The Millers

Cameron is 4!!

2009-07-28T08:11:00.000-07:00

Last week we celebrated cameron's 4th Birthday. He was so excited, he had been waitng for weeks for it to be his birthday! I think most of all he was so excited becasue his daddy was going to be home for it! We did the Miller family tradition and made Japanese food for dinner and Cameron loved it. I was a little worried he wasn't going to like the Gyoza'a, but he loved them! Grandpa got Cameron a bike! It is actually the bike myself and all my siblings learned on. My dad just got a new seat and tires for it and it still rides like a champ. It took cameron a couple days though to get used to it, he was a little nervous after falling a couple of times, but now he just zooms down the street. He also got a couple of other great things, a Hulk costume from Grandma and clothes from G&G Miller, which are always needed. Cameron is such a joy to have in our house and we are so blessed to have him. We love him to death and can't believe he is four already!
LOVE YOU BUDDY!

Wasatch Back Relay

2009-06-22T22:35:00.000-07:00

This past week I had the chance to run in the Ragnar relay with some of Adams family and friends. For anyone who knows me, I am totally not a runner. But they conned me into this one and I had a blast. I ended up running just over 13 miles. The whole race was 188 miles and our team did in just under 30 hours! I know it doesn't sound like fun, but it really was. We had two vans with about 6-7 people in each of them and we would seriously, run, drive, sleep(really not that much), and run some more. I didn't get very many pictures, which makes me sad, but I'm glad Hayley did! Thanks! And I was so thankful that Scott and Abby were able to watch the boys! Thanks guys! Well heres all the pictures I got, not much, but you can check out Hayleys blog for more!

Aaron laying on Meg's lap, she was taking care of him!

After about 24 hours of being awake, maybe longer

This is Cade, I swear he was always sleeping...he deserved to though, he did awesome and picked up a couple of extra legs for some people!

meg and aaron getting water fo Adri

Thanks again everyone, it was so fun. And thank to Adams Aunt and Uncle for the beds and food and Shelly, Gandma and Gandpa Miller for driving us!

Memorial Day Weekend...a little late

2009-06-07T20:44:00.000-07:00

Memorial Day weekend, me, my dad and the boys went and met Alisa, Ben and her boys and their friends in Oregon. They camped while we stayed in a hotel!! haha and we would meet them out on the lake each day...we were roughing it! We had so much fun and Cameron loved being on the boat. I don't think Patrick enjoyed it as much mainly because of the life jacket. But we were even able to get Cameron to ride on the tube. I have to admit I was alittle nervous just because I knew Cameron would freak out if he ended up in the water...and it was freezing. I even made my self get in the water and do a little wakeboarding. I was so dang sore thought the next couple of days.

Patick

Kael playing at the beach

Sis Surfing

cameron and canon

cameron on the tube

Fractured arm

2009-04-30T13:23:00.000-07:00

So last week, while I was at work, someone rang the doorbell and Cameron got a little excited to see who it was. He was sitting on my moms bed and apparently while he was trying to get off, he fell. My mom said he cried like never before, so we knew something was wrong. So the next day he wasn't using his arm at all and when I would try to straighten it or bend it he would cry and say it hurt. Next stop the doctor. Two xrays later they tell us that there is fluid in the joint(of his elbow) which usually means there is a fracture, but no visible one. So they put a cast on his arm with an ace bandage wrapped around it, and a sling. He did really, really well with it for the week. I thought it was going to be horrible. We did go back to the Doctor and he took the cast off and now wants us to just wait and see how his arm does. Cameron acts like nothing was even wrong with it. We are suppose to be keeping it in the sling this whole week and doing excercises. He still wont straighten all the way or bend all the way, but you wouldn't even know there was anything wrong with him. He's doing great!! We are just now waiting and making sure he keeps it that way!

Our trip to Seattle

2009-03-31T10:21:00.000-07:00

Well about two weeks ago, the boys and I drove down to Seattle. Adam was able to fly there and meet us there as well. We are so lucky to have family there, so we stayed with Alisa and her family. Adams family was also there for the weekend staying with his Aunt. It was so nice to see everyone in the quick weekend. The first day we were there we went into Seattle and took a ferry over to Bainbridge Island. This is what I really love about Adams family, we always plan everything around food!!!! I love it. So the reason we over there was to eat at Cafe Nola. This is one of the places tha Giada, from food network had gone to. My mother in law is the best at finding those places! The boys loved the ferry ride, especially Cameron. He keeps asking to go on the boat ship again. Later on we went to Pikes place market and we bought some seafood of course and Adam bought me some beautiful flowers for me! We then headed back to sis' house and made crab and clams. I hadn't ever had fresh clams and found out that I'm not a fan of them. Then the next day we went to the Museum of flight and I think Adam was more in heaven than Cameron. Patrick is starting to figure out planes so enjoyed it as well. We were also able to have dinner that evening with Adam's family and a couple cousins of his. It was so fun and great to see everyone there. Even though it was a short quick weekend, it was tons of fun. And the boys actually did very we`ll driving 8 hours each way. And we cant wait to see daddy again soon! Oh and I forgot my camera so all of these pictures are from my phone, sorry.

Oh and we ate at this Ivars. I had a couple of peaople tell me to eat there...they had the best clam chowder ever and clam strips...DELICIOUS!!!

Cameron was a little unsure at first to get in the planes, he thought they were going to take off.

This is Patrick on the first day there. He was so worn out, and he rarely sleeps in the car, he only slept for about 45 min out of the 8 hours on the way there!

Page 56!

2009-03-24T18:27:00.000-07:00

Page 56 of the nearest book...

Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.* Post that sentence along with these instructions in a note to blog.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.
* Now you do it!

"Haymitch hasn't paid much attention to his platter, but he's knocking back a glass of red juice that he keeps thinning with a clear liquid from a bottle."

