The Murdoch Family

AUGUST 2010

2010-08-19T15:44:00.001-07:00

lAST WEEK WE HEADED TO IDAHO TO TAKE MICHAELA TO EFY AND THE REST OF US TO ATTEND THE MURDOCH REUNION. MICHALEA GOT TO SPEND THE LAST NIGHT BEFORE WE LEFT. ALL THE KIDS TIE DYED SHIRTS. WE SPENT OUR TIME IN A BEAUTIFUL CABIN. YOU CAN SEE THE BEAUTIFUL TETON MOUNTAINS FROM THE FRONT WINDOW. I DON'T HAVE MUCH PICTURES OF THE CABIN BECAUSE MICHAELA TOOK THE CAMERA TO EFY

SCOTTS MOM AND DAD'S FIRT GREAT GRANDCHILD. HE GOT SPOILED BEING HELD BY EVERYONE EVEN ME. HE IS SO SWEET AND CUTE

MCKENZIE GOT TO SPEND TIME WITH HER COUSIN AMBER

MICHAELA AND HER FREIND FROM MESQUITE, APRIL ATTNEDING EFY

ALL HER EFY CLAN

ANOTHER PICTURE OF MICHAELA AND APRIL. MICHAELA ABSOLUTELY LOVED EFY, HER TESTIMONY GREW ALOT AND SHE MET SOME NICE YOUNG BOYS. THEY HAD TWO DANCES AND SHE LOVED THAT. I AM SOOOO GLAD SHE GOT TO GO AND RECOMMEND THIS TO ANY YOUTH

AND LAST OF ALL THIS IS THE VERY HARDEST. MY MOTHER WAS DIAGNOSED WITH LUNG CANCER A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO. MY MOM HAD A LUMP IN HER NECK. THE DOCTOR TOOK A SAMPLE OF IT AND IT CAME BACK NEGATIVE FOR CANCER BUT THE DOCTOR WAS NOT CONVINCED SO HE DID SURGERY AND REMOVED IT AND THAT IS WHEN HE SAW IT AND SAID IT WAS CANCER. MY HEART SANK. FINDING THE REAL RESULTS WAS ANOTHER 5 DAYS AND DURING THAT TIME WE WENT TO BEAUTIFUL BEAR LAKE WITH ALL THE SIBLINGS AND HAD A GREAT TIME BUT IN THE BACK OF OUR MIND WAS THE FEELING OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH OUR MOM. THE DAY WE CAME HOME WAS VERY HARD FOR ME AND I COULD NOT CONTROL MY EMOTIONS. I LET THEM ALL OUT DRIVING HOME. WHEN WE ARRIVED HOME MY MOM HAD GOTTEN A CALL FROM HER PRIMARY DOCTOR WANTING TO SEE HER THE NEXT , DAY AND SAID THINGS LIKE THIS IS A LIFE CHANGING ORDEAL, BRING YOUR HUSBAND, I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE CANCER IS IT COULD POSSIBLEY BE IN YOUR LUNGS YOUR STOMACH. IT WAS AWFUL I HAD A SICK FEELING IN MY STOMACH. MY MOM HAD AN APPOINTMENT THAT DAY TO SEE THE SURGEON WHO REMOVED THE LUMP. THANKS TO MY STRONG SISTER JEN SHE ACCOMPANIED MY MOTHER TO THE APPOINTMENT. I COULD NOT CONTROL MY EMOTIONS WHATSOEVER IT WAS AWFUL. MY SISTER CALLED AFTER THE APPOINTMENT AND WHILE MY MOM WAS HAVING AN X-RAY ON HER LUNGS AND SAID THE CANCER WAS MOST LIKELY IN HER LUNGS. NOT GOOD, I WAS DEVASTATED. MY MOM CAME HOME AND SHORTLY AFTER THE PHONE RANG IT WAS THE HOPITAL SAYING THE LUNG X-RAY WAS NEGATIVE AND THEY WANTED TO DO A FULL BODY SCAN. I WAS RELIEVED THAT JUST MAYBE IT WAS NOT IN HER LUNG AND WAS SOMEWHERE ELSE AND THIS COULD BE BETTER.

