December 2009

I haven't blogged in forever and finally something happened that was blog worthy. Snow, Christmas and New Year's Eve! In early December, we had a little snowfall. I was at work, and we waited all day for the snow to come down. On our way back to work after lunch, it started to sleet, so we knew it wouldn't be long! Finally, around 2 or so, the snow came. We quit working, and headed outside to play! Or.. really we just stood there and watched. Here's a few pictures from work and at our house from the snow day!

Here is Jerri K and I enjoying some time off of work in the snow!

Cody at our house... it was pretty!
Our house! I love the snow-covered roof with the Christmas lights!

Cody and I had a really great Christmas, too! We got to spend lots of time with both of our families during the holidays, and had lots of fun. I finally got that Coach purse I had been wanting for so long, too! That was really exciting for me! : ) Cody got an electric hedge trimmer from his parents, and during his week off, he's already started playing with it in the bushes and loves it! He wasn't really thrilled about trying to trim all the bushes with big clippers, so this is going to be very useful for him (we have LOTS of bushes)!!

We also got to see all the kids become more involved in the gift opening. Aimee, of course, was an expert gift opener and helped pass out gifts. Aidan also helped pass out gifts and seemed to think everything he opened was the coolest thing ever! Instead of opening the gifts, Logan crawled all over them! It was so funny, and when he'd topple off of them, he'd just get back to climbing. And then there's the newest baby - Katelyn. She didn't do much of the opening, but she did like to grab on to the wrapping paper. She will have tons of toys now to play with when she gets big enough! Here's a few pictures from Christmas at the both of our family Christmases.

Murphy girls on Christmas Eve

The kids... it was very difficult to get them all together for a picture!
Aimee posing in front of the tree
Katelyn playing with wrapping paper in her Christmas pjs
My lovely Coach purse

New Year's Eve was a blast! We went over to Don and Tina's house to celebrate, but what Don didn't know was that it really was a surprise birthday party for him. We ate lots of good snacks (even though we had just eaten at Outback), talked, had a gift exchange game, and had a really great time visiting with everyone! Here's some pictures from the bash:

The birthday boy and me! Happy Birthday Arthur : )

From the gift exchange, I got a tea light lamp, but another lady heard I wanted her scarf. Good thing she doesn't like pink! I ended up with a pretty scarf (which I licked because I didn't want anyone to take it...haha) and Cody ended up with grilling stuff. He started off with the Jelly Beans, but someone stole them even after I ate some of them....

Carrie stole this from her mother... how rude! : )
I caught Casey drinking potpourri!
Aimee and me!
Two of the kids... the others aren't quite old enough to make it to midnight yet!
Aidan and me!
My hubs and me having a grape juice toast at midnight! Love you Cody!

We've had some really great times this year, and can't wait to see what will happen in 2010! Happy New Year everyone!

Halloween 2009

We had Halloween at our house this year. I was hoping for some trick-or-treaters now that I had my own house, but that was not the case. We had like 12 the whole night, and half of them were teenagers. We still had fun though. We had a feast for dinner! Everyone brought over something to eat, and it was soooo good! For desert we had Stephanie's dirt - yum, smores, and Rice Krispie treats decorated like pumpkins! We tried to take Aimee trick-or-treating on my street, but it wasn't her favorite thing. There were only like 3 houses with their lights on anyway. We brought over Cody's parents' fire pit to cook smores in, so we sat outside around the fire for a while visiting and having a great time! I didn't get tons of pictures, but I did get a few.

Cody's mom made lots of things - one of them was a monster looking cheeseball .. haha!

Stephanie and Aimee - such a cute angel!

Cody's dad has had this mask for years and scared the mess out of Aimee. He made it look even creepier with his tongue sticking out.. gross.

This is my favorite picture of Katelyn taken a week before Halloween at the pumpkin patch - precious of course!

I think for Halloween, she really wanted to be a rock star. Cody found her like this asleep in the kitchen, singing into her "microphone" and throwing up her rock fist.

My cat was supoosed to be a vampire for Halloween... she didn't really enjoy the costume I got for her.

By the end of the night, she realized she'd rather be a Diet Pepsi for Halloween than a vampire! She was locked away in the laundry room to keep her out of the food, and this is how we found her by the end of the night...

Overall, we had a great night. I wished we would have had more trick-or-treaters because I still have TONS of candy left over. Oh well... more for me! : ) In other news... I got a new job. Starting the week of Thanksgiving, I'll be working at church as an assisstant to the children's minister. It's nice to know that I will have a full time job finally, and I'm looking forward to working there again!

It was Justin's birthday party....

but I didn't take any pictures of him - just Katelyn! She's getting so big and cute and I just love that little girl. Pretty soon I'm going to have to fight off Mimi to get a chance to babysit! So here are my recent pictures of Katelyn.

She was smiling and laughing really big tonight - so cute!

Uncle Cody and Katelyn - they matched!

Looking for ducks

With our beautiful niece!

Welcome Fall!

It's FINALLY here! I have all my stuff out and decorated... I love all the pretty fall colors. I finally have a house where I can put cute little signs in the yard and decorate the porch. So here's a little preview : ) We'll be handing out candy this year, so if you have kids, bring them to my house!

I bought this yard sign during the summer, and I finally get to put it out. Welcome to out house!

Our front porch... I probably should have gotten different color mums, but I like orange.. haha.

My mom bought me this Halloween wreath that I just thought was the cutest!

I'm having trouble with my cat and the decorations though. She already ate one ball off of a candle holder.. she's going to need to be declawed before Christmas for sure! I can just imagine her ripping all of the wrapping paper to shreds and playing with the ornaments... ugh. Maybe she will grow out of that need to play with EVERYTHING by the time December rolls around. But I'm sure she won't.

My Favorite Huge Family

I love to watch 18 Kids and Counting. The first time I ever watched their show was on Christmas day a few years back when I got a new tv. I couldn't stop watching! At that time, there were like 15 kids and she was pregnant again or something. But now... here she is pregnant with #19!!!! What the heck! I'm not at all surprised, but it's just nuts that she's had so many kids. I thought I should vote for the next J name to be Julia since.. well.. you know.. it's a great name and all! But.. then I had a friend mention a better name. I think it fits so much better too... Jeez-Louise!

Autumn!

Well... almost. I can't wait anymore. I'm very tempted to decorate my bakers rack with fall stuff early just because I love it so much. With the bigger house - I need more decorations!! : ) I know Cody probably married me thinking that I would be totally different than his mother who decorates for every season. Well, the more time I spent over at the Beans' house, the more I loved all the pretty decorations. And it's their fault for taking me to Old Town Spring! I can't wait to get my Christmas yard sign from Metals and Petals! I love fall and Christmas. It's all so pretty... if only it would hurry up and come a little quicker!

Yeah, this was a boring post, but I have nothing interesting going on...

She's The Cutest!

Katelyn is finally here! I already love being an aunt. She's just so cute and tiny! She has the cutest cheeks and toes. I could just hold her forever, but I do have to share : ) I just love her!