I got this off my cousins blog, I thought it was cute and very random! So this is the book I'm reading now, and happened to be the one closest to me.(highly recommend it too, Stephenie Meyers, the writer of Twighlight, recommended it!)

What did I tell you, RANDOM!!

Cameron and the Camera

2009-02-04T10:12:00.000-08:00

Cameron loves taking pictures. These are just a few of his best!

This is what he was doing last night when I got home from work. And then he wanted to take pictures of hm and I.

Then he says, mommy say
ahhh!

TWILIGHT!!

2008-11-21T07:27:00.000-08:00

SO...yesterday morning I had been listening to the radio and they were giving out Twilight tickets like every hour starting at 11:15. So as I'm walking out of Target, I look at my phone and it says 11:16. Ah, what the heck I'll try and call and just see if they are doing it. The phone is busy, busy, busy of course, I was about to give up, then decided to try calling one more time and it rang! So the DJ answers the phone and I ask are you giving out Twilight tickets? Oh, I forgot to metion they were giving them out for the 12:01AM screening. So anyway, I asked her if they were giving away the tickets and she says "yes, and you are going to be there at midnight to watch it"!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO! Pretty much thats what I said, I was so freaking excited!!! The only bad thing about this all was that the tickets were for the theatre in Scottsdale--1 HOUR away from my house, but oh well, totally worth it! I got two tickets, and I new Adam really wanted to go, but I ended up taking my cousin Lindsay(who also lives and hour away). Plus she kind of got me to read the books, so she totally deserved to go with me. We were both so excited and there were so many people there. I left my house about 8:30 and got there about 9:30 and the line was already wrapped around the building outside. It was CRAZY! I stood there for about an hour before the started letting us in. And we both didn't get home until about 3:30am! I had so much fun and the movie was pretty good. I will go see it again with Adam and if they make another one I'll definatley go see it! But the books are way better, but it was still a really good movie.

St. George

2008-10-31T13:26:00.001-07:00

We went to St. George this last weekend for Grandpa Millers birthday! We had so much fun. Even thought is was a long drive, it was great to see all of the Millers! We went to a really cool park while we were there, it had a ton of toys and a splash pad. The water was freezing, but we couldn't keep Patrck out of it. He would start whining a little bit so we'd pull him out and then he would get mad because he wanted back down to go back into the water. Crazy kid!

BBRRRRR thats cold!

Megan and Aaron--I found this picture after we got home!!

Patrick going down the slide

On our way home, we got out to see the Colorado River(I think)

Look at what I found

2008-10-31T13:14:00.000-07:00

The other night I was outside and I heard something jumping around in the rocks. It was a frog! Grossed me out so I made Adam come out and catch it. Cameron(and seceretly Adam) were so excited!!

Ice Cream?!

2008-10-31T13:10:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks ago we went to Casa Grande for a Potluck with Adams work. On the way home we decided to get some ice cream. This is cameron when we got home.

Patricks Birthday

2008-10-01T20:26:00.000-07:00

So we really didn't do a whole lot for Patricks birthday. But is was really nice. When he woke up he was like in the best mood ever. We had pancakes and eggs for breakfast and he absolutley loved them(or it was the syrup his dad covered them in!) Then we all went in the backyard and cleaned it up, I'm sure that was fun for him, but something we needed to do. It just happened that the "real" Cameron Patch was in town, so we went and visited him at his brothers house who had a pool in their community. So we went swimming. Patrick loved it. He couldn't hold still, he just wanted to be all over the pool and see what everyone was doing. Then I think he had about had a day, so we did cake on Sunday. Actually we just had cupcakes and it was really funny cuz he didn't know what to do with it. So Adam had to show him. We love Patrick so much and he's such a joy to our family. He's always so happy and calm and we love that about him.

Finally, I know!

2008-10-01T19:56:00.000-07:00

So I know it's been a while. So just to get everyone updated again on what's up with the Miller family. First Adam--He's just getting ready to finish up his first semester of clinicals in Casa Grande. He has really enjoyed the clinic he is working at. I believe it's the second week in November he will be going to a different clinic in Gilbert, but it's the same company which he is happy about. We are also happy that it's sooo much closer to home and will save on gas money!!!!yahoo! He's still working three nights a week, soon to be two. He's not sad about that at all. He's loving school right now since there's no studying involved, just all hands on! Me--well, I got a new job about a month ago. I just happened to see that an office very close to us was hiring so I applied and got the job. I really didn't want to change jobs, but it was in our families best interest that I did. I'm really starting to like it where I'm at, even though I am working more hours, every other Saturday and two evenings a week. Really it's not that bad, I actually get to spend more time with the boys in the mornings and Adam get time with them in the evening and on that weekends. Oh ya and I have become totally obsessed with the Twilight series. If anybody knows me really well, I hate reading, but I though I'd give it a try. I read the first two books in two weeks and I can't wait to start Eclipse. Cameron--all I can say is that he is getting so smart. And he is crazy as always. He's keeping us on our toes all the time. He's enjoying playing games on the computer and watching movies(we don't have cable anymore) He has really gotten into puzzles and much much more. He actually enjoys going to nursery finally. He now knows who his teacher is Sis. Scout(really it's Scouw)and he's singing songs like crazy. Patrick--He's 1!!!!! and so big. He's wearing Camerons clothes that he was wearing when he was 18 months or older(which actually works out really well) Not walking yet but getting there. Actually he really has no interest. He'll stand all by himself not holding onto anything every once in a while, but he'd much rather crawl. He loves to to dance and says dada, nana, hey, more, but he never really says mama, kinda sad. He loves his daddy. Oh and he loves food!
We are still alive, just super crazy. We can't wait till Adam is done with school next July.
Cameron and his silly faces

I accidentally dressed them both in red this day--So I took pictures

Patrick getting so big

3 yr and 9 month Well Visits

2008-08-01T12:04:00.000-07:00

Well this morning we had our well visits. The boys did very well. Patrick was the only one that had to get shots so the was good, and it was only 1!!! Aside from being sick last week, everyone is healthy and doing great!
Cameron: 29lbs
36 3/4 in

