Recipes

For those of you who asked, below are the recipes used for food at the reunion.

Café Rio Sweet Pork

• 2-3 lbs. boneless pork (carnitas, shoulder etc.)
• 1 12 ox. can Coke
• 1/4 c brown sugar
• 1 10 oz. can enchilada sauce
• 2 cloves minced garlic
• 1 small can diced green chilies
• 3/4 C brown sugar

Marinade pork for at least 2 hours or overnight in can of coke and 1/4 C brown sugar. Pour pork and liquid into crock pot and cook on low for 8 hours or high for 4 hours. Remove meat and shred. Discard liquid. Put meat back in crock pot and add enchilada sauce, garlic, green chilies and brown sugar. Cook for 30-60 more minutes. If there is excess liquid drain some off.

 

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Cilantro Lime Rice

• 3 C. uncooked long grain rice
• 5 C. water
• 4 tsp. chicken bouillion
• 2 cloves minced garlic
• 1/2 C. chopped cilantro
• 1 can diced green chiles
• 3/4 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. lime zest
• 2 Tbs. lime juice
• 2 tsp. sugar
• 1 Tbs. butter
• 1/2 onion, chopped

 

Saute onion, garlic and butter until the onion is soft.  Add water, rice and remaining ingredients and bring to a boil.  Reduce heat to low and cover with the lid; simmer for about 20 minutes without lifting the lid.  Fluff with a fork and serve.  This makes a lot!

 

Café Rio Ranch Dressing

• 1 Ranch dressing packet (make as per recipe)
• 3 tomatillos (tomato-like vegetable with a husk around it)
• 1/2 bunch cilantro
• 2 cloves garlic
• Juice of 1 lime
• 1 jalapeno (use the seeds too if you like it spicy, a little goes a long way)

Tres Leches Cake

• 1 yellow cake mix (+ ingredients listed on box)
• 1 (12-oz) can evaporated milk
• 1 (14-oz) can sweetened condensed milk
• 1-1/2 to 2 Cups heavy cream
• About 1 cup cream, whipped for frosting

Bake cake according to package directions in a greased 9x13 pan.  While cake is still warm, poke holes across the surface with a wooden spoon.  Stir together the 3 milks and slowly pour milk mixture over warm cake (take your time so it distributes evenly.)  Refrigerate until completely cool or overnight.  Frost cake with whipped cream.  Cut and serve as is, or drizzle with caramel sauce, if desired.

Are You Ready to Rumble?

The itinerary for the Millarapalooza 2013 is as follows:

Friday, July 5 - Bret & Rita's yard

9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.     Breakfast, introductions, and carnival set up

11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.     Carnival, lunch/concessions

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.       Rest time (movie)

3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.       Water games

5:30 p.m.                           Dinner, kids games & visiting


Saturday, July 6 - Various locations
     (10:00 a.m Keoni's baptism)

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.     Rocket making/launching & family history
    Bret & Rita's yard
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.       Lunch
 
1:30 p.m.                             Leave for Classic Skating
    250 South State St. Orem
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.         Classic Skating & Fun Center

5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.         Dinner
    Bret & Rita's yard
6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.         Group pictures

7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.         Fireside by Grandpa Bryce

8:00 p.m. - whenever        Visiting as long as anyone wants to stay

Carnival Needs

Thanks so much to everyone who signed up to do a booth at the Carnival de Millarapalooza! It looks like we are in for a real treat!

For those of you who have put dibs on a booth, it will be your responsibility to bring everything you need for your booth. However, we realize that you may have signed up for a booth and still need to some items to pull it off. AND SO, please comment on this blog post if you are in need of something and we will have Rita send out a mass email asking for responses to see if we can pull our resources together.

Between the 121 of us, I think we should be able to come up with what we need.

For example: Mandy mentioned that she would like to do the balloon darts. However, she indicated that she would need the board and darts. So if anyone has a dartboard they could easily bring that would be awesome! If perhaps you are flying in for the big event and cannot fit your dartboard in your suitcase, then consider just offering to bring the darts. And we can have crafty Bret come up with some type of corkboard (no doubt he has something lying around) to use with the darts.



