This image is dedicated to my dad!!!! Arnold Miller.... I'm so grateful for faithful parents who always set a good example for us, and continue to do so, as they prepare to go on a mission next January. It will be fun to see where they end up, and what they will be doing. I think it will help build excitement for my boys to go on their mission. Life is Great!!

After Carthage we went to Nauvoo. We went to the temple, saw the pagaent and lots of other wonderful things in Nauvoo. I loved it so much that I want to go back next year with all of the kids. It was so beautiful to be right off the Mississippi river. The B&B we stayed in had a whole wall of windows, and each morning we looked right out over the beautiful green trees into the river. It almost made me want to live there.

Allen is looking onto the spot where Joseph fell from the second story window when he was shot and killed. "Next to the well"


Joseph and Hyrum "In life they were not divided, in death they were not separated."

This July, we went to St. Louis, and drove up to Nauvoo. We stopped by Carthage Jail and saw where Joseph and Hyrum were martyred. It was such a spiritual experience. To recognize that the jailer saw after just one evening with the prophet and his followers, that they were not the criminals he had been told that they were, and felt such compasion on them, that he gave them his own bedroom to sleep in rather than the "dungeon cell" that they were assigned to stay in. There may always be bad people in the world, but there will also always be good and righteous people in the world also.

Always learning something new

I'm learning how to digital scrapbook. The theory being that more gets done in less time than traditional scrapbooking. I think I am actually taking as much time or more per page, but it is easier, and I can do things that I can't do with just a pen and scissors etc. I'll still use my old fashioned scrapbook supplies, because sometimes you just need to use your hands and bare creativity, and feel the papers, and snaps and pens and buttons.... Especially after a long hard day!

Father's Day

We had a hard time (as always) picking out a great fathers day gift. The kids found an accordian folding set of 5 picture frames. It was desk size with one frame for each kid. They thought it was great, so we got it. Then came the hard part, finding pictures of each one. Thanks to people at scout camps, and Father & Sons outings I came up with these pictures.

The gift was a hit! Allen loved it. We felt that these pictures showed some of the personality in our boys, rather than just how cute they are. (but they are awfully cute, aren't they)

The picture of Ethan, is him standing at the top of a rather huge rock/mountain at Fathers and Sons campout. I was a bit surprised when I first saw this picture on the bulletin board at church!! It made me grateful that they made it home in one piece.

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