Patrick: 19.10 lbs
27 1/2 in

They sure are getting big. I think Patrick is going to catch up to Cameron sooner that we think. Patrick likes to mimic his brother and they like to scream back and forth at each other. We do not have a quiet house! Patrick is also saying "mama", "dada" and his favorite "a-da" it almost sounds like he is saying "Adam". It was kind of funny because the Dr. asked me if he was clapping yet. And at first I said no not really, because Patrick just has crazy arms as it is and I never really know if he's clapping, waving and just going crazy. But then I remembered, he does kind of clap, but not a normal one. If anybody has seen him crawl, he crawls with fists. Most kids crawl with their hands open, but no, he has fist. So back to the clapping... when he claps he has one hand in a fist and the other open. So needless to say, my son does clap, just not correctly!!

As for Cameron, he's just a crazy 3 yr old who think he can talk back to his mom and dad. I swear his favorite word is "NO". He pretty much knows all of his colors and just about has his ABC's down and counting! Hopefully we all stay healthy for a while, no more being sick, I hate that!!!

A night with the Dabell family!

2008-07-29T22:09:00.000-07:00

This past weekend, Trent, SueAnn and Brynly came to town. They were here visiting family, but were nice enough to make some to time let us come to their hotel and visit and swim. It was so great to them and and especially Brynly. Cameron and her got along great and had fun at the pool. I didn't get very many good pictures, but I got a couple. Hopefully SueAnn got a couple more and better ones than I did. Thanks for letting us come hang out with you guys, we had so much fun. I can't believe how big Brynly is getting and she is so smart!!! She is so lucky to have such a great family.

OK these pictures are horrible and I'm really embarrassed that this is all I have.

Memories

2008-07-24T19:22:00.000-07:00

Memories!!
Here's how it works:1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together, or one of the first memories you have of me. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.

Cameron's 3rd Birthday

2008-07-14T22:15:00.000-07:00

Cameron turned 3 years old today!! We have some great neighbors who made us dinner and got a cake for Cameron. He had so much fun. The other day when we were at the grocery store he saw a Mickey Mouse ballon and he told me "I want a clubhouse balloon for my birthday" (for those of you who don't know, on the Disney channel they call it mickey mouse clubhouse,I think)so thats where he gets "clubhouse" from. So I had to get him the balloon. Oh my, he was so excited. As you can tell he was just in heaven with the cake as well. We opened presents and he was so excited to see that he got an Ironman figurine(did I spell that right??) Lately he has be obsessed with superheros. He watches the batman, superman, ironman cartoons all the time. But it was so funny when he was opening up his last present, that was a Cars remote control car, he was just getting the tisue paper out of the bag and could see the car in there and he goes "Oh my goodness" with so much excitement. I wish I was video taping it. He is such a funny kid. We love Cameron so much and he is becoming such a big boy. He's so smart and funny, he's always making us laugh and smile. No matter how many naughty things he does, we will always love him and laugh about it. We love you Cameron, Cam, C.P, Patch, Monkey(all of his nick names). MUAH!!
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"OH MY GOODNESS"

Cameron and his "clubhouse" balloon

blowing out the candles

Our family(I don't know what Adam is doing?)

He seriously loves balloons, these are the ones off that cake

mmmmmmmmm CAKE

what is it....

IRONMAN!!!!

4th of July

2008-07-08T20:25:00.000-07:00

This is our stay at the Fairmont Princess resort in Scottsdale! It was beautiful and so nice. We had so much fun and wished we could've stayed another night or 10. Cameron loved the swimming and and fishing and Parick also enjoyed the water. We had two fun days of soaking up the hot weather here by the pool. Thanks for the great stay!!!

Brothers

2008-07-08T20:02:00.000-07:00

I thought this was kind of cute, Cameron already teaching his brother how to get the cereal off the counter, to the chair to dig in!

New things at our house

2008-06-29T15:31:00.000-07:00

I'm so excited!!! Yesterday we got to mow our lawn. Some of you may ask why...well about a month ago we seeded our yard. This is what it looked like about two weeks ago.

And this is what it looks likes today!!

Now we can play outside(sometimes, it's really hot right now), my house won't be filled with dust and dirt, no more mud from the dog coming in and out and it just looks so much better than dirt and weeds out there. As you can see there are still a couple of bare spots that we need to fix, but hey, I think it turned out pretty dang good! While daddy mowed it yesterday Cameron couldn't play enough baseball with me. He loves to play catch, so we threw the ball back and forth for about 20- 30 min. I had drenched him twice earlier in the day of sunscreen, but we had to come in because he was starting to get a little red. So we are so excited to have grass and can't wait to be out side in that backyard a little more often now.
Just a little update on Patrick. He is crawling like crazy for one. He's every where. And this is what I've been catching him doing lately!

Sometimes he thinks it's so funny. He'll pull himself up and just start laughing. But then sometimes he'll kind of cry, I think he gets a little scared. He's starting to become such a big boy, he loves playing with his brother and he's starting to get a little personality.

We've got a bleeder

2008-06-23T19:29:00.000-07:00

So Cam is always playing with our dog Tank. He just thinks it's hilarious to pull on his cheeks and jump on him, and I'm sure Tank enjoys it too(sometimes). Whenever he is playing with him he will be laughing so hard one minute and then the next he is crying. Well Cameron was doing the usual tonight, but this time he did more of his "hurt" cry. So as I'm coming down the stairs to see what happened, Cam is coming up them saying "Tank broke my nose"...Well what happened, we got our first bloody nose!

Patrick crawling

2008-06-16T18:42:00.000-07:00

I just got this video of Patrick crawling. It is actually the first time he's actually crawled on his hands and knees, he usually just scoots or rolls across the floor. Please excuse the Diego bum and my naked boys...It's HOT here in the AZ!

