Loralee's Blog

Trevor's Birthday

2009-06-11T15:48:00.000-07:00

Clayton and I have found that we have a lot more fun at parties when they aren't at our house. I don't like to plan and Clayton hates the chaos and the mess. So this year for Trevor's birthday we went to Classic Fun Center. We just wanted to do the water slide but skating comes with the party so we got to do both. Here are the boys. Trevor got 60 seconds in this booth. He was shoving $$$ down his shirt. He did pretty good. It was fake money but he won a prize.

They have a kiddie pool with cute little slides. We hung out a lot here even though it wasn't quite ready yet. (The pool wasn't full and the slides didn't go into the water.)

Here are the some of the boys watching the other boys come down the slides.

Trevor's friend Gabe coming down. It looks like a pretty place in the pictures. I guess it was but it looks better in the pictures.

We had a fun time. Happy Birthday 9th Trevor!

Disneyland!

2009-03-30T18:03:00.000-07:00

I finally got the camera out of the car. I know you have been waiting for pictures from our trip so here you go...
The first thing we did was hope on the train, so this is the first ride of our trip. (other than the long car ride) Small World and lollipops. Koda liked this one, he was mad when we had to get off the boat

Koda loves Lightning McQueen

Taking a break

The Buzz Light Year Ride

Waiting for Roger Rabbit

Koda didn't make it. He slept for over 3 hours but I got to check out the place where all of the princesses hang out and watch all of the little girls get their faces painted.

Pirates

The Jungle Cruise. Koda and I were partners, the big boys were on Indiana Jones.

Woody!

Koda loved the Pixar Parade

And the characters loved him.

Me, Trevor and Koda with our bug eyes. Me and Koda saw all of the 3D movies but we saw this one 3 times.

Handy Manny.

Koda and Koda. We actually got his name from the movie Brother Bear, so I made sure to get a picture with the two Kodas.

It was a fun time. One of the kids favorite things was the pool at the hotel so maybe next time we wont go so far if all they want to do is swim at the hotel.

dance flash back

2009-03-02T15:45:00.000-08:00

I just scanned some dance pictures from high school for our wards 80's dance. I can't promise a lot of flash backs but I thought I would try it.

My first dance. Jr Prom with Beau Carlson (there is a long, very sad story behind this hair cut)
Monster Mash with Blaze Cook (we didn't tell our dates they were going to be brides. There was no way they would go along with that. Oh and I accidentally stole those bowling shoes from the 49th street galleria, my philosophy was it's not wrong if it's funny)

WA with Meredith Blake, Colette Christensen and Tara Grazier (we thought we would have more fun with out dates)

My last high school dance with Craig Oborn Sr Prom (my school wasn't famous for formal dances)

I thought I would throw in one of Clayton's I don't know any details but I do like his feathered hair do.

Bodie is 7

2009-03-02T13:07:00.000-08:00

Friday was Bodie's birthday. We went to Jungle Jims. We like it when the party is not at our house because then we don't have to clean up a mess!
My camera died so I didn't get very many pictures.
Clayton was the token keeper/hander outer

When I asked Bodie who he wanted to invite he named off a bunch of little girls. I told him we should invite the kids he plays with at recess and he told me that is who he plays with at recess. They play babies. One of the moms called and said her daughter really wanted to get Bodie a baby for his b-day but she told her no way. At least it would have been something he doesn't already have.

Uncle Kevin

2009-03-02T12:47:00.001-08:00

Clayton is going to be promoted to Sergeant First Class really soon he just has a little more training to do. He just got back from Sacramento where he did 3 weeks worth of schooling (only about 5 more weeks to go) Any way, while he was gone McArthur Homes (my job) was having a grand opening and I was working full time. Lucky for us Kevin is looking for a job and was able to help out with the boys. He is a really good baby sitter, not only does he love my boys but he does fun things with them. I remember when Trevor was a baby Kevin was watching him and when I got back Kevin was rocking him and playing the harmonica to him. See, he is the best!

Trevor had to make a Valentines box for school and wanted to make a Lego, so Kevin helped him. Then Bodie wanted to make a toilet for his Valentine box so they went to KFC to get a round box the to Home Depot to get a flusher and paint. The toilet turned out really cool, you have to flush it to drop your valentine in. Thanks Kevin! After spending the whole day on Valentine boxes Bodie informed us that he already made one at school and didn't need one he just wanted Kevin to make it for fun. Well Kevin, was it fun?

