Porter's 4th Birthday!!

For Porter's birthday this year we decided to take everyone to one of his FAVORITE places- the Bowling Alley!! Everyone had a great time- especially the kids... at least until the 5th frame when they mostly decided they were starving... haha. Which is the OTHER reason that Porter loves the bowling alley- they have the BEST burgers and fries in town.. or just about any town for that matter. Overall it was a great time and the birthday boy thought it was the best party ever.

Owen's Birthday!!

For info on our newest family member, Owen- please visit Millers Online Outpost!! Thanks for posting (and taking) such nice pictures Emily- what would we do without you???

www.millersonlineoutpost.blogspot.com

Help!!

I've been working on a quilt for the new baby for the last 2 days and have, in the meantime, been completely ignoring my children- who have mostly behaved really nice for me during these mental check-outs. The last 2 days they have gone into the family room, then they remove all the sofa cushions and do their best to make a 'fort'. I'm okay with this since it keeps them entertained and out of my sewing area. This morning after an hour or so I hear Seth calling from the other room- Help! Help! Ayuda me!! Help! Help! Ayuda me!!! You'll have to excuse my lack of correct Spanish spelling I'm sure- but the meaning cannot be misaken. I don't know how many of you have watched Go! Diego, Go!, but I have... apparently so has Seth. Needless to say, I was cracking up.

Seriously, so Funny

I know it's wrong to get wrapped up in a make-believe world- but I can't help myself. I find myself going to Noelle's blog- scrolling down to the link and checking in with TAMN every few days and I finally had to do it- I added it to my list of Favorites. I know there will be those who have NO clue what the HECK this crazy person is talking about- but I LOVE it. I had to say something to excuse my addiction is all- so there's my excuse- I am just too weak- I had to have my OWN link.

Our Newest Addition

...and No, it's not a baby- yet. This new addition comes after many years of dreaming of less wasted space and the desire to hide unsightly heaps of toys. Yes, it is our new CABINETS!!! Yeah! 2 Weeks ago while the Teeples were in town visiting, Matt graciously used up most of his time here installing the beauties. They look sooo good- and we couldn't be more pleased with the practicality of the new set-up. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you, Matt!!- oh, and Thank you! Thank you! Thank you, Santa (Morgan) for the best gift EVER! You are awesome!

Oh, yes- and please notice our lovely bare light-bulbed lamp if you will. We finally replaced the hideous black one that was Morgans bachelor lamp and got us a nice brushed nickel one with a glass lamp shade the week before our cabinets were going to be installed- a feat (replacing the lamp) only about 6 years in the making. The day after the installation everyone came over while Matt was installing the hardware and lo and behold, it was not baby proofed enough. Baby Maggie was trying to get the stick horse from behind the lamp and CRASH!! There went the shade- so I guess it's time for a trip back to Home Depot- let's hope it takes less than 6 years to make it there!!

I know, I know!

I just realized that it's been a few weeks since my last post. We just got back from visiting California LATE monday night (don't get me started on that one), we have BEAUTIFUL new cabinets in our family room (hooray!!!- and thanks Matt!), we are officially 33 weeks pregnant (aaaaahhh!) AND my smart husband sold our 5,000 lb TV last night and got it officially out of our hair... it's been a GREAT month so far. Plus, with Thanksgiving right around the corner, it pretty much doesn't get any better. I'll post later tonight with some pictures of our home inprovements and our CA trip. See Emily, I'm totally up-to-date now!

Family Home Evening

We're racking up a great list of firsts in our family this last month or so. We held our first official Family Home Evening- or Family Game Night, as Porter prefers to call it- earlier this month. We decided to keep it pretty simple- 1. Start with a primary song- which was surprisingly enjoyable since everyone actually knew some of the words, then 2. a prayer- the boys always end up praying together since Seth is such a great parrot, 3. we then read a story out of the kid-friendly scriptures (pretty much just adds pictures)- then it's game time! We broke out the colored dominos that conveniently have 4 colored little trains and we each built train tracks. It was fun and Porter now looks forward to Family Night every week. It was fun to sit around and all play together with no distractions- I find Monday night is becoming my favorite night of the week as well!