Fun and Games

We just love having Drew, Amber and Ella come to visit. Amber found a chair that hooks to the table for us so now Ella can join us at the table. I never had a high chair for my kids and wanted to have the same kind of chair for the grandkids. Good job Amber! Here are a couple of my favorite pictures from the last month or so.

The Princess and the Pea

After years of talking about it, we finally broke down and bought a new mattress set for our bedroom. Ours was 30 years old and the life expectancy of a mattress is 10 years max (YIKES). We have looked and looked and finally found one we thought would work. It was pretty tall in the showroom and the saleslady asked Ken if we wanted a 6" or 12" boxsprings. Since we have a sleigh bed, he figured that 12" would work just fine.

I was running errands when the mattress set came - Chase called me and told me to bring home a step ladder. He wasn't kidding!

I'm going to have to go on a bedding hunt to find a new bedspread that will cover both the mattress and box springs.

We did have them bring us the 6" box springs, but trust me, there is no kneeling down to pray at this bedside. It's still plenty tall even with the new one.


I thought I would show a picture of how tall the bed is next to my great-grandma's chair so you can get a better visual of it.

Anyone have a spare toddler stool?

Chase's Birthday Party

Every once in a while, we like to have a BIG celebration at our house. Chase was the last of the quad's to turn 24 and we decided to celebrate in a big (and noisy) way. We were able to have Chase's birthday while Amy, Eric and their kids were visiting from California. We made invidivual pizza's and then let the kids (ok, Rick and Eric are just big kids) make gingerbread houses out of milk cartons and graham crackers. It was so much fun - and the kids had a great time making their own pizzas. I'm still cleaning up frosting - that stuff turns into glue! We were lucky enough to have all of the Utah Miller's here but Ben and Jeanne, who were having Thanksgiving with Ben's family that night.

Happy Halloween

Like usual, I'm a little behind, but I wanted to show this picture of Ella. Amber brought her into my office on Halloween and we propped her up in one of my office chairs. We decided she looked like Boo from Monsters Inc when they put her in the catepillar costume to disguise her like a monster.