My husband the terrorist and my daughter the drama queen

The terrorist:

Why did I receive this terrifying package in the mail the other day? Oh because Zach tried to sneak this knife on an airplane. Ok, not intentionally. He had the knife in his bag from a camping trip and forgot to take it out before trying to take the bag on an airplane. Woops. Looks good for the security crew that they caught it though.

The Drama Queen:

Brenna comes running up to me the other day yelling "mommy Fancy's eating the Christmas tree!" I go in the living room to check it out and Fancy is drinking the water from the tree holder.

As you can see she was terrified of Santa Clause. :)

until he busted out the candy...good thinkin' Santa

Brenna really likes to take baths and would probably stay in there for hours if I let her. Usually all I have to do is drain the water and she is ready to get out. But the other day even after the water was all gone she insisted on staying in the tub.

Top picks of 2010-by the Millers

We are going to start printing our blog in book form as a kind of family journal/scrapbook. I thought it would be kind of fun each year to make a list of some of our top picks so that we can reminisce in years to come. I only intended to make a list of 5 per catagory but I just couldn't narrow it down anymore :)

MOVIES:

#1-Inception

#2-Salt

#3-It's Kind of a Funny Story

#4-Knight and Day

#5-Eclipse

#6-Robin Hood

T.V. SHOWS

(Shows we watched this year on DVD, I like to get hopelessly wrapped up in the story so I have to start at the beginning :)

#1-Modern Family

#2-Lie to Me

#3-The Unit

#4-Parks and Recreation

#5-The Office

#6-Chuck

BOOKS

(other than #1 these are Kimberly's books picks, I thought I should make that clear since some of them are kind of girly:)

#1-The Hunger Games-Suzanne Collins

#2-The Life and Death of Charlie St. Cloud-Ben Sherwood

#3-Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale-Donna Jo Napoli

#4-My Sister's Keeper-Jodi Picoult

#5-North of Beautiful-Justina Chen Headley

#6-Darby-Jonathon Scott Fuqua

#7-The Summer I Turned Pretty-Jenny Han

YOU TUBE VIDEOS

#1-Antoine Dodson

#2-Antoine Dodson-Remix

(this guy is seriously funny enough to command the #1 AND #2 position :)

#3-Killer Lizard attacks news man

#4-David after Dentist

#5-But....he's gay!

#6-Andy Sandberg-Great Day

#7-Baby dancing to Beyonce

The big girl potty!

I only watched 1 episode of "John and Kate plus 8" in my life. And in this episode Kate was showing the pictures she had taken of each of her kids the first time they went poo poo on the potty. At the time I thought it was the weirdest thing to do. UNTIL....Brenna went poo poo on the big girl potty and I was all of a sudden yelling to Zach to grab the camera! I am just so proud of my not so little girl!

I love autumn!

We got our first snow flakes today so I thought I would reminisce about what an awesome autumn we had this year!

Linder Farms pumpkin patch with Grandma and Grandpa

Our annual murder mystery party hosted by our awesome friends Mike and Barb. This year it was at Mystique Boise, isn't it gorgeous!

The Farmstead pumpkin patch with our best buddies

Happy Halloween!

I always thought I liked Halloween, but this year topped them all! Brenna was SO CUTE and SO CLUELESS. We practiced knocking on the door and saying "trick or treat" for a whole week beforehand. But when the day came she would knock on the door and just say "please" or "candy". And after she picked a candy from one bowl she refused to put it in her pumpkin, but instead carried it in her hand and then dropped it in the bowl at the next house and grab another piece. It was so fun.







We went to a fun Halloween parade with our buddies. Rylee and Chloe were princesses and Paige was Strawberry shortcake.
Dallin, JD, Michelle and grandma Melly were here for the fun too!

The first hair cut.....and we need a pool.

The time has come to kiss these "luscious locks" goodbye. :)

Brenna did so great!
I think it helped that the lady let her hold the squirt bottle. She kept squirting Zach in the face....
...which she thought was hilarious.



About the pool....Well, Brenna has been asking to put on her swimsuit and go outside lately. Hmm, I am grossly under-prepared for this request. This is what I have come up with.

Which works OK........until she wants Mommy and Daddy to go "swimming" with her.

This one makes me laugh because lately when we say "Brenna, will you do your new trick?" She throws her hands up in the air and says...."Tah Duh!" Love that girl!