House M.D.

Sean and I love this TV Show.....

HOUSE M.D

http://www.fox.com/house/ - here is how you can check it out. It's also on Monday nights @ 8:00.

I got these story from Terri, a girl friend of mine from church.... She knows that I love those moose stories.

Thank you Terri...

Baby Moose 12 Hours Old - Born in the middle of downtownNaubinway, Michigan

In my 33 years in Michigan 's Upper Peninsula , I have never seen a new-born baby moose. This one was not even a halfA mile from our house. The mother picked a small quiet neighbor and had her baby in the front yard just off of US 2,At 5:30 am.Allen and I were out bike riding when we came upon the pair. The lady across the street from this house told us she saw it being born. We saw them at 5:30 PM. So the little one was 12 hours old. What an awesome place we live in to see such a site.

History of Valentines Day...

I know that it is not Valentines Day yet but I found the History of it and thought I would share it with you..... Enjoy.....

Every February, across the country, candy, flowers, and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. But who is this mysterious saint and why do we celebrate this holiday? The history of Valentine's Day — and its patron saint — is shrouded in mystery. But we do know that February has long been a month of romance. St. Valentine's Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. So, who was Saint Valentine and how did he become associated with this ancient rite? Today, the Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were martyred. One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men — his crop of potential soldiers. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine's actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death. Other stories suggest that Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons where they were often beaten and tortured. According to one legend, Valentine actually sent the first 'valentine' greeting himself. While in prison, it is believed that Valentine fell in love with a young girl — who may have been his jailor's daughter — who visited him during his confinement. Before his death, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter, which he signed 'From your Valentine,' an expression that is still in use today. Although the truth behind the Valentine legends is murky, the stories certainly emphasize his appeal as a sympathetic, heroic, and, most importantly, romantic figure. It's no surprise that by the Middle Ages, Valentine was one of the most popular saints in England and France. While some believe that Valentine's Day is celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of Valentine's death or burial — which probably occurred around 270 A.D — others claim that the Christian church may have decided to celebrate Valentine's feast day in the middle of February in an effort to 'christianize' celebrations of the pagan Lupercalia festival. In ancient Rome, February was the official beginning of spring and was considered a time for purification. Houses were ritually cleansed by sweeping them out and then sprinkling salt and a type of wheat called spelt throughout their interiors. Lupercalia, which began at the ides of February, February 15, was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus.

Oh... So... Cute

Shhhh... She is sleepin...

I took this picture of Ecko this Morning and thought it was really cute...

Duckin Around

Sean and I and his parents went to Ashland,Oregon for the Afternooon. We stopped and watched the Ducks. Not knowing what we where about to come upon...

As I stood there looking at the ducks with husband and his parents, there was quite a noise in the water. Two males and one female. Can you take a wild guess what they where up to...?

I look with shock at my husband, has he look with laughter. We both turned and walked away. I told Sean.... "There are children around"..... I was alittle embarrassed for the ducks... We were all in loss at words......

I don't talk about these things is public but I had to. GOD has a great since of humor. Nature has a way of ...... Well I hope you understand...

Well the Adventure of the Murphy continue....

This week is very busy...Sean is working on getting a job at the post office. There sending him a study guide and then he will take a test.. Please pray that GOD's will is our lives will grow....

For me I have a a meeting with The Foundation Fighting Blindness on Thursday... We are on are way to discussing the Vision walk and raising money tfor the Foundation... I'm really EXCITED ...

I hope you all have a great day and week....
May GOD bless you and keep you...

.... on the road again

Tomorrow we go to Medford to see Sean's parents. Please pray for safety on the roads. Sean will be driving in the dark. Thank you for the prayers the last few weeks. Sean and I have really needed them..

Rough time....

I must say it has been a very rough year already. I ask for your prayers... Sean and I are great but its the things of life that have us in beening heavy hearted. Please pray for wisdom & a quite heart to listen to what GOD wants us to do.


Thank you...


With LOVE the Murphys

SNOW.... and more SNOW....

Happy Anniversery Sean!

I Love you so much..

Its been a great FIRST Year!

October 27

I'm so Proud of my Nephew Kevin.....

He has been in the R.O.T.C..(In Georgia)

This is an article from FOX 12's website.