AZ Science Center

2008-06-14T10:50:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Adams class went to the Arizona Science Center. So the boys and I joined them. They had lots of cool stuff, but I think it would be more fun when Cameron gets a little older.They had one really cool thing called the Forces of Nature. And you would stand in this little area and it had big projector screens all around it. The projectors were playing videos of the different "forces". So it would play like something on fire, hurricane, tornado...so while standing there heat lamps would come on and make us nice toasty, then it would get windy and rainy. Then at the end they had an earthquake and the whole floor was shaking. I was really cool. We will definatley be going back to the science center again when Cameron gets a little older.

Yes this is a nose. You would throw the balls into it's nostrils and then it would sneeze them all back at you!

Playing on the computer

This is an ant farm they had there. Cam had a hard time seeing them and trying to figure out why they were in there, but the thought was pretty cool once he figured it out.

talking on the phone

looking up at the fire

I think this was a volcano

Patrick just hanging ut

A little bit more from our vacation

2008-06-06T10:54:00.000-07:00

We sure did have fun on our trip. Thanks to everyone who we were able to hang out with and have fun with. It was so good being able to see everyone! I just have a couple more pictures of the boys. We had doughnuts one morning for breakfast, and this is Cameron later in the day trying to sneak some.

And just a couple more pictures of the boys

The boys were having fun with grandpa eating graham crackers and yogurt.

Fun in Idaho

2008-05-29T09:57:00.000-07:00

Well it's been fast, crazy and fun!! We've been able to see everyone in our families this week and it has been so much fun. We met Adam's family in Boise on Saturday. We were lucky enough that they were having a youth temple trip so were were able to meet them there and participate in baptisms with them. We then headed up to Twin Falls for the weekend. It was a ton of fun just being able to sit and chat and catch up with everyone. We of course got our shooting in( and guess who won the contest for $20...ME!!!) We had some family pictures taken so we can't wait to see those. We then came back to Nampa on Monday and a little birthday party for Sis and I. The boys and I are still here hanging out with Grandpa and Grandma and Sis and her boys. We sure do miss daddy though. He had to go back for school and work. Here is a sneak peak at some of the fun we've been having!!!

My SIL making my Birthday cake

Our little monkey climbing the tree

Cam helping me blow out the candles

Out by the fire

Patrick and Nana

Out shooting

The SIL's and I

Our new kitty

2008-05-16T13:37:00.000-07:00

I know, I know, that's all we need is another cat. We have two already. But one of the girls at work found a stray cat and it was pregnant. So she was giving away these kittens. So I just had to get one. The funny thing is, is that I used to HATE cats. Now look at me, I'm bringing them home like a little kid(my husband used to do that whne he was younger) My husbands family sure has changed me. I knew Adam wouldn't mind cuz hes a total cat lover!! So here are a couple little snapshots I've gotten so far. We don't have any names yet. Pitch in your thoughts. But it has to start with an "S" our other cats are Sassy and Splinter, so we have to continue the tradition. I thought maybe Sugar?(also my favorite scensty scent hahaha)

We are coming to Idaho

2008-05-16T13:17:00.000-07:00

If anybody cares...we are coming home next weekend. We are flying home Friday night, and will be spending the weekend in Twin Falls with Adams family. Then we will head back to Nampa on Monday and I will be there until Saturday. We are so excited, we always love coming home because it's always cooler and it's good to see the fam! We can't wait for Grandma Pam to come this Sunday and can't wait to go swimming at her Hotel. Then she gets to come stay with us for a couple of days, then she gets to fly home with us, yipee we'll have help going through security. I am a little nervous to fly back to AZ though because I am going to be flying by myself with the two boys. Anybody have any suggestions of getting through the airport and security smoothly! Any would be greatly appreciated!!! Well we are excited to come see everyone!

Going pee pee on the potty!!

2008-05-03T21:15:00.000-07:00

FINALLY!! Cameron is finally going on the potty. On Monday our babysitter told us to just bring Cameron some underwear because she was tired of changing poopy diapers. So we did. probably by wednesday he was pretty much potty trained! He's only had a couple of accidents here at the house. Well one was in the car today on the way home from costco. Adam tried to take him at costco but he wouldn't go. And then yesterday we had a yucky accident. Cam was outside playing and I kept asking him if he needed to go, and he kept telling me no. Then he came in a little later and had gone #2 in his underwear. So I think so far we are doing pretty good. He'll just come up to me and tell me that he's gone potty. He just goes on his own now. I think he just seceretly likes to flush the toilet!! He's such a funny boy, he gets so excited whenever he goes, and I love it! I'm so happy for him, now he's not the only one at the babysitters that isn't potty trained. Way to go Cameron!!! WOOHOO

Husband ABC's

2008-04-18T14:15:00.000-07:00

A-ATV of choice? motorcycle
B-Born on? January 17
C-Cookies or Candy? CANDY
D-Date of Choice when you go out? Dinner and a movie
E-Essential Item? Cell Phone
F-Favorite Foods? Anything spicy as can be or Japanese
G-Gas or Diesel vehicle? diesel
H-Hobbies? Shooting, running, playing video games
I-Ice Cream Flavor? thats a hard one he has many-rocky road,mint choc chip,or birthday cake-has to have actual cake in it!
J-Job? Service Rep-full time student
K-Kids? 2 boys-Cameron and Patrick
L-Last Vacation as a couple? this is sad, but when we got married-Vegas
M-Morning person or night owl? niether really, but if I have to choose, Night
N-Number of Siblings? 3 younger sisters-Megan, Jenessa, Caitlyn
O-OCD or sloppy? sloppy
P-Pet Peeves? dirty ears-he has the cleanest ears I have ever seen in my life
Q-Quiet or Loud? loud
R-Restaurant? Sushi Kee, YC's(mongolian grill)
S-Sports? He used to run alot, too busy now, I try to make him watch football with me
T-Tight wad or spender? Spender
U-Unknown Fact about him? He has a shoe, backpack, and watch fetish-he probably has more shoes than I do. And he can speak fluent German and he wants to go back and live there someday
V-Vegetables? all vegtables-he always tells me we need to go to the store because we are getting low on veggies.
W-Worst Habit? spending money
X-Xtra Curricular activities in high school? running, getting into trouble(paintballing,egging)oh and he was in the band until he got kicked out
Y-Your favorite things about him? Even though I get mad at him for playing video games to much, I love it when he asks me to play with him then he gets upset when I kill us. He is a great dad and husband and is always looking out for the best for his family.
Z-Zodiac Sign? Capricorn(i had to go look it up)
We tag everyone on my favorites that wants to do it!!