AUGUST 9TH MY MOMS BIRTHDAY WAS THE DAY THE DOCTOR CONFIRMED IT WAS IN HER LUNGS. THAT WAS A VERY HARD DAY. SHE IS IN STAGE 3 . APPARANTLY THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF LUNG CANCER FAST GROWING AND NOT FAST GROWING MY MOM HAS THE FAST GROWING. MY MOM HAS TWO CHOICES CHEMO AND RADIATION OR NOTHING. THE DOCTOR TOLD HER IF SHE DID NOTHING SHE WOULD HAVE 9 MONTHS TO LIVE AND BE IN ALOT OF PAIN. WITH CHEMO AND RADIATION HE MAY BE ABLE TO EXTEND HER LIFE. THEY MAY BE ABLE TO SHRINK THE TUMOR AND POSSIBLE DO SURGERY. ITS ALL UP IN THE AIR RIGHT NOW BECAUSE MY MOMS BODY IS ALREADY WEAK AND VERY FRAGILE. I AM AFAID THE CHEMO IS GOING TO KILL HER AND I DON'T WANT TO SEE MY MOM SUFFER . SHE TOLD ME THAT SHE HAS LIVED A GOOD LIFE AND IS READY FOR WHATEVER THE LORD WILL GIVE HER BUT THAT SHE DOES NOT WANT TO SUFFER. THIS IS SO VERY VERY HARD TO GRASP. YOU KNOW YOU ALWAYS HEAR OF OTHER PEOPLE GOING THROUGH THIS BUT NEVER THINK IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU. I AM NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FUTURE AND WHAT IT HOLDS BUT I HAVE TO BE STRONG FOR MY MOM AND SUPPORT HER THE BEST I CAN BECAUSE SHE IS GOING TO NEED IT. I DON'T WANT TO FACE THIS AND PRAY THAT SHE DOESN'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS BUT COME WHAT MAY. PLEASE PRAY FOR MY MOM SHE WILL NEED IT. I PRAY FOR THE BEST OUTCOME WHATEVER IT MAY BE. I WISH THIS NEVER HAPPENED AND I AM NOT READY TO SEE MY MOM GO BUT SOMEHOW SOMEWAY I HAVE TO FIND THE FAITH TO ACCEPT WHATEVER HAPPENS.

FOUR-WHEELING

2010-06-22T17:27:00.000-07:00

I LOVE summer 4 wheelin, hiking, fishing, swimming whatever there is to do outside and enjoy the sun. For the weekend we went up to my parents house and went 4 wheelin. The first day we went to a plane crash site. This plane was bringing passengers home from the korean war and their plan was to stop in wyoming before continuing on to there distination which was north carolina ( I think). They never made it and crashed on the mountain side from bad weather. This happened in the month of January. It was so sad to see this and makes you appreciate those who fight for our country

Here surrounded by the rocks are pieces of the crash glass ect, ect, my brother actually found more glass as he was walking the mountain side.

The next day we went to old Ephraims grave. Old Ephraim was a huge grizzly bear that killed a lot of sheep. A sheep herder killed him. My dad has told us the story of this and it is chilling to hear what this sheepherder had to face. He stood as tall as this monument that we are all posing at. 9 feet 11 inches. This is the picture of all of us that went on this trip. My brother and his four kids, my mom and dad and other brother lee who has his arm around ashley.

four wheelin can be so hard!

Back to our destination for dinner. Hamburgers, hot dogs, pasta salad and S'mores gotta have S'mores when you are having a picnic by the fire. I LOVE SUMMER!!!!!

Madison's 8th Birthday

2010-06-09T22:23:00.003-07:00

We celebrated Madison's 8th Birthday on May 26th.

She received her very own scriptures and a pink case to put them in (her favorite color)

Here she is the day of her babtism in her beautiful white dress

Madison with her daddy

Madison with my parents, Grandpa and Grandma Worley

Me, Scott and Madison

At the church getting ready for the babtism

The family SMILE

We absolutely love the Blaser's our previous neighbors before moving

Michaela with her awesome freinds naomi and alex but don't ask me who is who I can't tell them apart

OUR FAMOUS CHEF

my sister's adorable little one Kyla

Eating yummy food Hamburger, Hot dogs, brats, potato salad, spinach salad, pasta salad, broccoli salad, the famous picnic brownies from the lion house, peanut butter cookies with a chocolate kiss in the middle and rice Krispie treats. Our bellies were full

Eating, Eating, and Eating!!!!!

Mckenzie with Naomi, I had to ask who was who. We had a great day, great weather, congrats to Madison, Mommy and Daddy love you so much and are so proud of you!

I'm Still Here

2010-04-08T20:25:00.000-07:00

Its high time I blog again. We are finally moved into our home. We have felt so very welcome. Six different neighbors brought us treats to welcome us to the neighborhood. So we signed up for internet the dial up kind. We have been spoiled in our last home with high speed internet. Well dial up what a joke it took forever to do anything so my plan was to not use the internet period. Anyway we found a cheap cheap way for a phone line called magic jack and now our internet service is back in service High speed so Here I am blogging again. So here is our happenings the last few months mostly with Michaela, she just got her drivers permit and had two surgeries.

