A House for my Birthday!

Yay, we bought a house and we get the keys today, I am so excited. When Matt and I first decided to start looking, the housing market was at it's high and finding something decent was difficult. We have been looking for so long that I was beginning to think that the only thing changing was our expectations. Along the way we had a few good offers in, but nothing panned out until now. I wanted to share our excitement and send a picture. Wish us luck, we have a lot of moving to do now.

Farmington Festival Days 5K

This last weekend was Farmington Festival Days and every year they have a race in the morning, followed by a big french toast breakfast, a parade, festivities during the day and finally fireworks at night. Each year, since Matt and I moved to Utah, we have attended and I even participated in the race once before I had Hallie. This year I decided to participate in the race again, and I was able to convince my sister in-law Julie to run the 5K with me. She was such a trooper! I have always loved to run, I'm not the fastest, but I truly enjoy it. As for Julie, she has never been a runner, she and I walk together most mornings, but she does not run...until now :). We decided to start training in the evenings so we could run without the kids, and finally when the day of the race arrived we both did great. I beat my personal best and got 27:59, and Julie just over 28 minutes. I was so proud of us, and we have decided that next year we are going to shoot for the 10K, which will be an adventure, because that will be a first for me as well.


The Kids didn't love getting up so early, but they were good supporters as you can see.

Kid Updates

David's first crawl was last thursday, he as been working at it for a long time now, I was thinking it would happen any day now for about two weeks, but the wait is over. We captured some of it for everyone to see, so I hope you all enjoy this video as much as we do. (To view the video you must be at our actual blog site.)

Hallie has been working on learning new songs, and I think I mentioned how she sang I am a child of God for us out of the blue one day, so I captured it in a video today. I love this video, she is so cute in it.

I love my children so much watching them grow up so fast is really hard for me, but I can't help but be excited to see them hit such fun stages in their lives. I am truly blessed to be at home with them everyday, I couldn't imagine it any other way.

Miller Camp Out

The 4th of July weekend was packed full of fun! We decided to go on our first family campout with just me, Matt and the kids. We went to a camp ground down in Scipio, Ut. and it was beautiful. I had been down there a few weeks earlier to fish with my sister in-law and I knew I wanted to go back. The campground is set next to the red rock mountains and there is a stream and trees everywhere. We had a great time introducing Hallie to the art of roasting hot dogs and marshmallows over the fire, she decided that raw marshmallows were her favorite. We only stayed for one night, but by the end of the trip both kids were dirty from head to toe.

A Day at Lagoon

We recently took the kids to Lagoon, we figured that Hallie would be a lot more brave if she had her cousin with her and we were right. Together they had a blast, it was so fun to watch them. Matt and I were even able to go on a ride or two with them, it was a fun day. When we were all done and going home, when we asked Hallie what her favorite ride was, and she said she liked the car ride with Amelia. They are so lucky to have eachother, what good friends they have become.