Category life

Family Pictures

When Enoch was born I promised to post a family picture. Things were busy enough that since we were not allowed to take the kids to visit in the hospital we never got around to taking a family picture until…

Welcome Enoch

Almost 3 years to the day after his older brother arrived we got a new arrival today. Stats and story follow. Name: Enoch Andrew Miller Arrived: 11:15 am 11/2/2009 Weight: 7 lbs. 5 oz. Length: 20 1/2 inches We had…

New Calling

The vast majority of those reading this probably already knew this, but I was recently called to be the Elder’s Quorum President in my ward. I’ve known for a couple of weeks as I had to have time to identify…

Halloween Tradition

Three years ago I would have told you that Halloween was the dumbest/worst holiday on the calendar. Two years ago I did say that it was tolerable. Last year if I had written about it I would have said that…

Book of Mormon Witness

It’s always interesting to see how people respond to powerful messages from General Conference. Although I spent much of conference somewhat distracted by children (what else is new) I was even able to recognize in that half attentive state that…

Potato Bar Casserole

When Laura invited me to cook dinner tonight I decided that I was in the mood to make something new. I also knew that I wanted something based on our hash browns. I did a Google search for potato recipes…

Personal Challenges

We had a neighborhood party last Saturday and as we were driving home we got talking with the kids about one of our neighbors and his son who is autistic. As we explained some basics about autism we did so…