our past month in a nutshell

Darn, I was doing so good at keeping this updated! The last few weeks have literally FLOWN by! Thanks to everyone who remembered our birthday! It was nice to get online and see that all of you thought of us!! Well, I’m just going to pick up from when I saw most of you last…..

Bunco was a blast! It was so good to see all of you guys again! Can’t wait for the next one!

Thanks for the purse trade, Becca! Hope mine is being good to you!

Our trip to Atlanta was wonderful! It was great to have time away from the kids and great to see our friends. I’ll probably post more on our trip later.

Our house is slowly coming together. I finished painting our dining room trim and doors. I also put together a million (ok, maybe just 50 or so) hinges together and between my dad, Harrison and Haven, we got the rest of our cabinet doors and drawer fronts on. Thank you Dad for all of your help!

Our countertops finally came in. They are currently sitting on our dining room floor waiting for me to finish our backsplash. They turned out even more beautiful than we hoped! We LOVE them!

The beginning of our backsplash.

I also entered our middle bathroom into a "kids bathroom makeover" contest. Tell me it's not the ugliest bathroom you ever did see!!

DISCLAIMER: We do not currently use this bathroom! (Unless you count using it as a large storage closet!)

This brings us up to Easter weekend (more or less!) I will post those pictures later because this post is quite long already and I have a lot of Easter pics and other random things that I would like to share! I missed you all!!

Saturday Billy and the kiddos went to his parent's house for the day. They spent some time hanging out at the house, and in the afternoon they went to the circus! It was a small circus held indoors at Valpo University. The kids had a blast and ate a whole lot of new and colorful, sugary food! Unfortunately we didn't get any pics of the circus, but we did get some pics of Harrison "working" with grampy (he LOVES helping with yard work/shoveling/anything he can do outside where he gets to use his muscles and he feels like he's helping!) (by the way, we're willing to hire him out for a small fee!) =)

oh yeah, and haven was there too! =0

Our budding photographer

Harrison got hold of the camera while I was putting Haven down for a nap. By the time I came back the camera was back on the counter where I had left it and I didn't know that anything had happened! Harrison kept trying to tell me something about the camera, but i wasn't sure what he wanted. I thought he wanted to see the pictures on it. Turns out he was telling me that he had taken pictures on it! 20 pictures to be exact! He actually did a pretty good job, and it was really interesting to see life through the eyes of a 3 year old! Here a just a few of the pictures he took (I took the liberty to name them)

"Box"this is his box house/space ship/truck/train -depending on what day it is!

"Chandelier in the sky"

"Painters Tape"

"Variation On Painters Tape"

girl time

Hey girlies, anyone want to come over Friday night? Jody and I are getting together because our guys are going out, and we thought we'd see if any of you wanted to join us! Let me know if you're interested!

Oh, I forgot to mention that we did get one drawer front installed. One lonely little drawer front in a sea of cabinets! I guess its a start!

False Alarm

False alarm. We didn't get our cabinet doors and drawers on today. We hit a few minor snags and need to get some other parts before we can finish. Hopefully we can get everything in this weekend! *sigh*

productivity

Yesterday was a productive day in the Murphy house! Billy took the kids and went to his mom’s house for the day! Fun for them, not so fun for me. I stayed home and did some intensive pre-spring cleaning! I would’ve much rather gone with and had a fun day at my mother-in-laws house, but I did get a lot accomplished here, and it was nice of Billy (and his mom) to take the kids so I could get stuff done. Seems like I have this on-going list of things that I need to get done when I have extra time or when the kids are sleeping and I just never seem to get to the bottom of the list! Then last night my friend Dawn came over and she helped me paint until 11:30pm! AND…. we FINALLY got the rest of our hinges yesterday so this afternoon we are going to hang all of our cabinet doors and install the drawers!! HOOARY!! I’ll post some pictures this afternoon! I have to go get Harrison ready for school now. Just wanted to say hello to everyone!

A sad day for Mr. Snowman....

Mr. Snowman isn't fairing too well in this weather. The kids are becoming increasingly disturbed as he is losing body parts! First his eyes fell out, than his smile came off, followed by his entire head! And now he is slowly becoming more and more emaciated. Harrison is taking it hard, poor guy!





(Btw, the Christmas ornaments were his eyes and the blue thing was his smile! What can I say, we're creative!)

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!