Pass it along

2008-04-18T06:22:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to pass this along for Tyson and Janeal(even though I don't know them). I do know they are friends with the family who adopted the little girl I had. So I just wanted to help them out a little. Hope it helps!

Patrick sitting up

2008-04-16T15:28:00.000-07:00

Well it's been a couple weeks, but I'm just getting to posting it. Yea, he's sitting up all by himself. Sometimes we have to force him to, but he'll do it. It's nice to cuz now we don't have to hold him all the time. We can just sit him on the floor with some toys and he's good for a while. He's not doing much more than that though. He loves fruits, and we are working on the veggies-mainly green ones for some reason. He's growing up so fast, I can't believe that he is almost 7 months. CRAZY!

Oh ya, and he's getting chubby and we are loving it! He's so cute!

Cameron again!!

2008-04-16T15:08:00.000-07:00

Ok, he's done it once again. So at Christmas time an Ortho office gave us a bunch of cookie mixes in a box. We were cleaning at work the other day and there was still a box left, so I said that I would take it home. Well this morning when we woke up and came downstairs Cam saw it and immediatley says"I want cookies". I said no, we'll make them later today. Well he just didn't want to do that. So run back upstairs real quick to get Patrick and come back down to this...

Is this a typical two year old, or just my son?

2008-04-05T18:17:00.000-07:00

So it seems like lately that Cameron is just into everything. More, just when I turn my back for a couple of minutes, he's done something. Let me just put a couple of pictures up to show you what I mean.
So in this one I was feeding Patrick some applesauce and I left it open on the table kind of behind me and couple minutes later, this is what I found!!

This one he moved everything out of the way first and set it nicely in the hallway then climbed up on the carseat to get some flashlights off the top of the dryer.

This one I was a little more upset about because I actually had a mess to clean up, but I was more mad that it was my crepe mix(you people know how I am about my crepes)!! I ran upstairs for a minute and I come back to this. Excuse the dust and messy house!

I guess I just need to not leave him alone anymore!!

ABC Tag

2008-04-04T22:28:00.000-07:00

SueAnn tagged me....

A-Attached or Single? Attached
B-Best Friend? Adam
C-Cake or Pie? Usually Cake, but Pie if it's my mom's rhubarb Yum-O!!
D-Day of Choice? I have three, Fri, Sat, Sun-Don't have to work those days!!
E-Essential Item? Cell Phone
F-Favorite Color? green and yellow
G-Gummy bears or worms? bears-only haribo, adam got me addicted
H-Hometown? caldwell
I-Favorite Indulgence? I love anything w/choclate
J-January or July? Jan. in AZ, July in ID
K-Kids? Cameron and Patrick
L-Life isn't complete without? My family
M-Marriage date? September 9, 2004
N-Number of brothers and sister? 2 brother and 1 sisters
O-Oranges or apples? Apples
P-Phobia or fears? snakes-
Q-Quote? not sure
R-Reason to smile?My boys
S-Season of choice? Spring!
T-Tag 3 people: Sis, Abby, Karissa, Kayla, Lyndsee, Lindsay
U-Unknown facts about me? someday I want to go back to school to be a hygienist and I had a baby one year to the date before I had Cameron that I placed for adoption!-one of the best things I've done in my life!
V-Vegetable? I like too may to choose just one
W-Worst habit? Always on the computer when i should be cleaning or doing laundry that I don't ever fold
X-X-ray or ultrasound? I have had both-and I take way too may xray's everyday at work
Y-Your favorite food? i love all food, but i really like mexican and japanese
Z-Zodiac sign? Gemini

The new Cameron!!!

2008-03-30T19:42:00.000-07:00

Check out Camerons new haircut. He looks like such a big boy now! To see what he looked like before scoll down to the previous post.

Easter

2008-03-28T08:58:00.000-07:00

Easter was fun this year with Cameron. He actually kind of new what was going on. I was walking with him Saturday and trying to explain to him that the easter bunny was coming and what he does. A couple minutes later he said "no want easter bunny". I then explained to him that the easter bunny brings candy, he was then very excited!!!

Cam had lots of fun dyeing eggs

He chose the Shrek theme
Since we have 8:00am church the easter bunny came during church(and daddy was home w/ Patrick since I had to teach nursery)so when we got home Cameron got his basket did the easter egg hunt!

We hope everyone else had a wonderful easter!

I know I'm a little behind

2008-03-28T08:33:00.000-07:00

Hopefully I can get caught up today on our blog! We have had a rough week. Starting last Friday Patrick was sick, once again. This time it was throwing up. Up until Wednesday evening he's being throwing up at least twice a day. He was able to keep Pedialite down and water just fine. It was just whenever we would give him his formula he would throw it up. So finally on Wednesday I called a nurse to see what they thought and to see if we were doing everything we needed to. Well to make a story short, she advised us to bring him in just to make sure he hadn't lost too much weight and so on. So we took him in and it turns out it's just Viral and wouldn't you know he hasn't thrown up since! Now our job is trying to get him to sleep again. I had a lot of sleepless nights this week and and all he wanted was for us to hold him, so he slept with me a lot this past week. I'm making progress though, he is in HIS bed taking a nap as we speak!!! WOOHOO!!!!

