Happy 80th John!!

John celebrated his 8oth birthday on Saturday. He will turn 80 on Monday. The entire family (minus a few grandchildren) were in attendance. For a total of 8 children, 26 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.

John Murray Family

Children

Grandchildren

John and Rena

Three generation of Murray's - Yes Jax's is the one and only to carry the family name.

Jason, Jaxon, Ashlee, John and Abbie
Haslam's
Stoddard's
The Party
The Hostess

Merry Christmas!

We had a great christmas. Hope everyone's day was merry!
Ashlee and her skateboard, yes my darling daughter requested a skateboard for her and her doll.
Abbie and her scooter. She road her other one to it's death during the summer.
Jax is a happy boy with his new tool bench! "Ho Ho did bring me a Hammr". Our Little Shepard.
Grandpa is a good sport. Connie always has fun games to play. This year was to see which team could make the best reindeer With nylons and balloons. Of course Grandpa won. Shannon you missed out this year. Jax wanted some horns as well in this picture.

Abbie's Christmas Sing Along

Abbie had her kindergarten sing along this morning. She did very well and sang her heart out. She gave her part and had a lot of fun being a cute little reindeer. Here are some of the video's of them singing and her part. You may want to turn off the blog music first.

sleigh ride
numbers of xmas
Jingle Jingle Jingle
Thanks

Congrats to Jon

What a neat experience to watch as Jon was commissioned into the AirForce. Jon is my cousin Shannon's husband. Thanks for sharing it with us. Please see Shannie's blog for more (when she gets around to updating).

Here Comes Santa!

"> Abbie and Jax got to visit with Santa tonight at the ward Christmas Party. Jax was not impressed despite saying ho ho ho constantly all night. When the time came there was terror in his face. Watch the video and he will tell you about it. Ash was one of santa's helpers trying to keep the line in order.

O' Christmas Tree

It did take several days but our beautiful christmas trees are now up. Jaxon was such a helper. As you can see from below he hammered and fixed the tree up just right. He was sooooo much help this year. As some of you know each year we get a new ornament. Jaxon was happy with his "Bob the Builder" and Back hoe.


fixin' the tree











All done














Hanging some ornaments








So much help










Some of Jax's favorite things

Happy Holiday's From Our Family!

Fall Is Here!

With the change in the weather comes a new season for Ashlee. She started basketball this week with her first win. She has fun with her team and enjoys playing. If you need her schedule give me a call. Jaxon and Abbie helped (ha ha) Jenae and Grandma Murray feed the sheep. Jaxon loves the sheep and is always trying to get some one to take him out to see them. Dallin is usually a prime candidate. The sheep are now moved and I am sure Jax will be sad as he has spend many hours watching and feeding them.

Happy Halloween!

Another Spooky Halloween with trick or treating at the Terrace and the party at the Lindley's the kids all had a good time. Jax was a little scared of his costume but he wore it with style. He wasn't so sure about the talking and trick or treating but after a few suckers he realized he could get lots of candy. He really liked Grandpa Sea’s decorations, especially the rat. Ashlee went with Shy to the Little Bear Bottoms this Halloween. She is starting to get older and wants to be with her friends now. She did make a really good decision about not going to the Haunted Forest. So I was proud of her. I added some pictures from Lagoon's Fright Mares. We went there over UEA.

Abbie's Six

It is so hard to believe that six wonderful years have passed so fast. Sweet Abbigale has grown up as well. She is in Mrs. Allen’s kindergarten class and loves school. She continues to dance up a storm with the Tueller’s every Wednesday. She had a friend’s party a McDonald’s, a family party and all in all she had a great birthday.

Abbie has always loved flip flops. She can run better with them on than with gym shoes. She was so excited to see this cake. She was not to happy with Denise's spanking machine and Jax actually had more fun than Abbie crawling under everyone. She was able to have 8 of her special friends join her at McDonald's playland. It was great. They were impressed by the way everything was made. Abbie was thrilled with all her presents and adventures on her special day.

Gone Yankee's! (the stadium at least)

Jason and I went to New York in September for the final games at Yankee Stadium. It was a lot of fun.

These are some pictures of the first game.

American girl doll store. I think Jason had as much fun as I did in here. He was sending phone photo's to all his neices.


behind home plate

1st game seats

The fence

For Kilee

The new stadium

The Yankees Win both games

Watch the grounds crew -- I know the video is crazy but it gives you an idea.