Miller Time: August 2014

After the Trek Ben brought the kids home on Sunday. Monday morning we set out to Utah. We passed hundreds of army trucks on their way to a training in Boise.

Valeri had a hammock. The kids really enjoyed it and eventually it broke :(

I am so glad that my parents taught my kids how to play Zarahemla. Once they knew how to play they played over and over and over again. Valeri doesn't have TV or video games so the board games got pulled out.

Val has a great apple tree with a lot of horizontal branches that the kids could put boards across and make a fort. They spent an entire day out there.

Look at that white hair! Lots of time in the sun.

Vienna and Alissa played so well together the whole time we were there. It was great. They are at about the same vocabulary level.

Another fort made from tree clippings.

When Reese showed up she was the leader of the little girl band. Whatever she did the other girls followed.

This is Aaramie and Eliza performing their "Church is an Open Door" Parody for the song "Love is an open door" from the movie Frozen. It turned into a talent show and all the kids, including Valeri's boys performed a piece at the piano.

We are so blessed to see Grandma Rowley so much when we go down.

We then went to the Miller Reunion at Bear lake. We all came to Garden City to have a famous Raspberry shakes.

Vienna had another playmate! Sara Jane and her played really well.

Do people really do Hakki Sack still? I guess so.

Sam invited William and Eliza to go on the ATV and they went through a bunch of puddles as you can see. Later William and I were invited again to go and we came back wet and cold and dirty. I can still tell which pair of socks I wore in that truck!

I don't think we can have a Miller reunion without 2 kitchens and a huge dining room! It worked out so well!

Andrea is the ballon lady.

The marshmallow war is always a hit! People sometimes drag their feet but when they do it, it is a lot of fun!!!!

It rained all week but amazingly the sun kinda came out while we went swimming.

My attempt at taking a cool picture of Alison (Verina's daughter), I think it turned out!

Another attempt at a cool picture.

It is not easy to take a picture of Verina's family. This is the best one.

It is a miracle we got a family picture with everyone!

Then off to Vernal! Saturday morning we went to a lady's house that has 50+ Peacocks! There were feathers on the ground everywhere and the kids wanted to keep them all, even the ones with poop on them. We did bring a bunch home to William's dismay. ;)

The Peacocks didn't want to socialize. They all hid in the trees or on the house.

Rick snuck up into the trees to get a close up picture.

Nikki is pregnant! Yea!

Hyrum climbed to the top several times at my dad's work party. He is such a monkey!

The kids got to climb on the big machines. And they are BIG!

Before we left we stopped at Verl and Irene Mumford's home. They were my nursery leaders when I was a toddler. I couldn't remember what they looked like until we got to their home and when I saw them I immediately recognized them. Verl looked very different but I recognized his voice. They used to say hi to us all the time at church when we were kids. As a kid I had a love for them. It was good to visit.

We left some food at my parents and worried that we would have to stop for food on Sunday but when we stopped to visit Grandpa Zollinger they invited us to a big Sunday dinner! What a blessing. Just before we left they took the kids on the four wheeler for a ride and even let Rick drive. SCARY!

Of course you can't have a family reunion without pictures! Thank you Val for your nice camera and your picture taking skills!

For some reason the blog put this picture down here. It is good to see all the Millers still like to be crazy!

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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