Quick update

2008-03-14T08:36:00.000-07:00

Patrick started eating rice cereal about two weeks ago. He loves it! He opens right up and downs it. He has also started to sit up, he still falls over quite a bit but he's getting the hang of it. Cameron loves him so much and wants to help with everything. Cam's new things to say are "i need this" or "i don't know". He's growing up so fast and learning so much. He is a lot smarter than we think.

8 things about Cameron

2008-03-05T20:25:00.000-08:00

Cameron was tagged by Brynly

1.He loves to jump and climb on and off of everything. True boy. 2.Cam is named after one of Adam's companions and good friends from his mission. His full name was Cameron Patch. We liked the name Cameron but couldn't find a middle name that we liked, and Cameron Patch Miller just sounded good. 3.He was the first grandson/baby for Nana and Papo Miller.

4. His favorite food is Cereal...can you believe that coming from his mother!! 5. Don't be disguised by his cute smile and dimples...he can be a monster. 6.He loves his baby brother 7.He is obsessed with Spiderman 8. And he is loved so much by everyone in his family!

Cameron tags Canon,Kael,Grace,Ella,Kyson,Susie...and whoever else wants to do it!!!

Fever

2008-02-29T18:04:00.001-08:00

So I did a little research on fevers, heres a little video if anybody is interested. http://www.webmd.com/video/parker-high-fever
There are several other videos at this site that have some good info.

Another sick boy

2008-02-29T15:09:00.000-08:00

Yes that is right, now Cameron is sick. So it started yesterday when I picked the boys up from the babysitter's. Cam had just woken up and I went to go pick him up and he was on FIRE! Then seconds later he started throwing up. So we got home and he was fine for alittle bit just kind of laying around and then was throwing up some more. Thank goodness that was the last of it. But he had a fever all night long. then this morning he was pretty good. We took daddy to school went got some breakfast-he ate fine-then to the dr's to check patricks ears-which are good. we ran a couple more errands and then he slept. when we picked up adam he had a fever again. gave him some medicine and then we were home an hour later and I took his temp cuz he was still hot 103.5!!!! When is it that you are suppose to worry, I think 104.The tylenol and motrin are getting the fever down, but it just comes right back up. poor guy he's just been sleeping all day. he won't get off the bed. Hopefully he'll get better soon.

If it's not one thing...

2008-02-15T12:59:00.000-08:00

Yeah!! Patrick doesn't have RSV!!! We went back to the Dr yesterday and she said his lungs sound perfect. We now only have to do breathing treatments as needed!! So she just checked his ears and everything again to make sure everything was good, first ear good, second ear, too much ear wax to see, so she got the wax out and full blown ear infection. Poor guy. I woulnd't have even know he's such a good baby. So he was on amoxicillan before and that obviously wasn't working for the infecton, so she switched to augmenton. So we get to go back again in two weeks. So other than that Patrick is doing good. He's sleeping better and just a happy boy. Sorry I don't have any new pictures. We are so busy during the week, we don't get very many taken. Hopefully soon though we'll get some more. Hope everybody had a great Valentines day. I didn't get our famalies tradition of sugar cookies made, and my mom dind't send us any(she was a little busy with the grand opening)so I'm hoping this weekend Cameron and I can make some.

Fun at the park

2008-02-10T18:06:00.000-08:00

We decided to go to the park today because it was just so nice out. It's starting to warm up here again and it's the perfect weather right now. I kept telling Adam, I just want to go sit outside! I love this weather. Please excuse my husbands hair...we had just woken up from our naps, and he needs a haircut!

Oregano's

2008-02-10T17:54:00.000-08:00

I just had to brag to everyone who left us here in AZ by ourselves(scott, abby, travis) that we went to Oreganos the other day and it was Yum-O!! And the best part was the Pazookie!! Oh and there is one in Gilbert now.

Tagged

2008-02-10T11:17:00.000-08:00

I've Been Tagged...
I've been tagged by Abby and sis and since this is the first time I have ever been tagged I will go ahead and do it! Here is how this one works.
A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.
B. Each player answers the question about themselves.
C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 other people and posts there names. And then leaves a message on their blog letting them know they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog to get the directions.

What I was doing 10 years ago...
Let's see here I was 13, so the eighth grade. Can't even think of what I was doing. Probably playing basketball and or doing Jr. high dance team!

5 Things on my "To-Do" list today...
1. Go to church..check
2. take a nap
3. breathing treatment for patrcik
4. clean up a little and get ready for the week
5. find something to make for dinner

3 Bad habits I have...
1. Being on the computer/internet
2. Not folding laundry!!!(you'd think our mother never did it, but she did!)
3. Picking at stuff

Places I have lived...
Boise, ID
Caldwell, ID
Twin Falls, ID
Mesa, AZ
Queen Creek, AZ

Things Most people don't know about me...
I had my rebel years... learned my lesson in a hard but wonderful way! If anybody is lost and doesn't get it, I'll let you know. But for the people who know me(mainly my family), you should know what I'm talking about.

I tag....
Kayla, Karissa-(if you have time).Everyone has been tagged already!

Do you want the good news or the bad news first?

