Miller Time: June 2015

Nauvoo with Val and JD! We weren't able to move into our home as we had hoped this week so instead of staying in a small apartment all week we decided to visit Nauvoo. What a great place for families! I am so grateful and impressed with the service of the missionaries there.

Valeri had offered to take Eliza, Hyrum, and Vienna for a few weeks while we looked for a house here in Topeka. I am so grateful! Then the week before July 4th they drove our van and their van with all the kids and came to visit for a week!

This post is backwards in time. Start at the end and then work your way back:)

Vienna and Alissa and Tidence were pretty wiggly and didn't get much out of the tours but the other kids learned a lot!!! They were very attentive and enjoyed it a bunch.

The Tin shop

The gun smith

Rope making

Candle Making

Wagon ride

General store

They had fantastic performances and they are all free.

One of the original sun stones from the temple.

Pictures from Val's phone:

We went to the park on July 4th before all the fireworks with Val and JD. William and I are trying to learn to do the ripstick!

We were able to go see our future home with Val and JD while they were here. I took a few pictures. This is with the previous owners stuff in it. Hopefully I will get a picture of these rooms with our stuff :)

Visit to Washburn college with the Muirs. They have a pond to feed fish and turtles and also an art and craft area just for kids.

Thank you so much Arletta for driving that big truck the whole way!!!

Eliza, Hyrum, and Vienna stayed with Valeri for the next 3 weeks while we looked for a home. Here is a bunch of pictures from Val's camera.

Of course Val is one to get out and have fun so they often went to the park or bike riding.

William even got in the hammock while we were there.

I am so glad we got this picture of Vienna's hair. Her hair looks so good when you put it in but somehow she plays and it all starts falling out and she looks like this for the majority of the time :)

Valeri's kids and our kids both love crafts!

I can't believe she was able to cook for all these people for over 3 weeks!

Vienna and Hyrum had a birthday while at Valeri's house. She was so good to do that for them.

Kung fu with JD

Hyrum got sunglasses from Val for his birthday.

Vienna got new sandals from Val for her birthday.

I am so glad my kids were good helpers!

Bottle Rockets! So fun!

The kids were required to read for and hour every afternoon. I wish I could get this going at our house!

Hyrum decided to try out the piano while he was there. Of course all the kids had to be there for the first lesson! He came home so excited to learn piano so we started him and he has been doing great!!!

Going to the splash park wore Vienna out! She came right home and went to sleep.

Of course for Hyrum's birthday he got a fruit salad instead of a cake. Everyone knows that Hyrum is a fruit kid.

Eliza got a new hairdo in her hair everyday and she loved it.

The Wildings, Crocketts, and Millers all got together one weekend while the kids were there.

Vienna continues to be SUCH a smiley girl!

Eliza went running with Val and had a great time. Val was surprised that Eliza could keep talking even while running. Eliza always has something to say even when she is out of breath!

This is at the Hotel on the way to Topeka.

Yoga Hammocks at Valeri's house. Lots of fun for kids and adults! We stopped there for an overnighter on our way to Topeka.

Sierra Burrell was a little girl that Vienna really enjoyed playing with. She brought Vienna a picture she colored to say goodbye.

We had the best neighbors ever! Wendy and Wally and their family. I cannot imagine better loving neighbors. They always came to help us especially when we really needed them. One day William was chopping wood and we were trying to stack it and Wally and Nathan came over and helped chop wood! Several times I would go out to do the snow shoveling and Nathan would come over and help me.

This is Emily and Amy. I was blessed to do the pantry with them for a little over a year.

Here you can also see Nathan and .... ahhh I forgot her name!

We have an amazing library here. It is huge! This was a character thing the kids could put their faces in.

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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