We had a babysitter come over 2 nights so we could go out and have “Adult time” whatever that is… Friday night we went down to the strip and had a DELICIOUS steak dinner and then saw the Blue Man Group. I must be getting old but a 10pm show… is super late to this pregnant momma.. but anything for my Erin ..xoxoxo. Then on Saturday Erin and Libby caught me up on all the Harry Potter Drama… I mean movies and we watched the 7th one during nap time.. And after dinner we went to see the new movie… I can’t say I am a super Harry Potter Fan.. but it was good. And of course with good company I’m up for anything!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Erin loves the Bieber… don’t let her fool you by the “look” she totally has “Bieber fever”.. .right? ok Maybe not….

Uncle Eric… Best Uncle in the world… well at least when he’s not terrifying Connor to death!

Next…. we did do a little early presents for Connor. Couldn’t resist. He got a fun laptop from Great Grandma and Grandpa Miller.. Which he loves by the way!!! The kids fight over it all the time!!! He LOVES IT!!! Thank you!!!

From Grandma and Grandpa Miller he got Remote controlled Cars.. Which he loves as well!! I love that there are 2 and Connor can share with Chloe!! “Monkey see, Monkey Do”… these kids…

On Tuesday the 19th (last night) back at home we celebrated Connor’s birthday by going to see the new Cars 2 Movie with his cousins and his family. He really enjoyed it. After we went to Peter Piper Pizza to meet up with more family. The kids loved being able to run around and play. Connor had a Great birthday!!!

I couldn’t resist when I saw Phineas and Ferb walkie talkies at Toys'rus… He has been playing with them all day. My little boy is growing up so fast.

Happy Birthday Super Connor!

 

Baby #3

Today I had my first ultrasound to verify my due date and make sure the baby was doing well. With Kiel by my side we got to see our little baby. I don’t think I’ve ever had an ultrasound this soon… so it was a treat to see our tiny little baby. The heartbeat sounded strong at 161bpm. At my appointment last week the doctor couldn’t find the heartbeat so he ordered the ultrasound. Which wasn’t a huge concern at 11 weeks but it was nice to know that the baby was developing normally.  We didn’t find out the sex of the baby… it’s a little early for that.. and the baby kept wiggling around. But we’ll find out at the end of August! And our due date is January 19th so I am sure our little one will join our family a week before that! The doctor schedules his c-sections at the end of 6months and he likes to schedule it about 10 days before the due date to make sure I don’t go into labor… Such a nice fella:) 

 

We Survived

Last week was the much anticipated Girls Camp! Something… honestly I was dreading a little bit… even more after I found out I was pregnant. But we had a great time! My Mom.. the amazing Grandma Miller flew into town just to play with my 2 monsters so I could go the entire time! Oh how Connor and Chloe love their grandma!

The First day consisted of driving up to Roosevelt Lake and spending most of the day there by the loading dock. The Lake was really really full so any trace of a “beach” was under water so we made due… The girls had a lot of fun out on the boat, canoes, kayaks, and just jumping off the dock. A family in our ward donated their boat and their time to let the girls go wake boarding and tubing! On the 3rd round of girls to get on the boat.. if there was enough room I said I would go… and of course there was room!! The owner of the boat asked if he could go wake boarding so I offered my Awesome boating skills and I drove him. Out of 4 attempt he got up 3 times…. pretty good… I was impressed with my driving skills! I know Grandpa Miller would be proud : ) After some wake boarding it was tubing time!! And I had to put the girls to shame with my Tubing experience!! I had a great time and I loved watching some of the y0ung women go out and trying new things and coming out of their shells. It was a great day… but unfortunately everyone got fried!! We all went to camp exhausted and looking like lobstas (That’s Mainer slang for Lobsters…. .. just in case…).

The rest of camp was fun… there was No drama.. which kinda shocked us leaders but it was refreshing. With almost 30 girls that’s hard to come by. Very impressed! The next day was the hike… due to everyone being tired, sore and already really burnt they decided to make the hike a little shorter than planned. I had planned on being the one that stayed behind in case any of the girls needed to stay back but again to my surprised everyone was up for the challenge so at the last minute I packed my things together and we were all off! It was a really beautiful day and the girls didn’t complain to bad so a successful hike I thought!

At the end of the trip I was really glad I went and I had the chance to really get to know the girls much better. I was really impressed at their willingness to serve and help around camp. I’ve never had a “ward” camp before but I am really grateful I was able to be apart of it this year. It was more intimate and allowed the girls to work together. I really enjoyed camp and I am so grateful to be apart of the young women organization. Even though it’s exhausting at times… it’s worth it.

Coming home from camp I was completely exhausted and was grateful that my mom stuck around throughout the weekend to help me get my life back together! My dad also came down to spend the weekend. We went out to Benihana’s for a special Father’s Day dinner. Connor loved that!!  It was a great week!!!

A special thanks to Grandma and Grandpa for making the effort to coming down here to the Extreme heat to help with the kids!!! We are so lucky to have such supportive family and friends!!!

May’s Travels

I am a little behind on my posting… but in May the kids and I went on a 3 week adventure to Las Vegas and then on to Utah with my family! Aunt Erin flew into Arizona and spent a couple of days and then she helped drive Connor, Chloe and I to Las Vegas. Our first stop on our trip. We met up with my parents and spent almost a week there enjoying the cooler weather and my brother Monte and his family.

On our drive from Vegas to Park City we stopped in St.George to play with Grandma and Grandpa Miller for a little bit. We love Grandma’s house. She makes Grandpa pull out all of their fun kid toys!! The kids loved playing outside and running around for a little bit!

Next… On to Park City! We really had fun being at “Grandma’s house in the mountains”. It was a surprise a couple of mornings waking up to snow on the ground…. But the weather turned out to be beautiful for the weekend everyone flew into town! Eric and his newly fiancé Libby came from Boston to spend the weekend. Kiel flew up for a couple of days. And we had even more family come from Idaho and Washington State. It was a great weekend celebrating the one and only Queen Valerie!!  Oh how she loved every minute of us doting on her and having her as the center of attention:)

It was a great weekend full of jumping on the trampoline with Uncle Eric and future Aunt Libby…playing cards…roasting smores…playing family jeopardy…playing the (cooled down) hot tub…tons of great food and just being goofy!! It was nice to get away and enjoy family!

And as an extra souvenir from the trip Kiel and I found out we were expecting again. I am not great at keeping secrets so I had to share with everyone that day!

Ol’ Blue’s Come Back!

After a LONG brutal 5 weeks Kiel’s Dodge truck came home better than new. Well the insides…it still has a lot of……. character (which I love…). It has undergone a lot of repairs and we are Very grateful and relieved that it is home and back to work. I am sure the Excursion is tired and now Happy it doesn’t have to pull Kiel’s trailer everyday : ) Without going into full detail about the truck.. Which I totally could… because I understand…. (can you believe it ?) Not that I could tell you which one was the transmission or the engine… but I can explain what happened.. and why it took so long….  But just to get it out there…. we are back to being a 2 CAR Truck family and so grateful for it!