The Miller Family

Mom, Dad, Chris, Tim & Amie

Monday, June 8, 2009

Broken Bone Club

Guess who else has now joined the broken bone club??

Only day two of her new day care/pre-school & she fell off the slide! She has a little buckle fracture of her wrist!





We are both scheduled to see the ortho on Thursday!

Saturday, June 6, 2009

A farm, one person's journey of jealousy

Someone in my house is jealous of my farm......I won't mention who (cough - Darwin), but he is the "man" of the house (cough cough)!

Here I am; 'lil ole me - the first game I have gotten into since Mario whipped my behind in the original Mario Brothers. Now my boys on the other hand (all three of them....Darwin, Chris & Tim) have played, enjoyed and worn out every game known to man. But let me find something & what happens.....a little e spionage! A little terrorism! A little jealousy........

It started with some network problems (or so I thought). Getting kicked off the net & getting kicked off of farmtown! Darwin assured me he would move the wireless - that should help.....

Then other things started happening, my crops were getting harvested while I was away. Things on my farm were moved. My scarecrow kept jumping around. Sometimes in the middle of where my crops were at! I almost deleted the scarecrow - thinking there must have been something wrong with it!

Then - it got odder, in the middle of other crops - I had new crops?? And then yesterday morning - all my trees were harvested & there was a silo on my property?? A silo - I hadn't bought a silo. Had someone hacked into my account and done that? Or was there a glitch in the program, someone else had bought it, but it landed on my property? Or was dementia setting in? All valid possibilities!

Then today - while I was babysitting for my mother-in-law.......somehow someone SPENT $40,000 & bought a windmill!!! I KNEW I hadn't done that!! It had to be Darwin - he had been left unattended (Yes I know that is a dangerous thing to do)!! And Amie didn't keep an eye on him - no she went and took a nap! And so there he was unattended, with time on his hand & my money to spend!!

That's what finally made me realize that it wasn't me! It was him! He fessed up to it -- but he tried to throw his oldest son under the bus! Not so fast mister....I'm on to you now! I have saved my farm - changed the password & it should be ok to leave my crops and money alone for a little while without worrying that someone will break in, harvest & buy stuff that I don't want (not yet anyway) - you would think he could have at least bought me a pool or something! Gees!!


So there it is - my pride and joy -- kind of a strange set of paths and rows - but now I know why! It wasn't that farmtown was scrambling things every time I logged off -- it was my saboteur!!

So.....who's with me?? Mr. Darwin has gotten the best of many of us over the years! It's our turn everyone! Who's in?? Come on - he doesn't get revenge.....too much!! Send me some ideas - we've got to get even! Me and my little avatar are ready.........


A Pie in the Face - for Charity of Course!

Today was the day! Fund raiser for Wal-mart for the Children's Miracle Network.

Over the past couple of weeks, the associates at Wal-mart "voted" with donations into which ever associates bucket they would like to see get "pie'd" for charity!

Christopher's bucket got a little extra attention one day while he was not there & he wound up being one of two associates that were "volunteered" to be pied!!

Chris was second up, his first job was to make pies for the first person (Ray) to get pie'd with. But someone took advantage of Chris not paying attention - and he got it in the face with his glasses on!

Back to work!

Tim was doing a good job of supervising!

Chris's turn!! He's so excited!! Can't you tell!!

First up to pie Chris was a co-worker. The anticipation is more than Chris could take! Little did he know - he wasn't getting it to the face - this co-worker did not like the Bears!!


It didn't take long for Chris to be completely covered in pie!


Darwin got into it WAY too much! Just look at Darwin's face as he smeared, and rubbed & creamed that pie all over Chris!!




Tim enjoyed a couple of pie throwing events as well!


Amie wanted nothing to do with it! She kept saying - "NO Chris all dirty"!!


Here's Ray (the first pie'd associate) - he wanted a bit of the Chris action as well!


I caught you Chris!! It wasn't all bad was it??!!


Richard had to get a couple of shots in too!


Let's just add a little more on the top!


Chris's new friend Tiffany definitely wanted to give Chris a pie or two!!



Awwwhhhh.....There's my babies pretty eyes! With frosting on top!!



Amie finally got into the mode to do a pie in Chris's face!!


And of course - I needed to get a little bit in the action!!


And finally Amie was brave enough to throw the pie herself - the pie is in mid-throw right above her head! It landed on his shoulder - so she didn't do too bad!!

Cinderella Kisses & Mickey Mouse Hugs!

Sending Cinderella Kisses & Mickey Mouse Hugs to my sister & neice!! Have fun, enjoy & don't get sunburnt!! Love Ya!






Friday, June 5, 2009

Darn Foot!!

Well - it's not looking good! It looks like my darn foot is not healing correctly!!

I've requested a referal to an ortho - so we shall see what he has to say! Dang it - I don't want to be in a cast or something for vacation!! Or worse - I hope it doesn't need a screw to fix it!

ARRRRGGGHHHHH!

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Swim Lessons!

Amie started something new this week! On Tuesday she had her first swim lesson - I didn't get to go to it because of a meeting at work that night. But tonight I got to go!

Second night of lessons - and she was quite the wiggle worm! She has talked and talked about it! The leader took the little ones to the area where their instructors were:

Amie was up and down and up and down & in and out of the pool!!






Now it's her turn with the instructor!




And they are supposed to kick their feet -- I don't think it's supposed to be to purposely kick water into the instructors face! But look at that look our little Missy has on her face!! She is very naughty at times!



Now it's time to go to the diving board - WHAT??!!?? Yes - you heard it - they took them to the diving board!! My heart was beating super fast!


But they were very cautious with the kids - it's almost Amie's turn!


"Walk to the end & jump off" -- Amie's not sure about this....




"Are you kidding - I'm outta here" She says!



"It's ok Amie - we're right here" "Would you like me to help you?"




YEAH!!! That was fun!!!