Christmas 2007

This morning was hilarious. It started with Caleb walking past all the gifts to tell us he can't wait any longer, because he is too excited. We had to wake up Ethan. After saying a prayer and singing happy birthday to Jesus, we ripped into the presents. The presents were all a hit. I really like the book Caleb got from Aunt Bonnie. The Dangerous Book for Boys. This is like the manual for growing up as a boy.
I will never forget Caleb trying to put on Deodorant. He has been wanting to wear mine and be grown up like his Daddy, so we put some in his stocking this year.

From 2007 Christma...

Ethan painting on his new easel (we may be mailing out Ethan Originals to all the grandparents), and then both boys having great fun(making a great mess) with Moon Sand.

From 2007 Christma...

The next thing that happened was so funny to me. God didn't make it snow in Ruston this Christmas, but He put frost on the ground. Caleb, Ethan and the neighborhood boys put water in the wagon, and some other containers in the backyard to see if it would turn to ice over night. So they rushed out to check on their project.... sure enough there was ice, but then after the moment of playing with ice was over - they noticed the frost. The way they were acting you would have thought we had 2 inches of snow on the ground. They were running in and out of the house showing off leaves they found with frost on it. Running and sliding on it, trying to climb up the slide covered in frost. We did come in very shortly after that with cold red hands and cheeks.

Ethan loves is electronic plastic guitar, and his Stomp video... He has been beating pots and pans all day today.
I have also discovered that Caleb is really good at Connect Four. He has beaten me more games than I wish to admit.
This has been a great Christmas. We have raised a good bit of money at Church to dig a well in Malawi. We got to deliver some food from our small group to a family we are trying to help out. We had a lot of good family time. I praise God for this great year.

The Christmas Photo Collection 07

Here are the 2007 Christmas Photos. I hope you enjoy

Christmas at Nana & Pops 07	Ethan's School Christmas party07
One way to get everyone to sit for a Christmas photo	2007 Christmas morning Murphy Christmas07

'tis the season to decorate!

We just finished tiling the master bathroom. I am pretty excited that it went so good.

Bathroom tile

We also painted the boys room. We have them sharing a room right now, and actually I think it has been a really good thing for them to share a room together. Jill and I are seeing some differences in how they treat each other.
So here are some pictures of the hard work. We did a "brothers" theme.

From Brothers New ...

From Brothers New ...

From Brothers New ...

From Brothers New ...

Click on the links to see more pictures.

Christmas Eve 2007

The Prayer of Confession and Pardon that was read at the Midnight Candlelight service at Trinity:

Gather us gracious God in the warmth of your presence. Grant us grace on this Christmas Eve to be honest. We have not been the church you called us to be. Rather than confess and repent of our sin we find it easier to blame others and justify ourselves. While this time is to prepare for your coming, so much of our hope and faith rests on what we can do for ourselves. Yet we confess to you this evening that what we can do is not enough. We live in a troubled world and we cannot seem to change this world no matter how hard we try. We need your light. We need your peace. We need your love. We need you. Amen.

Tonight as I am minutes away from seeing Christmas morning, this prayer of confession has seemed to struck a chord with me.

Bike Star

This is our latest edition to the Zephyr Film collection. We actually filmed this one this summer when Caleb's friend Bella was visiting from California. I was just a little slow editing it. Check it out at the Zephyr Film's "website"
http://zephyrfilms.blogspot.com/

Beautiful leaves

The trees in our yard are exploding with color. The leaves have taken on awesome shades of yellow to fire red. All of which are signs of the coming raking and leaf blowing that will commence in the coming days. Here are some pictures:

The Beautiful Leave

Finally some editing

We filmed a movie with the kids this summer and it has been sitting on the computer waiting to be edited. Well I finally finished it. It only took to nights to finish it once I got started. But I am excited to say there is another one that is already filmed. Nathan Hegab came over and we just had to make a new movie. So be on the look out for the web release of "Bikestar" and "Ninja Spies".

Also we are planning to film a special Christmas family surprise tomorrow.