Miller, Party of Five

Today was a new experience. Brian had the morning off from school so we decided to go to Disneyland (our passes just got renewed, thanks Paige!).

Happy Birthday Mariah 2011

Mariah has been in our family for 3 awesome years! We love her so much and wanted to share what we did for her birthday weekend. Because her birthday was on a Sunday and because we were doing Kylie's baby blessing on that day, we decided to give Mariah TWO birthdays. We celebrated the whole weekend long!

Grandma Marlena with Mariah, Blake and Kylie

Independence Day 2011

    Happy    Birthday    America!   

Baseball games, hotdog eating contests, parades, BBQs, watching movies about aliens, and fireworks. I can't think of any activities more patriotic than these to celebrate our nation's birth.

This 4th of July was one for the history books. We were all over the place! Here are some of the high lights:

Happy Fathers Day 2011

Here's a little message from Mariah to her daddy on Fathers Day:

Happy Fathers Day Brian! We love you ☺

Spring Break 2011: Oregon Day 1

Because our schedule will be crazy this year with new baby, we thought we would make a trip to Oregon during Brian's spring break from school. And luckily, it fell on Easter weekend! We initially planned the trip to take two driving days (LA to Salem is 15 hours), stopping in northern California. But last minute, we decided to just wake up early and see how far we could drive before Mariah goes crazy. She was SOOO good in the car! we only stopped twice for gas/food, and she kept herself entertained with movies on the iPad.

On the first full day of our trip, we went with my sister Tina to the Salem Riverfront Carousel. It was so fun.

Spring Break 2011: Mariah Makes Cookies

For Easter, Brian's mom got Mariah a super-cute apron so she could help us cook in the kitchen.

Here she is mixing (and probably eating) the batter.

Easter Egg Hunt 2011

Today Mariah and I went to an Easter egg hunt in the park with my mommy friends. It's a few weeks early, but since most of my friends are fellow dental school wives, we wanted to celebrate before all of our husbands went on spring break from school.

General Conference Weekend Fun

The LDS church holds a semi-annual conference for all its members called General Conference. It's a weekend filled with inspired talks given by our church's leadership. All church members (and non-members) are encouraged to watch (on-line, at church buildings, or, if you're lucky, at home on the BYU-TV channel).

Since it is so important, we treat the weekend like a holiday. We have special traditions held only for this weekend so we can teach Mariah to look forward to this time. I wanted to share a few of these traditions with you:

St. Patricks Day 2011

For St. Patrick's Day this year, I thought I would spare Brian the green-dyed foods and cheesy Disney movies about leprocauns. Instead we were invited to a genuine St. Patty's party.

The Millers Visit So-Cal

Brian's parents, his sister Christie and her husband Steve came to visit for Presidents Day weekend. Steve had a BYU Lacrosse tournament to coach in So-Cal so we all had time to hang out together.

Valentines Day 2011

We had an awesome Valentine exchange for all the kids in the church gym on Valentines Day. And there were lots of yummy treats!

Superbowl!

We had our traditional Superbowl party this year. It was a good turnout! We had fried chicken, the superbowl cake, chips and queso and other awesome game foods.

Christmas in Boston 2010

For Christmas time we went to Boston to visit Brian's parents. What fun!

It's Miller Christmastime!

A copy of our 2010 Christmas card:

Christmas Break 2010

Most of you know that Brian's school has gotten out already. What have we been doing with our time?

Mini Christmas 2010

Because we are going to Boston for Christmas day, we decided to open up presents a little early this year. Santa was good to us!

Brian got an Xbox (which looked a lot like the one I won from Ellen... wink wink), and a video game. I got a donut cook book and donut cutter (remember when we made donuts??) and an iPhone case that's on the way. Mariah got some Mickey Mouse figurines and a play kitchen. I had a cool video of us all opening presents, but due to technical difficulties, I couldn't get it on here, sorry!

Here are a few of our decorations this year:

A New Food Blog

I know this is a little premature, as New Years resolutions are just around the corner, but I wanted to get a head start! I have started a new blog called Veronica's Diet. Lately I have been reading more and more about how crazy unhealthy people eat in this country, including myself! So this will be my blog journal on how I am progressing (or not progressing) with my personal battle for healthier eating. Please visit and leave some love!

LA Temple Lights and Tito's Tacos

Last night for YW Activity, we took the young women and young men to see the lights at the LDS temple in Los Angeles. So pretty! And it's cool because they let people from the local wards decorate. Last year people from good ol' South Pas. got to decorate some lights.

Ward Christmas Party

This Saturday we went to our church's Christmas party. It's hard for most people to grasp the awesomeness of LDS folks: we all pitch in! We hardly had any budget for this party, but everyone gave a little and it turned out amazing.

Miller 3rd Annual Fondue Party

It's that time again...for our annual Fondue party! This year we fondued four different flavors: cheddar, pizza, chocolate and caramel.