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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Sledding, Megamind and The Aquarium!
Saturday we took a break from all of our moving and had a bit of FUN! First stop we hit a Birthday party for one of Liv's best friends from school Annika, she turned 4 and had a really fun sledding party! Olivia was soo brave and wanted to do the sled all by herself...i wish you could hear her scream/laughing~ it was the best!
After sledding we met up with Paul, Jess and Cohen and hit up the dollar movie. We saw Megamind in 3D and it was GREAT! Funny, funny show I loved it! Cohen and Liv had their very own row to themsleves and looked so grown up eating popcorn with their 3D glasses on! 
It was good to get out for the day and enjoy eachothers company without packing, cleaning, selling or moving anything!
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Cheers to 2011!
It's funny to go back and read what we were doing last year at this time...HERE. It's starts out by saying "I wish I could say my month was filled with sunshine, sand, sun-tans and pina colada's but..." Ha If I'd only known one year later thats exactly what was going to happen. January 2010 was filled with sickness, remodels, pregnancy... I would have NEVER guessed that ONE year later we would be selling EVERYTHING we own, leaving our newly remodeled home (that we waited so long for) and taking our two adorable kids across the ocean to live on a volcanic island. Sounds bizarre and unlikely...but it just so happens to be the facts these days. I am excited to be doing something different, sad to leave our families, happy for the sun and sand, nervous to be so so so far away, thrilled to make the leap, relieved-but torn about purging all of our precious, however nonessential possessions, excited to be on our own, heartsick to leave my home of 29 years (SLC), eager to leave my home of 29 years (SLC) to discover something new. So many mixed emotions, it's unbelievable.
We've made serious headway and sold just about everything in our home, well at least the large ticket items anyways. I started listing things on KSL the week of Christmas and to my surprise and delight, most all of the big items are gone. It's amazing how quickly that happened. Again, mixed emotions, but on the other hand as soon as you change your mindset and realize that really most everything is just stuff, replaceable "stuff" it's easy to let it go and actually kind of re-freshing. I will miss our life as we know it but am really looking forward to what the future holds and the Job opportunity we've been presented with. What a blessing! We are meeting with a Property Management company tomorrow to get our home rented out, asap. Things are really moving forward and we are hoping to be on a plane to our new home destination before the end of the month.
I feel really blessed to have such a great family and support system. We wouldn't have been able to get through the last few months without our family and I feel so blessed to have them in our lives. We will miss seeing everyone all the time and Olivia especially will miss being so close to her cousins and her Grandparents. However, she is so excited to be able to wear a swim suit everyday of her life and never have to wear socks or a coat. We've already got the FREE google video chat set up and we are ready to talk and hang out via webcam! We are excited about Johnny's new job and we are SO thankful to have this opportunity! I am excited to meet new people and make new friends in Hawaii. What an adventure this will be.
So a little about The Millers NOW...
Johnny has been working hard to finish little details on the house to get it ready for renters. He has been taking care of the kids, and taking Ronin to work since Ronin was 3 months old. He has done a fantastic job and needless to say the kids adore him and totally favor him over me. He is still training at Bernales and teaches 1 to 2 days a week. He will seriously miss the gym and the tight knit group of friends that it has created.
I have been working PRN at least 3 days a week for the University Hospitals and Clinics. I am just 4 months shy of hitting my TEN year mark at the hospital and it will be SO different to not have that in my life anymore...farewell SICK people! Yay. I really love my job and am actually pretty damn good at being a Radiographer but I could really get used to not having to worry about disease, dirty blood, airborne illness and just down right gross people on a daily basis. However, i will miss my awesome group of friends from work and being a part of the professional world! Ha Ha Hawaii is going to be a whole new world. December 30th was my LAST DAY of work and I am now excited to be with my family and to able to be the mom and wife I should and can be. I want cooking and cleaning to be my NEW job--and I think I may have a shot at being good at it, since we don't own anything anymore, it should be a snap!
Olivia finished her last day of school Dec. 30th as well. What a bitter sweet time, Liv loves her school, her friends, her teachers and the routine school brings, she is going to miss it a TON. Olivia takes a dance class once a week from Miss Mimi, it is definatley the highlight of the week and she asks me on a daily basis how she can become a dance teacher like Mimi when she grows up. She will miss out on the Spring Recital at the end of the year which is kind of sad, but we've ordered her a costume anyway because she will LOVE IT! She loves dressing up still and changes clothes several times a day...still. She is a smart little cookie and is constantly asking what words mean and then using them. She is very inquisitive and bright. She LOVES to learn songs and is quite the little performer!! She learned Mele Kelikimaka, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer and The Reindeer Pokie songs for school and LOVES to sing them to any crowd she can. Olivia is handling the move really well so far, she wonders why we keep talking about going to Hawaii, but we aren't actually GOING yet. She is ready for the warmer weather and like I said...to wear her swim suit everyday. She is also excited to hang with Vanessa and is already planning on her and Ness being best friends.