We went to the Young Womens conference at the conference center with some of our Good friends

Michaela had 4 wisdom teeth removed and two front teeth. Look at those cute chipmunk cheeks

Here she is right after surgery her mouth filled with gauze

Here is Michaela with her other surgery, she broke her pinky playing basketball. She was put to sleep with live x ray while the doctor straightened the bone and put three pins in her finger.
She had to have surgery to fix the bone or in the long run she may not have had a very good grip with her pinky being crooked when she made a fist. This is her right before her surgery and very very very nervous

Right after surgery with her arm all wrapped

The three pins in her finger

Our basement pictures of our floor being layed

Ashley was in a spelling bee

Here is a video of michaela with her baby. This is a class that she is taking at the school where they have to bring a baby home for the weekend. She is graded on how well she takes care of the babies needs. It sounds so real because it cries just like a baby. So some of the comments she made were, "when I have a baby its not going to cry this much. She also had to take care of this baby all night which doesn't sleep. So she was commenting why it took 20 min. to feed a baby in the night It shouldn't take that long she said. It was so funny and probably a bit of a eye opener for preparing her for motherhood some day.

more pictures of the house

2010-01-31T20:37:00.000-08:00

So here are more pictures of our basement. Scott layed the tile in the laundry room and bathroom

All Done!!!

The bathroom

Painting

More painting

Our contractor showed us how to paint the doors with a sprayer. Scott hammered a board to the doors so they sit like the pictures shows and we can spray all sides. Pretty cool!

Caulking, caulking caulking

Painting can give you lots of grey hairs!

The color of our family room

other side of the family room

During all of this Michaela and I celbrated our birhtday's. My baby is 16 I cannot believe it! You are a wonderful daughter Michaela thanks for being such an example to your sisters!

The upstairs was part wood floor and part carpet so we are having all of the upstairs wood except the bedrooms and bathroom.

More of our basemant family room

The bathroom is almost done except for some touching up on the paint

Mckenzie's room

My awesome laundry room!

Michaela's room and that's all for now. We hope to move into our house in a couple of weeks.

TO DO OR NOT TO DO

2010-01-10T20:29:00.001-08:00

As many of you know, Our moving to Mesquite Nevada did not work out and we ended up in springville utah. Our plan was to rent and hope that Scott was able to be a manager again and buy a house some day well here we are three years later. We decided to buy a home here in Springville since nothing was happening job wise. The day we were supposed to find out if the person owning the house we were interested in was going to accept our offer, Scott gets a phone call for a second interview in Maine. Okay so what do we do???? Scott was so sure he wouldn't even get the position with the economy they are not moving people. We decided to pursue the house. come to find out the position was down to him and one other person with Scott having more experience so it was highly likely that he had a really good chance of getting the postion but do we want to move back there or stay here. We absolutely love the east and the opportunity to go back there is sooooooo tempting but family is keeping us here so as you can see our decision was to back out of the job and stay here. I just wanted to show pictures of our house. The basement is unfinished which is what we are trying to finish right now. Some of it is hired out and some Scott is doing on his own.

Here is a picture of our kitchen

More of the kitchen

Our living room and my accent wall, I will be changing the color because it really doesn't match my colors of wall decorations

Our basement this is my storage room, in the very back is a small room for cold cold storage

Our Family room, scott is working on the wiring for electricity, which he did mostly by himself and some help from his dad

Part of the family room and the room in the back will be Michaela's room

Part of Mckenzie's room the room next to it is my Laundry room

The other part of Mckenzie's room

The bathroom

The sheetrocking is now done and they are working on the mudding. This will be my Laundry room. I have always wanted a bigger laundry room

The bathroom

The family room

Storage room. The upstairs has three bedrooms so each kid will have there own room is that spoiled or what. So there is my house and more pictures to follow of the finished product. We hope to be out of our townhome by the end of the month we just need to sale our contract.

snow day and the grinch

2009-12-20T19:55:00.000-08:00

we got our first snow storm about two weeks ago and it was quite a bit. The kids couldn't wait to play in it. Here is Ashley

Madison

We went to a Wal*Mart party. Scott had to dress up as a grinch so here he is. He did a great job. The kids couldn't leave him alone and followed him everywhere. He even went over to the Christmas tree and tried stealing presents, It was funny!!

A kiss from the grinch

Mckenzie

Madison

Braces!!

2009-11-22T13:33:00.000-08:00

So Michaela,Mckenzie, and I all got braces. I have never been happy with my smile and have always wanted braces. The big motivation was my sister got them almost a year ago. We all three got them together so we will all be enduring this together.

Here is Mckenzie in the chair getting ready.

Here is me getting ready for them and just a "tad" bit nervous for what is ahead am I to old for this?

