Friday, December 2, 2011

Thanksgiving in Centerville, America

Your scrapblog editor and son Noah were lucky enough to be invited to ChrisMiller!ChrisMiller!'s house for Thanksgiving. Some snapshots from that lively event:

After the scrapblog editor told stories about her recent Miller-family-roots-seeking trip to North Carolina, including one about how our grandmother's first husband died in the influenza pandemic of 1917-18 and she went on to take a second husband, a Miller, we went around the table telling what we were grateful for. Hannah Miller, 18, paused thoughtfully and said, "I'm grateful for the 1918 influenza epidemic, because without it, we wouldn't be here."
Moriah likes turkey!
Other guests include Lavone, Dan, Marty and Nick Broberg. Marty and CMill got all tough in the kitchen. By the way, congrats to Marty, who will enter the U.S. Marines in April 2012!
No Miller family gathering is complete without people posing for photos for that well-known photographer Mary Miller. She managed to get the young people -- Nick Broberg, Zachary Miller, Noah Miller Johnson, Moriah Miller and Marty Broberg --  together for this shot. Most of them posed nicely. (Hannah was missing because she had to take a nap before her late-night Black Friday shift at Hollister.)
Then they got goofy -- at least those scamps Moriah and Marty did.
Then things really deteriorated! Luckily, no one was hurt and no property was damaged.
Foster dog Ty enjoyed the attention and the turkey scraps.
The festivities were exhausting, especially for little Avamarie Miller, 3. She wore her wedding dress -- or at least it looked like a wedding dress -- for the occasion. Happy belated Thanksgiving, everyone!

A very cool young grandmother

Love these photos from cousin Cindi's recent visit to her Cook grandkids in Denver:

Cindi with Sonia, Maria and Perrin.
Cindi monkeys around at the zoo. What a cool grandma! :)
Sonya is a star. Hey, we knew that.

Your scrapblog editor reaches the speed limit

I'm a little late in posting these, since my 55th birthday was on Nov. 2, the Day of the Dead. Noah and the nieces made it especially happy. Gotta celebrate every one, cousins, 'cause, you never know...

In this photo of a very large and delicious cake, you may notice some Millers. That's me with radiant Hannah Miller, 18.
Ohhhh, wouldn't she like to get ahold of my delicious cake! That's niece Elizabeth Miller, 8.

The Sprick chicks

We love this photo of our cousins the Sprick chicks, K., A and C. Beautiful and brilliant young people indeed!