BIG Juds

We had a fun weekend with our friends the Nelsons and Getsingers. First, Friday night we met our friends the Nelsons at Leo's Place- always fun for the kids. We ate salad and pizza and the kids played until they were exhausted, and the adults were able to visit.

Saturday our good friends from Blackfoot (Mae and John) drove up to visit us. The kids loved showing them their new bedrooms. We enjoyed visiting with them! We went and had lunch in Archer at Big Juds (famous for their gigantic Big Jud burger) anyone from the area knows all about Big Juds. Mae brought us some of her famous dried apples, and apple butter. I hid the apples - but they are still almost gone. We are blessed to have such wonderful friends in Blackfoot! Mae and John have always taken good care of us and we are thankful for their friendship.

Loving this November Weather!

We are loving the sunny weather we are having in November! Here are the kids ready to go to church. I love my kids! Life would be so boring without them. As I've been unpacking boxes, looking at old pictures, I am amazed at how fast time flies! We are really enjoying being in our home, new neighborhood friends, and our ward. Our sacrament meeting was on blessings Sunday, believe it or not my kids listened, we had a nice talk on blessings after church, our family is so grateful for all our many blessings!

Girls Weekend in Park City!!!

What a fun weekend I had with all my Murdoch Family! The Murdoch girls decided to have a girls weekend in Park City -- FUN!!! We went out to dinner, sat in the hot tub, stayed up late talking and went shopping at the outlets on Saturday. Thank you to all of you who made this happen. This is definately going to need to be a yearly tradition!

I have been blessed with the most incredible family! We have so much fun together! I cherish my childhood memories with all my aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins, etc. I truly feel like a had a fairytale childhood, loved all the adventures, camping trips, sundays at Grandmas, etc... Most of my friends don't even know all their cousins, I can't imagine growing up without mine! The best part is all my cousins have married awesome spouses so our family continues to get better all the time.

Our Princess turns 7!

What a fun Birthday McKenzie has had! We can't believe she is 7! Last weekend we started celebrating her Birthday with Grandma Kathy and Grandpa Murray. Grandma took Kenzie and had a manicure! Kenzie loved it! She can't wait to go back! I'll have to get some pictures from Grandma because I didn't have my camera a the Nail Spa.
If you can't tell my daugher loves High School Musical! Last night we even played her new HSM game, it was fun seeing Justin bust out some dance moves. Saturday night we watched HSM 2, so we could prepare ourselves for her game Sunday evening. McKenzie and Justin were the champs, the boys and I didn't do so well - Max did have some good dance moves.

McKenzie took three of her friends to Leo's Place. The girls had a fun time! Non-stop fun for these four girls!

Joy, Kenzie, Taylor, and Allison

Happy 7th Birthday Kenzie! WE LOVE YOU!

Halloween 2008

The kids had a fun Halloween. The weather was so nice during Halloween we actually carved our pumpkins outside. I let the kids do everything all on their own, we found some awesome pumpkin carving knives, kid safe. Max allowed all the neighborhood kids to carve his pumpkin.

Brayden and McKenzie both had fun Halloween parties in school. The two wards here did a trunk-or-treat. Lots of fun! The weather was so nice! I think it was the first year they didn't have layers of clothing under their costumes. We had a fun night! Max was of course a cowboy, sporting some awesome chaps thanks to Aunt Haley, McKenzie was a "nice" witch, and Brayden was a vampire.

Home Sweet Home

Every morning here in our new home we've enjoyed the sunrise. One of the first things the kids do when they get up is check out the sunrise. They have been awesome! The above picture is a view out our back door. We also have the most amazing sunsets. I haven't been the best photographer lately but maybe I'll capture a sunset over the next couple days.

We love being in our home. We've been so busy that it all seems like a blur. We still have boxes everywhere, but we love being here. After going through the building process we take a lot of pride in our home, I think because we picked it all out. Stressful process-one I don't want to do again.

We have wonderful neighbors! Our kids are enjoying playing with all the kids. They love being able to ride their bikes around! McKenzie said about the only thing she really misses is our lawn and our big trees. Me too Kenzie! We'll put our yard in the spring - for now we'll enjoy all the dirt. One of these days I'll finish unpacking and start decorating.