Memorial Day

It is tradition to spend Memorial Day in American Fork visiting graves on the Miller side. Grandpa Miller's always has funny and intersting history/memories of his childhood. The kids paid their respects by coloring some pictures to put on their graves.

Mother's Day

Jeff is so thoughtful when it comes to Mother's Day. Not only does he let me sleep in and make breakfast, he makes sure Ryan helps him with all the planning and details. Saturday, they went to pick up our traditional Mother's Day coursages for me and the girls. Then they went shopping and to the grocery store to pick up stuff for breakfast. Homemade cards are the best. I never understood when my mom would say "just make me a card". But now I do. Jeff surprised me with the most awesome gift ever! A new running watch! I have been talking about this watch for a good six months now and I had no idea he was paying any attention! I can't wait to try it out!

Mother's Day from my kids

This year I gave alot of thought about Mother's Day. Every year Jeff gives me the "day off" and I usually leave and do something mindless and usually very relaxing. This year, I thought it would be nice to actually spend time with my kids for Mother's Day. I told Ryan, Abbey and Allie that my present from them could be to pick any activity to do together and they would have my undivided attention for at least an hour.

Allie of course wanted to paint her nails and toes and then she was good, didn't need anymore one on one time than that. I guess because she gets so much during the week!

Ryan wanted me help him build his lego.

Abbey had a whole weekend of things to do! She wanted her toes painted. Then she wanted to paint mine. Then we put her Art bag together she got fo her birthday.

Fun Times...I have awesome kids!

Talented Young Writers

Abbey was chosen from her class to have her poem published in a Talented Young Writers book for a few of the schools in our area. She chose to write about flowers:

Flowers

Pretty Beautiful

Blowing Growing sprouting

beautiful sall good pretty

Flowers

Afterwards we celebrated with Grandma and Grandpa Miller at Cafe Rio. Yum!

The long awaited ear piercing

I can still remember the day my mom took me to get my ears pierced. I remember walking into Fashion Place Mall down the long hall to a fancy store called Weinstocks. I walked in the store and sat on the chair and the lady pulled out what seemed to be this huge staple gun looking. That is where the memory stops, I am not sure if that is because of age or I've blocked out the pain.

So, here I am taking my daughter to the same mall to get her ears pierced. Weinstocks is long gone, so we went to Claires. She was not nervous at all. She sat up on the chair and let the girl take care of business. After that we celebrated together at Little America. Yum!

The Journey Begins...

Driving Ryan to the Orthodontist was a surreal experience. I started to remember the sounds, smells and pain of braces. I was 12 when mine were put on and I am going to torture my poor at nine years old. But he handled like a champ, except for an occasional ouch he got through it easily.

Pinewood Derby

I saw my son's competitive side come out at what else...the Pinewood Derby. Oh, Ryan worked very hard on his car. Jeff made sure this was his project and Ry did all the designing, carving and painting. But the night of the big race the awesome craftsmanship was not enough to keep up with some experieced Derby racers. Ry was so upset he didn't place in the finals he came home and threw his car away! After a talk about winning isn't everything, his "greek guilt" set in an hour or so later and he pulled it out of the garbage and kept it in his room.