4th of July Cabin Trip

The family all got invited to spend the 4th of July up at a very lovely cabin belonging to Andrea's 

In-laws, The Veenkers. We had a great time playing outside, making s'mores, learning card games, and of course, 4-wheeling.

Calvin's trip on the 4-wheeler. 

Those legs you see sticking out are my mothers. She was hanging on for dear life.

Showing all the dust that had blown onto my pants on the ride. 

Wearing black was probably not a good idea.

We had some free time so some of us decided to go on another 4-wheeling 

adventure. I decided I would rather stay at the cabin and converse or take a nap or something since 

that week was going to be a long one for me. During the trip, my brother Erik and little sister Ami started accelerating and Erik decided to let off the gas. But instead of the 4-wheeler just rolling slowly (as a car would if you let off the gas), its engine breaks stopped the 4-wheeler right on a rocky area, where they apparently slipped and the 4-wheeler flipped them right off. Luckily, both Erik and Ami were wearing helmets or else their injuries might have been much worse, to say the least. They both got scraped up and came away with some pretty nasty bruises, but thankfully that was the most of it. 

What remained of Erik's coat after falling on some rocks.

A bruised cheek

Erik's side bruise. 

Ami's scraped up forearm. This is after it healing, too. 

Trust me, it looks a lot better in this picture.

Nothing like a few 4-wheeling bruises to finish off the 4th of July weekend right!

Short Blog Break

My poor little laptop has run into some minor issues.
It won't read cds or dvds! Which some might think isn't a big issue, like... who even uses real disks anymore? But seriously, it's pretty annoying. So I am taking in my computer to get this minor issue taken care of. Meanwhile, since it will be a few days, I will not be posting anything on the blog until I get my computer back. 
I will try to take tons of pictures of this little Calvin for all of you. Since I realize that it's mostly for him that any of you read this blog.
Later days!

Angie.

It Would Seem.

... That I have a renegade on my hands.

(This is a picture of my Calvin "stuck" on top of the bean bag)

Calvin has officially figured out how he can escape his crib (that is, until I lowered it..).
It all started innocently enough.
Fed him, gave him a little milk before I put him down for his nap.
I heard him fuss a little- trying to resist the urge to just fall asleep. And all of a sudden I heard a THUD and Calvin freaking out! So I head over to his room and I hear him at the door, crying!

... ???


Of course, I enter his room and there he is. On the floor and NOT in his crib.
He'd figured out that if he stands on his crib bumper, it gives him a little height. He then lifts himself onto the crib railing between his hips and bellybutton and leans forward so his weight carries him out of the crib, onto the floor.

I am SO relieved that he didn't get hurt the first time he did it! It could have been so much worse than him just crying.
My Calvin is fearless!

General Conference Saturday:

Had fun yesterday listening to General Conference. I never can say enough about how much I love Conference. Even when working during the Conference weekend, it was so slow and we'd have time to listen to the inspired words. We are currently in the process of redecorating our apartment right now. It's going to look like a jumbled up mess until I get things painted and polished. I can't wait to see the finished result. I finally have another bookshelf to put up above the TV (usually David likes a painting I did to hang there and I LOATHE it). Among other things.

David also shot another wedding last night at the Highland Gardens for Amy Watts and Raymond Hawke (uh, I guess they're both Hawkes now). My family's known Amy for a really long time and she is without a doubt a woman of many talents. Truly a gem. Anyway, she and Ray have been dating and engaged for a while and had the cutest, springiest reception ever! The colors were lime (like, TRUE lime.. not obnoxious-lunch-lady-shirt lime) and bright pink and purple. David got some really great pictures. It was held in a greenhouse in Alpine so everything was flooded with natural light and made for great pictures! I can't wait to post some.

OH and in other news, as Amy and Ray were leaving their reception- David hurried inside to get a sleeping Calvin and any camera equipment he still had inside.. I decided to follow him, probably a little faster than I should have. I started in a fast walk and almost running before my shoe (which has NO traction on it) slipped on the pavement and CRAAAASH! All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Angie together again.

I ended up scraping both my knees, my feet, bruising my hip, my elbow and my right palm... Nice going.

At least I can say that maybe only 3 people got a look at my tremendous fall other than David.. Of course, they got a good look at my underwear too as my skirt flew in all directions! Thankfully, David helped me back to the car and went and got Cal himself. *Sigh* I married a really good guy. He's pretty cute too.



Well, Conference again today! And I hope to have a much less painful day full of inspired words and the Holy Ghost!

To be completely honest

It's a little ridiculous trying to keep up TWO blogs. I mean, the other one I fill with all sorts of nonsense. But Millers Everywhere is me trying to be solely dedicated to the three of us. It's awfully hard to not write about the other craziness that's been floating around in my mind. So for now, entries in this blog may be a little slow. If you'd really like to, I post things on the other blog about the family every now and then. Just search for what you want to read.

