The Miller's Place

Just a quick update since it’s been over a month, I know, I know, sorry.  I really wish I had a little spare time sometimes.

All is well on the home front.  Morgan and Matthew are doing very good.  No issues to speak of other than Matthew’s not listening and getting in trouble.  Morgan’s getting pretty big 🙂  I think Michelle mentioned 16 pounds recently.  We have an official doctors appointment the 20th so can update you then.  Matthew is learning more numbers and letters everyday.  He just came downstairs and had a Pizza Hut magnet in his hand and rattled off the phone number and said “Daddy let’s call Pizza Hut, I like Pizza Hut for dinner.”  He’s smart, sometimes too smart 🙂  Also some new pics added.  Not much outside of our trip to the zoo, but a few decent shots.

Work is work.  Keeping me very busy.  The week vacation I had in October seemed to just disintegrate into nothing.  I have 4 weeks to squeeze into the last bit of the year and that’s not gonna happen.  I am taking a week after Thanksgiving and two more after Christmas, but the third is not going to happen.  I honestly can’t wait for the one after Thanksgiving.  I just want some time off.  Try and relax around the house and not think about computers for awhile.  But I doubt that will be the case.  Christmas we have plans to go see my family down at Bethany beach again.  Becoming almost tradition and I don’t mind it at all.  I love the beach.  Hate the sand, love the beach so the cold weather makes it great since I don’t have to get hounded for take me to the beach 🙂

I’ve got a couple of other blogs floating in my head, but just don’t feel like articulating them right now with the laundry and dishes to do so they will have to wait for vacation.  Hope that catches up for now and keeps you subdued for at least a few weeks.  Not much else to report.  Hope everyone out there is doing well.

Love and Miss you All!  Scott

P.S. before I forget.  Anyone wanting to know gift ideas for Christmas, Michelle’s dad is getting us a Wii, which I am grateful for since that was what I was going to get, so anything Wii related for any of us, since it will definitely be used by all of us 🙂  For Matthew he is in love with Star Wars, Spiderman, Iron Man, and Transformers.  Cars is still good, but he has pulled away from them quite a bit.  For Morgan, clothes would be great, 9-12 months.  And if you actually were thinking about Michelle or I, feel free to put anything towards the kids.  This year is gonna be tight for us with the two houses so I have no problem everyone neglecting us.

Just wanted to let everyone know I uploaded some more pics.  Gotta make this quick because we are getting away for the weekend and I still haven’t packed yet 🙂  Hope to be on the road soon.  Anyway  wanted to get these done before leaving because I am sure we will hvae some from the weekend getaway.  Enjoy.

So tell me what you think, similar or not? 🙂  Michelle and I have said for a long time Morgan and Matthew look a lot alike.  What do you think?

Digging through some stuff that had been packed up for forever, uncovered some really old stuff from my high school years.  Amazingly enough I had some pictures from my First Baptist Church days in Port Arthur.  That being said as well as a request by some of the FBC gang I posted some of them.  Enjoy.

Two other miscellaneous pics.  Michelle and I visiting my grandparents.  Me with two cheerleaders from high school, Jennifer LaHaye and Ellen Robbins.  My Senior Skip Trip 🙂 to Disney World with my grandparents, Kate, and Ryan.

Couple of weeks worth of photos just recently uploaded.  Hope you enjoy.  I also will be posting some more from my history in a little while 🙂  But in the mean time enjoy these.  Here is one of my favorites in the bunch.

Today was the first time the whole family went to church.  Michelle asked if I thought she would be fine and I said sure so we all took off.  Morgan slept through about three quarters of the service but when she did get up she enjoyed the video screens and the lights.  She was great though and never cried once.  As Michelle put it here’s a really good family shot of everyone, oh but of course with out you honey 😉

Scott

I have always enjoyed photography thanks to my Dad.  Photography was very much his hobby and love as I grew up.  I didn’t think much of it at the time except to try and impress him just like my short lived baseball career, but with two children of my own as well as the simple and plain fact of, there is so much beauty in the world, I have recently become more and more interested.  Trying to capture those precious moments is key because our time is very limited.  And for that very moment in time if that shot is not captured it is gone forever.  Sure you can remember it, but you won’t remember it forever or remember all the details you can capture.  Plus with my memory, I need proof 🙂

As my space on my web server continued to dwindle with all the pictures I was taking with Matthew and the upcoming arrival of Morgan, I knew I had to make a change.  I have always been reluctant to put my pics up on a pro server, because quite frankly I just don’t have the goods.  I get lucky at times with my point and shoot, but they still aren’t great.  That being said, Angie again was the muse for using Flickr.  I searched and wanted to use a popular site so that I could take advantage of all the add ons that comes along with it.  That being said, I uploaded my pics from Gallery to Flickr with ease and didn’t pay much attention to it otherwise, but recently I have been obsessed with it.  It is utterly amazing some of the shots that are there.  Any free time I seem to have is spent looking through the interesting photos for the day or month.  And to be honest not only am I enjoying them, it is really reaffirming my belief that all is not lost.  There is so much beauty in this world, we don’t need to concentrate on the horrible things.  I will be the first to tell you, I don’t watch the news.  What’s the point.  Everything you see on there is filled with violence and despair.  It does nothing but dumb you down and draw out the pessimist in anyone.  I mostly will watch SportsCenter, but being a Philly fan, even that can be depressing 😉

All this being said, it is wonderful to see so many talented photographers as well as such beauty alive and well in the world.  Here are a few of my favorites I have found.

Hope you enjoy as much as I have!