old things are fun

every Sunday i come on the blog. i go to the old stuff. you should go to the other months too. it will remind you of things you forgotten over the months.




from Dallin (p.s. Darcey i need you to erase a picture of me and the flag. i didn't write any thing).

This couldn't wait for the Blooper Reel

Can you believe this??

Fred sticking out his togune during the Family Wedding Pic! Go Fred!

I Can Fly, I Can Fly, I Can Fly!

On another very windy Oklahoma Saturday, I took to the blue, cloudless sky in my little Cessna 172 but this time I was carrying an FAA Examiner for my final check ride. After lots of study and practice it was time. The ATIS indicated that the surface winds were 24 knots, gusting to 33, and the winds aloft (at 3000+) were 45-52. The rising heat made for a bumpy ride but after demonstrating all the required manuvers completing 5 landings, including a power-off glide from 4000 feet up, I finally did it! Proof you need? Here it is my temporary Private Pilot Certificate! Anyone want to go fly? Pixie Dust optional!

Just a Request To Admin Staffers

I move that we add Rob as a new user of Miller*Time.

All if favor say 'I'.

Sounds like the 'I's' have it.

Make it so whoever does those kind of things.

Rob, we welcome your posts and comments.

Cheers!

Cousin Ned

Well, Today we had the first real Ultra Sound of the baby that Cameron as so affectionately named Cousin Ned. So far everything looks good and healthy, but the nurse who was doing it said that it'll still be sent to the radiologist just to make sure. Here is a picture of the little feet, even though I'm not one to post all the ultra sound pics, I thought this was actually a cute pic. Well, I'm sure you want to know whether the baby is a boy or girl, well, drum roll please......... It's a BOY!!! (sorry Emma, I know you were hoping for a girl). As Cameron mentioned last week that if it was a boy it would let the whole world see, well, that's exactly how it happened to, the nurse said there was no doubt that it was a boy. However, he was a little camera shy when the nurse was trying to get a good pic of his face, he kept covering his face with his hands so we really couldn't see his nose and lips all that well for a long time, the nurse even had to stop to let Christy move a little to hopefully get him to move a little and uncover his face. She finally got a good enough pic of it, and printed off a few of the pics, and sent off on our way to let everyone know. So obviously everything is going well. Talk to ya all later!!!!

Wedding Weekend!

All Pictures here are courtsey of Dad and his new Camara!

New Family Picture!

New Family Fun Picture!

Silly Girls Clowing Around!
Two Cuties and the Bride

Another Cutie Carrie and her Crew

Gosh, that was fast Ma and Pa with the Bride and Groom

A Princess and her Prince
Mother of the Bride
Smokin Hot Camara GuyDaddy and his Daughters
"Touch the Water Daddy??!!"
Checking on the owie after she landed on the concrete

planting a nice Strawberry on her forehead.

Silly Girls getting ready for the Wedding

D&C in the BIG D! (During "Operation Transport Darcey")

Today I met up with Darcey after her long 1050 mile trip from Arizona to Dallas, Texas. She has 800 miles to go to get to Florida. We hung out and had some fun, here is some of the good times!

Standing in the place where JFK was blown away (right behind me). This is a bullet hole in the concrete that ricocheted or was a direct hit from the accross the street. (DOES NOT line up with the 6th floor window for I've seen it with my own eyes).

Playing in the bamboo patch at the Dallas Arboretum--Moving with archer-like swiftness....Me and my smokin' HOT sister exactly 1 week to the hour before she gets hitched!

A little story about Darcey's fish Prince Louie Esteban Diego II who had to stay behind in Arizona. (Sorry if the audio doesn't sync up right, but you'll get the point).

Adventures of Savannah & Abigail --Remix--

So I was playing with some video and decided to pull all the movies I had of the girls and put them in one fun to watch production, so here is what I came up with--tell me what you think. (oh and beside, I think no one was looking at Dad's latest blog and we needed some fresh content ) Enjoy!

Medical Mission to Nepal

Rob called last night with birthday greetings. Thanks Rob! He wondered how my excursion to Nepal went. I filled him in a little and then told him I would add some detail to the Miller blog for he and the rest of the clan. So here it is. Darcey, let him know it's here and send me his email add. Questions are welcome.

It's now been over a month ago I returned from Nepal being part of the first Medical Camp to the Kumari. This was a great trip and a result of the Nepal trekking trip I was part of 3 years ago. One of my hiking buddies found a corporate sponsor to build the medical clinic that our guide was trying to find help with. This has been our guides dream since his father died some years ago from an injury in which he couldn't get needed nearby medical help. This corporate sponsor has since backed out now with the shifting economy. However, they did give it a much needed financial kick start last year. A non-profit was recently established and the work continues. Our first medical camp was a huge success. The medical camp site was dedicated for the building of a med clinic and that effort has begun. See: http://www.healthanded4nepal.org for more details of the story and some info. on the organization.

I went along as the chief photographer for the trip and had a great time. Try the link below for viewing many of the pictures:
http://picasaweb.google.com/miller2850?feat=email

Also I have a few videos I made and put on youtube if you're interested.

Site preparations for before the Med Camp happened:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNQJwMB4_Cg
Getting to and around Kathmandu:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzNOpLkS9P0
The trip getting to Kumari and the welcome we received as we arrived:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6NpgNldUXE
The education side of the non-profit. Delivery of book bags to the school children:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT4iEd4V-HI

There is more video. Go to youtube and search for he4nepal.
The ones with title starting with "MedCamp:" are mine.