Here is me during the procedure

Michaela getting hers on

Michaela and Mckenzie right after they are done

Here is us three with are "shiny" new smile

So now we have them on they are painful, awkward, and especially annoying because part of life is eating three times a day and that is a chore. They feel really weird but in the end it will all be so worth it. By the way we finally bought a new camera!

michaela and homecoming

2009-10-06T19:27:00.001-07:00

Michaela went to her high school's homecoming game. She met with her friend earlier in the day to go shopping. This is what she looked like when I picked her up that evening. Can you tell the colors of the school??

Wow look at those sexy legs!

The Last Three Months

2009-09-15T19:48:00.000-07:00

Some of the things we have done the last three months. My sister and I went to the Bean museum at BYU.

I had to put this picture in because madison said Mom you have to see this bird it has boobs! What do you think?

I have to admit BYU is a very pretty campus even though I am somewhat partial to Utah State BYU is growing on me. Here are the kids playing in the water

I had to put this picutere in of my sister's baby kyla because she is so darn cute!

We celebrated Ashley's birthday on August 29th. She turned 9 we all went bowling for her bday. She started 3rd grade

We celebrated Mckenzie's birthday on September 8th. We went Ice skating. She turned 13 and started 7th grade

Madison started 2nd grade

Michaela is a sophomore. What??? I can't beleive it

summer fun in Ahston Idaho. Picnics!! Hot Dogs!! Ashley and madison with my brother Lee

Grandpa Murdoch cooking Hot Dogs

Feeding the racoon at Grandma and Grandpa murdoch's house

We had a Murdoch reunion with Scott's brother and sister's There are 8 kids in his family. 21 grandkids. We also went to yellowstone for a day. It was so beautiful but I don't have any pictures because our camera was broken. So now I am caught up on blogging but knowing me I will get behind again.

Blogging ?????

2009-09-03T08:24:00.000-07:00

I'm so behind on blogging as you can tell my excuse no time but I beleive you have to make the time and prioritize and blogging is not one of those at the top and it should. Right now I am having troubles putting pictures on here it is doing strange things and I have no clue how to figure it out!!!! I have never been a pro at computers. OUr camera is now broken which makes things harder. Madison was playing with our camera. I told her she knows that she is not supposed to be playing with the camera and her respose well its Ashley's fault because she pushed me. No its both of your faults I said You should not be playing with the camera and Ashley shouldn't have pushed you. She is still convinced its not her fault!!! So until I figure this all out (blogging) I don't have much to post

I want to share with my New Hampshire friends that I just found out after about 9 months that Cheryl Ayer's sister works at the same place I do. What a small world. It was like reconnecting with cheryl which stirred up some emotions. We had it good in New Hampshire a house Scott had a good job wonderful wonderful friends and a AWESOME ward but it was so hard to be away from family, so we moved to Mesquite and every since then it has been a rocky road. The move was sooo hard and I became very depressed and scott's job was not going well so as you know he was demoted and we are now in utah living. We have been in limbo for the past four years. I feel like I have no identity, don't want to make friends, struggling with the ward we are in, and my emotional health has been bad. Anyway seeing cheryl's sister brought up some deep emotions inside of me of how much you all mean to me and your friendship I am afraid of losing all of you because I never see you. I feel like I have lost my identity so trying to feel established is hard, making new friends is hard, feeling a part of our ward is hard because it is SO big and so different. New Hampshire will always be our home. But I have to look at the good. I am by family and my health is better but I never ever want to go through what we went through again. I still do not see how trials make you stronger because if anything I am a lot Weaker!!!!

Camping

2009-07-03T10:33:00.000-07:00

School is out for the summer!!!

2009-06-14T21:36:00.000-07:00

The last day of school was May 29th. Here are a few pictures. Mckenzie finishing elementary on to middle school next year. She will be in 7th grade

Mckenzie with her 6th grade teacher Mrs Bird

Madison with her first grade teacher Mrs Wiggington. She is dure in August

One thing that I don't totally enjoy is making lunches every day but its probably cheaper. By the end of the year they are stinky and smelly ( even though I clean them every night). I can't wait to throw them away and not have to make lunches for the next two and a half months.

And here they are in the Garbage Can!!!!

Madison's 7th Birthday

2009-06-11T22:23:00.000-07:00

Madison turned 7 on may 26, i can't believe it! She is the baby of the family, the only one of my girls who has blonde hair, and the only one born clear across the united states in Laconia, New Hampshire.

Presents from grandma and grandpa and mom and dad

Happy Birthday Madison! We love you!

