Meet The Murrays

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Parker's Program

I am SOOOOO behind with posting! Time to get caught up!!!

A couple of weeks ago, Parker was in a program at school.

He didn't really like the songs. It was called Education Rocks! Ha!

They all did a great job!

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Somebody's Seven!

Happy Birthday Claire!

This sweet girl is seven today! She woke up to a special birthday breakfast and ate from the birthday plate of course!

She had two gifts from us, so she decided to open one in the morning and one in the evening.

Her birthday was off to a great start!

Our lunch times overlap a little, so I got to eat with her.

She took cupcakes for her class.

I am SO BLESSED to be teaching in the same school. I can be there now for all of these little celebrations!

She picked Poppyseed Chicken and Macaroni and Cheese for her birthday dinner.

Another present!

Welcome Phoebe!

Birthday Interview

1. What is your favorite color? pink
2. Who are your best friends? Sydney, Alyssa, Olivia, Abby
3. What is your favorite thing to do? write stories
4. What is your favorite food? pizza
5. What do you like to do with your family? go on vacations
6. What is your favorite toy? American Girl dolls
7. What do you want to be when you grow up? a famous singer
8. What makes you happy? parties, eating, singing, and playing with my friends
9. What makes you sad? reminders at school (which she never gets)
10. What is your favorite show to watch? Shake It Up
11. What is your favorite book? Chronicles of Narnia, Fancy Nancy, Fairy Tales
12. What do you love to learn about? Reading
13. Where do you like to go? the mall
14. What do you think about before you fall asleep? scary dreams (hoping I won't have them)
15. If you could meet someone famous who would it be? Katy Perry
16. What is something you are really good at? handwriting
17. What is something new you'd like to try? doing a bunch of flips
18. What is your favorite song to sing? Firework
19. What is your favorite movie? Chronicles of Narnia
20. What game do you like to play? Tag

I love you sweet sunshine girl! I thank Jesus every day for giving you to me. Your mama adores you, and I will always be your biggest fan. Happy Birthday!

(In true Murray fashion, she started her birthday celebrations last weekend and still has festivities planned for this weekend ~ more pictures coming!)

Monday, October 1, 2012

A Birthday Extravaganza

I had myself a little birthday celebration. The overall theme was food. You will agree indeed when you see all of my pictures. I would like to take this opportunity to make it very clear that I do not normally eat this badly. Nor did I ever consume all that was on a plate all by little ol' self. I always like to share my sin.

As usual, I turned my birthday into a weekend long event. I have a lot of pictures, but I've tried to narrow it down to a few, but you can rest assured I have included all of the food related pictures for your viewing pleasure.

My extravaganza began on Friday night and continued through tonight. A four day shindig, if you will.

On Friday night, Claire and I had a Girl's Night because Brian and Parker were supposed to be camping with Boy Scouts. The boys decided not to go camping, but the girls still had PLANZ. Claire picked Dairy Queen for dinner.

We were disappointed that our original plan of painting pottery didn't work out. They were closed for a private party. Claire seemed to enjoy Plan B just fine at Wallabies.

Brian and Parker ended up going to see a movie and out to dinner together. Then when we all got home, it was decided that we should ALL sleep in the tent out in our back yard. I bet you're wondering how this all fits in with MY birthday weekend. Yeah, I was wondering that too.

Anyway, we did it. It started thundering, then raining, and eventually raining harder. We made it until 5:07 AM when we all raised the white flag and went inside to the comfort of our beds. Honestly, that was longer than I thought we would last. I definitely took one for the team with that whole tent thing. Makin' Memories (I suppose).

On Saturday, we ate a quick lunch at La Carretta. Most of us had on orange to support our Vols. They ended up having a better game than I expected, even though we lost.

Saturday night, I went out with Lisa and ate at The Battery. We shared the Shrimp and Grits appetizer. I'm not much of a grits girl, but I did really like it.

I also ate this humongous (insert sarcasm) crab cake. It was delicious albeit tiny.

Since we had promised to not even open the front cover of our new Christmas with Southern Living books until we were together, we took them with us to Starbucks. We didn't even care that we looked like huge nerds with our matching SL Christmas books in the middle of Starbucks. Here I am with my drink and book ~ Lisa is a little camera shy I guess.

On Sunday, Brian and I went to Knoxville for the day. Of course, we started the day with lunch at Stir Fry. We only had egg rolls, but my oh my, they were delicious.

Then there was a little incident involving a mini Cinnabon. Remember, I shared everything all weekend. And it was a MINI one people. I basically had one bite!

After a bunch of shopping all over town, it was time for the main event. ALTRUDA'S!

Salad!

Garlic Rolls

Lasagna
(If loving it is wrong, I don't want to be right)

Today is my actual birthday. I took the day off which was glorious. Brian and I had Moto's for lunch. I told you it was a weekend of ridiculous, fattening, excessive food. Gluttony I tell you. But remember, I shared everything. That makes it ok, right?

I loved my gifts from Brian and the kids. I got sweet cards, boots, two charms, shower gel, a candle, a scarf, and some candy (because at this point, why not?)

I had lots of special little treasures from the kids. They both made me the sweetest cards and then gave me various pieces of gum, little tiny notes, and a My Little Pony piece of mail. My greatest treasures!

Then tonight, for the closing ceremonies, my sweet Mom made a feast. All of my family (except Andy and Miriam who live out of town) came over to eat and celebrate with me. I have a lot of pictures from tonight, but most of them are blurry so I just picked a few. I'm sorry to anybody who isn't pictured!