Easter Egg Hunt

Can I just tell you how awesome our ward family is? We don't have immediate family down here so wherever we tend to end up we make our family the good church ward members around us. Everyone in the ward donated candy and I should've taken a picture of the field it was covered in every color easter egg you could imagine! They let the 0 to 3 years of age kids out first. I caught a couple shots of Macey. I think she was more interested in the grass because this was her first experience with it. Since she was born it's been covered in snow. She didn't know quite what to do with the eggs that I threw towards her either. Maryn was off and going when they gave the whistle for the next wave to go. There were eggs scattered everywhere but she chose to go to the outer area where they were harder to find. Guess she likes a challenge. I was laughing because every egg she would pick up she would open to see what the candy was. Daddy was gone out of town dirt biking with the guys. Thank goodness he came home in one piece.

All these people are my neighbors. Picture on the left is Maryn's partner in crime Sam and Ronalee is on the right with Macers. I could practically throw a rock at both of their houses. Too much fun!

Bye Bye Waffle Maker

Sundays are kind of hectic in the Murdock household because of meetings galore. My dear sweet husband this morning fixed breakfast for all of us...waffles, cheesy eggs(his specialty) and bacon...just delightful. I think he's always worried about me eating because sometimes I forget when I get busy even though I LOVE food. Found it kind of funny that we had this feast in front of us and Maryn was complaining that all she wanted this morning was cereal. The breakfast was wonderful and I hurried and went to my meeting and left my poor husband for a substantial amount of time to get himself ready and two little girls. When I came home he came up to me and started the conversation with I cleaned the waffle maker and had it propped up on the table to drip dry and when I went upstairs I heard this huge crash. He told me he kind of broke my waffle iron. I looked at it and said so it is broken shaking my head in agreement. Technically I could still use it but there are some exposed wires. I didn't say much but inside I was shouting for joy...WOOHOO I GET A NEW WAFFLE IRON!!! I've been wanting one for a while but couldn't justify buying a new one when the old one worked just fine. It has served us well for the past 7 years but now it's time to move on. Thank you honey for allowing me to get a new kitchen appliance and you didn't even know that I wanted it!

It was bound to happen

It was bound to happen sooner or later. When you're first time parent sometimes bodily functions of your children can embarrass you. When it's the second time around it's just plain funny. We were sitting in church and of course we were in the middle of passing the sacrament (I think kids plan for times like these) when all of a sudden an eruption like no other echoed and I mean echoed throughout the chapel. I think every kid within a mile radius turned their head and from what I can remember a few parents just smiled probably glad that it wasn't their kid or reminiscing about when that happen to them. Matt was holding Macey and Maryn yelled, "Macey had a blow out!" With Maryn if you don't validate her responses right away she just keeps repeating them over and over again until you give her some sort of approval that you heard her. Mind you we're in the middle of sacrament so she kept repeating that phrase over and over again...quite loudly in fact. I looked over at Macey and she was expressionless like what just happened why is everyone looking at me. Ah the innocence of a baby!

Thank goodness for promptings and wet wipes

Sundays have been a little tricky the past couple of weeks. Both Matt and I both have meetings during certain weeks that we need to attend. One of them we actually both have to be there. This past Sunday just Matt had his meeting which left me with getting 3 people ready. Now if they were boys no sweat but girls are a little bit more involved. We fortunately got the girls bathed Saturday night so that wasn't an issue. When I was getting Macey's bag ready for church I had a prompting to put an extra pair of clothes in her bag. Now I've had this type of thought dozens of times but this time for some reason I ran back upstairs and just grabbed the first thing I saw and stuffed it in her diaper bag.


During the second hour of church Macey needed to be fed so I dragged myself into the mother's lounge (still trying to get the hang of this). We were a few minutes from being done and Mount Macey erupted!!! I said out loud, I have 5 seconds to get her on the changing table or she'll soil through and right when I put my hand on her back it was too late! My friend Carrie was laughing and I was too because I didn't know what else to do. I threw her on the changing table and it's one of the moments where you just look dumbfounded not knowing where to begin. I carefully stripped her down and she had "stuff" up to her neck on her feet on her belly and it seemed to be magically multiplying everywhere. I went through all my wet wipes and then some of Carrie's. I would've taken her home but that's where the prompting part comes in. I was participating in the lesson that day and was very grateful that I didn't leave. We had a discussion on some very important topics that I needed to be there for. Carrie's leaving comment from the mother's lounge was it's sure a good thing they're cute! AMEN TO THAT

Note to self...replenish wet wipes, throw another emergency outfit in the bag and remember to throw in a plastic bag for future eruptions.