Ronin is just plain awesome. He smiles all day long and is very easily entertained. Mr. Smiles, as he is sometimes referred as, LOVES eating big kid food but doesn't love bottles, he sits a lot and rolls all over but just doesn't seem to want to crawl yet. We may have another NON-crawler on our hands, but only time will tell. He sleeps well these days and is just happy to be here. He says "ma ma ma", "da da da", "ba ba ba" and "gully gully gully" when he sucks on his binki, it's adorable. Ronin is such a blessing, such a happy smiley little guy, I could nibble on him all day long. We may be spending quite the $$ dough on sunscreen for this little red-head in Hawaii, Him and I ("the whitest girl you've ever seen") are going to make quite the pair.
Well...nothing like starting a new year by quitting my job, selling all of our stuff and moving to a tropical island! CHEERS TO 2011!!
A Happy New Year, it will be!
We've made serious headway and sold just about everything in our home, well at least the large ticket items anyways. I started listing things on KSL the week of Christmas and to my surprise and delight, most all of the big items are gone. It's amazing how quickly that happened. Again, mixed emotions, but on the other hand as soon as you change your mindset and realize that really most everything is just stuff, replaceable "stuff" it's easy to let it go and actually kind of re-freshing. I will miss our life as we know it but am really looking forward to what the future holds and the Job opportunity we've been presented with. What a blessing! We are meeting with a Property Management company tomorrow to get our home rented out, asap. Things are really moving forward and we are hoping to be on a plane to our new home destination before the end of the month.
I feel really blessed to have such a great family and support system. We wouldn't have been able to get through the last few months without our family and I feel so blessed to have them in our lives. We will miss seeing everyone all the time and Olivia especially will miss being so close to her cousins and her Grandparents. However, she is so excited to be able to wear a swim suit everyday of her life and never have to wear socks or a coat. We've already got the FREE google video chat set up and we are ready to talk and hang out via webcam! We are excited about Johnny's new job and we are SO thankful to have this opportunity! I am excited to meet new people and make new friends in Hawaii. What an adventure this will be.
So a little about The Millers NOW...
Johnny has been working hard to finish little details on the house to get it ready for renters. He has been taking care of the kids, and taking Ronin to work since Ronin was 3 months old. He has done a fantastic job and needless to say the kids adore him and totally favor him over me. He is still training at Bernales and teaches 1 to 2 days a week. He will seriously miss the gym and the tight knit group of friends that it has created.
I have been working PRN at least 3 days a week for the University Hospitals and Clinics. I am just 4 months shy of hitting my TEN year mark at the hospital and it will be SO different to not have that in my life anymore...farewell SICK people! Yay. I really love my job and am actually pretty damn good at being a Radiographer but I could really get used to not having to worry about disease, dirty blood, airborne illness and just down right gross people on a daily basis. However, i will miss my awesome group of friends from work and being a part of the professional world! Ha Ha Hawaii is going to be a whole new world. December 30th was my LAST DAY of work and I am now excited to be with my family and to able to be the mom and wife I should and can be. I want cooking and cleaning to be my NEW job--and I think I may have a shot at being good at it, since we don't own anything anymore, it should be a snap!
Olivia finished her last day of school Dec. 30th as well. What a bitter sweet time, Liv loves her school, her friends, her teachers and the routine school brings, she is going to miss it a TON. Olivia takes a dance class once a week from Miss Mimi, it is definatley the highlight of the week and she asks me on a daily basis how she can become a dance teacher like Mimi when she grows up. She will miss out on the Spring Recital at the end of the year which is kind of sad, but we've ordered her a costume anyway because she will LOVE IT! She loves dressing up still and changes clothes several times a day...still. She is a smart little cookie and is constantly asking what words mean and then using them. She is very inquisitive and bright. She LOVES to learn songs and is quite the little performer!! She learned Mele Kelikimaka, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer and The Reindeer Pokie songs for school and LOVES to sing them to any crowd she can. Olivia is handling the move really well so far, she wonders why we keep talking about going to Hawaii, but we aren't actually GOING yet. She is ready for the warmer weather and like I said...to wear her swim suit everyday. She is also excited to hang with Vanessa and is already planning on her and Ness being best friends.
Ronin is just plain awesome. He smiles all day long and is very easily entertained. Mr. Smiles, as he is sometimes referred as, LOVES eating big kid food but doesn't love bottles, he sits a lot and rolls all over but just doesn't seem to want to crawl yet. We may have another NON-crawler on our hands, but only time will tell. He sleeps well these days and is just happy to be here. He says "ma ma ma", "da da da", "ba ba ba" and "gully gully gully" when he sucks on his binki, it's adorable. Ronin is such a blessing, such a happy smiley little guy, I could nibble on him all day long. We may be spending quite the $$ dough on sunscreen for this little red-head in Hawaii, Him and I ("the whitest girl you've ever seen") are going to make quite the pair.
