Friday, March 23, 2012
Through the iPhone...
The Davy Crockett hat only leaves Gage's head for bed and school. It was quite a job to get him to agree to those terms. It's currently in the washer and he is not too happy about it. He also is sporting a yellow necklace (string) and he blows on it to give it power. That doesn't leave his body either...unless I'm sporting it around to be a princess. He's also learned how to pump himself on the swing.
Kaysen is a master at getting Kynlee and Teagen to laugh. I wish this thing would upload iPhone videos so you could here those chuckles. His last Basketball game is tonight and he's not to happy about it. He's had so much fun. If I'm not sure what he is doing all I have to do is check outside and I'll find him riding his bike. He's on that thing any chance he can get.
The babies gave had a taste of sweet potatoes and carrots now and both of them were a success. Teagen especially loves it which is great because he was much harder to feed the cereal to. Now they both eat all of it. Most nights now they are sleeping from 9:30ish to about 6 which is AMAZING!!! I love those babies. They are the best babies ever! Thank goodness to or I think I would have completely list my mind by now.
Jerry is working an overhaul right now so his only day off is Sunday. We have about 6 more weeks of it and can't wait for it to be over.
My sister asked me to do the receivables for her and I said yes. Which sometimes I wonder when I'll get it done. But I've actually really enjoyed working from home again...even if I am always busy.
(sorry the photos are all at the bottom. It's the only thing I don't like about this app.)
Monday, December 26, 2011
Knife Maker...
Not only that, he taught himself how to do it. By watching videos and reading books and other info online.
He's amazing when it comes to doing this hands on type stuff. He's a perfectionist so anything he does turns out great.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Frustration....
Saturday, August 13, 2011
How about a Penny???
Towards the end of the project, Kaysen was helping Jerry and Grandpa pour the dirt back in the trench. Jerry and Grandpa both had shovels and the tractor. Kaysen had hit little garden shovel and thought he was putting more dirt in the trench than they were because he was digging faster and boy were his arms moving fast trying to get that dirt in there.
Jerry looked at him and said, "Wow! You are a hard worker. We should pay you a quarter for all your help, huh?"
Kaysen quickly replied, "How about a penny!"
Jerry and I laughed and said, "Sure. If you really want a penny instead of a quarter."
Kaysen nodded his head up and down quickly and let us know that a penny was definitely what he wanted.
Who knew that such good help would cost so little??
In other news Jerry has been working 5, 8 hour days for the past two weeks. I am in heaven. He has been somewhat bored with the new job because he has had to do all the boring orientation stuff that he's gone through a hundred times but the past couple days he has been able to go out in the field and work. That made his days go by much faster. I told him (somewhat nicely) that I didn't have much sympathy for his boring days because I LOVE his 8 hour days. They go by so much faster than those 12 hour ones. We've had so much more time together each day and it has been awesome. I just know I'm going to love it as time goes on.
Some not so happy news....for me. Not a big deal but not GREAT news anyways. Today I found my first stretch marks on my belly. Okay, so I had two small ones already there. One from each previous pregnancy, but that is it. Just this morinng I was checking my belly out to see and NOTHING new was sighted. Then this afternoon I commented to Jerry that I felt like my belly/skin was stretching...but put the idea aside. (denial) Now just a mere 10 minutes ago, I was laying on the couch watching my belly dance (from the babies moving around). My shirt was pulled up above my belly and Jerry commented that he saw new stretch marks.
WHAT!!!!
I quickly did a scan of the area and lo and behold there they are. I knew this pregnancy would be the one to REALLY make my body change and never go back to like it was but I'll admit I was in a bit of denial about it too.
Oh well, it's the price I gotta pay to get these two little ones here safely.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
A Birthday and a Testimony....
We kicked it off by having waffles drenched in peaches and whip cream. Mmmm...it was so good. I asked him what he wanted to do for his big day and he said, "A whole lot of nothing. Unless it's something fun." He was a bit sick of work...I was fine with that.
We called my parents to see if thy could watch the boys while we went out. We had a great lunch at Native New Yorker which we have NEVER eaten at. We lived in Show Low for 4 years and never once at there. He got the Native burger and I got the chef salad. Boy did that salad taste wonderful. I could eat one of those everday. After lunch we headed to the movie and watched Transformers: Dark of the Moon. We both enjoyed it. I would have enjoyed it much more if I would have been comfortable. The little boy in my belly still likes to keep his foot jammed in my ribs. Plus I had to go to the restroom 3 times and missed some good parts dang it!