Moab Utah

2009-05-24T20:22:00.000-07:00

We took a trip to Moab Utah for some fun 4 wheelin and some hiking. It was alot of fun. Here is a picture of Ahsley and Madison and my brothers daughter keira

Getting ready for the big ride

Madison and Keira

A lizard on the behind

Ashley

Mckenzie

Ashley leaning against a GREAT big rock

lunch time

Double Arches

Scott helping Mckenzie climb up the rock

They made it to the top

Madison and Ashley

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ME

2009-05-17T20:46:00.000-07:00

A flower from Mckenzie made out of paper with a chocolate kiss in the middle

michaela has a friend that owns a green house so she made these two pots full of flowers to give me for Mother's day

A Journal and a cookbook from Scott. Each child and Scott put a little note in the journal

Madison made these at school to give me

Ashley made these things at school

Madison's Hoogle Zoo Trip

2009-05-08T18:15:00.001-07:00

Brooklyn, Ellie, Mrs. Wigginton, Tyler, Madison, and Weston at the entrance to the zoo.

Madison after we saw the gorillas. With Westin and Tyler.

Madison with the elephant in the background.

Madison next to the zebra.

Madison with her friends Ellie, Broklyn, and Ashton.

They Do LOVE each other After ALL!!!

2009-05-08T18:04:00.000-07:00

Madison left this note for me the other night. Before I had even seen it Michaela had cleaned her tea set. Then left her that kind note!! Some days you wonder if they will ever get along. Then you get these rays of sunshine!!!!

Michaela's Skating Video

2009-05-06T20:12:00.000-07:00

Michaela's skating competition

2009-04-15T08:51:00.000-07:00

Michaela and Michelle after the competition. Michaela took 4th place. They moved her into a level above what she has trained for. So she had two weeks to get her routine done. She wasn't happy with 4th, but considering the time and extra level. I think she did wonderful!!!!!!!!!

OUR MICHAELA!!!

Neverous as she waits for the results.

Ashley's fieldtrip to harward farms

2009-04-12T20:19:00.001-07:00

Scott went with Ashley on her school field trip to harward farms sponsered by Utah State University

Ashely is making a seed necklace. They put a seed in a small bag with cotton and water

Ashley with her best friend Madison

Ashley posing her cute smile on the bus

Spring has FINALLY come!!!!

2009-04-05T19:24:00.000-07:00

Mckenzie and Madison jumping for joy!

Ashley and Madison posing for Mckenzie as she is taking pictures.

The Three muskateers!!

Lila, Ashley, and Madison getting ride of that pent up energy from Winter.

It was a little chilly outside, but Mckezie, Scott and Ashley went out side on Sunday. They were counting airplanes and the birds that flew over! Mckenzie didn't want her picture taken.

Happy 15th birthday Michaela and Michelle

2009-01-25T20:09:00.000-08:00

Michaela and I celebrated our birthday's within one day of each other. I just wanted to share our present from scott a wii fit! By the way I did not want to uhhhh metion the age of me. I am getting to old!!!

Sorry about the lopsided photo. This is the best I could do

A gift card to Hollister. One of Michaela's favorite store. I wasn't to impressed with the gift card picture but it was the only one they had or should I say nice BODY!!!!!

Our birthday cake, blowing out our candles. We enjoyed michaela's birthday on Sunday by attending a farewell of a family we knew in New Hampshire who now live here in Utah. He will be serving in the Kennewick Washington mission where we lived before moving to New Hampshire. It was so good to see them and get a small taste of New Hampshire. I miss it so much and all of you wonderful people out there. I could not help but get choked when we finally saw this family after 3 and a half years. Erica you are so sweet to remember my bithday!! Thank You!!

Madison's Xmas ballet

2009-01-19T11:12:00.000-08:00

Ashley in the Nutcracker on Ice

2009-01-19T10:59:00.000-08:00

Mckenzie in the Nutcracker on Ice

2009-01-19T10:46:00.000-08:00

2009-01-19T09:20:00.000-08:00

Michaela in the Nutcracker on Ice

2009-01-19T09:02:00.000-08:00

TWILIGHT!

2008-12-29T14:56:00.000-08:00

I dont' know how many of you have gotten
into these twilight books but with it being
so popular and all I decided to read the first
one. It was okay, I didn't get into the book
so much but finally Scott and I found the
time to go see the movie Saturday night and it
was very very good. My favorite part it the song
that Edward wrote for Bella as you can hear playing
right now. It is so beautiful!!! Scott is on the fourth
book right now and Mckenzie has read the first
three books and seen the movie 5 times (crazy)
I don't know if I will read the rest of the books
but really would like to see the rest of the movies
when they come out. Enjoy the song!