In other news, Calvin has finally learned how to climb up and stand with the help of a friendly bookshelf or couch, or tv stand. It's been tiring to "spot" him when he decides to climb up on things. The second I turn around, THUD. He's on the ground. Sometimes I even think he may be doing it on purpose so I pick him up and cuddle with him. Well, little boy, if you think that's going to work forever, you're wrong. (Mwahahaha!) He's also finally learned how to escape the bumbo. There have been several times where I've had him up on the table or a counter to find him rolling around out of the bumbo, only a split second from falling on the hard tile (dun, Dun, DUNNN!)

And when I'm not chasing after Calvin or blogging about Calvin, I try to do things that I don't do on a regular basis. Of course, there's writing in my journal or watching Desperate Housewives. But this week, I've been able to branch out in my "craftiness". I made homemade paper with Erika (find her blog, here) for a Late Valentine's Day present for her missionary, Ethan (find his blog, here). It was super easy, but very time consuming and tedious. I've also bedazzled my denim vest. I know, I know. I know denim vests are supposed to be tacky, but I love it. I wear it over my hoodies all the time. I must look like I wandered out of a Nirvana music video, or maybe out of an episode of Roseanne. Oh well, say what you want. But I love it.

Work at The Flower Patch

First day at the Flower Patch yesterday and it feels like nothing has changed (except for that I'm working in West Jordan now, not Provo). Valentine's Day preparations are just like I left them. Thankfully for me, my old boss Celia called me for help at her store and I was more than glad to oblige. I have to say I was very happy to walk into that store and already feel like I wasn't really going to work, I was just hanging out with friends, doing what I love, which is to design flowers! Initially, I was terrified that I'd lost all my designing ability in the year that I haven't touched flowers. But I sat down, grabbed my flowers, grabbed my clippers and tied my apron and it was like with every flower I picked up, my ability started to flow back through my fingers. It was AWESOME.

Unfortunately, for the last part of my night, I spent the work day in the downstairs section of the store, making corsage orders for the 6 Valentine's Day dances that are also happening the week of Valentine's Day. In other words, for you who don't really know what it's like, It is absolute chaos. Dances by themselves are a monster. And coupled with the Valentines Day mess is a true nightmare to behold. I LOVE IT. The pace is dizzying, the work is tedious, the customers are a biatch, but there is nothing I love more than getting ready for bed at the end of a day of hard work and washing out the grime from underneath my fingernails and my clothes smell like flower stems. Ah, it's just so wonderful. I am so sad it's only going to last a week.


Sadly, today I may or may not be going in to work. Calvin has been slowly and steadily getting more sick. It all started after I came home and noticed his nose was running and his hands were extra clammy, and extra cold. After about a week, with his cough getting worse and worse, and the crying more frequent, I find myself with no other choice than to take him in to the doctor's office in hopes that they might tell me how to make him better. I feel so bad for Cal. I've been getting up at least twice a night with him this past week making sure he can breathe, and that he's alright. I can just hear him gasping for air between coughs. He can hardly catch his breath! On top of everything, I think he may have an ear infection. Augh! Poor thing. When it rains, it pores. I hope today ends well for me, and ends better for Calvin.

Weekend from Hell

Okay, it wasn't that bad, but it's getting there.

↑ (Our bathtub after being cleaned, and filling up with poo water.. Lovely.) ↑

For starters, I can't use my bathroom in our apartment. Why, you ask? Oh, because it's been spilling poo water for the past day and a half. Yes, Poo Water. Don't worry, it's been coming up from our bathtub too. No showering for now.  It all started yesterday in the morning when David and I were still in bed when we heard loud gurgling sounds coming from the bathroom. At our inspection, we noticed the water was rising and falling in the toilet bowl and still gurgling every once and a while. Suddenly, we hear the water rushing and brown, dirty water was spilling everywhere! We ended up calling the on-call maintenance guy for the weekend to come fix it. It took an hour and a half, maybe two hours before he had finished. All of the dirty water in the tub, drained.. but ALL OVER Cal's bath toys and washcloths. Gross. Like, seriously, the maintenance guy couldn't move a few baby toys from the poo water all over it. Ew. Well, after he fixed the problem temporarily, everything working fine and all. This morning, a familiar gurgle sound emerged from the bathroom. I go in only to see my bathtub is half full with poo water again and the toilet too. Oyyyy Vey. All my hard work cleaning up that bathroom all gone down the drain... or come UP from the drain, rather. I literally, had to clean poo off the walls.

Needless to say, David and I have decided to do whatever we can to get out of our lease here. After having dead mice in our walls, water pouring in from our ceiling, cockroaches that STILL come out, we've had enough.

In other news, Cal got some more shots today, including his H1N1 flu shot. Apparently, Utah County will be hitting its 3rd big wave of the Swine Flu. No bueno. No harm in being prepared. Especially for the dreaded Swine Flu. It's hard watching Little Cal get stabbed with all those needles, though. What a trooper. I think the needles are easy to handle. It's the feverish, achey, sick feeling that comes from those shots that gets me every time. Yuck!