Well...nothing like starting a new year by quitting my job, selling all of our stuff and moving to a tropical island! CHEERS TO 2011!!
A Happy New Year, it will be!
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
This IS big, BIG news!
Last year at this time I wouldn't have guessed it...
but we are MOVING and it's official!
This is soon to be Home Sweet Home
Hard to believe and with mixed emotions - we are ready and eager to experience this next chapter in our lives.
Hard to believe and with mixed emotions - we are ready and eager to experience this next chapter in our lives. Here we come NorthShore Oahu, Hawaii
Monday, December 6, 2010
Santa
Tis the season to see Santa and this year we went with Jess, Paul and Cohen to South Towne Mall. My Dad put me onto this particular Santa because he is the real one. I didn't get any photos of Liv or cohen on his lap...but my Dad snuck this sweet pic of some random little boy on his lap. Isn't he the best Santa ever? He looked so real the little girl in me was tempted to sit on his lap and ask for a Mop Top Hair Shop for myself!
Olivia was SO excited to meet Santa this year. She smiled the whole time and told him she wanted "a Dollie with long sparkly, sparkly, sparkly hair that when you cut it, it grows back...with silver-red shoes". Hopefully shes happy with the little black doll with curly hair and white boots...that I'll probably find! haha
Olivia was SO excited to meet Santa this year. She smiled the whole time and told him she wanted "a Dollie with long sparkly, sparkly, sparkly hair that when you cut it, it grows back...with silver-red shoes". Hopefully shes happy with the little black doll with curly hair and white boots...that I'll probably find! haha
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Thanksgiving in Hawaii
Johnny and I were apart for Thanksgiving this year, he has been working in Hawaii for the last 2 1/2 weeks to earn some extra money and gets home tomorrow. HALLELUJAH! This single parenting business is not for me, it is SO hard. Johnny does a lot around the house and with the kids. He is the "one" to get the kids up in the morning, get them dressed and off the preschool and babysitters...needless to say it hasn't been pretty without him here and me trying to do everything on my own, AND get to work on time. It's healthy being apart sometimes, helps you appreciate eachother a little more, but by this point...we are all a mess and can't wait for him to get home tomorrow! After all is said and done I AM still glad he was able to go to Hawaii to make some extra money and hang with his BFF CJ. I didn't get any pictures of our Thanksgiving here in Utah (probably due to my own and my families appearance) but here is a pic from Johnny's thanksgiving across the ocean. 
Hope you had a GREAT Thanksgiving!
Monday, November 29, 2010
SNOW...
...LOTS of it!!
I stole these pics from my friend Tiff. It snowed all night last night and measured over 28 inches! Finally Utah has some snow to talk about :) It's even LEANING in the second picture, incredible! That's a lot of snow for one night! Johnny is out of town so my Dad came over yesterday to shovel my driveway and brush off the cars (isn't he the BEST?) This morning there was another 5 or 6 inches on the driveway! I may not be like most people...but I LOVE the snow. I say- if it's going to snow at all, it might as well be phenomenal! Today the sun is shining and everything is just GORGEOUS. Time for sledding and snow men! Happy Day!
Monday, November 22, 2010
The weather outside is frightful...
The tree is up, the christmas music is officially playing...a lot, and it's starting to feel cozy here! We had our first big snow storm yesterday and with over a foot of snow over night, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
But, inside is mmm...
I am so grateful for our slightly messy, warm and cozy home- and the people that fill it up!
I am so grateful for our slightly messy, warm and cozy home- and the people that fill it up!
Olivia was REALLY excited to decorate the tree this year, she got started right away and narrated the whole thing. 
I especially like her idea of great ornament placement! She is the BEST!
You may have noticed, and YES we are still rockin' the "dumpster tree" Click HERE to read.
I especially like her idea of great ornament placement! She is the BEST!
You may have noticed, and YES we are still rockin' the "dumpster tree" Click HERE to read.Haha poor Kiya...so humiliating, at least she got some leftover steak.
How cute are they?
and this one? 
I am lucky to have a cuddler this time around. Ronin loves to snuggle with anyone, he is such a sweet boy!
Torin was over for a playday the other day and cousins Ashlyn and Camden came to say HI, it was quite the party! Kids n' babies everywhere!
Cute Torin playin' the keyboard...baby style.
Johnny "the baby entertainer"
friend, Ashlyn and Olivia all ready for dance class.
Aren't they awesome? They are like little people... chilling like adults...
Monday, November 15, 2010
DEBRA had her BABY!!
Little Allison Wing was born Nov. 12th, so tiny and soo perfect!
Ronin and I made a visit to her in the Hospital and we both fell IN LOVE!
Congratulations Deb and Ryan! We can't wait to have many, many play dates!
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