Miller Family

Two 2 yr. olds.

2008-09-11T19:24:00.000-07:00

My two 2 yr. olds. For 32 days Brynn and Colton are the same age, so when people ask me how old they are for one month I get to say 5, 2, and 2. Brynn turned 2 on Aug 28th and Colton turns 3 Sept. 29th. Apparently we wanted twins, so since we didn't have any we decided to just to see if we could defy the odds of having them under a yr. apart. Something like that. No it wasn't planned. But thier best friends and we love it.

2008-09-11T18:57:00.000-07:00

Little did I know that Halloween came early this year. Trey and his friend Malia decided to raid the costume box and apparently I need more costumes. Colton got to wear Brynn's costume from last year. They paraded around the neighborhood knocking on doors asking for candy. Where was I? Everybody loved Colton's costume, he was just so excited to be involved with the big kids. He does make a very cute octupus though.

2008-09-11T18:50:00.000-07:00

Colton was trying to learn how to walk around in flip flops without the backs on, Brynn doesn't seem to have a problem figuring it out, but Colton on the other hand....

Our Busy Lives

2008-09-11T14:40:00.001-07:00

So everybody has been asking me what we've been up to since we haven't blogged in so long. Trying to find the time has been difficult, but I'll just condense our lives so people know what we've been up to and what we are up to.
For some reason I've taken up activities that I haven't done for -oh 10yrs. or so. I play soccer Monday, Wednesday and Friday, V-ball on Thursday, and we have a tennis match against the Foy's every Sunday. Bens plays soccer on Thursdays, and Trey has soccer practice every Wed. and games on Saturday. I've become a little too obsessed with playing, but those who want to take up soccer just let me know cause we put togethor teams every season.
We've also started about 10 different company's in the last year. www.blanksnowboards.com, Benson and Rob's baby has just launched. Whoever needs a board come our way, you can get all the info on this site and although Jeannie and I felt like neglected wives while our husbands went snowboarding ALL the TIME, we are proud of them for doing a really good job. Bens also has been doing a website with some friends called www.visitmyreception.com that is a really cool website for engaged couples. I have recently started a non-profit org. called MACE, (Mothers for Afordable Clean Energy) our website is www.macenergy.org and this has become my obsession lately. We are getting the website giong, slowly, but I'm working with the most amazing women; Judy Shiffman, and Paula Coggins. Basically, what we are doing is informing the public about energy, (coal, oil drilling, oil shale, ) and informing people about all the things that the exreme environmentalists don't want you to know. We'll be working with politicians to help move drilling in our country along and get away from depending on the middle east and Venezuala.
Benson has also been working on a car dealership called Amicus Auto, two rental properties (in S.L. and Ogden) companies called 5M and Pareto that are investment companies that Benson started two or three years ago, and doing law work for Powder Mtn., friends that need a lawyer for whatever reason, and the full time attorney for Delta Advisors, and EPF.
But I think the hardest thing I'm tackling right now is potty training Colton and Brynn. Heaven Help Me, who would of thought potty training could be so damn hard!?! Any advice would be great. Do you think you should ask them if they need to go or let them ask you? and although I've done this before with Trey, Brynn and Col don't seem to care if they are wet and dirty. I'm open to advice at this point so send it my way.

2008-09-10T20:06:00.000-07:00

Trey turned 5 this July and got some fun new toys, like a razor and skateboard and so he decided to pose as if he was riding one. We forgot to take our camera to his party. DUH. But maybe he'll just remember how his mom did such an amazing job with his party, and making such a great cake:) who needs a camera?

2008-09-10T19:56:00.000-07:00

Trey and Brynn really liked all the rides. Bens and I never rode one ride cause the two wanted to keep going on the rides over and over.