GRESHAM, Ore. -- Gresham police said a thief stole a donation jar full of money for the blind from a local restaurant.
The money was to be used to help find a cure for diseases causing blindness.

The money was in a large jar sitting on the counter inside a Papa Murphy's restaurant and was evidently too much temptation for someone who didn't mind stealing from the blind, workers said.
Papa Murphy's workers said the donation jar sat on the counter for weeks with a poster describing it as a charity fundraiser to help cure blindness, but instead of dropping money inside for people with disabilities, someone stole the jar that was stuffed with money.

"It really does make me mad," Papa Murphy's employee Alejandro Boyles said. "People are trying to raise money to help cure this stuff and then you have the people who don't even care."

Workers said the theft happened on a Sunday evening a week ago. They said they noticed a strange man hanging around, and when they got busy, he grabbed the jar and ran.

Amy Murphy, who is legally blind, is the person trying to raise the money. She suffers from a disease that's slowly destroying her sight.
Murphy said she's trying to collect donations for a foundation which is helping find a cure for her and others.

"All I want is an apology and all I want is the money back so I can give it to the foundation fighting blindness so they can give it to the right doctors and the right scientists so we can find a cure," Murphy said.
While the jar only had $50 to $60 in it, Murphy said the loss is a financial and emotional setback.

"I mean it's really sad. People have to go out and do something. It's just $50 to $60 but it's a cure for me and a cure for others," Murphy said.
The thief is described as a skinny white man, about 19 or 20 years old with blond hair and wearing shorts and a black baseball cap.
Anyone with information about the thief or the theft should contact Gresham police.

Here's the link to the newscast...

http://www.kptv.com/video/17424206/index.html

By the way, the vision walk is this coming Saturday at 10:00 AM at Duniway park in Portland.

Don't Judge

Some people!' snorted a man standing some distance behind me in the long line at the grocery store. 'You would think the manager would pay attention and open another line, 'said a woman.I looked to the front of the line to see what the hold up was and saw a well-dressed, young woman, trying to get the machine to accept her credit card. No matter how many times she swiped it, the machine kept rejecting it.'It's one of them welfare card things. Damn people need to get a job like everyone else,' said the man standing behind me.The young woman turned around to see who had made the comment.'It was me,' he said, pointing to himself.The young lady's face began to change expression.Almost in tears, she dropped the welfare card onto the counter and quickly walked out of the store.
Everyone in the checkout line watched as she began running to her car.Never looking back, she got in and drove away.Several minutes later a young man walked into the store.He went up to the cashier and asked if she had seen the woman.After describing her, the cashier told him that she had run out of the store, got into her car, and drove away.'Why would she do that?' asked the man.Everyone in the line looked around at the fellow who had made the statement.'I made a stupid comment about the welfare card she was using. Something I shouldn't have said. I'm sorry,' said the man.'Well, that's bad, real bad, in fact. Her brother was killed in Afghanistan two years ago. He had three young children and she has taken on that responsibility. She's twenty years old, single, and now has three children to support,' he said in a very firm voice.'I'm really truly sorry. I didn't know,' he replied, shaking both his hands about.The young man asked, 'Are these paid for?' pointing to the shopping cart full of groceries.'It wouldn't take her card,' the clerk told him.'Do you know where she lives?' asked the man who had made the comment.'Yes, she goes to our church.'Excuse me,' he said as he made his way to the front of the line.He pulled out his wallet, took out his credit card and told the cashier, 'Please use my card. PLEASE!'
The clerk took his credit card and began to ring up the young woman's groceries.Hold on,' said the gentleman.He walked back to his shopping cart and began loading his own groceries onto the belt to be included. 'Come on people. We got three kids to help raise!' he told everyone in line.Everyone began to place their groceries onto the fast moving belt.A few customers began bagging the food and placing it into separate carts.'Go back and get two big turkeys,' yelled a heavyset woman, as she looked at the man. 'NO,' yelled the man. Everyone stopped dead in their tracks. The entire store became quiet for several seconds. 'Four turkeys,' yelled the man. Everyone began laughing and went back to work. When all was said and done, the man paid a total of $1,646.57 for the groceries. He then walked over to the side, pulled out his check book, and began writing a check using the bags of dog food piled near the front of the store for a writing surface. He turned around and handed the check to the young man. 'She will need a freezer and a few other things as well,' he told the man. The young man looked at the check and said, 'This is really very generous of you.'No,' said the man. 'Her brother was the generous one. Everyone in the store had been observing the odd commotion and began to clap.And I drove home that day feeling very American.We live in the Land of the free, because of the Brave!!!

