Halloween weekend

My Parents came down to Utah Halloween weekend. I haven't been able to post I have been very busy and all the pics get downloaded to Brock's computer. We had a fun weekend. Brock and my dad went to the football game and then met up with my mom and Megan and I. Of course we were shopping. So the pics above show how enthused everyone was. Brock and my dad would find the seats right when we got into the next store. I was pretty surprised at my dad because he is a shopper but Brock go figure. Also why my parents were here on Sunday the electricity went out and it was out for mos of the day so we cooked dinner on the wood stove. We had a lot of fun. Thanks mom and dad for coming out.

brock sitting in J crew patiently
My dad sitting in J crew wishing he could buy me something.

Mom and Blitzlii have snuggle time. Its what grandma's and granddogs do.

Me cooking our survival meal on the wood stove.

Don't you wish you were here

Brock and I love being cozy in the fall and this is what our house looks like about every night, minus the Halloween decorations.

Nov 4

Amy and I are just sitting here in bed talking about our new president. Today was crazy for me, going on only 4 hours of sleep, lots of meetings and some really challenging deadlines at school...glad it's over. No major plans for this weekend...for once.

Nov. 2

Amy's parents came in town on Friday from Oregon. We celebrated Halloween together and waited for the trick-or-treaters. Blitzlii and Regen dressed up for Halloween, Blitzlii was a devil again and Regen was a lady bug with a tutu, of course. Brock's sister brought her kids over and they jumped in the huge leaf pile Brock prepares for this particular occasion. Saturday Brock and Amy's Dad went to the Portland State Weber State football game, while Amy and her mom and sister went shopping downtown SLC. We met up for dinner and ate at an awesome Italian restaurant. Sunday at church the electricity went out so we went home early, unfortunately when we got home our power was out too so we made food on our wood stove. Pretty inventive actually. Amy's parents left later that afternoon and then around 6:00pm our lights came back on...and now Brock doesn't have a excuse to not do his home work.

oct 30

Brock: The burn on my arm you guys may have seen last week is scabbed over and I am really hoping it will not scar. Between now and Saturday I will be reading up on Portland State's football team so I can talk with Amy's dad on Saturday on the sidelines of the football game vs. WSU like I actually have a clue about PSU football. Wish me luck with that one.

Amy: Since school has started for Brock I'm alone again on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I don't mind the peace and quite because I know someday it will change and I will wish for my peace and quite again. I've been pretty busy I had a Halloween party at my house with about seven kids in my neighborhood including 3 nieces and nephews. We had a lot of fun watching movies and had a cookie decorating contest ( which everybody won) and a scary things race (the kids made that one up). I'm getting ready for my parents coming out on Friday. I'm so excited. Brock and my Dad will go to the football game and I will go shopping with my mom and maybe my sister on Saturday.

My ultimate Auntie Amy week (with a bit of life mixed in)

My ultimate Auntie Amy Week (With a little bit of real life mixed in)
So This week Blitzlii some how found where I stored my chocolate chips. So that night he threw up 3 times and as you can tell he was holding on to Brock's arm for dear life.

The ultimate auntie

THURSDAY

My sister- in laws and I took the kids to the children's museum. Here are two of my nieces Ellery and Elizabeth. Here I am with my two other nieces Callista and Noelle. We were building temples.

( I love all my nieces and nephews but I have a special bond with these little girls)

Bruce and Elizabeth decided to play in the water at the Mall. while.....

Markey and Noelle didn't want to get wet.

SUNDAY NIGHT

Brock and I watched my friend Christina's kids for the night. We had a good time. Its really easy to be a push over when you only have a night to pretend to be parents. We let them eat junk and we let them stay up and watch Hanna Montana. Which if they were my kids I most likely wouldn't let them do any of those things.

Here they are camped out in the front room,dogs and all. I don't know about the kids but I know that the dogs were in heaven. Especially.....

BLITZLII.

Look at that dog all nestled in the sleeping bags. It was pretty funny in the middle of the night we heard little voices giggling so I got up and the kids were trying to get Blitzlii out of their sleeping bags. Some how he managed to emerge his whole body into one of the kids sleeping bags. It was pretty funny. The kids loved those dogs

RIP Camel hair Sweater

The story behind the sweater. My Brother is an avid junk collector. He likes to go to second hand store's and hunt for the ultimate find. Well, need less to say this gray camel hair sweater was one of those ultimate finds. My brother bought it and it didn't fit. So for Christmas Brock got the ultimate gift, the camel hair sweater. Brock loves this sweater and in the winter you could bet on him wearing the sweater more than once a week.

