Miller Time: March and April 2012

This was the baby gift I made for Sabrina. I made the little penguin for Charles and then thought it would be fun to have somewhat matching hats for the other kids. I worked so hard to get them done in time to give them to her when Alice and Joseph went home and then it didn't happen. So I wonder if she will see this on my blog before she gets it?!

This is my bad paint job for our island. It actually looks pretty good considering it was my first experience with oil based paint. Every step of the way we have problems and this was just another one to add to the list. When I distressed the edges it really helped and takes your eye away from the bad paint job. Overall, I am mostly pleased

Here I am mixing sugar water for the bees.

William had to do some last minite finishing on the hives. We built them ourselves. We put in an observation window and a removable bottom as well as making our own feeders. It took a little longer than we thought but we are really happy and proud of our hives since we started out not knowing anything about bees. Thanks to youtube.com and biobees.com! These are top bar hives which is different from the box hives you usually see. These are more natural and TONS cheaper.

This is me painting the island while William and Bud Wilhelm installed the cabinets. Unlike most of our family and friends we have had cold weather with snow and hail. I am grateful for my work coat. Unfortunately since the garage was so full of junk I had little space to paint and got black paint all over my coat.

William and Bud made fast work of installing the cabinets. Before Bud came William and I hurriedly mudded, sanded, textured, and painted the walls. Mom and I had gone shopping for a paint color. We tried and tried to find a certain color, when we found the paint swatch Mom pulled out one next to it and I realized I already had a whole gallon of that paint that I had bought for the other house and never used!! Yea! One less thing to spend money on!

Wow, what a difference!

The kichen before tile, with just the backerboard down. Notice the shelves full of junk. This whole experience has been one of "Where is the . . . "

Here is how far we got the first day of tiling. Notice all the sheetrock, what a lot of work!

The kids were a good help getting up the rotten wood. One other thing we found as we did this project was a leaking pipe behind the fridge that had soaked the floor boards.

The sink was the last thing to come out. But really what did we need it for? I couldn't cook.

William using the . . . what is the name? . . . I can't think of it right now but it is a big heavy piece of metal.

I was against it at first but it turned out to be the best way to get the tiles off and find the screws that were holding the counter down. Everytime we found a screw we thought it was the last just to find more screws!

Getting all the electrical figured out and wired took over a week! All the electrical had been fished through the soffits so we had to take the wires back down through the walls like it should have been in the first place!

My kitchen has been a construction zone for way too long! When I tried to cook, little pieces of insulation would fall down from the ceiling into our food!

I debated putting this picture in but oh well. We found a pile of dead mice when we took out the sheetrock! Gross! Good thing we decided to take the sheetrock out or those dead mice would be there for another 20+ years. Under the sink was the worst. The poop was 1/2 inch thick at least and there was a bunch of insulation that the mice had brought there to have their nest. Gross! I'm so glad to get rid of it and replace with clean wood.

Ross and Rosina have been here to help many times. One day I said, "Thank you so much for coming to help!" Rosina said "I couldn't think of anything we needed to get done at home. We have never experienced not having anything to do on a Sat." I said, "Then I think the Lord has blessed you to not have anything to do so you could come help us!"

The kids really wanted to help but there wasn't anything that small hands could do. Then I had an idea. I told the kids to pull back the swimming pool tarp and dig a fire pit. They were so excited! You should have seen how eager they were digging! I don't think Ricky has ever loved me so much. He ran and gave me a hug and said over 5 times "I love you Mom!"

Durring all this construction I noticed a muggy smell down in the storage room and then noticed a pool of water on the floor. The pipe coming out of our water heater was leaking! Poor William has had to just jump into things without having a clue what to do. It took a few times but finally ( and only in answer to our prayers I am sure), he replaced it and got it on tight enough.

For my birthday we went to a pizza place that the kids had a bunch of free coupons for and the kids played some games and with their tickets got these mustaches. It was so funny to watch them stick it up their nose and keep it there.

