The first to post!

Well, I (Scotty), have been appointed by the Lambert family to be the official blogger in the Murphy-satellite location of Brentwood. Things are good over here, all of the Christmas decorations are down, and replaced with Happy Birthday signs and balloons for my mom. We celebrated yesterday in the typical Murphy style, stuffing ourselves with awesome mexican food. Dad did all of the cooking, and us boys helped. Kimberly headed back to school last friday, and is in the middle of her first classes as I type. We got home from our cruise on thirsday, and we all agree that we had one of the best times that we have ever had! We left on the 27th from New Orleans, and spent the night sailing down the Missippi river, and then spent a whole day at sea, filling ourselves with food, swimming, hittng the water-slides, and lounging. That next morning we arrived in Progresso, a tiny town that is built a few miles from the 6th wonder of the world, Chichen-Itza (Spelling?). We decided not to go on any adventures, but rahter lounge on the beach, and see what the little town had to offer. The next day we docked in Cozumel, hopped in a taxi and drove to a private beach called "paradise." And it was! We got back on the boat and spent another day at sea, before docking back in New Orleans on New Year's. We all made it back safe and sound. (except for me finding out that there is some man with the name of Scott Murphy Lambert out there that is a known drug trafficker. I was notified of this at customs! I swear I am not a user.) The past few days have been very nice, dad has been home, and we are all just spending time together before I have to take off. Love you all and hope that you all had a great Christmas and HAPPY NEW YEAR! XO


P.S. Forgive the sleepy looks in some of the pics. . .we were tired. :-)

Murphy Family Challenge

I challenge every family to post pictures of their Christmas happenings since were could not be all together. It is not very hard. Just log in... if you have registered as a contributor... if not, just try and leave a comment and I will resend the link to you. One you log in here is what you do:

1. GO to the dashboard in the top right hand corner, OR hit New Post if it is there.

2. A text box thing should pop up.

3. In the grey space at the top right of that bax, there is an icon that looks like a picture - next to the spell check. Click on that.

4. Hit browse and you can upload pictures from your computer. To add more than one, it "add another image". You can only upload 5 at at time, so you may have to repeat 3-4 until you have put in all the pictures you want.

5. Type whatever commentary you want.

6. Hit "publish post"

OR

Have your kids do it!

GOOD LUCK! HOPE TO SEE SOME PICTURES!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

We "California Murphys" had a wonderful Christmas eve. We missed all of you who are far away. It is never the same with out the whole bunch, but we made the best of it!

We played a charades/pictionary game with the Christmas symbols. Some of my favorites were Danny's "Christmas tree" and Karen's ''angel' (she just stood there)! Grammy and Grandpa talked about Christ as the most important part of Christmas and we read Luke 2. It was a fun night.

Grams and Grandpa love their presents!

We love you and miss you all!