Miller Family of Four: November 2011

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

September 2011

We enjoyed our annual trip to visit our best friends in Oregon. We also had one last trip up to the cabin for the season. We planted our winter garden and enjoyed the beauty right here in Redding.

Picnic with friends in Oregon

Helping Tutu make home made ice cream

Our other two kids Caleb and Samaria

We picked lots of strawberries

First day of classes for the girls

We enjoyed another great trip to the cabin. It is such a great place to relax and unwind. Matthew has many childhood memories here and it is so neat to create more memories with the girls.

Playing games with Grandma and cousin Pat

They are leaning to play badmitton

Twirly girls

Ches climbed to the top

Mattie made it to the top

Smore's at the cabin

Chesnie found a salt lick

Matthew and his friend Kenny and a day of fishing in Hat Creek

We planted our winter garden on a sunny September day. The girls are great helpers and love to eat the fruits of their labor.

My Mattie girl

Mattie digging holes for the winter garden

Ches and daddy planting kale

Helping plant our lettuce

The girls and our winter garden

We had a dinner picnic at Whiskeytown

You can't tell but she is really hanging by her hair

Lifeguard girls

Hanging out on the lifeguard chair

Beautiful Whiskeytown

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"