Mckenzie's 12th Birthday

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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