miller family -

Easter 2007

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:08:02 +1000

Easter has been a fun time of relaxing. Thursday night before Easter we bought some games, a tabletop strategy game called HeroScape and Knex I also bought an extreme frisbee.

Friday I had to work, but after I finished we played games until all hours! Saturday I also had to work with one of my staff here at home. He brought his wife and son over and the kids and ladies played, made clay models and talked while we worked. we took a park break and had some fun also. After work I took our kids down to the soccer fields with some friends of ours and we played extreme frisbee and kicked the football until it got dark and then played glow int he dark frisbee! Awesome.

Sunday we slept in and while Jude took most of the kids to Grandmas, Miranda and Is tayed home and played HeroScape until lunchtime. After lunch we headed to a friends place for some
fellowhip, afternoon tea and an awesome time chatting about all manner of things. This was followed by a great time of prayer and then we came home (via a great Indian restaurant). Jude and I kicked back with a movie before bed.

Today we are doing more of the same. Building Knex constructions and just hanging out as a family. Its great!

Mercedes 3rd Birthday Party

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:49:44 +1100

Mercedes 3rd Party was lots of fun. She was old enough to know what was happening, and present were spread out over the day with some in the morning and some in the afternoon and evening.
Grandma and Grace came to enjoy dinner and cake

Mercedes was very grown up when it came time to blow the candles out and cut the cake.

All the pictures in the gallery

Jadeen's 8th Birthday

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:33:05 +1100

Jadeen's 8th Birthday was a great success. Its always fun separating Christmas from Boxing day birthdays but the presents received were just what Jadeen wanted. She had her ears pierced before Christmas for her birthday, and just had cubic zirconia studs inserted. On her birthday she was presented with some 9ct gold dolphin studs.
See come great photos in the gallery.

Erin's 5th Birthday

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:22:26 +1100

Erin's 5th birthday was celebrated in style. Erin enjoyed her presents, particularly a very large doll received from Grandma, that Erin promptly spend several minutes dancing with, both ballerina style and then a tango. This was very amusing to the rest of the family.
Some photos of the presents, the dancing and the cake in the gallery.

Boondall wetlands walk 9 Sep 2006

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:49:41 +1000

We had a ball - saw and photographed blue tongue skinks, small skinks, ducks, a possum, eagle, bearded dragon, magpies, toadfish and several unidentified animal tracks in the mud.
Lots of photos here

Fighter

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:07:45 +1000

"Fighter" my new siamese fighting fish

Miranda's 10th Birthday Party

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 07:46:57 +1000

Miranda's 10th birthday party was attended by her friends as well as Grandad and Grandma Miller and Grandma Bettridge.
There are lots of photos in the Image Galleries

Kumbarcho Nursery June 2006

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 07:30:05 +1000

We also went to the Kumbarcho Nursery at Bunya hills. Here they propogate large numbers of native seedlings and maintain some rain forest on their property. It was an educational visit with learning about catchments, seed collection and planting, and seedling planting.
There are lots of photos in the Image Galleries.

Southbank and Museum Outing June 2006

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 07:26:28 +1000

While Grandad and Grandma Miller were here in June 2006 we went to the Southbank Parklands and then to the Brisbane Museum for an outing.
There are lots of pictures in the Image Galleries.

2006 Anzac Day Parade

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:53:39 +1000

Miranda and Jadeen marched in the Anzac day parade today with the 2nd Pine Rivers Division of the Girls Brigade.

There are lots of photos in the 2006 Anzac Day Parade gallery

Jadeens Party

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:10:44 +1100

Jadeen's party was a massive success.
Lots of fairies, presents, food and fun with friends
Check all the photos in the party gallery.

Mercedes 2nd Birthday

Sun, 12 Feb 2006 08:31:27 +1100

Mercedes turned 2 the other day.

We had a fun party after dinner and Mercedes opened her opresents and then we had the cake. She was wide eyed at the candles and, with a little help from her sisters, blew out the candles.
Theres a heap of pictures in Mercedes image gallery.

Jadeen's Birthday Party

Tue, 27 Dec 2005 09:29:45 +1100

Boxing day was - as always - Jadeen's Birthday.
My little princess loves her birthday and can't wait for Christmas to be over so it can be her birthday. Of course its always a challenge for us to separate them so that she has a distinctly different day.

After opening presents at some early hour of the day we progressed into the activities. First Jade got to play with her sistsers withe her new presents while normal activities (cleaning chores etc) took place. After lunch Jadeen and Dad and Miranda built robots. This was the culmination of the Real Robots series, they both have a robot and the final result of putting them together yesterday was they were able to play soccer against each other. We have been building these robots for several years now.

After that was finished it was off to the beach for a late afternoon swim and a chance for Jadeen to try out her new kickboard. After rescuing Erin from underwater we headed home via a local takeaway where we bought "the special" - chips laced with BBQ sauce, fried diced bacon and cheese. Once home these were topped off with sour cream and devoured eagerly. We followed this with a birthday cake and candles!

After dinner the board games came out with Miranda and I playing RummiKub and then Jadeen and I playing Guess Who.

A great day for my little princess.

Christmas

Tue, 27 Dec 2005 09:15:01 +1100

Thanks to everybody who gave presents to us. We had a great day and we enjoyed some great presents
There are lots of photos from the present unwrapping in the parties photo gallery.
Check out the kids faces as they open their presents.

Tims went for a ride in the annual Bikers Charity Toy Run

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 14:45:19 +1100

Sunday 4th of December dawned bright and clear, a welcome change to the past weeks of incessant rain and thunderstorms.
Arising at 6:45am I was soon showered, dressed and out the door, off to the annual Bikers Toy Run. Each year in Brisbane bikers congregate en masse for an organised bike ride and give gifts (toys) to charities like the Smith Family and others who provide for those in need at Christmas time.

My daughter Miranda kindly donated a teddy bear for the event and he was strapped to the front of the Warrior.

I met up with Ivan and Sam on their scooters and then with a whole bunch of their scooter riding friends. It was strange to be the only (very large) motorcycle amongst a bunch of scooters! One was actually a 650cc model. Most of them had a pillion as well.

We headed into the city and down to the botanical gardens where we rode through to the staging area.

Here we had some time to wait til the ride started after a short riders briefing. I took a lot of photos, met up with some other friends and made some new friends. Anton and Marushka aka Guns and Roses were staged beside me and as we rode off I handed Roses my video camera. She filmed quite a bit of the ride for me. (This is so excellent as I can now watch myself riding my bike when it is too wet to go out on it!)

We headed (via a roundabout highway route) down to a seaside suburb called Wynumm where we congregated in a huge park and put all the toys into the vans each of the charities had provided.

Ivan then locked his keys inside his scooter so while we waited for his wife Sharolyn to arrive with the spare keys Sam and I went and got lunch. We went over the hill and noticed some awesome sirrus cloud formations as well as some very picturesque views of the sea, the sand islands and the trees. I went back after lunch and took numerous photos. After Sharolyn and Jess arrived I took Jess for a short ride finding some even better shots of the clouds.

Then we headed home on the freeway sunburnt and happy! It was a great ride.