My Birthday

2009-02-10T16:52:00.000-08:00

Today is my birthday.

25 things about me

2009-02-04T13:04:00.000-08:00

This is my business card picture. It's a couple of years old but I don't think I have changed much. I did this list for Facebook but I thought I would copy it here for those non facebook kind of people.

1. I hate our junk drawer but where else are we going to put our junk?
2. I don’t like to host parties. I get way stressed. But I like to go to parties.
3. I have never been good at laundry. I usually have a mountain of clean clothes somewhere.
4. I used to be very shy, but somehow I got over that and now I talk to everyone I see.
5. I have a tattoo. Oops.
6. I watch a lot of reality TV, but my favorite show is probably NCIS.
7. I like to read but I don’t very often because if I do my kids and my house get neglected.
8. My eternal church calling is Gospel Doctrine Teacher. I do it in every ward. I kind of like it though.
9. I’m kind of a girly girl so I don’t know how I ended up with all of these boys.
10. I’m not very compassionate. I don’t really react to situations so I don’t understand when people do.
11. I don’t get army stuff but I try really hard because they support my family.
12. I love my best buddy Koda. I don’t know what I will do when he starts school, Clayton won’t let me have any more babies.
13. I am addicted to a game on my cell phone called Jewel Quest Solitaire. It comes in handy in waiting rooms.
14. I can’t just watch TV I have to be doing something while I watch.
15. I love my house even though it’s nothing fancy.
16. I have the perfect job. I sell houses from a model home but I am only there 2 days a week… see perfect.
17. My husband is very handsome, but he doesn’t think he is…he is a really great guy.
18. I am an army wife but I hate that show. Clayton is gone right now for three weeks. He is gone a lot but the longest was Iraq for 16 months.
19. I like when Clayton is out of town for the first couple of days because I don’t clean or make dinner but then I start to really miss him.
20. I married an Elder from my mission. I love you Elder Miller. I know what you are thinking but we weren’t really even friends until we came home.
21. I love to take baths. I take probably 4 a week. All Clayton can think of to give me for Christmas is bubble bath and body wash. That’s OK I like it, but I usually get a year supply every December.
22. I have 3 sisters and one brother, and 3 sons. I would rather be with family than anyone.
23. I love my mini-van. I always told myself I would never drive one but I like it.
24. I wore braces on my teeth when I was young but I could probably use them again.
25. I didn’t like writing this list. I don’t like doing this kind of stuff. I HATE scrapbooking. My kids are already a little disappointed that they don’t have scrap books.

Heart Attack

2009-02-04T10:18:00.000-08:00

So I have a sick liver. No one knows what is wrong. The Doctors really want me to have hepatitis and test me for it all of the time but I never have it. After Koda was born I had my gallbladder removed because I was in a lot of pain, any way after they took out my gallbladder I still had a lot of pain. I do have a "lesion" on my liver but that is just the doctor term for a thingy. About a year ago I had a biopsy and we found out it's not cancerous so that's good. I am starting to learn what things aggravate my liver and stay far away from Tylenol and stuff like that.
The stomach flew has been going through our family and it got to me last week. Apparently the flew is something that aggravates my liver "condition" and I was in severe pain. I was about to go to the hospital and Clayton asked if I wanted a blessing so our home teacher came over and Clayton gave me a blessing. Shortly after they were done the pain started to go away, and I only had flew symptoms (which isn't fun but at least I wasn't in pain.)
So I guess our home teacher was a little concerned and called the Relief Society president because she called the next morning and then last night we got a heart attack. The hearts say happy Valentines and get well soon, I am thinking it is from the young women. Boy does the word spread fast around here. I am just fine now, no worries.

Wes

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

This is Clayton's brother Wes. This picture was taken at our little Christmas party, Wes dressed for the occasion in red and green. I'm sure some old man had to die for Wes to find those polyester pants at DI.

Carrie's Birthday

2009-02-04T09:55:00.000-08:00

So I have been waiting for things to slow down, and for the desire to blog... I got the desire today! I am going to catch up on a couple of things. My sister Carrie's birthday is December 17 we went to Chillies (I love their chips and salsa) They sang to her

Koda and his cousin Sammy. This picture would have been a lot more cute if my camera wasn't so slow.

