Almost Accomplished...

At the beginning of summer Morgan and Kylah decided to see if they could see all of the licence plates for the US... This was a FUN game! It got all of us involved.

The only catch was, they had to get all 50 before school started... We were able to see 47, plus Ontario, Alberta, Winnipeg, Australia and Tonga! REALLY, Tonga! In a Home Depot parking lot. If only any of those 5 could have been the illusive 3...

Hopefully next summer we can get all 50!

speaking of chickens.....

Over the last couple of weeks I have made daily excursions outside to see if any of my loudly clucking chickens have laid any eggs... I was totally surprised to find one at the bottom of the back porch steps. It was cracked, but it was still an egg. I was elated! So yesterday I heard them clucking along with the family and we couldn't find one of the hens.. WELL, my Grandma searched and searched and found this;

Here is one of our hens.. She is one of the friendliest... She was sitting on all of these eggs... I marked them with an X so that we knew they were older. Apparently many of our hens have been laying in this spot and we didn't know it... After I took this picture, she went back into the nest and laid another egg... This is the greatest part of having chickens...

Update! REALLY!!!

Life is busy! Blogging really isn't on the top of the list of things to do!!! It seems like we have been going non -stop since April.

So I will try to give a little break down...

In March we got chickens, got rid of our dog who was killing our chickens, and got more chickens! We have a total of 19. Two of them are roosters! Only one of them is crowing and let me tell you, that is just lovely to wake up to in the morning!!! I don't have a recent picture of the chickens so I will have to get one...

In April we took our trip to San Diego... It was so much fun!!!

Here are some pictures of the beach!!! It was so much fun! April was the perfect time to go, because the weather was so beautiful! The kids all LOVED the beach so much! But if you were to ask them to swim in the ocean the way they did then, the wouldn't because we have been watching "shark week" all week... :)

Here are just a handful of pictures I took from all of our "park adventures".. I seriously took about five thousand pictures during the trip.. I didn't want to overwhelm with the pictures....

So here is the break down of the parks.. We went to San Diego Wild Animal Park, Lego Land, Sea World, San Diego Zoo & Knotts Berry Farm... It was a lot of fun and I lost about 18 pounds from all of the walking... I just wish the pounds would have stayed off... :)

El and I celebrated our 9 year anniversary on June 1st... It has been such a wonderful time being married to this crazy guy.. He really makes everything worth while! El planned a big old surprise for me.. He took me to dinner, then decided to drive me around the town to see the Temple and then he surprised me with a night stay at the Anniversary Inn.... It was so awesome! I just wish I could have been a bit more cooperative... It was totally freaked out that all of the kids were going to be left with my Grandma and I was worried they would all be to much for her.. But things went well and everyone had a great time!

Also in June we made our first attempt at getting out to the 240 since March... In March when we went, it was too muddy and wet. We barely made it to the Norman Ranch without incident... So this June trip was way over due! We did make it kind of and got stuck in the Motor Home... It was a chore getting unstuck. We had to wait for El's dad to get there to tow us out... But it sure made for some great memories....

July was our annual Murphy Family Reunion.. It is always a lot of fun! The only problem is, I only took a handful of pictures and none of them turned out.... :(

Now here we are in August... El left for the 240 yesterday.. He didn't get out there until 3:00am... Because of some problems... Hopefully things are going well today... I'm hoping to pack the kids up on Tuesday for our final trip of the summer out there...

SO there it is.. TADA! Not really all that exciting.. But exciting enough for me....

Have a happy day!