Remember our Troops of Yesterday and Today!!! A great example of why we should be kind and patient. Kindness is the language the blind can see and the deaf can hear. Never judge someone...until you have walked a mile in their shoes. May God's many blessings continue to be with you -

ALWAYS!!! MAY THIS KEEP GOING....
IT MAY OPEN A LOT OF EYES,HOPEFULLY HEARTS,AND KEEP SOME MOUTHS SHUT

What a day...

First we went to EPIC and they injected a radioactive tracer into my arm. This tracer was designed to indicate areas of increased metabolism such as would occur in areas that are healing from an injury. It takes about 3 hours for the tracer to make its way through the blood stream so we left, ran some errands, and came back.

Between the time of three hours we went to Target and got some stickers for cards, detergent for the washing clothes and toilet paper. (lol) Oh.. so exciting... then we tried to find some shoes.... No luck at 205 area...

I almost for got we went to lunch too...

Then we went back to EPIC and took more pictures of my leg and ankle. Oh so much fun... NOT. But the the nurse @ EPIC (Kelly) was very nice and helped me feel very comfortable.

Then went to look @ apartments... (If those who knew, we are moving from our apartment to other @ the end of September). We to see two. I think we found one.... But we are still looking... Thank you for our prayers.

Next we went to look for shoes. We found some at SHOE MILL in the Gresham station. I recommend them because of ther customer service was wonderful and they knew there product. We bought me a pair of MERRELL. I was having trouble with my feet so the doctor said this shoe would help me.

http://www.shoemill.com - here is the website

God is so good...

May God bless you and keep you....

Well Hello......


Long time..... It's been along few months. So here is alittle bit of what has been going on.

Work is done for the summer. The last few weeks of School (work) has been long but good. We got throught other senior class. It was sad to see them go but I so proud of them. They worked so hard. The 9th, 10th, and 11th graders are on ther way too. To see them grow is amazing too.


I'm also taking on a volunteer project which is close to my heart. I'm working with the Foundation Fighting Blindness. I'm finding money support and looking for walkers to walk in a Visionwalk on September 13, 2008. So if you know who I am please join this adventure with me.


Here is the link to be involved: http://blindness.org/


I don't know where He will take me throught this battle of darkness but I've got his light to guide my heart.

This is what I have to say.... I'm sorry that it has been so long. Please pray for me.. I'm going through a few things personally. Please pray that go get through.

I'm sorry to you all that I have not posted in a long time...

I've been so busy. There is alot going on like.....

1. Ecko eating plants

2. Taking care of Sean - which I love to do....

3. Cleaning (yuck)

4. Taking Ecko to get her yearly check-up -

which she didn't enjoy at all

There is so much to do.....

But I think I'm ready to play a little bit.... Work has only 5 more weeks. I might have job opportunity up @ Mount Hood with a close family friend.

Aunt Jean and I have a great time together...

I hope it works out...

THAT IS ALL FOR NOW..

HAVE A GREAT DAY EVERYONE

So much to do... So much to organize...
Then you take a nap....

This pictures were taken at the Evergreen Aviation museum in McMinville. Some of the pictures were taken of Howard Hughes "Spruce Goose", the largest plane ever built. Notice how all of the other full sized planes in the picture fit under the gooses wings. By the way, contrary to popular belief, the Spruce goose is actualy made of birch wood not of spruce..... (OK... I took some of Sean's blog, he is a great writer.)

Here are some pictures:

Lord, take me where you want me to go;
Let me meet who you want me to meet;
Tell me what you want me to say,
& Keep me out of your way.

We have a Blog together..... Sean and Amy

http://seanandamytogetherforever.blogspot.com

Please check it out...

Spring Break...

It's been crazy but fun.

I hope you are having a great day...