California McMillans

"I didn't grow up in a family with a ton of family traditions" As I wrote this, I thought to myself that maybe I did have family traditions.  I thought about breakfast every morning.  Waffles, pancakes, omelets with all the fixings.  Sunday was always fresh bagels.  Family dinner with friends.  Always lots of friends and sometimes friends of friends or maybe even strangers.  Anyone who needed a place to stay, eat or celebrate a holiday was invited into our home to eat and be a part of the family.   I looked to Danny and said, "My family didn't have many traditions?" and he laughed.  He said my family was the epitome of tradition and mentioned all the dinners.  The little saucer plates, the countless parties, the tables set up in the backyard with matching tablecloths. So of all the things we have carried on from my parents it is Sunday dinners.  We always went to my parents on Sunday for a feast.  We sat in the backyard, the kids played and we talked

Danny got called into the Elder's Quorem.  He is with Britton, Rusty and Gordon who in my opinion are amazing men.  When I talked to Britton he said that he wanted men who were no drama and got along with everyone and that pretty much sums up those 4 men. The church did away with EQ and High Priests.  Now everyone is in EQ.  I think it will be such a great change.  It will streamline taking care of people.  I think that it will also help unify the men to one purpose and one group. I know Danny is going to love his calling and the men that he serves with and serves.  I am excited to see how this change helps the church and ward.  With that said, he was in his dream calling.  He was primary chorister.  I have never seen Danny shine and be so into a calling.  It truly is a calling that all of his talents work miraculously together.  He is so good with kids.  He is an amazing music teacher.  He does fun games and songs.  He has fun and it shows.  He is an amazing primary music lead

We have about another month of Saturdays until swim meets start. It has been really nice to have a lot of free Saturdays.  Danny has usually worked on Saturdays and since he bought his new practice, we have had free Saturdays.  It is actually really nice! We work hard during the week and it makes the weekend seem so nice and relaxing.  I have been working on our backyard a little bit.  I pulled out a couple of ugly bushes and it makes the backyard seem bigger.  I want to put compacted sand under the trampoline instead of dead grass and get a patio table for the concrete.  Clean and simple to maintain.  Danny has been really into buying fruit trees lately. For a while we didn't know if we would end up in Brentwood or Walnut Creek and all of a sudden when Danny bought his Walnut Creek practice and I handed the decision over to the Lord to guide us I felt this incredible desire to stay in Brentwood.  I love my home.  The layout is perfect and the location is the BEST!!  With that

Danny bought a second Walnut Creek practice Feb. 9th.  I can't believe it has been over 2 months now.  He worked at Steve's and always thought he would buy that one eventually but timing just wasn't right.  We saw the Lord's miraculous hand and timing in buying both of his practices.  It was so amazing to see. When he bought his Brentwood practice about 4 years ago we were ready to sign a lease to build a practice.  I think we were signing it that week when out of nowhere a practice went up for sale just down the street from us and his former practice.  It was a MIRACLE.  It didn't have many patients but was way easier, cheaper and faster than building one from scratch. Buying this practice was nothing short of another miracle.  Danny and I have felt for a while that he wanted to buy another practice.  While associating has its perks and is easy, Danny was more than ready to start building his own practice, not commute to Vacaville, etc.  He worked at a pract

Poor Mister was the victim of Blake shoving him off the tramp.  First I put on some ice and tried to close the wound with some steri-strips.  It was too big for that, and I considered putting in my own sutures.  But then I would have had to drive to the office, numb him up with one of my big long needles, and that would be hard since he'd thrash around.  So we took him to the Kaiser ER. Heidi didn't want to sedate him but the doctor and I did.  I said, "It's hard hitting a moving target."  Eventually, they sedated him and the doctor put in six or so sutures.  I thought he'd do these nice under-the-skin ones to make for a better scar, but no. Next time I'm going to do my own suturing.  I remember Kim Rigby saying something to the effect of, "We haven't had a year without stitches or a broken bone."  She had four boys too.  I was less upset at the accident and more upset at Blake for pushing him off.  I try to have convers

Kira's baptism was nice.  She and Katelyn got baptized on 4/7/18 at the Antioch Stake Center.   Kira is a thoughtful, caring, athletic, good kid.   Heather came with her family This was our best attempt at at family photo.  Like I always say, a bad photo is better than no photo.  But whatev.  Next time.  Grammy and Grampy came out from Utah I don't think Dad was too impressed with the CB350, and that's fine.  It's not very powerful.  But you have to appreciate the work that went into the restore. Rocky, the stray cat that's been hanging around our house, had babies behind the trash can!  Grant and Shari came out to the bay area for a swim meet and made a trip up to us.  They joined us for din din.  Fortunately, I had made a huge roast in the crock pot.  It's always fun when they come. Apparently doing this flower pattern with your tongue is a rare skill, one worthy of a post in Ripley's Believe it or Not.