Merry Christmas

2008-12-25T22:00:00.000-08:00

I just wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas(I know its a little late for it) but to tell all of you Thank You for all of your Christmas cards and cute pictures! I have been having awful pelvic pain and cramping for the last two weeks. The final outcome was that it was a possible cysts. I had a ultra sound on Tuesday to see if there was anything abnormal going on and they said everything looks fine, so I am thankful for that, it has been hard though to do any Christmas shopping. Thanks to Scott he did most of it. I have taken tons of Ibprofen to numb the pain. I hope I didn't ruin my stomache! I have Michaela, Mckenzie and Ashleys skating program to the nutcracker on ice that I need to post but don't know how to do viedeo's which is scott's department. Oh and madison took a dance class this last fall and did a Christmas dance, so I have that to post. So when Scott gets the time we will get them posted(with a little bribing!)

Thankful

2008-11-30T19:51:00.000-08:00

I Wanted to post this on Thanksgiving Day but I didn't get a chance to. I work at Sears and it was frustrating to see them putting up Christmas the first week of October. What happened with Halloween and Thanksgiving. So as time goes on people have there Christmas Trees up and lights outside and it is so frustrating. I hope that we will all remember Thanksgiving Day and the real purpose of it before we start to celebrate Christmas. I want to share a couple of incidences that have happened to me the two years I have lived here in Springville. The first one happened a year and a half ago in May when I went outside for a morning jog. During that time I was down with things in my life. That was all I could think about. That afternoon I was sitting on my lawn talking to my neighbor when my other neighbor came over and asked if we could keep and eye on his house for a while. I said, are you going on vacation or something and he said his 3 year old son was just diagnosed with leukemia and they were headed for primary children's hospital. I was in shock and reality set in that I should not be complaining about the minor things in my life because it could be worse.
The other incidence that happened was this summer when I went to help a ward member move. I was complaining because I wanted to stay home with my family but as I helped this lady I came to find out her daughter had a heart problem and has to be confined to her house during the winter months because is she catches RSV she could die.
So things like this has made me stop and think that my life could be worse. I am so thankful that my family is healthy and we can do the normal things in life that some people can't do.
Other things I am thankful for
A wonderful husband who is so good to me.
My husband has a job
The gospel
A warm house
Food
Clothing
The sunshine
My girls
A loving heavenly father that I can turn to in time of need
Inspirational music to help me through the tough times
family vacations together
ect ect ect
I am thankful for Thanksgiving Day to remind me what I am greatful for.

I dropped my drawers!!!!!

2008-11-23T20:11:00.000-08:00

So some of you may have grown up knowing that any normal pants go up to.waist until they started making pants that say low rise so they go up as far as below the waist. I was walking to church with Michaela about a month ago wearing my skirt and she says pull your skirt down its up to high on your waist. I said Michaela, any normal clothes go up this high and of course she didn't bleieve me since she has been around this generation where pants sit below the waist. She thought I looked pretty dorky! On with my story I found a cute cute skirt that I really liked but it was a bit short. I like my skirts to be at my knees or below. So I thought I will just buy a bigger size and wear it low with a pin of course. Last week I was merrily walking home from church when all of a sudden my skirt had fallen to my feet. I have never pulled a skirt up so fast. I was so embarrassed as a car drove by. I don't know what they saw but at least I had my white slip on, thank heavens for that. I can laugh about it now but at the time I wanted to crawl in a hole!!!!!!

Belated halloween pictures

2008-11-04T19:56:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures of the girls carving their pumpkins

My New Hampshire Friends

2008-10-18T09:54:00.000-07:00

It has taken me a long time to figure out how to post this until my wonderful brother came and figured out how to download these pictures. Anyway I went and got the mail and was flipping through the New Era and low and behold teens in New Hampshire could it really be possible that some of these teens were from the Laconia ward and I was so excited to see some of the people. This is who I see but maybe some of you could give me more names. Sara, Olivia, Della, Cheryl, Dianes daughter I can't remember her name, One of the members of the bishopric, and I think olivia's dad is back in the back with cheryl. I believe oliva is sitting next to sara. How excited I was to see this and to once have been part of the awesome Laconia ward. It was so exciting to read this as tears came to my eyes how much New hampshire and all the friends are so dear to my heart. I love you all!!!

Mckenzie's 12th Birthday

2008-09-14T19:58:00.000-07:00

September 8 was Mckenzie's 12 birthday. She celebrated with a friend birthday party. They had pizza for dinner and then went to play lazer tag.

Ohhhhh another webkinz let see this is number 7 of the collection she has

Gosh I just love money can you tell

Mckenzie and her friends being silly

Blowing the candles out. Yes that is our food storage in the background.

Scott and I decided when our girls turn 12 they can get there ears pierced so here she is getting ready for the piercing.

Here is the finished product. She chose earrings that are her birthstone. She loves her new ears! Another exciting thing is she gets to go to young womens and she loves it. Happy Birthday Mckenzie!!!