AND

Today I got the call. The sweater had to be laid to rest. But, Brock wouldn't let me throw it away. I have to hold onto it and maybe make something out of it. Any Ideas?

Here is what happened. The neck of the shirt just gave out.

The holes on the sleeves.

So where am I going to find another another 100% camel hair sweater?

oct 19

Amy has this friend at work that has four kids, two in 6th grade, one in fifth and one in 1st. As we speak all four are sleeping either on the kitchen floor or in our second bedroom (cause the fireplace made the living room too hot where they were all camped out in sub-temperature rated sleeping bags). Funny. Cute kids! Their mom is taking their Dad to a local resort for a "birthday getaway", bet they didn't know before they left what suckers Amy and I are and that their kids could totally persuade us into letting them watch Hanna Montana until way past their bedtime and eat halloween candy AFTER brushing their teeth. I blame Amy :)

Oct 18

Since chopping all that fire wood we have been using the wood burning stove all this weekend and it's like the absolute best way to get everyone totally sleepy. The dogs become like zombies and Amy and I are not much better. Our stove warms the entire house, but the best is how it warms the pine floors. At night we light a few candles in the house and it's, well, cozy.

Oct 17

So the dogs have somehow been sneaking out of the fenced back yard lately and so Friday we locked them in the laundry room and I came home at lunch time and let them out and then put them back in. Anyways, between lunch time and when I got home around 4:00 somehow they had found Amy's stash of chocolate chips and eat one and a half packages. Blitzlii was threw up twice, it was some nasty stuff. Rented a movie last night and watched it in bed. Amy lasted 10 minutes, I managed to catch most of it but never made it to the end.

Oct 16

So the last few days have been fun and busy. I found out that my team was the winner of a business simulation for my marketing class where our closing share value was up from $100.00 dollars in the beginning to $439.00 dollars by Quarter 14. Second place was nearly $100.00 dollars behind. To make it better we closed the simulation with nearly a quarter billion dollars in marketable securities and 10M. cash on hand. Wouldn't that be nice if only it was all real!
Amy and I got some dance instruction this week and picked up a real nice three step, charleston and country swing dance, which would actually have been helpful to have known last weekend at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar where we went dancing Friday night. Thats alright.
So this week in the evenings I have been building up our wood supply for the winter. Amy and I have this goal to cut our utilities dramatically and so only this week where night temps have been dropping into the mid 20's have we turned on the furnace. Hate to burn the wood though, but it is really cozy in our home to have the fire. In any case it's chainsaws and splitting axes for me in my spare time.

Jackson hole

Us in front of the famous antler ear arch ( I hope there fake)
Owen and Austin kept putting each other in the drawers it was pretty funny. When it starts snowing Brock's pants end up like the above pic. The funny thing was, he was trying to be cool and find what club had the night life.

The only wild life we saw on this trip. It was a little disappointing.

Our favorite store Dornan's. They have lots of exotic cheese's and different treat's. And they have homemade cookies. They are really good.
we also met Big foot.
This one's for my sista's


The day we left we woke up to 4 inches of snow.


Jackson Hole in the fall. Oh how I love the mountains in the fall. This years weather kinda put a damper on the yearly traditions.
We go up with another family the Larsen's. We usually go rock climbing, or hiking. This year the weather didn't cooperate with us, the snow put a damper on our style. But we knew the weather was going to be colder. So we thought that we could make it over to yellow stone to visit Old Faithful. It was like a blizzard outside, and Yellowstone likes to shut down when the weather gets bad, So we didn't take our chances. We stayed inside and played games and went shopping.
It was still fun even thought the weather was not that great. We still had some cool hot-tub parties with the snow falling.

oct 12

We have been pretty busy these last couple of days. On Thursday Amy went to Brock's cousin's rehersal dinner at Snow Basin resort. It was gorgeous up there and fun to see everyone. Amy also met up with one of her most favorite men, eight month old nephew, Emmett, he is so cute.

Brock's 88 year old grandparents came down from their home in Alberta, Canada for the wedding and his grandma fell down some stairs on the way to the sealing and was seriously hurt but is recovering. She is such a trooper and elegant regardless the circumstance.

After the wedding we drove straight to Jackson hole, WY, five hours. We have never driven to Jackson Hole the way we went, and it's definately a "must see" in the fall.Our plan was to go to Yellowstone on Saturday to see Old Faithful but the snow storm stopped us from furthering our journey. Instead we just played some games at the condo and of course, no snow can stop Amy from shopping! That night we hot-tub-partied with friends as the snow fell.

