Miller Party of 5

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pics -
1 - our beautiful driveway!
2 - Brandon, Stefan, Evan, Cara & Ross on Easter
3 - Evan
4 - Cara(pre haircut) & one of her best friends Kailey B.
5 - Cara(post haircut) & one of her best friends Kaylie K.
6 - Evan, Brandon & Cara decorating Christmas cookies
7 - Cara & her cousin Lena
8 - Lena, Cara, Brandon & Evan bowling

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pictures

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Spring 2008

2008-05-07T07:11:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! We are still going strong! I can't believe that the end of the school year is a little more than a month away! As always, we are looking forward to the summer break and more time to spend together. Unbelievably, my Cara will be 13 years old this Friday! She had some friends sleep over last Saturday for her birthday and I took them out to Panera for breakfast. No more organized games or activities for mom to plan :( . The girls did makeovers on each other, scary ones first, then beautiful ones. Cara will be on a field trip this Friday on her birthday from 6am-8pm, the 7th grade is going to Philadelphia for the day. I knew that she would be tired so that is why she had the sleepover last weekend. Her soccer team won their game last Saturday 1-0! This year the teams in her age group consist of 12, 13 & 14 year olds on the same team and there is a big difference in the size of the girls. Cara is also in band for the second year at middle school, she plays the clarinet. Yesterday she had to perform a solo in front of a judge and get graded from 1-5, with 1 being the best. She was so excited when she came out of the school because she got a 1! She will get a trophy awarded to her at the spring concert this month. The boys are doing well too. Evan is on a field trip today to Skyline Caverns, which is about an hour away from here. Brandon decided not to play soccer this season, for the first time in 3 years but he did say that he would play in the fall again. I suggested baseball to him, but he said no to that too. I have really been enjoying my time in Brandon's classroom helping with math centers and I always go with his class to art and help out there too! It's great getting to know all 28 kids in his class. I volunteered at the middle school where Cara goes for the first time 2 weeks ago selling tickets for the dance. We sold 200 just on Friday, there were about another 200 sold between Wed & Thurs lunches. At the end of every 9 weeks they have an after school dance/activity day. Last year they had dances in the evening, but this year they have them right after school on a Friday. There will be a movie playing in one room, basketball, pingpong and other activities in the gym, dance in the cafeteria and board games in another room. It's really a neat way to get more kids interested in attending. School gets out on Friday the 13th of June and we are heading up to Lancaster probably one last time to see Thomas the Tank Engine that same weekend to celebrate Brandon's 6th birthday and Father's day too!

November update

2007-11-28T12:15:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone! We have been a little busy around here. We were in Treasure Island, FL all of last week for my niece Rachel's wedding and for Thanksgiving. Cara, Evan and Brandon missed just a couple days of school, but I think that they are back in the swing of things now. I feel bad for Cara and Evan because pretty much all I have written about on here has been about Brandon. He and I have had the biggest adjustment of all this fall. Cara and Evan are doing pretty good in school this year. Cara is in her 2nd year of middle school (7th grade) and she loves it. She isn't yet into talking on the phone or emailing her friends much. Most of the time that she spends on the computer is on weather.com, she is so into the weather. She will spend a half hour just on that site. Evan comes home and does his homework and then either goes outside to play with his best friend Aaron or he plays video games. Brandon's only homework every night is to read for 20 minutes and he absolutely loves it! I am so glad that he loves to read and he is really good at it too. Brandon was so excited when he got home a few minutes ago to see that I got up in the attic today and pulled down all of our Christmas decorations and I put some of them up. Cara and Evan will be excited also. I take Brandon and pick him up from school every day. Evan likes to ride the bus, so he gets home about 415pm. Cara usually gets home about 320pm, but today she is at band practice from 3-5pm.
I will get some pics from the wedding and our trip put up hopefully tomorrow.

