Murphy Christmas Eve

What a great night we all had at the Schiess' house. We celebrated with the whole Murphy family. Everyone was able to make it this year - a total of 57 people.

Food, Food and more Food was on the menu. Chuck-a-luck was an old tradition that grandma Murphy started. A the kids had fun playing and winning prizes off a shelf. Santa arrived around 8 p.m. reading "The Night Before Christmas" to all the girls and boys. Gifts for all were passed out from the man in the red suit. Family pictures were also taken with Santa.

As always we had one family member down for the count..... Quinn started vomiting about 1:00 in the afternoon but was a trooped with his bucket. It wouldn't be a holiday without someone sick.

Snowboy's & Snowgirl

What a great snowfall we had over night. The kids have been outside since 9:30 a.m.. and are still outside. We have not had a plow yet today and several cars have been stuck trying to get out of the subdivision. They are saying 12' to 13" of snow falling in Kenosha.

First Grade Christmas Concert

Oh my goodness, this was the cutest performance I have ever watched. Wow did Mrs. Lindgren do an excellent job with the first graders. The kids sang 8 songs "Patriotic Melody", "Yankee Doddle", "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" were just a few.

Drew is hoping for his "Two Front Teeth"!!

Drew didn't miss a beat with his hips or with the drum he played during one of the songs. We can't wait to show this performance to everyone. Too Funny!!

Kindergarten Christmas Concert

Quinn's Christmas concert was last night. What a great job the kindergartners did. They sang a total of six songs. Their favorite was "Must Be Santa".

We had a special visitor who landed on the roof of the school because he heard music coming from the school. "Must Be Santa".

Beautiful Faces

I was taking a few pictures of Claire and Addy today. These two struck me - I love the close face shots. So cute!!!

Tooth Number Three & Four

What a big day for Drew. He has had his two front teeth loose since September. We have wiggled, pulled and twisted for a few months now and nothing had happen. He was able to push and move the tooth around with his tongue. You would have thought they would pop right out. This morning he woke up and said his teeth and his ear hurt and asked me to call the dentist. So at 10:10 this morning they called Drew into the room and asked him to sit down in the chair and lay back. Dr. Jane looked in his mouth and said "Drew those need to come out." She put jell on it and started to pull with what looked like a pliers. With her first tug I thought Drew was going to bite her. He was in such pain and was begging her to stop. It took her 3 pulls and both teeth came out. He asked her not to pull out the second one and when she told him she took both out at the same time he started to relax. I on the other hand saw the blood and thought I was going down for the count.

Drew is very excited for the tooth fairy tonight. I think he/she may have to bring double $$$$..

Thanksgiving Pilgram

Look at how cute my little pilgram is! Quinn and his class set sail on the Mayflower today and ended up in America - Cape Cod!! They meet new friends today - the Native Americans and celebrated with a blessing feast.

What a great day at school today.

The Wedding

It was a beautiful wedding. I don't have many pictures to show you. It was to hard to take pictures and be part of the wedding party. I hope to share more once others come in.

Congrats to Emil & Krista

Look at how adorable Ty, Claire and Caden look. They did such a great job and everyone couldn't stop talking about them.

Beauty shop pictures

Crash

Well it has been a while due to computer issues. Yes, I lost it all!!! My pictures, documents and everything else that was on this computer. My hard drive crashed - If you don't have and external hard drive I suggest you all go out and spend the $90.00 it cost for one. I have lost several nights of sleep over this. My kids will now be missing a year of activities, birthdays and holidays from their scrapbooks. I'm just sick over it! I am hoping for a miracle and possible we will be able to restore some of the pics off of it.

BRADFORD is moving on........

39 to 0 was the score this afternoon against South Milwaukee. We traveled to the game to watch the Bradford Football Team make it one step closer to state. What a game!!

Our little boy "Drew" who is Pete Djurickovic's (Bradford's QB) number 1 fan dressed up as him for halloween. Last night he had Pete's jersey to wear at a Halloween party. Coach Kennedy wanted to make sure if he was dressing up as Pete that he had the right equipment. Thank Coach Kennedy for making his day. And to "Pete" we will be cheering you and the rest of the team on next week...

Go NORTHSIDE

Windy Treat Day

Look at my three adorable kids...

Drew last minute decide he was going to be a Bradford football player. He had to be number 10 "Pete"! Go Bradford.

Quinn decided to be a clown this year and I managed to dig out a costume that Auntie Debbie had made. Isn't he cute.

Then there is Claire who couldn't make her mind up. We went back and forth on a princess or Minnie Mouse. I pushed for Minnie since we already had purchased it on our Disney Cruise this year. Minnie had a hard time standing upright in the wind.

Windy Fall Day

It was a cold day for picture taking today. We decided to go down to the lake front and snap a few. Hoping next week is warmer and possible getting some pictures at "Pet's". Isn't she cute!

Fall

Went to the park this weekend to take pictures of a neighbor girl. Isn't see cute!!

Bradford Homecoming 2008

Friday started the Bradford Homecoming weekend with a parade and football game. The Bradford football team beat Horlick by a wide spread. We made the play-off's!!!!


Saturday morning, a pancake breakfast at the school which supported the Bradford football team. Saturday evening the dance was held at the school. This was the first high school dance for many of these kids you will see in the pictures.

GO NORTHSIDE!!!

Matthew

Matt & Samantha - Best Friends since preschoolThe Boys

Grade School Friends

The Last Assignment

This weeks assignment was a little more challenging. I hope I got it right! Hoping I found different things - hopefully not like other pictures in the class.

Composition and lines were the first part of the assignment. Second, was to take a picture of a Kenosha landmark. I decided to take a picture of "Rode's Camera Shop." I'm sure most will agree with that.

We also had to pick one of our photos, not necessarily from this assignment, but what we think is our best shot. We will then selected the best photo out of the 12 people in the class.

Let me know what you think of the pictures.....