allistiars screech

let it snow!

Well, we've had quite a bit of snow in the past few days, which has been wonderful when you're in a cozy warm house, but not so fun while driving with no snow tires! We get them on monday thankfully, so i wont worry quite as much as i have been with julian driving to and from hanover every day. with christmas coming so soon, i've been busy baking goodies to send to friends and decorating the house! the christmas spirit has definatley come to me! i've alreaedy had the tree up for about a week now! Im realy looking forward to allistair being a bit older and looking forward to christmas, but for now, i just decorate him in ornaments and taking lots of pictures! i dont have those yet but i do have a few others my mom and i took.

hes quite the little goofball lol and enjoys making all sorts of faces, he has also recently learned how to screech and does it all the time as you can see in the video!

Once again, Ive been very slacking in my posting so here I am , yet agian.
theres not a whole lot to tell really, Allistair is growing so fast! he has recently started to make noises , and seems to really like the concept of making noise!
Julians been quite busy at Bell world, right now they are having a "contest" to see who can sell the most of a certain type of phone, whoever wins gets a new cell phone and a 19 inch flatscreen tv. both of which he is desperately wanting to win to sell on ebay!
Im looking very forward to christmas! i've been going through my recipes looking for all sorts of christams goodies to make! im very excited, and wish christmas would come sooner so i could start baking!!
jon comes home on tuesday for thanksgiving! I am SO excited for him to meet his little nephew, hopefully allisitar isnt too crabby and doesnt throw up on jon so he will still like holding him at the end of the day! please pray for safety as he drives up with seth dyck. anyways, i think thats about all for now, below are a few semi-recent pictures of allistiar.



mr smiley! grampas shoulder tastes pretty nummy!



allistiar and his friend benjamin! (he looks a bit scared acuatlly!)

peek-a-boo! allistiar takes after
me with his crazy faces!

Well, once again its been quite some time since i've given an update on everything thats been happening with the murphys. Life is good, allistiar is growing so fast i can hardly believe it. I wieghed him last tuesday and he was up to 11 lbs 13 oz! he's getting quite the little tummy on him, and getting cuter every day! Last week he started smiling, so julian and i (and grandpa and gramma!) have been having a lot of fun with that!

as far as juilan and i go, he is still working hard at bell world and i am busy taking care of the little guy,a nd the house, which no matter how hard i work, never seems to stay clean for more than a day or two! i just finally finished with allistiars nursery, it looks really good, and im really happy with how it turned out!

unfortunatley i couldnt fit the whole room in the shot, but this is basically it.

heres the tattoo i got on friday, i was quite impressed with how well it turned out!

mums the word

hey all, sorry its taken me such a long time to write an update. life as a mother has been quite busy the past few weeks. allistiar is doing very well, hard to believe he's going to be a month in 2 days! i cant believe how fast he's growing up. he's been very aware lately, looking all around and much more awake than he used to be. he sleeps pretty well through the night, which i definaltey appreciate! its been so nice being in durham and having both sets of grandparents close by! julian and i are definately loving being parents, as much work as it is, its the most amazing thing i have ever experienced. we've defaintley been blessed with a miracle! here are some of the other pictures we've gotten.

he's here!!!

Well, 9 months flew by and its still feeling like a dream, but julian and i are now the very proud parents of the most beautiful baby boys i've ever seen. The labor was 11 hours and though i know some people have longer , that was definately about as much as i could take. The doctors eventually had to use vacuum suction and i had to have an epesiotomy. He weighed 8 lbs and 7 1/2 oz and was 20 3/4 inches long. We are both doing quite well and the first 5 days as a family are going very well. Allistair sleeps really well through the night, which mummy and daddy are very thankful for!! He's just so perfect, i cant believe he's finally here! thank you all for your prayers and support over the last months! we appreciate it!












my beautiful son, allistair benjamin murphy







the proud grandparents!!


and with his auntie kris and uncle mark, who are both going to spoil him to death!!

Well, yesterday was the new due date the doctors gave us, but unfortunatley it came and went with nothing more than a sore back and a few tummy aches throughout the day. Mom and Julian were trying everything they could to make the little guy come but didnt happen.
The doc told me it could come any day now so i suppose we're just going to continue with the waiting game! wish me luck! i think im going to need it!

clean, paint, clean

Well! we finally got into our new apartment! Mom, dad and i spent last weekend cleaning like crazy and painting non-stop! but we finished and it looks amazing!! here are some before and after pictures...
After getting the baby room finished, we started laying the new carpet...it looks amazing!!

...a very pregnant carrie filling in holes in the wall! dad scrubbing down the walls getting ready to paint our bedroom.

The living room, sun-room, and bathroom....

jon came over and helped do the living room, which turned out so good!! and there i am, starting the kitchen.... below is mum and julian being goofy as...which is pretty normal for the two of them when they're together :P

this ones for you kris....wish you could have been here to join in the ..."fun"!!!

So yea, thats our new place so far. will post more pictures when its all done! as an update, the kitten has fully recovered to her hyper adorable self since her surgery 2 weeks ago. she is happy to be running around and charlie is happy that she cant claw him lol. As far as the pregnancy goes, we are defiantely counting down the days! i cant believe how fast its coming! its scary to think im going to be a mom soon. but very exciting all the same. he has started to drop, which is nice for mummys' breathing, but terrible for having to use the bathroom all the time! it wont be long now though!

these are the most recent pictures, taken at 36 and 38 weeks...