Graduation Campout

Mommy (without Daddy) took Little Gerry to the graduation camp out for cub scouts. Mommy is fully expecting a fabulous Mother's Day celebration since she was so willing to endure the harsh conditions of camping alone with Gerry. Mommy has already blogged about the wonderful event on her other blog(link in links). Enjoy the pictures.

Catching up on the Blogs

So sorry that I haven't been keeping up with the blog. Life got busy. Here are a few highlights of the Miller family in the past several months.

Mom's 60th Birthday Party

Despite the fact we told everyone at Outback that she was turning 60, she had a great time. We came up for a little bit of a surprise visit. You know you can surprise them once they get to be this old so I gave her a little notice of our arrival. We had a great time celebrating with Lisa's family and Mom loved having all her grandkiddos in one place.

Ben's 2nd Birthday

We had a little party with a few of Ben's friends from school. Ben loved having them over to play. Of course we had an Elmo party complete with Elmo cake made by his loving Mother.

Trip to Jackson


For Spring Break, we traveled to Jackson to see our God Son/Nephew get baptized. It was great to see little Zachary and Kyle and Kari and to spend time with all the Millers. We managed to visit the zoo and the "Museum with the Dinosaurs" while we were there.

Gerry's 9th Birthday


Gerry celebrated his 9th birthday with a sleep over party. He had a few friends over for some silly string, and Star Wars. They had a great time and Mom survived having all the boys over while Daddy was not home.

That is all for now! Have a great Easter!

The Ongoing Fight

For those of you who don't know, we have two dogs. There is Sammy- the old grouchy Cocker Spaniel who loves little Gerry to death. And then there is Max- our new Pom puppy. Well, he is really my puppy. He is still quite annoying so the rest of the family brings him to me when they have had enough of him. For being old and grouchy, Sammy has had a lot of patience with Max. However, there is one domain he is not willing to share- the toys. Sammy is the keeper of the toys. And as long as Sammy is guarding the toy, Max wants it. Max isn't as interested in toys that are left unguarded. There is one toy in particular that they fight over viciously. It is Sammy's favorite, so of course Max makes it his life goal to get it from Sammy. There is lots of barking and growling with the occasional lashing out. Once, Sammy actually made Max scream with his vicious lashing out while protecting this toy.

In the best interests of Max's life and Sammy's sanity and all of our ears, I decided to invest in another coveted red squeaky ball. We brought it home today and promptly gave it to Sammy. We gave the other to Max and let them go their separate ways with their precious, identical toys. About 45 minutes later, Sammy discovered the ruse. He managed to trick Max into leaving his red ball unguarded and swiped it. And now he is guarding BOTH red squeaky balls. I think that I am going to loose my mind soon!

Our Very Own MVM!

We are proud to report that Gerry won the Most Valuable Maverick award for his class along with his friend Will for the month of January! We were all able to be there to see him get his award. We couldn't be more proud of our little young man!

Our proud MVM!

Two of his close friends also got MVM awards!

Our MVMs with their proud teacher.