It was a great date though and we loved being able to spend time together, since we know our dating days are going to be a bit more limited for quite some time.
After lunch the movie we headed back to my parent house where they had a great steak dinner in the works. Mmm....boy did I get spoiled with good food that day. I'm pretty sure my doctor would be proud of all the food I packed in this belly.
I hope that Jerry had as good of a day as I did. He sure deserves it. He's such a hard worker, he needs to just relax sometimes.
I must have been really tired from our exciting day because as soon as we got home we got the boys to bed. I had to finish up the ward announcements for church, and Jerry was waiting for me to get that done so he could surf the net for a bit. About 30 seconds after I handed the lap top over I was falling asleep as he was talking to me. I never do this...he is usually the one falling asleep as I talk his ear off each night.
Then his phone went off. It happened to be right next to my head and I had to hand it to him. It was someone texting him a happy birthday note. He handed the phone back to me and somehow I got it plugged back in. A few minutes later it went off again. So I handed it to him again, then I charged it in again...although I don't remember doing it. Once again, it went off a few minutes later. This time I gave it to him and told him to keep it. Of course because I had him keep it....it didn't go off again.
In other news....Kaysen stood up and said bore his testimony in church all by himself today. A few of his cousins went up there, like they do almost every fast Sunday, so we asked him if he was ready to go up there yet. Each Sunday he has told us no, but today he said he was going to do it. We were a bit shocked. He kept waiting and waiting then finally just stood up and walked up there. He had to sit on the stand for a bit because, "that guys just kept going" (according to him).
Jer and I were a bit nervous. We haven't prepped him on what to say because we want his testimony to be his own. However, we realized that he may say some things that do not pertain to testimony so much.
I don't know why we were nervous...the boy did great. He stood up there and said, "I like to bear my testimony. I know the church is true and I love my Mom and Dad and brothers and sister." I wondered at first if he just said that becasue that's what he heard other kids say. Especially since, he only has one brother born so far. However, he informed me that, "I love Kynlee and Teagen too even though they are still in your belly."
Now each night before bed he prays for Heavenly Father to help him bare his testimony on Sunday.
He loved it...and so did we.
Gage on the other had was pretty ticked off that we didn't allow him to go up there by himself too...maybe someday soon, but not yet. The boy would just run all over the place. I just know it.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Stuck...
Tonight I sat at home while they rode when suddenly I got a phone call from Jerry.
"I'm stuck."
"You're kidding," I reply. This guy never gets stuck and he's quite a prankster so I thought he really was just teasing me.
"Nope. I'm in the wash. Bring the truck some muletape and my leatherman and get me out."
I laughed...and then complied.
Yesterday we had one heck of a rain storm. On our property is a little wash that used to have a dam that held the water in so that it was a little pond. Well one REALLY good rain storm a while back washed most of that dam out. Yesterday's rain storm finished the job. Kaysen asked Jerry if they could drive through where the dam used to be. So away they went. They made it most of the way. I guess, when suddenly the quad just sunk in the mud and no amount of coercion would get it out. The mud was definitely 3/4 of the way up the tires.
So I backed our truck up as close as possible. Jerry cut some muletape and tied it to the quad. One little tug later and it was free. The boys thought it was such an adventure. Jerry told me not to post it...sorry babe. It's a good memory that our boys love talking about.

Jerry spent the next hour cleaning all of the mud off and wasn't in that great of a mood as he cleaned.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011
27 Weeks...
Here I am at 27 weeks pregnant. (once again, photo courtesy of Kaysen Miller) I've been meaning to get so many pictures but each time I think about it, I'm in pajamas, no make up, tired as heck, or if I am actually somewhat ready, Jerry isn't around to take a picture. Tonight I decided it was time to get a picture no matter how tired I looked. So out came the camera. I am feeling bigger and bigger each day (duh?) yet people tell me I can't possibly be carrying twins. I know that I am much more uncomfortable now that I was at this stage with my last two pregnancies though. I finally made it to the chiropractor on Monday and I now wonder what took me so long to get in there. I kept putting it off but man I feel soooo much better.
On July 6th we went to a high risk specialist in the valley. We were able to get some 3D pictures of the babies. Here is baby A or our girl. Turns out that she is literally being smashed by her brother so her picture is really distorted. It took nearly an hour to get all of the needed photos of her because she is a little contortionist and wouldn't hold still.