Family Picture

2008-12-23T16:21:00.000-08:00

OK, here is our "professional" family picture, I hope no one changes in the next couple of years because these boys HATE getting their picture taken.

Christmas card picture

2008-12-15T15:11:00.000-08:00

I have never minded having my picture taken, in fact I've always been a little bit of a ham. But getting my boys to take a picture is not a fun experience. They hate posing, dressing alike and doing a "normal" expression. Wes (Clayton's brother) spent the night a week ago and I got him to take a couple of pictures of us. Not that he wanted to either. It turned out OK but I finally ordered prints of the professional pictures we had taken because it is going to take a couple of years before I can get these boys to do it again.

My Shepherds

2008-12-02T08:31:00.000-08:00

I wasn't there but I asked my sister Amy to take some pictures of my shepherds. So here is a few more.

Cristmas Party

2008-11-30T19:30:00.001-08:00

My Grandma Robbins always has a Christmas party the Saturday after Thanksgiving. It's always fun to get a present early! I haven't been able to go the last couple of years because I have this stinking Saturday job. This year the kids did the nativity. My boys were shepards.

Thanksgiving

2008-11-30T19:22:00.000-08:00

This year we went to my parents house for Thanksgiving. Everyone was there all my sisters and their families, my brother and mom and dad. I love when we can all get together. This is the kids table. After dinner the moms did a little craft.

And there was a little Rock Band fun. I am a really good singer.

Family Pictures

2008-11-25T13:50:00.000-08:00

The place that took our pictures made a little video and posted it on their blog. Check out some of our pictures at http://dsportraits.blogspot.com/2008/11/miller-family.html Does any one know if I can copy it to my blog?

Batman

2008-11-23T17:33:00.000-08:00

On Friday we had family pictures taken. (Finally! we don't have one with Koda) after pictures we went to see Batman at the dollar theater. Clayton really didn't want me to take a picture so he is pretending he doesn't know me, but everyone knows he is with me because we are all dressed alike!

Reflections

2008-11-23T17:29:00.000-08:00

Thursday night was the award ceremony for Reflections. Bodie won a medal for his honorable mention in 3-D art. Good job Bodie. He thought the medal was great. He got a trophy last year so he was glad to get something different.

Twilight

2008-11-23T17:22:00.000-08:00

I got to see Twilight Wednesday night. (no one else got to see it until Friday) My cousin manages the movie theater in Spanish Fork and he did a little screening for us. I like it but I like everything so I've never been a good critic. We had a little treat at Village Inn before the movie

Mckell (my cousin) was afraid of getting in trouble so he didn't turn on any lights it was really dark. This is my sister Carrie, we're just waiting for the movie to start.

Here is some of the group we were with. Sisters, brother, cousins and friends. It was a fun time.

Dinner with Russell

2008-11-14T09:44:00.000-08:00

Last night Clayton's brother Russell, his wife Christal and baby Isabella came down from Ogden for dinner. Isabella is only 3 months and weighs 15lbs! I guess she is a good eater. Koda is such a big boy holding the baby.

I guess she doesn't like Trevor that much.

Spatman

2008-11-03T07:42:00.000-08:00

For Halloween we went trick or treating down main street. They had a costume contest. I put Koda's Spiderman costume on because Batman was in the wash he wanted to wear the Batman mask anyway so I let him. "Spatman" won for best costume in his age group he was pretty excited to have a trophy.

Bodie lost his first tooth

2008-11-03T07:35:00.000-08:00

Bodie lost his first tooth the other day. It has been loose for a while he came and asked me to try tying dental floss to it and slamming the door. I tied the floss on and just yanked it out. It was fast and easy and not dramatic at all. I like when those kind of thing go smooth. He put it under his pillow but the tooth fairy forgot to come. When he woke up he said he must of stayed up too late and the tooth fairy came before he went to bed. Luckily he was asleep when she came the next night.

Reflections

2008-11-03T07:24:00.000-08:00

This years theme for reflections was WOW. My boys entered 3 categories I thought I would share their work.
At the Christmas bingo party we won some paper mold stuff, I made some salt dough and they made a sculpture then molded the paper mold around it. Here's what it turned out like... (it's kind of hard to tell but they are 3-D)
Bodie made a tree Trevor did the word WOW

Bodie painted this "The road to wows"

Trevor drew a mouse and a shark

They also wrote a little something...