Eliza-isms

7-9-12 I often find things in Rick's wash that shouldn't be there. Last week it was his mp3 player. This week I was chaning the wash and found a cigarette lighter in the dryer. I grabbed it and ran to Ricky yelling "What is a lighter doing in the wash?!" He said "I don't know" I yelled again "what is a lighter doing in the wash" he said again "I don't know" Then I realized it was my wash that I had just taken out of the wash!
7-9-12 Aaramie was watching Vienna outside but needed to go to the restroom. Getting her words mixed up she said "Rick, go to the bathroom." Rick said "What?" Then she realized and said "Rick, watch vienna I need to go to the bathroom"
5-1-12 My girls told the babysitter that it is important to eat healthy so you can do the splits!
10-10-11 I was talking to Rosina and said "Do you know when I first realized I liked green peppers?" and Aaramie cut it "Let me guess, when you found out it was healthy." When did she figure out mom likes anything healthy?
4-6-11 At dinner Eliza says "Ask me if I'm a truck" I say "Are you a truck" Eliza says "Nooooo" then laughs and says "isn't that a funny joke"
11-2-2010 Rosina was cutting Gingerbread girls out of the gingerbread dough and Eliza came up and said "What are you doing?" Rosina said "What does it look like I'm doing?" Eliza replied "Ummm, smashing angels"
7-20-10 Ricky ism . The other day Grandma Wilding asked Ricky to take care of Hyrum. Ricky said "Why don't you ask Aaramie?" Grandma said "Because I trust you more." Ricky gave her a funny look and said "Oh. . . that's weird"
4-30-10 You may or may not know that Ricky has inherited William's coarse hair. I cut his hair yesterday and that evening my toe started hurting. I couldn't figure out what it was. Finally I sat down and looked really close and saw that I had a hair stuck in my toe. I pulled it out and my toe started bleeding! Not to long after my toe started hurting again. I sat down and looked . . . another hair! Watch out for that Miller hair!
4-30-10 We went on a trip to Portland and stopped at a gas station. I took the kids to the potty and my girls were getting the biggest kick out of the automatic soap dispensers and the Turbo automatic hand blowdryer. Eliza would do a really loud cackle each time the blowdryer went on. She was so loud that when we walked out of the bathroom all the people in the gas station were laughing.
11-2-09 We were eating lunch and Eliza was talking to herself as she ate "I eat the beans and they go down the drain of my throat."
11-2-09 Just a funny thing about Ricky, EVERYTIME I do his laundry he has toys in his basket. Doesn't matter how many times I tell him, there is always a handful or two of toys.
9-13-09 I overheard Eliza talking to herself in the back seat of our van. "Our van is almost a limo"
9-13-2009 A little girl in the ward saw Aaramie walk by and said "look mom Eliza" Then Eliza walked by "Look mom, 2 Eliza's"
4-10-09 Eliza has to interpret Hyrum's babbles. Hyrum will say "dadadada" and Eliza says "Hyrum is talking about fish!" or "Hyrum just said blow dryer" or "Hyrum wants to go swimming"
My first Aaramie-ism. She was writing her name and then growled for about 10 seconds and slammed down her marker. I asked what was wrong. She said "Look, the 'r' is crooked". Oh, dear, I think we have another perfectionist.
2-22-09 Another Ricky-ism. He was looking at the church's kid scriptures with pictures and suddenly gasped and looked up at me. "Mom! Heavenly Father and Jesus live in the clouds!" I didn't quite know what to say so I hesitated. He said "Look, it's right here in this picture. If it's in the picture that is what it is." He didn't wait for any response from me. He was determined the picture was right. He looked back at the picture and muttered to himself "look, they have trumpets. I wonder why we don't hear them. Hum." I could help but laugh.
2-22-09 This was actually a Ricky-ism. He is always asking me questions about Heaven like "Will we eat in Heaven?" "What do angels eat?" "Do they eat healthy food in Heaven? I think they do. Huh Mom." I always tell him that I don't know. We were studying Lehi's dream and I said "Only the people who get to heaven get to eat the fruit of the tree of life." Ricky perked up. "That's what they eat in heaven!"
2-19-09 Eliza was saying that her baby had to go to jail. I told her I didn't think so and that jail was a place where people went who broke the law. Eliza replied "But she did break the alarm!"
2-8-09 At a baptism Eliza turns to William with a Booger on her finger and says "I need a tissue". William, not being used to carrying 'kid supplies' around was frantically looking around for something. As he is looking, Eliza figures out what to do. No, she did not eat it. She put it back in her nose.
While eating our family night treat William and I were talking and out of the blue Eliza says "Tomato's can't talk." We laughed at how random that was but about 20 min later I overheard her singing the theme song from veggie tales "If you like to talk to tomatoes . . ."
We were having a medical exam for life insurance and when William walked in the door Eliza said "Daddy! You get to watch a moooovie because the lady is going to take your skin off." (I had previously told her that the lady was going to take some blood out and I guess she figured that meant we had to take the skin off. (William can't stand needles, that's why we had a movie for him to watch)
Eliza was helping Marietta make dinner and Arletta walked in. Eliza gasped "Look, two letta's!"
Durring dinner Hyrum was gabbing and Eliza perked up and announced "Mommy, Hyrum is talking about computers!"
"I have 4 thumbs!" (she says to me as she shows me her big toes and her thumbs)
If you give Eliza attention and talk to her, you are sure to hear her say "You are my best friend" over an over.
While I was doing her hair Eliza said to me "Bad guys can't get pretty people, right mom?"
Today I said to Eliza "What is this one strand of hair doing out of place?' and she said "It's just a monkey hair"

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