I'm a Klutz

2008-09-10T13:15:00.000-07:00

So I was going shopping to wal-mart and ran into Scott, he was leaving to go home for lunch. I expressed my frustrations to him with some physical problems I have and shed some tears and went on my way not even looking at where I was going and ran into a sign that was on the ground. I completely fell over onto the ground in front of a customer and the manager that is over produce. I was so utterly embarrassed that I ran back to catch Scott before he was driving away venting my stupidity and what a DORK I was. I shed lots of tears because I felt so DUMB, then went on my way. I was able to laugh about it by night time, but at the the moment it happened I felt so embarrassed, I mean what were these people thinking of me. So that was my embarrassing day!

Ashley's Birthday and Babtism

2008-09-07T20:29:00.000-07:00

Ashley turned 8 years old. This was a special Birthday because it is the age for babtism. We bought her scriptures with her name engraved on her scriptures

She also recieved a webkinz, a skunk she loves those stuffed animals

Here she is blowing out her candles

Grandma Murdoch sewed this beautiful white dress for her

Here is Ashley and her Dad just before her babtism

We had a luncheon afterwards at a park. All of my family came. This is the first time in our family we have had everyone attend a special occasion because all of the previous ones we have lived far away, so that was special for me to have all of my family there. This is a picture of Ashley's cousins

They all decided this was the place to sit and eat instead of the picnic tables

We had a fireplace in our little pavillion. There was already hot coals so we started a fire

My brother steve's twins hannah and Alexis and my other brother Richard's daughter Keira

The kids enjoyed standing on part of the fireplace. It was a great day and a special day for Ashley. She's the cleanest one in our family right now.

First day of school

2008-08-25T20:36:00.001-07:00

So all of my girls are in school all day and I have to admit it has been very nice. I plan on getting lots of cleaning and organizing done. This is Michaela's first year of seminary, she commented on how different it is to go to another building and sing a hymn and have a opening and closing prayer. I reminded her that if we were still in New Hampshire she would be getting up very early for early morning seminary so be thankful that she can take it during school hours.

summer fun

2008-08-17T20:12:00.000-07:00

So it has been two months without blogging so I put a bunch of pictures together of our summer. We spent a lot of time with my dad fishing at strawberry resevoir catching crayfish on the dock with chicken legs. Most people keep them to eat but we just caught them and released them. we also fished in the boat with my dad catching Kokane salmon. They are very good eating! The first picture is of Michaela holding a chicken leg on a string with some crayfish attatched to it

Ashely holding a crayfish very carefully without getting pinched

Scott and Ashely with the BIG fish that they caught

My friend stacie from New hampshire who now lives in Idaho. We met for a couple of hours to visit

Ashley and Madison with their cousins Reagan and Alexis

Camping at strawberry again. Some of my girls with their cousins made a little house for all of the squirrels in our campground. I wanted to add that up above our campground were cabin homes and the night before there was a bear that knocked over a bunch of hummingbird feeders and bear tracks. The people never saw a bear but there was true evidence. My next night of sleepin in the tent was nerve racking for me and Ashley came to me in the night saying she couldn't sleep because she was scared of the bear. We made it through the night with no bear!

Camping can be so dirty. Michaela is cleaning Madison's feet with baby wipes. We go through a lot of them

Here is me fixing Ashley's hair

Ashley and Madison with their cousin reagan looking for rocks from a spring that has almost dried up. They collected some very pretty stones that were very smooth

Here is me don't I just look soooo cool

Ahhhh 4wheelin can be such hard work for Scott

Here is our tent we slept in

Our lovely fire with chairs around it. We like to sit around the campfire at night and talk.

And last but not least a picture of Madison because I have to share with you all what she said today at church. After sacrament meeting she said mommy do we have to go to our classes now and I said yes and then she asked if today was fast sunday and I said no and she said well is today slow sunday? Kids they say the cutest things!
So our summer is over with because school starts the 20 of August. All of my girls will be in school all day. It will be interesting having all day to do what I want. Hopefully I can get alot done!

Michaela's girls camp

2008-06-29T21:52:00.001-07:00

Girls camp was so fun!!! Before girls camp i hardly new the girls cuz are ward split, but now i know everyone there!!! all of the girls have their own unique personaltities! There all kind and friendly, and i just love them!!!!

This was our skit, every ward chose a skit to do and performed it.

this was us just being weirdos!

THis was our cabin. It was dang nice!! a lot of girls
said we were just roughing it, because we had showers and electricity.

this is my ward! 11 girls! we all got matching sweatshirts that had a star on it, because the theme this year was stars! "Standing together as righteous sisters."

