Jenny's Little Miracle

Jenny has been my best friend since we were 5 years old! Today she gave birth to her beautiful daughter and she allowed me to be in the room during the delivery to help her document this wonderful occasion! Here are some pictures of this beautiful little miracle!

Jorie B Murray

6 lbs 8 oz

19 1/2" Long

Born at 1:44 pm on January 27th

Our 2nd Christmas

Here are the pictures from our 2nd Christmas we had with Travis's Mom and Hugh! The girls had so much fun!

Scrapbook Overnighter

All right all of you scrapbooking ladies that read my blog, we are having another Scrapbook Overnighter scheduled in time for National Scrapbook Day! We have two different weekends and the majority of my group that comes will be going on March 26 & 27th! If you are interested in coming, it will be at the Comfort Suites in Ogden off of 21st street so you can have overnight accomodations! Let me know if you are interested and I will make sure that you get the registration form!!!!! It is always lots of fun!

What a bummer...

Yesterday my hard-drive on my lap top crashed! Luckily though, I had already been burning pictures to cd's and I had uploaded a bunch of them to shutterfly so I didn't loose to much! I did however loose the pictures from Bekka's dance recital, but I have them on here so I am going to try to print them and see if they loose any print quality. I had printed all the way up to Halloween 2007, and hadn't dumped my storage card from my camera so I still have the pictures I took up at Snowbasin of the girls last Fall, Thanksgiving, Christmas and sledding which made me happy! I bought a new hard drive and am waiting for the recovery disk to come from Toshiba since I can't find the cd's that are in the box from when I got the laptop, but that is going to take anywhere from 2-3 weeks to get, so I am kinda bummed about that. Now I have to go and look for all of my software program cd's so I can re-install Microsoft Office and Photoshop and any of the other programs I use alot of. Good news is that I will have a bigger hard drive, bad news is that I will now be needing to purchase an external hard drive so I can store pictures on it so that this doesn't happen again! I plan to take all of the cd's that I have pictures on and put them on the external hard drive so I have 2 places that pictures are stored! Oh well.....what do you do!

Travis's Mom and Hugh were here this last weekend and we had our 2nd Christmas! I have pictures and will post them later this afternoon!!! Check back!

Sledding with the Kiddo's

Today we took the girls sledding with our friends (our neighbors). Travis had taken Bekka sledding yesterday and they decided to go again today, so I bundled Catie up and borrowed a snow suit from my neighbor and we went(she had 3 layers of clothes on under this snow suit)! We had a good time and I was really suprised that Catie actually liked it! :) On our way home, we stopped and got some hot chocolate to warm up!

One Winter memory that I have from when I was little was going sledding with my Mom & Dad, my Brothers & my Sisters. We used to go to this hill near Hill Air Force Base in Roy or Riverdale...it was where the Saturn dealership now sits. We had so much fun!!!!

Christmas Day 2008

We were supposed to go to South Dakota for Christmas this year, but Travis started having stomach pains and we thought he might have appendicitis...he had some blood work done last Saturday and he had a bad infection. They gave him some strong antibiotics and he felt a little bit better, but the Dr. thought we should still have a CT Scan...so we did that on Tuesday morning(we were supposed to leave for South Dakota that morning). After that, we decided that we should go and talk to the Dr and let her know our plans so that they could try to get the results from the CT Scan so we would know if we should stay home or if we should go. We got a call from the Dr about 3:00 in the afternoon and she told us that it wasn't appendicitis but we should stay home in case something were to happen we could be near good medical care. So we were not able to leave. He was also put on a liquid only diet until his pain was better. He is feeling somewhat better now, better than he was last week! So that is a good sign. He had some more blood drawn yesterday to check his white cell count and it was a lot better. We have another CT Scan scheduled for him on Tuesday so we will see how that comes out! I am just glad that it isn't anything to serious!

Last night, the girls and I went to my parents home and had our traditional pizza and open up our jammies on Christmas Eve. Grandpa and Grandma took Jaylee, Jace & Bekka to see the lights and then they brought Bekka home at about 9:00. She finally went to bed about 10:30 so that Santa could come!

We were up at 7:30, by the time Travis got up and came downstairs it was about 8:00. We opened all of our gifts and then I went upstairs to prepare the meat and cut up veggies for our Omelet tradition (we have omelets every year on Christmas morning). My Mom and Dad came over at about 11:00 and brought gifts for all of us. We ate, hung out for awhile and then they went home. Travis wasn't feeling well this morning, he had a lot of stomach pain, so he fell asleep downstairs about a half hour before my parents came. I think it was probably nearly 2:00 when he finally woke up and came upstairs and hung out with us....he was feeling a bit better. Travis and the girls got me a diamond pendant that has 5 stones, each of the girls birthstones in it and then there are 2 diamonds so that if we were to have any more children, I can have their birthstones added to it! It is quite pretty!



We hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas!

Merry Christmas to All and to All a Goodnight! :)

My Beautiful Girls

I took the girls a couple of weeks ago to have thier pictures done in a studio since I don't have the equipment I need to be able to do them myself at home. I wish I had the backdrops and the big umbrella flashes, but I make do with what I have. Catie did not want to have her picture taken, she threw the biggest fits during the session, but we did get some good shots of her!

Then & Now

Here are some pictures of Bekka from school. One is from Spring 2008 and the other one is from Fall 2008. I can't believe how much she has changed in just a few short months. She is growing up so fast and it makes me so sad and happy at the same time. Both Travis and I are so proud of her.

Spring 2008

Fall 2008

Abbigale

I know I posted this back in September, but I was finally trying to get it scanned in and this so far is the best I have been able to get for a scanned image.

Bekka's Christmas Dance Review

Saturday Bekka had her first dance recital! I took pictures while Travis recorded it on video. She did so well and we are so proud of her!