Should be a busy week, was definitely nice to get away for the weekend.

Journal blog

Well I was thinking that a was neglecting my blog. Brock and I do a recent up date on our adoption blog. I had all this information that I write on one blog why not put it on this blog. My intention for millertime2 blog was for it to be a journal that I can print off at the end of the year and keep it and start over the next year. So these posts might not be that interesting to you because I most likely wont have pics. So I have posted them. I'll post the journal entry's as the date entered and the other posts will be titled differently. Thanks everyone for your support for Brock and I through this exciting time in our lives we are excited to welcome a little one into our lives.

oct 8

Sigh, I’m in love. I don’t know if you have ever felt this way, But sometimes I go through life and I don’t pay attention to the little things life has given us. As I was waiting for Brock to get home from school last night I just kept thinking about him and his big beautiful blue eyes. Sometimes I just like to stare at his eyes when he’s not looking and get lost in those big blue eyes. And to top off the night we stayed up laughing and telling each other stories about our day while we were trying to go to bed. And yes we did not go to the gym in the morning. Once again didn’t happen. All I can say is I love my life and the person I get to share it with.
Tonight we went to a grand opening of Bajio’s a chain Mexican restaurant. We’re excited, free dinner. And Brock really likes there chicken quesadillas. Awhile ago we didn’t have one nearby so we drove 45 min to the closest one. So he could have his chicken quesadilla, needless to say were glad to have one 5 min. away.
It was a late night for both Brock and I. Him at his computer doing homework, and me late night making a design board. I’m helping a friend redesign his brother in laws dentist office. I’m really excited about it, It’s my first time doing an office space.

oct 7

Its been raining here and I have had to wash the floors about 10 times in the last three days because the dog have muddy feet and they track in all that mud. And I'm a clean freak!!!Funny thing happened last night. Well I didn't think it was funny tell now. Brock couldn't stop laughing last night. Well last week we fixed my car it needed a new axle ,brakes etc... Anyways we were driving home and he likes to go the round about way on the driveway and I wanted my car parked were I usually park it so he takes a sharp turn and we go off in to a ditch and rip a huge plastic piece and a couple other things from the bottom of my car. Brock couldn't stop laughing and I was mad because these things only happen to my car and it just got fixed!! Anyways it wasn't any thing that wont make the car not work. So Brock drove it down to school with his carpool tonight I hope it comes back in one piece. At least I can laugh about it now.Brock and I still have not accomplished our goal of going to the gym in the morning. Last night he went to bed at 1:00 am because he was doing homework and I couldn't get my self to tell him it was time to go to the gym this morning at 5:00am. So hopefully tomorrow morning. I know he'll go to bed earlier tonight.Also exciting news we are going to be going to Jackson Hole, WY this weekend. We are going to go to Brock's cousins temple sealing Friday morning and then go straight to Jackson. I love the mountains in the fall. I look forward to this trip every fall.

oct 6

Well, my sister Megan has gone back to cougar town (BYU). I miss her already, I enjoy her company so much. We relaxed and ate and watched scary movies. We watched prom night,a little cheesy but it was still scary for me and really creepy.We are so happy for Brock's sister Rebecca. She ran the St. George Marathon and has qualified for the Boston marathon. She has worked really hard to accomplish her goal.My dad told me that he is going to be flying out here at the end of this month for a football game. No, not a BYU game a PSU (Portland State University). They are playing Weber state. My dad played football for PSU back in the day and now helps the athletics department and has all these perks. He gets side line tickets and I guess that's really cool and worth traveling for. I'm sure he also is coming to see me and my sister. But its also exciting because my brother and sister in law might come also. I'm really excited.Brock and I made a goal last night that we were going to get up at 5:00am to go to the gym again and have breakfast together . Since Brock has been really busy with school and work his time has been really limited and going to the gym was the first to be eliminated. So of course this morning we didn't get up. its really hard to get up when you go to bed at 11:30 pm. Well ,we are defiantly going to go tomorrow. wish us luck

oct 1

Just sort of taking it easy this weekend. Amy's sister is up here for the weekend from Provo...too bad the weather is so rainy or else we could take a hike and check out the leaves.Had a crazy week at work, Friday spent 11+ hours on the job site. Happy to report that Amy is feeling better and her cold never really got bad.We built our first fire this weekend in the fireplace, not really because it's cold but just because it's cozy. The yard is starting to get covered in leaves. It takes me at least 100 hours to rake all the leaves and nuts off the yard...I have yet to get them all up and off the yard before winter sets in. Pretty soon we will have to stop parking underneath on walnut tree unless we want huge dings in the cars.Next weekend is supposed to be our annual trip to Jackson Hole, WY and my cousin is getting married so we don't know what's going to happen. Amy really wants to go to Jackson.