Enjoy.

Happy birthday, old geezers!

Matt is 26 and dad is something with a 6 in it...
Happy birthdays!!! Here is a video in your honor...

Happy birthday, Christy!

Hope it was the best yet!

Happy birthday, Carrie!

Every year you get older it reminds me of how old I'm getting! Dang it!Happy birthday anyway, honey!

Get ready to par-tay!

I's gettin' hitched!

Please note, this is not an April Fool's joke.

Porter - weened and walking

So, I just have to give a shout out for Porter.
Since he turned one last Monday, it was decided (as with the other kids) that he would be weened in short order.
Well, he doesn't like that and has been going through withdrawals. As part of the mourning process, he has taken up walking. He took his first real steps today.
I guess we have another Dallin on our hands. Going straight to walking and by-passing the crawl (unless you consider his modified army crawl a real crawl).

Daddy Daughter Date

Saturday, March 21 Daddy and Emma had a date. The most wonderful kind.



Emma learned how to ski!



Shortly before my birthday in mid- February, the kids had learned I was going to go skiing as part of my birthday gift (Thanks for the help, mom and dad). They decided that they wanted to learn how to ski. So for family home evening I got my skis, boots, and poles to show them how to use the equipment. Emma became so excited that she made me promise to take her. Every weekend since, she was on me to take her. So on March 21 we got up early went to Eden, UT, where we rented her skis and bought an edgie wedgie (little device that attaches to the front of the skis so they stay together), and continued up to Powder Mountain (Matthew went there with me a few years ago when he came out before his mission).



She picked up the technique in record time. By the second time down, she was skiing without almost any help and by lunch time she was telling me to stop telling her what to do. She loved it so much that I had to put my foot down and tell her no more runs! She didn't like that and made me promise to go again. I asked if we could go on her birthday, she said no, because "that is too far away". Well, unfortunately, I don't think she will get her wish. We are running out of weekends and the snow will give way to the summer heat all too soon. However, I did tell her that Nana and Papa would love to take her sometime in the future. Thanks Nana and Papa for your generosity.



Here are a few pics from the day. I will try to upload video sometime if I can figure out why it isn't working on my laptop. Until then, enjoy these.

Savannah and Abigail's Spring Break Video

Happy Birthday, Porter!

One whole year!!! Hope it's great (and don't hesitate to post pics, mom and dad)!!!

Savannah and Abigail's Spring Break 2009

We were supposed to spend our Spring Break between Oklahoma and Colorado, but as we've learned, things always change at the last minute and normally as Daddy is headed out to see his little girls. This visit did not disappoint in that regard; Daddy was already on the road when he was told plans were changing--Nuf-said...

In life, when given lemons I don't make lemonade--that is the obvious thing to do. Instead I strive to make Cherry Lime-aide so those observing can say "how in the world did he do it?" And so it was for Spring Break 2009, I was dealt a bushel of lemons and did what had to be done to make something sweet out of it.

I left Oklahoma after work on Friday and found myself in Idaho Sunday night sleeping in a hospital bed with Savannah. She had a lung problem that was given 3 different names depending on which small town doctor or nurse I talked to. Monday morning she was released and we got Abigail and went to the Willow Park Zoo in Logan. You never would have known Savannah was just in the hospital. We took it easy, but she seemed as happy and healthy as any little girl with a runny nose and a slight cough.

We had to take Abigail back to her mom and then Savannah and I stayed in the Marriott (thanks to Uncle Matt who hooked us up with a good deal!) since the doctor was worried that staying with Grandma might get her sick--he wasn't sure if Savannah was contagious still or not. Hmmm.

We got Abigail back the next day and decided to do some site seeing. We found ourselves in Promontory,Utah, to visit the Golden Spike National Monument. We saw the RR tracks and learned a little bit about trains.

Then a miracle happened! The girls' mama said Abigail could stay with us for 2 whole nights! That was a first!!

Later in the week, Savannah, Abigail and I found ourselves at Aunt Carrie's in South Salt Lake City. We stayed there for a couple of nights and had some fun hanging out with Mia (the "puppy goggy")and Carrie.

We went up to Park City and saw the Olympic Park, then finished our visit with a dip in the Great Salt Lake--Oh the bitterness of that water and the bitter taste of having to return these two sweet girls back to their mother.

Guess like lemons you have to get past the bitter rind in order to find the sweetness within. I think we found it in this visit. There are two little girls who might not fully understand it, but they know their Daddy loves them very deeply and he knows he would go ends of the earth for them.

Thankfully this time it was just to Idaho.

"Rock-a-Baby"

Silly Girls--always trying to get away with stuff behind Daddy's back

Just hanging out at the Marriott

Savannah likes to put Abigail on her lap--remember that Abby weighs the same as Savannah!

The Golden Spike Monument out in Promontory, Utah, where the last spike was driven when the transcontinental railroad was connected.

Having a picnic near Promontory Point.

At the Utah Olympic Park in Park City Utah! Didn't have enough time to take a bobsled ride...maybe next time!

Dipping our feet in the Great Salt Lake, on the west side of Antelope Island.

The idea was to role up the pant to avoid soaking everybody's pants. After all the splashing we should have just jumped all the way in!

Footprints and Shadows in the Sand.

"Savannah Speaks"

Save the date

I'm not gonna say why just yet (ya'll probably know anyway!) but if you would all kindly save May 30th, 2009 on your calendars and not schedule any trips out of the country or anything, that would be great! Love ya and I'll see you then if not sooner! ;)