Catching up

Hi everyone! Sorry I haven't been keeping my blog updated, life has been crazy busy lately. It's too bad I don't have the pictures to prove it! I took wonderful pictures of Thanksgiving, and of our family going "Christmas tree picking" (as Harrison calls it) and decorating the house, and of our progress on our house, and of all the other things that we've been up to. Only I'm one of those old fashioned people who don't own a digital camera! *gasp!* So unless I get highly motivated to run our film to the store as soon as we've finished a roll (which rarely happens) it usually ends up in film purgatory for a month or two. You can probably expect to see our apple picking pictures (which I promised about a month ago) somewhere around late December and Christmas pictures sometime in the spring! Just thought I'd give you a heads up! =)

I do, however, have Christmas pictures! It's a miracle to even have these. Anyone who knows my children can imagine how hard it is to keep them still long enough to get a picture! I had to bring my mom with just to play "catcher" because they both are constantly bolting! Enjoy!

Progress!

We made all sorts of progress on our house this weekend. We are officially done installing the hardwood floors! Well, ok, *almost* officially done. We still have to put the baseboards back on and trim the edges by the steps, but other than that we're DONE!!! Oh joy of joys! And I finished painting all of the dining room trim. All 5 coats of it! That just leaves the walls in the dining room to finish painting and one more coat of paint on the living room crown moulding. And... our cabinets should be in sometime this week! And... as soon as we get our cabinets in and our new appliances running we can get rid of the fridge, stove and freezer in the playroom (that we have been temporarily using while our kitchen is out of order) and finally get that pulled together! HOORAY for us! HOORAY for progress!! HOORAY HOORAY! (I'm just a little excited!) I will try to post pictures soon.

My 4-wheeling family

Well, apparently I have passed on the 4-wheeling gene to my kids. And not only that, but I'm pretty sure they also inherited the dare-devilness gene from both Billy and I. You should probably start praying for us now!!

Billy takes the kids out quite often. A lot of times he'll take them on a spin around the backyard while I'm finishing getting dinner ready. We didn't take a lot of pictures of Harrison riding, but that's because we have a million already. He's been riding them for a while. This is one of Haven's first times.






As you can see she has a blast, but also takes it very seriously! LOL!





Harrison is wearing Billy's helmet from when he was a little kid.




Hmm... is it me or do these pictures seem a lot bigger than the previous ones? I have no idea what happened?! Darn computers!

Why the Murphy life is never boring...

Tonight after I put the kids to bed I had to go to the laundry-mat (no, our dryer is still not hooked up yet!) and while the laundry was drying I went grocery shopping. Well, when I was about half-way through the store one of the lights went off, and I was wondering what the heck was going on but I still kept shopping. But then another couple of lights went off. At this point I looked around to see what was going on and it was at this point I realized that I was the only shopper in the entire store! Actually as I look back I don't remember seeing any other shoppers in the store the whole time I was there, but at the time I was completely oblivious! So I high-tailed it over to the check-out to find out that they had closed almost 10 minutes earlier! Whoops! So since I ended up finishing my shopping early I drove home and put the groceries away and then drove back to the laundry-mat. I had just walked back in from taking a load out to the car when *CLICK* the doors lock! Apparently the place locks automatically lock at 10pm! Thank God I was locked IN and not OUT because my keys were inside! (not to mention ALL of billy's work clothes!) So I took the rest of the clothes out and drive home. When I got into my driveway I reached over to the passenger side to grab one of my laundry baskets and was in the middle of not-so-gracefully trying to maneuver it out of my door when all of a sudden I had a spotlight shinning on me! Scared the stink out of me!!! I couldn't see anything so I had no idea what was going on. Well, turns out I had been going 5 mph over the speed limit and a cop followed my down my street and into the driveway! (I did see lights behind me when I pulled down our road, but thought it was our neighbors) Luckily he let me go after a verbal remrimand to watch my "pedal foot." WHEW!!!! What a night.

My first post!

Here are a few pics I took a couple of days ago. It was such a warm and beautiful day. We played outside all afternoon making "leaf angels" and swinging, and of course playing "cars." I don't know if we'll get any more days like that this year so we had to take advantage! Be prepared, I took a LOT of pictures. There will be many more to come!









Ok, well it's taken me forever to get this far (I'm not the most internet-savvy) and I just drank my last sip of coffee, so I think it's time to call it a night...