Sunday, December 30, 2007

Final 2007 Weekend


Well this is the last weekend of 2007 and I can't wait to see what the new year has to bring.

We just got back from the movies. Melanie and I watched the new National Treasure movie. If you liked the first one you'll like this one. Personally I think they were both just "OK" but not great. The kids along with 4 other kids from the neighborhood saw "June" at the same time we were watching our movie.

Saturday was pretty much a "take it easy" day. I went to the gym (Crossfit N. Santa Cruz) in the morning and took care of some paperwork but that was about it. Melanie took the girls to the Great Mall in Milpitas.

Today I put gutters on the roof structure over our outdoor kitchen. I didn't work out today as I use Sundays and Thursdays as rest days. Crossfit has become a big part of my life and has made my body feel alot younger and stronger. I intend to be consistent all through 2008 with my training.

Sometimes I feel that I'm cheating on Sundays because we don't go to church. We haven't been going for about 5 years now. Before that we were very active in the church. I'm not sure why we quite going, the kids don't complain though. All is still good between us and God, just haven't been to church. I kinda miss it, but not enough to drag everyone out on sunday just yet.

I'll get into the details of the construction part of my life latter. Right now it's still really the holidays and that is a time of family. The kids grow up fast, and when they do, they have less time us. This is why it's important to make time for them now. Although, since they're all basically teenagers, they seem to find us rather lame and boring.....anyway, until they need something.

The kids are really into their friends at this stage. They happy to just be home so they can play in the neighborhood. We'll have to pry them away to go snowboarding a few times this winter. We didn't make it up to the slopes at all last year. This winter will be different.

Friday, December 28, 2007

Who we are...

Construction, that's pretty much been my families life for generations now. The Miller family has been building together and separately since the 1950's in Santa Cruz and elsewhere in California. I got the idea to blog from a friend of mine and thought I'd give it a try. I plan to use this as a forum outlining my daily/weekly activity............my life.
Life has four main areas we all need to balance. Family, work, spiritual, and recreation. I suppose that frequent postings should help give a picture of how balanced, or out of balance things are. Hopfully I'll learn more about myself, you definetly will learn more about me.

Today we will talk family..............
My family covers 7 generations in Santa Cruz. My Grandparents and two generations before them have passed away here. The other four generation are still well represented in and around town.

My mother, Patty Morelli, and My three brothers and their familys are all around. My youngest brother and my Dad are in Sonora CA and building homes there.

Here's my pride and joy, my immediate family. Melanie, my wife, very beautiful and extremely smart. Definetly the brains that keeps us all on track. She is very wise and I love her to death. Then there's the kids: Chace (17yrs), Lauren (14yrs), Maddie (13yrs), Jack (12yrs) and the two older girls Margaux (22yrs) and Alex, her boyfriend and their child Talon (4mos.) and Britnee (20 yrs) and her fiancee Keith and there daughter Carley (2yrs).
That's alot of kids. And yes, that does make us grandparents.
Life is crazy with all the sports and friends and sleepovers.