Now You See It

I've been waiting for about 3 years to cut my hair. The last real haircut was in August 2006 when we were leaving to go on Pioneer Trek and I didn't want to mess with long hair during the trip. My goal was for it to be long enough to donate to Locks of Love. The girl who cuts my hair predictd the first part of May, and on May 6, off it came!




These are from the day I got it all cut off. I begged my friend to make sure there was at least 10" there, it's pretty hard to glue another inch or two on once you cut the pony tail off. Off it went and into the baggie. It took almost a week for the pony tail to try on my counter, but it's in the mail and on its way to Florida with a big happy face. Hopefully there is someone who needs it more than I do.

Happiest Place on Earth

After a three week delay (thanks to one messy basement flood), we finally made it to Florida. It never ceases to amaze me that our Heavenly Father watches over us and He is in charge. We were able to go on the trip without worrying about the basement flooding again, no major school tests or projects looming while we were gone, Ken got to go to the beach and see the space shuttle launch, the park was a lot emptier than it would have been over the holiday weekend, and we ended up staying in a different place that was a whole lot better!





First stop - Walt Disney World. Ken was such a good sport - he brought a book and read while I rode all the rides. We came up with a great system - use both passes for 2 different fast passes and I could ride two rides in the same fast past time frame. He did ride the things that wouldn't make him sick, but I LOVE them all! Ok, the new Aerosmith roller coaster ride (Space Mountain on steroids) was a bit much, but I still managed to laugh/scream through the whole thing.



We were in the parks for 5 days, but managed to squeeze in a trip to NASA - which was probably the coolest part of the whole trip. We were there the day that they launched the exploratory missiles and we were able to see both that launch site and the space shuttle launch site - which already had the shuttle in place.



But, the world knows WDW as the happiest place on earth, but we were able to go to the real happiest place on earth... we love visiting temples in different places and seeing how they vary from the Utah ones.

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.

What Happened to Fall?

Yesterday while we were out planting a couple of trees, I kept telling Ken that we went right from summer to winter. He told me I was wrong - that we had had about two weeks of fall and it was still fall. Ok - so here's a couple of pictures I took a few minutes ago. Try to tell me it's fall! We are already up to 9 inches of snow and it's still covering the sidewalk as fast as Ken is shoveling. He's about to go out and hook up the plow to the tractor (and we all know how bad he'll feel about that...)

The dogs absolutely love the snow - but when you only have 6 inches of legs, it's hard to motate through 9 inches of snow.

I just went out and shook all the trees since they were starting to bend from the weight of the snow. One of the trees we planted yesterday was laying flat on the ground - who would've guessed?

For effect, I have to add a picture that I took 3 days ago of Bandit getting a bath from Izzy. Pretty sure we weren't anticipating this kind of weather for the weekend.