While we were there we found out that she has a marginal umbilical cord insertion to the placenta. Basically, it means that her umbilical cord attached to the edge of the placenta instead of the "meaty" center part. This can cause her to not get the nutrients she needs. She has always been bigger than her brother but in this ultrasound she was 3oz smaller. (Not a big difference at all, many twins are 1lb different towards the end. ) But, it is something that we have to monitor. I am still on slight bedrest, my cervix is still thin but not opening so we aren't too worried about it right now. But now I'm down because if I am laying down, my blood flow goes to the areas it's needed more and that would be the placentas. If I'm up and moving the blood has to go to many more areas and the placentas don't get everyting they need. So hopefully this helps our babies get what they need a bit more. I get another ultrasound next week. If her growth has slowed drastically, the only thing they can do is to induce labor and perform a c-section around 30-31 weeks. Most twins stop their growing at that point so she would have a better chance of growing outside the womb. We are just praying that she is developing and growing stronger each day, even if she is small, and making it all the way to at least 35 weeks. Other than that, she looks 100% healthy and we are so grateful!!

By the way...she is probably (99.99999% sure) going to be named Kynlee Claire Miller. Claire is after Jerry's grandma who passed away years ago.
And here is a 3D picture of baby B or our boy. His picture is more clear. Don't ask me what is in the photo to the right of this one. They printed it with the others and didn't label it. I tried to crop it out of the pic, but my computer won't let me. If you can decipher what it is...let me know. :)
He looks 100% healthy and is growing great. This time we got to see him kick his sister in the head. Usually he is pretty laid back and is taking all of the kicking from her but his time he was moving like crazy and kept kicking up a storm in there.

And this is going to be Teagen Jett or Teagen Blake Miller. We are really divided on the middle name right now. We like Jett because it is different (well now I know a lot who are using it for a first name but I still like it soooo much) I didn't want this little guy to be named after anyone because Gage isn't and I didn't want Gage being our only child not named after someone. ( I tried to get Gage to be Gage Hunt Miller, after Jerry's grandma's maiden name but he didn't like it. So he is Gage Ryan. Then a year later we talked about it and Jerry wondered why we didn't use it because he now liked it...ugh!!! ) We both like the name Blake and it is my Grandpa Duncan's name and he has no one named after him. So we are still debating the middle name for this little guy. Hopefully we'll agree on it sometime soon :)
p.s. Jerry got a new job as an Electrician and Insturment Repairman Apprentice. He starts Monday August 1st!!! So this is his LAST set of nights!!! He actually loves shift work and isn't looking forward to giving up his 1 week straight off per month. I too am not looking forward to that but I am looking forward to having my husband home every day at 3:30pm and getting him every holiday and Sunday!!! It came at just the right time! I was soooo not looking forward to having 4 kids at church by myself 2 Sunday's a month or trying to keep 2 new little babies quiet while he slept (especially if I was up all night alone with them while he was working.) This new job is an apprenticeship, where APS pays him and trains him in this specific line of work. It will last about 4 years, then he will be a journeyman. He has a lot of hard work and studying ahead of him but I know that he will do great!!!
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Father's Day 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
6 years...
On January 8th Jerry and I celebrated our 6th Anniversary! My Mom was awesome enough to watch our boys overnight so that we could celebrate. We headed down to the Suns vs. Nicks game. We had a ton of fun, even though the Suns played horrible. It was my first game so I enjoyed it and basketball is Jerry's favorite sport so of course he liked it.
The next morning we did sealings at the Mesa Temple. We haven't ever done them there and decided we'd like to since we were in town and didn't have kids to worry about. We always do sealings on our anniversary. It's a great way to remember our special day.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Happy Birthday Jer!!
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Newest hobby
So now he has bought a new .22 rifle. I prefer this one because it kicks much less than his 257 and because it is more affordable to shoot. Jerry's new hobby of guns has now turned into a family affair. Kaysen loves this gun because it is a Ruger .22, like what we named our dog after. He thinks it is sooo cool. Kaysen and Gage both love to go shooting. And now we live in one of the most perfect places to go shooting. Many times we do it 100 yards from our own home. Here are a couple videos of the boys shooting too....don't worry we were safe...even if Ruger kept running in front of it.
Father and Son
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
He's mine!!


