Sisters weekend finally (4 weeks later)

We started the weekend off with our beloved crepes in Paris.
Then beth and I found these high style pants at zaras originaly $69.99
pretty close to mom jeans

Who looks better in the dress?
Love'n the MAC store

Sitten pretty in Paris
Long story (this was the dare)
Beth will most likely explain. look at her blog bethandbrandoncurtis.blogspot
The big girls go out late to do NOTHING
Here we are at our favorite Restaurant "Joe's" Erin and I are eating the most delish salad We are at the entrance of the show "O"
Waiting patiently for "O" to start Beth and I are sad that it was are last night together

Well its been awhile since we had this blessed weekend. I love sisters weekend. Growing up I never thought I would ever miss my sisters or even love them and enjoy being with them. But I do I really love being with my sister and of course my wonderful mother. The night before we left I felt like it was going to be Christmas morning when I woke up. That's how excited I get. We had a blast and I haven't laughed so much in a long time. We were all funny at one time. or another. But I want you to know that I was the most daring of the sisters. I will show some pics of the dare. My mom is a little ashamed of us for this one but sorry mom it had to be done.

wedding weekend

This is us with the lovely couple Ryan and kim "congrats you guys"
This is us at the wedding dinner
This is us at dinner with brocks good friend Drew and his wife brenda

We stayed up pretty late chatting and laughing at good ole chicago pizza.

This past weekend we went to Denver for one of brocks good friends from childhood. Actually both the bride and groom were his goods friends growing up. Well, we had a fun time in Denver we left on Friday around 6:00 pm and arrived there at 2:00 am. then left Sunday around 10:00am. So it was a really short trip. One thing that I learned on this trip was don't be so sure of yourself. What I mean by that is I pride myself in how organized I am and how I like to be in charge of the family. One of the things that I make sure I do is pack for brock. He is just used to me packing for him so I can't stop now. I rather have it that way anyways ( I guess that's my controlling side). Any ways, Saturday morning I just got out of the shower and I realized I forgot to pack my make up. What is a girl to do with out makeup. I told brock that we had to go to Nordstoms or the nearest MAC store. So we went to Nordstroms, me with out make up and brock pouting (because he hates the mall). So of course I had them do my make up and I also bought some to touch up with. I was a little shocked because of how much it was because I also had to buy brushes those things are expensive I spent $1??.00. But I had to buy the good stuff, no use of buying the cheap stuff that I wouldn't use. Right? anyways I was happy . After Nordstoms we went to meet one of brocks friends and his two girls at Orange Julius the girls were so cute and were in love with Hanna Montana of course. Then We got home to get ready for the wedding and and of course I had everything for me but then brock asked, " amy where are my socks and cuff links?" in a sweet voice. I was about to have a melt down. But instead I insisted that we go to the store on the way to the wedding. But brock (if you don't know brock he could care less what he is wearing) he said its not a big deal I'll just wear my suit jacket over my shirt and fold the sleeves and then he just slipped on his shoes with out any socks. I was feeling really bad but he didn't care. But good thing that brocks dad had an extra pair of socks so he only had one thing wrong with his outfit ( I mean attire). So the wedding was beautiful and it was fun to see all his old friends. While the wedding was going brock leans over to me and said hey guess what? I have made out with all those brides maids and the bride except for like two girls. I was like thanks for letting me in on that little secret of yours.

So my forgetfulness doesn't stop there as we got home from Denver, so
I thought. As I was going to brush my teeth and wash my face I couldn't find my face wash or tooth brush or MY NEW MAC MAKEUP!!!! I was about to have another melt down but then I was to tired. I went to bed. I could have sworn that I put everything in a grocery bag and had brock put it in the car. That next day I was just sick I looked in brocks car and had brock text jay the guy we stayed with, And brocks mom looked in her car and called the family we stayed with. So it got to be evening and brocks dad got home and he said I saw all that stuff in the car. So he looked at the car that we drove and lifted seats and there was my make up, face wash and tooth brush. I was so happy. And that's my story.

First day of school

This is when we came home from his orientation. I'm so proud of him
My mom always made us take a picture by the door on our first day of school. Isn't he cute!!
This is our family's studying ritual. Blitzlii loves cuddling. The sad thing is, is I'm on the living room couch by my self.