2008-02-08T21:02:00.000-08:00

Boy did we have a crazy day today. Well to start off, Patrick had his 4 month appt. today. So we went to the Dr. and the first thing she asks me is, any questions or concerns...ya, he still has this horrible cough and congeston that he has had for the past 2 months. Every other time I've gone in they have just said it's a cold and he's not wheezy, so he's fine. So she is listening to him and she says, ok we aren't going to give him his shots today. He sounds a little wheezy to me, lets do a breathing treatment and swab him for RSV! Oh great this is just lovely. So we do a treatment there at the office and she said he soudned so much better after it. But we still need to do treatments every 4-6 hours. So our poor Patrick is is getting treatments and on antibiotics. Poor little dude. Oh, for the good news, I was doing some tummy time w/him tonight and he rolled over 3 times! Then he just got mad after that.We were so proud of him! I'll get some pictures up of him tomorrow. He's sleeping now and I hope he sleeps good tonight. He screams through the whole breathing treatment. As for Cameron...he is just being his 2 1/2 year old self. He doesn't ever want to sit still or listen. We love him so much though. He doesn't say his S's very well and we have been working on a couple words with him and its so cute. And he is doing so good say his S's. His new favorite shows are Diego, Wonder Pets, and Backyardigans. He loves to sing the songs with them and it's so cute! Well, we are praying that Patrick doesn't have RSV and just trying to keep up with Cam.

Finally a night out!

2008-02-01T09:33:00.000-08:00

Well, since Patrick has been born, Adam and I haven't been able to got out by ourselves. Not that we ever really have alot since we had Cameron, but it's always nice when we do. One of Adams classmates had some extra tickets to the Suns game last night. Adam was originally going to just go by himself but I kept telling him that I really wanted to go. So we found a babysitter and were both able to go to the game. I of course was the only girl that went, but Adam's friend/boss went with us also. But anyways, we knew that the tickets we got were box seats. We were totally excited cuz it was the first Suns game that we have been to since we lived here. So we get there and head up to where our seats are. We got there kind of early because we knew with these certain seats were standing only but if you got there eary you could get a seat. So our tickets were for the Verve Lounge. It was seriously like a a club where we were at. We sat next to about 10 hawaiin tropic girls, and I guess there were suppose to be famous people up there. We didn't do much walking around up there, but there were tons of people. It was pretty sweet. You couldn't really see any of the game from where we were unless you stood up anyways. So we had tons of fun last night! Thank you Adams classmate for the tickets!! I was taking all of these pictures with my phone, i forgot our camera and I didn't really know how to use the settings on my phone camera! So they aren't very good pictures.

Kind of dark, but that is right behind where we were sitting, they had couches and TV's for people to watch the game

Before the game started, this is from where we were sitting

horrible pic of me, but trying to get a picture of everything going on behind me.(sorry Trav tried to get a pic of the hawaiin tropic girls, it was too dark)

My favorite part-all of the entertainment!!

Naked boy

2008-01-26T19:48:00.000-08:00

Today when we got home from watching Adam play flag football, I noticed something about Cameron. He instantly takes his clothes off and either stays just in his diaper or asks to put on his spiderman clothes. And when I was looking through my pictures tonight it was so funny becaused I realized that in almost every picture that I have taken of of him, he's in his diaper or his spiderman clothes. It is so funny, Here are some of the pictures I have taken recently. It's kind of funny too because he used to never let me take pictures of him, and now he always says"take a picture" so I do then he says "let me see". He is a funny boy!

Spiderman wanting his picture taken

i was trying to take pics of our love sac to put on craigslist, guess who wanted their picture taken

he wanted to help wash dishes

big helper

being a big brother

First time!

2008-01-26T19:28:00.000-08:00

So it seems like when Cameron was a baby, he pooped up his back all the time...and Patrick did it for the first time in four months the other day. It was so gross to because I was holding him and could fill it coming up his back! Yuk, sorry if that grosses anybody out, but if you are a mom, you know what I'm talking about!

2008-01-19T12:42:00.000-08:00

Well we haven't been up to much lately. I just felt the need to put something on here and update it a little. Cameron's terrible two's are definatley shining through. I can't get this kid to stop hitting. If you don't give him what he wants, you get hit. So lets just say I've taken some pretty good hits lately. He has his moments and it's usually when we are at Costco(that's about the only place I go anymore) when he wants to argue. But then he has his moments when he just wants to love on you and hold your hand wherever you are and cuddle. We love him to death-just sometimes I don't know what to do with him. Patrick is starting to get his personality. He is smiling and laughing all the time now. He has just started to coo and talk and it's so dang cute!! He had a Dr.s appt. the other day and he weighs 11.14. Still small but he is growing. He had always spit up a ton and the Dr.s told me that was normal becasue he was gaining weight and eating fine. So this new Dr I went to suggested adding rice cereal to his milk whenever he had bottles, and it has actually helped a lot. Enfamil has a premade formula w/ rice cereal and it helps too. Adam had his 25th Birthday this week!! He is getting so old!!j/k We just had a nice family dinner at home. I mad my first pie too. It was probably the easiest one to make. It's adams favorite-choc peanut butter pie w/ oreo crust. I can't tell you how it taste, because we haven't even cut into it yet!haha. maybe today we will.

Patricks silly faces

Can you see where he spit up, apparently he thinks it's pretty funny

Spiderman in the corner(probably hit me or somthing)

Past couple of months!

2008-01-05T20:56:00.001-08:00

Its been a while!

2008-01-05T20:13:00.000-08:00

So it's been a long time since I've been on here. I take the time to look at everybody elses, but never take time to do anything on mine. So a lot has gone on in the past three months. So I'm going to make it kind of short and sweet! October:I got a new job, still dental assisting but in a Pediatric office. It's very different compared to a general dentist, but I enjoy it and the office and everone that works there. Halloween: We had a little Spiderman and since then he has been in love with spiderman. Cameron goes around the house shooting webs at everything! November: We went to St. George for Thanksgiving. Adams grandparents live there and it is somewhat in the middle for meeting his family. So we all met there and had a blast. We had fun feeding ducks and kept our tradition of going shooting. We also had a chance to go to the Temple lighting for Christmas. It's always nice to go there and go to the Temple because Adam and I were married there. December:We were also very fortunate to be able to go home to Idaho for Christmas. We were able to bless Patrick while we were there. We spent Christmas day with Adams family in Twin Falls, and were there for a couple of days, then we were able to go to Nampa to spend some time with my family. It was especially nice to see my sis since we hadn't seen eachother for a while and to see eachothers new babies. Adam is still super busy. He's going to school and working full time! He is doing great in school and works so hard. I may not show it enough but I am so proud of him and he works so hard to provide for our family. We had tons of fun this year and are excited for this new year to come. Hopefully I'll be better this year with blogging as well. I love to look and read about all of our family and friends, so I need to be better as well for others! So much for short and sweet!!! I tried!

