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Proud Mom!

My two boys, Scott and Toby had their first meet of the season on Saturday.  Scott is currently competing Level 6 and Toby is competing Level 5.  It is Scott’s second season as a L6 and Toby’s first season as a L5.  They both looked absolutely awesome.  Polished and perfect as they could be.  Scott [...]

Great Children!

Yesterday was crazy and I had a lot to do.  The kids were locked into what I had to do and not able to do much of what they wanted.  We created this little giving tree for our family.  It consists of a cut out tree and slips of rolled paper with things we can [...]

Precious Moments

I was lucky enough today to have one of those spiritual teaching moments with my boys, Scott & Toby.  They had just asked their dad today a question about some extended family members they were concerned about.  Scott wanted to know if they would get to be in the celestial kingdom or not?  Well, on [...]

Arduino Fun – Science Experiment #1

The Arduino Duemilanove board is such a fun little thing to play with. Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. Both Scott and Toby helped out in creating a visual and audible light detector. We used: 8 Light Emitting Diodes 9 resistors 1 photo resistor 1 piezo speaker [...]

Indiana Jones and the Lost Brother!

Granpa Marc wrote about a recent adventure over the Memorial weekend. http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/268273/ Indiana Jones had some help from his Granpa to find Toby, who was the lost brother

Students of the month!

Way to go Scott and Toby! They both were awarded the “Student of the Month for October 2007″ at their school (The Ranches Academy). What fine examples you are to your Sisters.

Student of the Month

Toby received the ‘Student of the month’ award for October 2006 at his new school. He’s only in Kindergarten and has already charmed his way to the top. The Ranches Academy is a local charter school supporting 9 grades of which Scott is also attending in their 2 grade. What surpises me the most is [...]

Holiday Blues

I hope you’ve had an enjoyable Christmas and that the New Year will greet you with much success. For us it’s been a family sick time! Kristy got a Sinus infection, Alyson and Toby both got colds with fever and Ian got a sinus infection with infected tonsils too! The bad news is that Fiona [...]

Fiona Clair McMurray

We’d like to announce the birth of our new daughter ‘Fiona Clair McMurray’. Born Aug 19th 2005 @ 7:52pm MST in Orem Utah. She weighed in at 7 pounds 4 ounces and is 18 inches long. She scored a 9.9 on the apgar test and has red hair. She’s opened her eyes and is eating [...]

Tooth Fairy makes a visit.

My Cousin, Jonathan, wrote a poem when he was very little entitled "My Wobbly Tooth". I still remember it till this day, not the actual contents but the way at which he expressed his poem to us. "My tooth began to wobble" will always stick with me. Scott lost his 1st tooth over the weekend [...]

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