2008-06-26T20:48:00.000-07:00

We had our family vacation. Half was spent with Scott's family in Ashton Idaho and Half was spent in Logan canyon with my family. I didn't go with Scott to Ashton because I had to work. I was hoping for alone time but I was so busy working and cleaning house that I didn't get it. I met scott in Logan for the camping trip with my family. The first few pictures are the girls with their cousin Lindsay at the sand dunes in st anthony Idaho

Mckenzie, Ashley, and Michaela went with Scott to our favorite place called the playmill in West yellowstone. They saw the play Oklahoma.

Ashley excited for the play to start

Roasting marshmallows in the back yard at grandma murdoch's house

Our camping trip up to Logan Canyon. Michaela and Mckenzie slept in this tent

Ashley and Madison with my brother's dog Jake

Scott, me and the girls took a 4 wheeler ride with my brother and his kids.

Well this is as far as we could go until we hit snow

Some of the kids sliding down the hill

Scott and me and mckenzie went on a six mile hike with the horses. Our other girls went with my sister and sister in law to Bear Lake swimming. This was part of the trail a river. we all had to cross it on this log. Scott was the last one to cross it

Stopping for a lunch break and treats!

Mckenzie riding the horse while Scott led the horse

Some of us taking another 4 wheeler ride. There was so much snow and water. What a WET spring we had. This is me and Ashley going through a stream

My Brother's twins Hannah and Alexis, aren't they so cute!

Madison on the horse with my brother steve holding the rope

Ahhhhhh the joys of camping Scott figuring out how to get rid of a tick on his belly. Luckily it wasn't in to far and didn't take to long to remove

Madison's graduation and Birthday

2008-06-10T12:36:00.001-07:00

I know it has been a couple of weeks since Madison graduated and I have been slothful in getting this blogged anyways Madison finished kindergarten and will be on to first grade. What will I do with my self having free time for most of the day. I remember asking my friend stacie the same thing and her answer SLEEP. sounds like a good idea!

Madison turned 6 on may 26th. We went to the mall to go see Prince Caspion. Her favorite store is claire's (what girl wouldn't like it) She wanted sun glasses so here she is modeling them

Her favorite Mcdonalds

10 mile hike

2008-05-22T20:16:00.000-07:00

The fifth graders at Mckenzie's school have been preparing all year for a 10 mile hike up springville canyon to a park. 5 miles up and 5 miles back. I decided to participate in this. It was a nice walk going up and I really enjoyed the scenery but coming back was very hard. My legs were so tired. I finished it though and it gave me a sense of accomplishing something and time to spend with Mckenzie.

I am the one with the red back pack. A picture of my better side

Mckenzie with her friend becca

mckenzie and her friend

Mckenzie and her friend again

Pizza for a reward of making it half way

Scott and Madison met us there by car. Scott is eating his favorite fried chicken

I'M A PROCRASTINATOR

2008-05-07T17:30:00.000-07:00

So Becky Orton left me a comment on how about an update, I know I am so bad at this. I have still not figured all the "ropes" to this blogging so I get frustrated and just don't do it but yet I want to update my blog. So thanks to you Becky for motivating me and I will try to be better.

daddy painting nails

2008-05-07T16:34:00.000-07:00

On Sunday I had to go to work and Madison was wanting her nails painted so I chose Scott to do it. I tell him all of the time that he needs to learn how to use a curling iron with a house full of girls. I think he did a pretty good job and Madison didn't mind it.

Michaela's competition

2008-04-12T19:45:00.000-07:00

Michaela had a skating competition on Saturday. She competed with two other girls and came in second. Here are a few pictures and a video of her performance.

A New Ward

2008-03-24T20:53:00.000-07:00

Have you ever been part of a ward where everybody is new? Well that is our ward. Our old ward had 700 members and one other ward did to. They took the 3 wards together and made a new one and that is the one we are in. The only callings people had was the Bishop and his couselors. It has been three weeks now with only sacrament meeting being held and now all the the presidencies have been called. I don't envy the primary presidency. They were just called yesterday. Next week is the first Sunday with all three hours. Can you imagine the organization she will have to do. I was a bit leary of joining this new ward but are bishop is so awesome and just having sacrament meeting the spirit is sooooo strong. Its been a awesome thing to experience this. Springville has just been fields but in the last year lots of houses have gone up and you know living in Utah everybody who moves in is mormon not like new hampshire.

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Happy Easter

2008-03-23T21:21:00.000-07:00

blogging

2008-03-20T15:48:00.000-07:00

Well here is my start of a blog. I still haven't figured out how to do all of this and it is frustrating! I have so enjoyed reading everyone elses blogs that I decided to compose my own. What a great way to keep in touch with friends and family!

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