This is Bodie's

I say wow when…

· I’m going really fast on my scooter down the hill then flip over.
· I ride my bike with one hand,
· I do a flip with no hands on the trampoline.
· I beat my dad at wrestling.
· I float on my back with no life jacket in the swimming pool.
· I jump down the stairs without falling.

Doing things that make me say wow is fun.

This is Trevor's

Super heroes make me say wow when…

· Ghost Rider catches on fire.
· Iron Man destroys things with his hands.
· The Thing takes a bite out of a fork.
· Spiderman swings from webs.
· Batman glides.
· Bruce Banner changes to the Hulk.
· Bumblebee is on a tow truck and firing.

I would say wow if I were a super hero.

They only enter because they want trophies. I hope they do OK.

Party at Grandma's

2008-10-27T09:21:00.001-07:00

My mom makes dinner and has a Halloween party every year. Last night we celebrated Grandma Robbins 86 birthday too. Here are all of the cousins and Kevin. I was a scary witch.

I took these at our house before we left.

Trevor is a Punk Zombie

Bodie The Joker, Koda Batman

We had fun thanks Grandma. (Clayton is STILL in Little Rock, AK)

Batman

2008-10-22T19:15:00.000-07:00

On Wednesdays my mom, sisters, Kevin and I try to go to lunch. Today at lunch Grandma painted a bat on Koda's cheek (because he is obsessed with super heros and batman is at the top of his list) we didn't have a mirror to show him so I took a picture. It was even better than a mirror he has looked at the picture several times today, the bat came off durring his nap.

Trevor got his wolf badge

2008-10-22T19:05:00.000-07:00

Tonight Trevor got his wolf badge at pack meeting. I'm new to all of this scout stuff, but I am proud of Trevor for being motivated and working hard.
Trevor wanted me to make the paw look like there were scratches, I did my best with a Q tip.
Trevor drew the "milk the cow cheer". He is "milking" my thumbs.

The boys are sapposed to pin the parent pin on the parent, I did alot of helping.

Way to go Trev!

Deegan's Birthday Party

2008-10-17T21:15:00.000-07:00

My nephew Deegan had a birthday party at Classic on monday here are some pictures of the boys.

Koda is a super hero. He doesn't have a secret identity, he doesn't care who knows.

We love Uncle Kevin!
Trevor
Bodie
Amy made hamburger cup cakes! What a nice mom!

Corn Belly's

2008-10-17T21:06:00.000-07:00

We went to Corn Belly's today at Thanksgiving Point. I was fun. All of the Clarke cousins were there Grandma, Amy and Melanie came too.

The Creature
Princess Koda

I want this little house for my back yard but I bet we couldn't keep it pink

Koda fixed the scanner

2008-10-17T01:13:00.000-07:00

As most two year olds, Koda likes to be where I am. A few days ago I was sitting at the desk in front of the computer with Koda on my lap. I, of course, was into what ever I was doing and wasn't paying attention when he opened the front of the printer and pulled out whatever would come out. He "fixed" it, what a good helper!
Any way the boys brought their school pictures home yesterday and I wanted to scan them so you could all see but my printer/scanner doesn't do anything. So, sorry no pictures today.

Does anyone have a scanner I can use?

10 Years!

2008-10-06T14:39:00.000-07:00

This year Clayton and I will be married 10 years! I have meaning to do my first post for a long time but now I have a good reason.

In 1997 at the end of both of our missions in Arizona Clayton was transferred to Mesa and I got a new district leader. We had never met before, but I thought he was a nice guy. He baptised a guy we taught for a singles ward we were serving in. Here is a picture of Clayton and Jose. (Sorry Clayton, remember that jumpsuit was a little snug?)
So Clayton went home after just a month of being my district leader. And we wrote each other for one month until I got home. We were just friends but started hanging out when I got home. We did fun things burn our socks when there was a full moon for good luck. (I guess it worked!)

Here we are fishing (We haven't fished again)
Clayton was working nights at UPS and I would sometimes bring him dinner so we could see each other. I brought him dinner one night and was late so I was trying to get him to hurry and eat. He started to chock on his drink then said "Look what was in my drink" he held out his hand and there was my ring! and he said to me "will you be my wife" I was so surprised! But I said yes.

Now it has been 10 years. It hasn't always been easy but I really love my husband and am glad he gave me my 3 little boys. Thanks Clayton, happy anniversary.