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2008-01-05T20:11:00.001-08:00

Patrick has arrived!

2007-10-10T10:15:00.000-07:00

Wow, I can't believe it's been almost a month since I was on here last. A lot has happened since then. So I kept going to my weekly appointments and still no change at each one. Well we soon figured out why.
I was being induced on the 27th of September. 7:30 came and I was at the hospital. Adam had school so he just dropped me off. We new that it would take a while to get things going and he only had school for two hours. He ended up only going for about 10 minutes. But anyways, we got everything going, the nurse checked me and still no changes from about 3 weeks earlier. So around noon my doctor came in and broke my water. She had a hard time though because I still wan't dialated. So we just sat there for a while, got my epideral and waited and waited. 5:30pm came and so did the doctor. Still no changes! Oy, we were getting so frustrated. So what do we do now? The dr couldn't do anything to get my cervix to dialate. She said that the baby would pratically fall out if my cervix were to dialate. But since nothing was working our last resort was to do a c-section. so within about 10 miutes of her saying that, we were in the surgery room all ready for suregery. And within another 10 minutes we had Patrick at 6:09. He weighed 7lbs and was 19.5 inches. We were so happy to se him. We first thought he looked like Cameron but by the next day he looked like daddy! Adam calls him his little Spuirt, like Squirt the turtle off of Nemo! Him and daddy love to give eachother noggins!(you know what noggin is if you watch Nemo a billion times!!!)
Cameron is doin great with Patrick. He has only hit him once on the head!!! Other than that he always gives him hugs and kisses! He has loved having Grandma and Grandpa and Nana here. Soon Papo and Aunt Jenessa and Aunt Caitlyn will be here. With having the C-Section, I can't do much with cameron. We've been so lucky to have so much help here.

A fun filled Thursday

2007-09-14T21:47:00.000-07:00

So I had another Dr.s appointmant this week on thursday. It kind of made me upset. I had called and changed my appointment to an earlier time becasue we were going to the Rascal Flatts concert. So anyway, I got there and so did Adam. And since Adam is always either at school or work he is never able to come, so this was the first time he had come to an appointment with me. So we were waiting and about 30 minutes had gone by. So I went up front to see how much longer it would be. The girl told me I should be the next one to be called back. Well about 30 minutes later, 10 people later and adam leaving becasue he had to go to school, they finally called me back. I was angry, the nurse was angry, nobody had told her that I was there. Oh, it was so aggrivating. So that was the start of the appointment. Then, I find out that I haven't changed any, still 80% and not dialted at all.
So about the Rascal Flatts concert. It was awesome! I had actually won the tickets on the radio a couple of weeks ago. One of the radio stations here does whats called a mooch line. So you just call in and if you get through you say "I'm a mooch and I want tickets to (whatever concert they are doing it for)". And they say ok!!! So I guess I didn't really win the tickets I mooched them. We were also lucky enough to have some of our friends go with us. Our seats that we had were lawn seat, so it's first come first serve. We got there right when the concert started so we kind of got stuck in the back, but thats ok. Karissa is also pregnant, so we both just kind of had to keep sitting down, then stand back up, sit down, stand up. But it was really fun. And jason Aldean opened the show, he was really god too. Rascal Flatts are good entertainers!

Dr.'s Appointment

2007-09-09T10:50:00.000-07:00

So on thursday, I had a Dr.'s appt. This would be my first weekly appointmet and they were going to check me. Even though I knew that I probably wouldn't be dialated or anything, I was so anxious all day to go. So finally 3:30 rolls around and I get to leave work a whole thirty minutes early and go to the Dr. I get there and get checked in, start playing a game on my phone and the front desk calls me back up. "Ashlee, Dr. McNeal had to go to a delivery, can we reschedule for tomorrow?" Man...I was so bummed. So of course I had to reschedule for Fiday. So I finally make to the Dr on friday and she measured my belly and said it felt like I had dropped some. Then she checks me. She said, the baby is very, very low, and your cervix is very thin about 80%. But your cervix is still posterior and not dialated at all. So we kind of had some good news. We also talked about being induced, since I had to be one the other pregnancies. She said sure we can do that. We can do it up to the week before, which would be the last week in September. But Adam and I wanted to keep it in October, so we scheduled for the 4th of Oct. Then we started talking more and decide to go a week earlier. So I had to call back and reschedule that for the 25th and September. So to let everybody know, we will be induced the 25th of September, unless Patrick decides he wants to come earlier, which I doubt with my luck. So we can't wait till next thursday for our next weekly appointment!!!

2007-08-09T20:28:00.000-07:00

So it's been a while. I'm still trying to figure this all out. Cameron had a birthday in July and is now 2!! That same weekend we found out that Adam was able to start school. He had applied but was on the waiting list for either November or February. Some people had moved, so he was moved to their spot. Alot to take in at once, but we are exited and happy to get started. I'm still working, starting to get hot and uncofortable. It's getting harder and harder each day bending over a chair staring in peoples mouths. Don't get me wrong, I love it, but my stomach and hips don't. Cameron is learning lots of new words. For some reason he always repeats the ones you don't want him to. He loves watching Frek, Cars and Nemo. We need to get some new movies though, those are getting nice and scratched because he thinks he can change them himself and we are getting a little tired of them. We are excited for little Patrick to arrive in two months. So is Cameron, he likes to give him hugs and kisses.

We went to Hawaii in March with Adams family!!

2007-06-15T14:51:00.000-07:00