We are really excited for brock. We will finally be moving on with our lives in the right direction. Brock has worked so hard going to school , full time work, being the young mens president at our church, and going through the adoption process. Here's for two years of the baby.

July recap

well I've been pretty bad updating my blog. So July we had a lot going on, so I thought. Now that I'm writting this I have lost my July main events. well it will be a short one then. It was my birthday on the 24th and I of course went to the spa. Brock takes me to a different spa every year and this one was called the Zeramit in Midway Utah. It was amazing. We had a little twist on my birthday massage during my spa treatment. I HAD A MAN MES SUES.( missed spelled?) I was okay with the message but at first I felt a little awkward and I knew that Brock would have a fit about this. So the message was good, so I told Brock about the situation when I was done. The conversation went something like this. "Brock did you know that you ordered a man to touch my body in ways that you have never touched it". Brock "What, did he see anything?" Amy "No, surprisingly he new how to maneuver the sheets to not see anything." Brock "no, he had to of seen something" Amy "No, I'll show you later how he did it". Brock was convinced that the man saw stuff ,but I can still assure him that no one saw anything. But it really did add a little twist to my Birthday. So after the Spa we went and walked the Main street of midway it such a small town ,the main street isn't really anything. But we really liked it. Every thing had a Swiss back ground. We ate lunch at the restaurant called coo Koo clock or something like that. The sandwiches were amazing. it was such a good birthday. Then we went home and I got the mail and we got a letter saying we were finally approved through the state to adopt. so now we are on line with the agency itsaboutlove.org . Any ways that night we went with Brock's family to a park and had tin foil dinners. Brock's two older sisters were there with their family's and Brock's oldest sister really wanted to float my birthday cake down a river. She baked two cakes and had them all set to float down the river and it was a success. I wish I had pictures I know we have some somewhere. any ways , that was my birthday. So I guess the other news was we are officially in the waiting game for adoption. We Breed our dog Regen she's our female. So hopefully we will have puppys on september 27. All I have to say about the breeding process is "Creepy" if you have'nt ever been around it or seen it I think you should just try it out its very educational. Sorry , for this blog its kinda been a little vulgare an away. Any Ways, I thought that I had more to post about but I guess I didn't .

Happy anniversary

Well I'm a day late, but it was our wedding Anniversary yesterday. Sadly we were apart most of the day. Brock was gone on a high adventure camp out. from Wednesday to Saturday. Which lead me to be by myself for four days. On Saturday I went with my mother in law to an adoption convention. I had a good time and learned a lot. I didn't get home tell five. Brock got home on Saturday around 1:00, but wasn't finished tell around five he had to clean everything up and put away stuff. So I get home and Brock is so sick and so tired he didn't really want to do anything. But I wasn't going to have that so we exchanged gifts and then went out to sushi we decided to take it home. We rented Be kind please rewind. It was the stupidest movie we couldn't even finish it. So we kept watching the Olympics which was fine because I was able to watch a lot of beach volleyball. So , this was our first year that we didn't go all out for our anniversary. I hope that this is a one time thing. Brock knows that I'm pretty high maintenance when it comes to my birthday and anniversary. we usually go to the lake and go jet skiing or travel somewhere. But this year it was spent apart and then being lazy. He is lucky that I missed him so much that I didn't care what we did. I love you Brock, Here's to year # 6.

Try again

I'm trying to see if something works....

This is our picture that the birth mothers are going to see I need to post it some where.

Being self sufficient

Well, I had made this post awhile ago. I just had not had the time to post this. I've been trying to work on my adoption blog and all the agency online stuff that is so old school. I consider my self somewhat computer savvy, I HAVE A BLOG!!!:)
Well the other night I was feeling just like Martha Stewart. All day I cleaned my house and then I realized I didn't have dinner planed or ready and Brock was home. So I went out to my garden hoping things where growing. Lo and behold Everything was very fruitful. So I brought everything in and started skimming up what I was going to make. It turned out to be an amazing dinner. here are some pics.

I have always thought gardening was a little white trash. Even Brock admitted he hated gardens growing up. Where I grew up no one gardened. The only people that did were the people at my church that had 10 kids and they would can and do all sorts of stuff with it. But , my point is I feel very self sufficient doing it. When I go grocery shopping I buy mostly the organic produce. So by doing it this way I save a lot of money(for about three months out of the year), and I can just go in my garden and grab an onion and not have to rush to the store. I love it.