My Belly Grows!!!

Ok, so I have been very shy about sharing belly pics and have only taken them at the request of Justin. I finally feel like my bump looks like a baby bump and not like I just ate too much for lunch, so I thought I would share. We are getting so excited. We got one of the cribs my parents bought us and Justin is going to lock himself in the room and put it together tomorrow. (Right honey!!!!!) My next appointment is February 1st, and hopefully we will have another ultrasound a week or so after that. It is so fun to see them moving around. TheMurphettes are very busy already, kicking each other and doing back flips. This is a good thing, because they only have a short time until it will be way to cramped for them to move around much. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

More Pics from New Years

Anna, David and Justin on the slopes

Justin and I on the way to go sledding.

A Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

What a wonderful holiday! We were able to really enjoy some great times with family over the last couple of weeks. We went to Taylorville this year for Christmas. We ate way too much food, enjoyed a night with our friends Matt & Megan, and had a great time with Justin's family. Keely really likes the whole Santa idea and cleaned up on Christmas gifts. She even had her own stocking. We came home for a couple of days after Christmas and then headed north. We were able to take my grandparents in to Rockford to my Aunt's before they left for AZ. It was great to see everyone, and we had quite the road trip. :) We then returned to Galena to spend New Years with my mom, dad, sister, and David at the farm. Justin took Gold Medal in the sledding competition, David was a close Silver. (We won't mention that my mom was the judge and Justin mentioned to her that he was giving her 2 grandchildren) After the warm-up, everyone headed to the slopes for some skiing and snowboarding at Chesnut. I kept a watchful eye and enjoyed some hot chocolate in the lodge. I was relieved that no emergency room trips were needed. My parents were very impressive, I was just worried my mom would think she was Picabo. We wrapped up our travels in Galesburg on New Years Day to watch Illinois play in the bowl game. Not the outcome we wanted, but a great year after some horrible seasons. As we settle in back home, we are busy getting ready for the babies and working on some projects around the house. We were able to go see Wicked at the Fox last week. Justin got us the tickets as an anniversary present. It was a great show! Hope everyone is doing well!

P.S. Keely is anxiously awaiting the arrival of possibly 7 brothers and sisters this week. Her mom Lilly is due on Saturday!

Keely with her new coat! Our little girl gets quite cold in the snow!

Picture of my grandparents barn with the beautiful snow!

And keep snowing!

Keely enjoys some more running around in the snow!

Keely takes a nap in between outings.

Keely points to where Justin needs to shovel, or at the snow ball.


Keely thinks she is Air Jordan, going for the snow ball.

Let It Snow!

We woke up this morning to a beautiful snow. This is Keely's first, so regardless of the 6:30am time, Justin and I both got up to see what she would think. Of course we should have known she would love it and think it was a yummy snack! I wanted to get a pic of our Christmas Tree up and a few of her enjoying the snow. More to come!

She acts like she would never touch the tree, ha ha!

She wanted to bring some in with her.

Do I have to come in mom?

Lots to be Thankful for!

Hard to believe that it is almost December. November has flown by. We were able to go visit our friends, Jennifer and Jason in Bloomington and go to Taylorville to celebrate Justin's grandparent's birthdays two weekends ago. We have also been working on some more projects around the house like cleaning the basement and taking down shelving that was in our spare bedrooms. I feel like the living areas are about done and now we just have to focus on the bathrooms and bedrooms.

I have been feeling great and am in my 15th week. We have another doctors appointment next Friday so I always look forward to that. The next ultrasound will be two weeks after that. They should really look like two little people by then!

Thanksgiving was spent in Galesburg with my folks, sister and grandparents. It was a wonderful time and went way too fast. Mom and dad even treated me to Happy Joes, who knew that would be one of the things I miss most from Galesburg! Ellie and Keely are slowly but surly warming up to each other and Keely is understanding that Ellie just wants to be left alone sometimes. It was nice to catch up with some friends while we were home too.

Our house should look like Christmas by the end of the week. Now that I have lots more energy I am on a roll to get stuff done. I got the Christmas cards written, now they just have to go out in the mail! We are going to get the tree on Thursday and have it decorated before Justin's mom and sister come down to go shopping Saturday. (Will be interesting to see what Keely thinks of the tree) I will get some pics up once I have decorated.