Miller Family of Four: 2011

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

November 2011

O November, Matthew's favorite time of the year. College football, his birthday, warm cozy fires, turkey & pumpkin pie might be the reasons it is his favorite. We had a visit from our favorite people the Brownies and enjoyed some special time with them. We went on a field trip to the Wild Horse Sanctuary in Shingletown. Chesnie is in love with horses right now and keeps telling us she is ready to move so that we can get land so she can have a horse. There were 1,000 horses and she picked out the one she wanted. Family came up to celebrate Matthew's birthday. They also allowed Matthew and I to get away for a night. We spent the night in Dunsmuir at the Railroad Park Resort, visited Mt. Shasta and then saw a college football game in Weed. It was a great time together honoring Matthew. We went to Whiskeytown to see the spawning Kokanee Salmon. We saw them, saw eggs, found treasures and fished. It was a great science field trip and this is what we love about home schooling. My sister, brother in law and daughter were in town for Thanksgiving and we all went to San Francisco. We enjoyed a go kart tour of the city and saw parts of the city we had never seen. The best part of November was that Matthew interviewed for a teaching job on his birthday and found out a few weeks later that he got the job! We have waited 6 long years for an answer to our prayer and God couldn't have answered it in a better way. He is teaching at the girls school (we home school through a charter school). We get to see him on Wednesdays when the girls take classes and have lunch with him. We couldn't be more pleased.

Picnic lunch with Caleb and Samaria

Best friends

Best buddies (maybe future spouses?)

Saying prayer before dinner

The girls with their friends watching all the horses

Over 1,000 horses

The horse that Ches wants

All the girls in a hay fort

Matthew's birthday

Castle Crags in Dunsmuir

Our train

Half time

What an exciting game it was with triple overtime

Ches fishing

Father and daughter watching for fish

She can even fish with one arm

Roasting marshmellows with Auntie Catie

Swirly kite in SF

Auntie Catie and Ches in the go kart

Auncle Jamie and Mariah ready to roll

The beautiful golden gate bridge

Under the bridge

Peek a boo Ches, I see you

Matthew and I sportin some cool helmets in our go kart

Ches posing with the nutcracker

She got this hat in SF and wanted to sleep with, pooped out

Chesnie's hat is there but off of her head but her trusty cat that has been with her since she broke her arm is right in her face

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

October 2011

October brought more warm weather and my birthday. I had a wonderful celebration with my parents. Matthew and my mom made a yummy dinner. The girls enjoyed the pumpkin patch and carving pumpkins. They got lots of candy but traded it in for money to a local dentist who gives the candy to our troops. We also had our first trip to the ER as Chesnie broke both the bones in her left wrist. Thankfully it wasn't too bad of a break and she is healing just fine.

She choose purple!

Picking out the color for her new cast

Finally home from the ER

A popsicle for the good patient

In the ER getting her splint put on.

The girls at a field trip to the fish hatchery

My wonderful birthday dinner

Mattie made me lots of bracelets and necklaces for my birthday

Daddy and Ches on the hunt

Searching for the perfect pumpkin

Ches found her big pumpkin

Mattie feeding a goat some straw

Ches riding a goat

Chesnie and her limp chicken

The petting zoo at the pumpkin patch

Mattie climbing the walls just like daddy used to when he was a kid

Ches climbing the walls

Look at that form

Don't need two arms for soccer

And she's off

Daddy eating the guts of the pumpkin

Mattie carving her own pumpkin

Yes, Ches picked a big enough pumpkin that she fit in

Daddy helping Ches carve since she had a broken arm

The girls carved kitties this year

The girls ready for trick or treating

My cute Snow White Mattie

My little Rapunzel Ches

Mattie sorting her candy

Chesnie and her loot

Favorite Mattieisms

When taking her to her first Choir practice, "But I don't know what instrument I want to play."
"Chesnie, maybe you love John the Baptist?"
"I am ilarious" (hilarious)
When asked if she wanted another brother or sister, "Not really but I only like sisters, they are better."
She calls a trampoline a jumpoline.
After eating soup, "All that I have left is soup juice."
After we took our Christmas decorations down Mattie asked, "Do we have to take our tree back now?"
While watching TV-"This isn't the show, this is a commotion (aka commercial)."
"I want a turn to be the mom"
When passing a McDonald's sign she says, "M for Mattie!"
"I married Jesus"

Favorite Chesnieisms

"How big is Jesus?" Me: As big as the whole world. "That can't be. Then He would be fat and round like a ball."
"I wish I could fly but God made me a person."
She asks Matthew and me, "Do you guys cuddle like a sandwhich in bed?"
"I have been waiting my whole life for this zucchini!" (age 5)
"My fur sticks up when I am cold."
"My teeth are snapping together." (She is cold and her teeth are chattering.)
"My nose gets as hot and minty as this toothpaste when I brush my teeth."
"I like being 5 better than 4 cuz I'm so much older."
"The devil made weeds and he just keeps making them!"
"I wish that mosquitos would fly to hell and bite the devil so then he would die."
"Mom, please let me do whatever I want." She is four!
"My nose is miserable."
"I am going to miss you and mom when you die. Matthew asks if she will remember us and Ches says, "Well I will need to have a picture to remember."
Matthew is putting Chesnie to bed and she says, "Dad I like it when you lay with me because when you leave then my pillow smells like you."
"Why do geese poop?" Matthew says, "We all poop, everyone poops." Ches responds, "I don't think Jesus poops."
As she is on the potty going poop and Mattie is watching, "Watch out Mattie! Move back, you might get splashed!"
In the middle of the night, "I don't like this cough. Where did I get it? I want it to go away."
When asked if she wanted mommy to have another baby, "No, I want to be the baby."
"My hair is crazy, how does my hair get crazy?"
"I want to get married with my binkie."
"Mom, I want to fly. You need to buy some wings so that I can fly."
"Now you need to listen to your heart. It's speaking." I asked her what it was saying and she said, "It's saying thump, thump."
Ches was talking to herself at the dinner table and Matthew asked who she was talking to. "I am talking to Jesus."
After taking down our Christmas tree Ches says, "Can we go to Mt. Lassen tomorrow and get another tree?"
We tried for one night to take Chesnie's binkie away from her. We didn't get any sleep so we gave it back to her. She said, "It wasn't nice that you and mommy took my binkie away, it wasn't nice."
"I want long hair like Pocahantas"
"Something scares me, I think it was a storm."
She calls a flashlight-flashnight
"I want to kiss a boy"