Hi. I had donuts for breakfast. And then I got to watch the garbage man. What a fun day! Love, Haven.

Capturing the Craziness!!

We went to Target with Julie and her kids today and thought it would be fun to take the camera and capture the craziness that almost always ensues when we get together (and especially when we go shopping)! Upon coming home and looking at the pictures I was actually surprised by what I saw. Judging from these pictures, you might think that we had a good time, you might even be tempted to want to shop with us sometime --Don’t be fooled!!! Ha ha! I think I must have stopped taking pictures when things started getting really crazy, or maybe I was just busy shopping, because everyone looks relatively calm! (of course the camera doesn’t capture yelling and screaming!) =0 Ok, it actually wasn’t THAT bad. It used to be that bad, but it’s been getting better as the kiddos are getting older!


Reygann trying on purses


Haven saying "me too!"


I don't know how she does it, but Haven always turns herself around and gets stuck! She also has a knack for getting both feet into one hole and getting them stuck that way too!


I'm a pretty girl!


Strike a pose!


"you try it now, Reygann..."


"Look mom, now Reygann is pretty!"


Meanwhile... Harrison and Kylie were having their own little circus complete with acrobatics and disappearing acts!


Bathroom fun (how do I always end up being the one to take all 3 kids into the bathrom with me?!)


Haven is in a phase now where she will only eat things out of bags or plasic baggies! She must have been hungry because she wanted the big bag!


"Are we almost done yet?"


"Hello, Daddy? Can you come pick me up, it's nuts here!"

A random updating of pictures

Making Valentine cookies. No fun shapes this year, our cookie cutters are still packed! (notice our lovely cabinets in the background!)





Haven got new shoes! She pulled these out of the box that we got our new sink in, and played with them all afternoon!





Haven trying to be Billy's secretary.



Harrison was under the weather for several days and couldn't play outside, so he decided to make a snowman inside with his kleenexes!




Lucky for him, the snow stuck around and he got to make a snowman after all. With daddy's help of course!

No, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you. I am actually updating my blog! I realize that it's been over a month since the last time I said that I would be updating soon. I'm sorry for this delay and any inconvience this may have caused, and we are actively taking steps to correct this problem. Please be assured that we will do our best to make sure this doesn't happen in the future. He he. (See, my PR skill HAVE paid off!)

Anyway, us Murphys have been doing well. One of the biggest things that has happened recently is that Billy quit his job and is working for himself full time! It is and will be a lot of work, but we are really excited. And it has been really great having Billy working from home. For the most part he stays in his office most of the day (when he's home) but it's nice to have lunch and breakfast with him. He can also take time off for special things, he took the afternoon off on Valentine's day and also took some time off so that we could all take Harrison to his first day of school!)

Harrison started "school!" It's actually just a program with the park district one day a week. But to him it's school! He just started last week and he loves it! When we were getting ready to take him to school he said that it was ok and that he would just wait for the bus to come get him! He was so disappointed when he found out that he wasn't going to be riding the bus!



He looks so serious here, this must have been after I told him that the school bus wasn't coming to get him!



Showing off his Elmo back-pack, which he was so excited to wear even though he has nothing to put in it!



Oh, I almost forgot! Our Durrango wouldn't start last week when it was really cold and I told Harrison that it needed a needed a new battery. Well, when we were inside later Harrison ran up to me SO excited because he had found some AA batteries and wanted to go fix the truck! It was so cute!