Happy Birthday Gpa, Lila and Holly

Today we celebrated 3 birthdays: Gpa, my niece Lila and mine. We partied at my brother Tim and Jen's house. The yummy cake was made by Jen.


I made my dad's favorite banana cake but Mark couldn't wait to get into it!

Lila with her Hannah Montana doll.

Papa photographs the events.

Tyler, Gma and Justin watch as Gpa opens his gifts.

Tyler and James hanging out.

Cole passed out the chocolate covered cashews.

Gma and cousin Calle.

Daniel and Lila.

Justin and James rock out with Rock Band.

Even Gma gets in on the action.

Happy Birthday Tyler (and James)...Part #3

On Saturday we had our extended family birthday party for Tyler and James! The party started out in the rain with Dwight at the BBQ and James assisting him!

The cake was decorated by Justin! He was quite a good helper getting ready for the party!



WHAT A HAUL!!! What else do teenage boys want besides $$$? He got enough to buy a video iPOD and still have some left over!




James got a HAWK Soccer windbreaker that he had been wanting!

Cole dances with Uncle James...

and Noah rocks the house with the Guitar Hero game!

Calle (better late than never) ate some leftover palt! Yummy! and I was able to talk to his mother Ida when she called him from Sweden.

Millers Know How To Party

We had quite the celebration today at the Miller's! We had gotten pretty far behind in our birthday celebrations...we had 7 to catch up on!!! The birthdays were: (as pictured L to R) my brother Tim ( Aug. 29), my cousin Calle (July 10), my mom Carol (Oct. 13), our good friend Marie (Aug.21), my sister-in-law Gwen (July 23), Justin (Oct. 11) and my nephew Noah (Sept. 14). WOW!!! We decided to have one big party! It was a lot of fun. We ended up with 22 people attending! We enjoyed a potluck dinner and lots of desserts! We had 3 different kinds of cakes, pumpkin pie, my sister-in-law Jen's chocolate no-bake cookies and ice cream! The food was good but the company was the BEST!!! It is always a good time when we all get together. We are blessed that we all live in the same area and are able to get together regularly...though sometimes not regularly enough. Time goes by so quickly...enjoy every opportunity you have to be with your loved ones! Make memories!!! Thank God for every day you have together! I know I do!!!

Hawks Never Give Up!!!

The MRLHS Hawks had another game today! It was up in Kirkland, which is where our cousin Calle lives. He came to watch the game with us and then we went out to PIZZA!!! Sadly, it was another loss for the Hawks, but it was a much closer and better played game than any other! We won't give up on our Hawks and know that they will come up with a win any time now!!!