Elks Santa

The girls with Mr. and Mrs. Clause at the Elks Lodge.

Wife,mom and student

My life has been VERY crazy for the past few weeks. I am almost done with my masters and working hard on balancing the roles of wife, mom and student. It has been difficult at times to balance these three roles but it has also taught me a lot. Being a student over the past two 1/2 years has given me the chance to stay in the education world without actually going to work each day. Getting a masters is not something that I had on the top of my list of things to do. Now that I am so close to being done I realize what a good thing it was for me.

To finish my masters I had to teach 60 hours with a reading specialist. I was able to work with Sarah Heenan at West High school in the ELL reading strategies classroom for around 8 weeks. I really enjoyed this experience and Sarah was an excellent role model. I will officially be done with my classes on December 9th! Until then there might not be much action on the blog!

Nearing the end of fall

Larry and Carolyn Detwiler invited us down to their land to have a end of the year hay ride, cookout and jump in the leaves. The girls loved it! They had so much fun running around on the land and playing in the leaves with Will and Aiden. It got pretty chilly on our hayride back to the house! Not sure if fall is officially turning to winter…

Aiden, Nora and Molly in the leaves

On the chilly hay ride with the girls

One of my favorites of the girls:)

Halloween 2010

We had a really fun Halloween. Angie had the idea that we should have a Miller Halloween party and the theme should be dress as your favorite Miller. We did the party at our house so the girls and Will and Aiden could go trick or treating.

Molly, Nora and Grace before they left to trick or treat.

Can you guess? Katie as grandma, Angie as Paul , Brian as mark, Me as Katie, Paulette as Jim, and Marv as Mark. Megg and Alex came later and Alex had a good impression of Paul.

My cute little tigger!!

Nora LOVED getting to be a princess for the night!

My little pumpkin

I am really bad about Halloween costumes, and having to many! I find them cheap at yard sales in the summer or friends give them to me, either way the girls always have a few to choose from:) this year there was just the pumpkin suit, tigger, and princesses.

Nora with the pumpkin suit and then Molly! What cute little girls!!

Woodpecker Trail Field Trip

Nora's preschool class went to Woodpecker Trail on a field trip. Deb got to go along with the class, at Nora's request. Here are some pictures that Deb sent to me.

Indiana

We took a long weekend and drove out to visit my parents in Goshen. My mom and dad watched the girls so that Brian and I could go to a ND football game on Saturday (Iowa had a bi week!). It was the first time that either of us had been to the stadium. The weather was perfect for the game and right before the game there was a flyover.

The girls love going to my parents because they can take care of the chickens. Molly likes to help her papa gather eggs and feed them. The weather was great all weekend and we enjoyed spending time with my family.

Gathering eggs with grandma.

Checking on the chickens:)

On the ND campus before the game, I could not get Brian to wear a ND shirt.