2008-09-10T19:49:00.000-07:00

This summer we went to Lagoon and it was really fun, but for all those who know Colton, know that if he's not in control of things then he just freaks out. So we decided to try the easiset ride at Lagoon and Brynn felt so bad for him she comforted him the whole time patting his back and giving him kisses. I'm sure someday he'll love knowing that his little sister was their to make him feel safe, maybe he'll return the favor in the future.

2008-09-10T19:44:00.000-07:00

Colton and Brynn have an agreement, he'll play dress up with her and she'll play sports with him. Colton doesn't always like it but he says o-tay, then we pay tootball.

2007-12-02T15:11:00.000-08:00

2007-12-02T15:05:00.000-08:00

Brynn's hair is finally long enough for little pigtails. I love it. She's also finally walking.

2007-12-02T14:54:00.000-08:00

I caught Colton like this one morning! I thought I had to take a pic of his cute little bum.
Colton and Trey have become the besstest of friends always with each other. It's so nice. It's Pete and Repeat.

2007-12-02T14:09:00.000-08:00

For Colton's B-day way back in Sept. had a lot of fun going different places and letting Colton see all the animals ( that he was totally terrified of) and eat lots of ice cream and cake.

2007-12-02T14:05:00.000-08:00

2007-10-06T19:01:00.000-07:00

And that is supposed to be an 18 oz hershey bar, not a 10.

Nieman Marcus cookie recipe

2007-10-06T18:50:00.000-07:00

So I was sent a cookie recipe along time ago from a friend who got it from a friend. Anyways, apparently she went to Neiman Marcus and had one of thier cookies and asked for the recipe and price, the lady said that it was a great deal since it 0nly cost two fifty, so the friend said just add it to my tab. Later when whe was checking her statement she saw that it had cost 250.00, so when she called them about how thier had been a huge misunderstanding they said thier was nothing they could do, so she was so mad that she e-mailed it to everyone and supposedly this is it.
The Nieman Marcus cookie ( I hope that's how you spell it)
2 cups butter
24 oz chocolate chips
4 cups flour
2 cups Brown sugar
2 tsp soda
1 tsp salt
2 cups sugar
10 oz Hershey bar (grated)
5 cups blended oatmeal
4 eggs
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanilla
Measure oatmeal and blend in blender till fine powder. Cream butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla, mix togethor with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda. Add chocolate chips, and hershey bar. Roll into balls, place two inches apart. Bake @ 375 for 10 minutes. Makes 112.

I have not made them yet but I think I'm going to try. But if you do before me, let me know how they turn out.

2007-10-02T19:36:00.000-07:00

Disneyland!!!

2007-10-02T19:20:00.003-07:00

Colton was extremely excited about riding on an airlplane!!! Trey was a little nervous sometimes about having his picture takin with large cartoons, and Colton was not even close to letting us put him in the picture.
This was the highlight of Treys life. He was one of the kids picked from the audience to train to be a JEDI and fight DARTH VADER himself.

This was Colton's reaction on every ride. He liked it but "It's a small world" was just too much for him, he cried and didn't kept looking at us wondering why we didn't find it as wierd as he thought it was. The family with Mickey.

2007-09-21T12:10:00.000-07:00

Ok so I am still really new with this stuff, and all of our recent pictures are on Benson's laptop s that explains why our slideshow is from when Colton was born. I'll get there someday. Thanks Stac for showing me how to do this stuff, or maybe I should be thanking Cole.

2007-09-09T14:38:00.000-07:00

Benson graduated law school this yr. He recieved Order of the Coif and many book awards. We are so glad that law school is over with and will soon find out if he passed the bar. We had a new addition to our family every yr. of law school but we managed to stay reasonably sane.

Trey's first day of school

2007-09-09T13:45:00.000-07:00

Trey's first day of school. He is soooo excited!!

Kids with dad, 2 seconds later with mom.

2007-09-09T13:41:00.000-07:00

This is about how it goes in our lives. The kids cooperate so well for thier dad and if you notice how much they cooperate for me.

Miller Family

2007-09-09T13:39:00.000-07:00