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2007-11-09T16:00:00.001-08:00

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2007-11-09T15:52:00.001-08:00

Finally a little update

2007-11-08T13:16:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone! Long time since I took the time to write. Just wanted to let you all know that Brandon is loving school! His teacher made a sticker chart just for him over a month ago and that did the trick! Brandon gets to put a sticker on every time I leave if he doesn't cry. The very first day after Mrs. Wilcox (his teacher) put up the chart he stopped crying. Now, he gives me at least 2 kisses and 2 hugs, then he says "mommy, I'll miss you more than everything there is in the whole world!" and he smiles and gives me the hand sign for I love you with both hands! I have been going in to help out in his classroom and have lunch with him at least once a week. Evan starts lunch 10 minutes after Brandon does and they sit at tables right beside each other. Brandon gets so excited every time he sees one of our neighbors at school and he says hi to everyone! When I pick him up after school he always has a lot to tell me and I love it!

Great Morning for Brandon!

2007-09-21T09:03:00.000-07:00

Brandon had a great morning, yeah! I held my breath as I buckeled him in and drove him to school and walked him down the hallway to his classroom. A kiss and a hug and he was off to put his lunch box away and have a great day with no tears or hiding under a desk or behind a bookcase. I was so relieved when I walked out of the school. I hope it continues next Monday after 2 days off.

Worst morning for Brandon

2007-09-20T06:42:00.000-07:00

Well, I just returned from taking Brandon to school and it was his worst morning yet, kind of traumatic. I had to get him out from the back of the van and use all my strength to get him into his car seat and buckled. He doesn't want to go to school. I had to pry him out of his car seat once we got to the school and take him in. I got him back to his classroom and he started crying really loud and he went and found a corner by a bookcase to hide and cry. I gave him one more hug and kiss and he didn't want to let go of me.
The first 3 days of school went great, but on the fourth day he started having some difficulty. Monday night a week ago he had a little accident that landed him in the E.R. I didn't know it, but he was jumping on the couch and he fell on his neck on the edge of an end table. I was in the kitchen and I came around the corner and found Brandon with both hands clutching his neck and a delayed scream. He had a red line the whole way accross his neck and was crying and he said it hurt really bad. Thankfully Patrick was just walking in the door, so I took Brandon to the hospital with Cara sitting right beside him to make sure he was breathing okay. They took him in pretty quick and put in and IV so that they could inject him with iodine for a CT Scan and thankfully it came back normal. Anyway, I kept him home from school that Tuesday and then Wednesday he said his tummy hurt so he didn't make it to school that day. So, he went in on Thursday and every day since then he has not been happy to go to school. He spent about an hour under the table and one of the guidance counselors came and talked him out. Once he gets over the initial separation in the morning then he is fine the rest of the day. I saw him at lunch several days, either I was helping out or I went in just to have lunch with him, and he was fine and had no problem saying goodbye to me after lunch. So, please pray that it gets easier for him (and mom). He told me that he wants to stay home with me and it breaks my heart to see him so upset.

2007-09-19T11:04:00.000-07:00

my kids & their Grandma Moreau

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2007-09-18T18:24:00.001-07:00

what a cute couple!

2007-09-16T10:59:00.000-07:00

My wonderful sis Cathy & her hubby Dave

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Back to School

2007-09-11T15:25:00.000-07:00

Well, it's hard to believe that summer is over and my kids are back at school and I am sad. My baby started kindergarten 1 week ago today and I miss him terribly! I actually miss all three of them and wish that summer was forever, except for the heat. Brandon is in all day kindergarten (which is new to our school this year), Evan is in 3rd grade and Cara is in 7th grade. This is Cara's second year of middle school and she really likes having a little more freedom in school to walk through the halls and socialize with her friends. She is playing clarinet again this year in the band and playing soccer again through a rec league. Evan is doing really well, he isn't interested in organized sports, but he does play wiffleball with us and he loves riding his scooter (manual, not motorized) every day. Brandon is also playing soccer again and loves it! We had lots of fun this summer going swimming, going to Pennsylvania to visit family, going to Busch Gardens Williamsburg for 3 days and going to the National Aquarium in Baltimore! I am trying to get adjusted to my new schedule of waking at 6am and I am looking forward to having some time at home to get organized, but so far I haven't been home much during the day. I have been volunteering in the elementary school a lot more this year than I have in a while because for the first time I don't have any kids at home with me during the day, poor me.