Get the idea? So ready . . . . and . . . . GO!!

Carnival de Millarapalooza

This year's Millarapalooza will feature a CARNIVAL you won't want to miss! Scheduled for Friday, July 5, in the late morning/early afternoon will be the Carnival de Millarapalooza.

ITEMS NEEDED:
We will need help in gathering some of the items to use at the booths. Please take a look at the list of potential booths below to determine if you have items that may be borrowed/used for any of the booths.

ATTENTION, ATTENTION! CALLING ALL CARNIES!
If one or more of these booths sound fun to you (to run) call dibs now by commenting on this post. Similarly, if you have an idea for a booth not listed here, let us know! We would love to help you make it work.

*We know that this will be an event catered toward children so we ask that if you do not have children of an age that would enjoy the carnival, or do not have children, that you become one of the carnies and pick a booth to run!

Ideas for booths:

• Fish Pond or Duck Pond (or both for the littlest ones)
• Rubber band gun target shooting
• Drop Ping Pong Balls in a jar
• Whack-a-mole

Already taken care of:

• Balloon Animals (Amy Jo & Ben)
• Cornhole toss (Drew & Ashlee)
• Pony Rides (Pete & Annie)
• Dunking Booth (Bret & Rita)
• Plinko (Jessica & Jordan, Nick & Jonie)
• Hair Spray booth (Andrea & Shelby)
• Cake Walk (April & Trevor)
• Ring Toss (Bryan & Jude)
• Ping Pong Ball Shoot (Lex & Wade)
• Golf putt (Kyle & Deby/kids)
• Basketball Hoop toss (Kyle & Deby/kids)
• Bowling (Pam & Todd)
• Beanbag Toss (Jeremiah & Kara)
• Balloon Darts (Mandy)
• Face Painting (Jasmine & Stacy)

Please post any questions you may have in the comment section.

Millarapalooza Fun Facts & Figures

As of May 1, 2013:

There are 121 total posterity of Bryce and Donna Millar.
-58 of those are age 12 and under
-29 are age 4 and under
-16 are age 2 and under

• From the 28 grandchildren there are currently 58 great grandchildren. That is an average of 2.07 great grandchildren per grandchild

• The most popular birth year among all great grandchildren is 2013 with 8 (will be 10) born in this year.  

• The most popular starting letter for first name is J -- 17 family members' names start with J

• There are 12 people who share a first name (or name they go by) with someone else in the family: Annie, Ben, BJ, Ella, Jared, & Katie

• The most popular place to live is Idaho (with Utah as a close second)

 

T-Shirt Sizes Needed!

We are ordering T-shirts for the Millarapalooza and need to know everyone's sizes ASAP.

Please comment on this post by listing the sizes needed for each member of your family. Here is an example:

Pete: Adult L

Annie: Adult S

Afton: Children's 3 months (onesie)

*Available sizes range from Toddler 2/4 to Adult 4XL. If you have a child smaller than 2/4T, please specify what size onesie you would like..

Please comment right away (no later than May 1st) so that we can have the shirts printed.

Thanks!

You're Invited!

Welcome Millar family to the Millarapalooza 2013 blog! This is Millarapalooza Central where you can find all you need to know for this summer's event.

Please feel free to post comments on this blog for any questions or comments you have. You can also email the blog director directly (Annie at annie.rmillar@gmail.com).

A detailed agenda is forthcoming. But for now, please be aware that the Millarapalooza 2013 is scheduled as follows:

When: July 5-6, 2013
Where: Bret & Rita Millar backyard will be the central location, however various activities will vary in location--all events will be in Utah County.
Why: Because seriously, how long has it been since we have all been together!?
Cost: Each family will be asked to pay a set amount to subsidize the cost of putting on such a grand event. The amount is yet to be determined. The parents of each family can then decide how they want to distribute costs within their own family. If you have any questions or concerns please contact Millarapalooza instigator, the honorable Rita Millar (rita_kmillar@yahoo.com).

We look forward to seeing you all!