Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Chattanooga, A day at the Discovery Center and the Aquarium

While John spent the morning doing a seminar for work, Kaiya and I walked around downtown Chatanooga and stumbled upon the discovery center, which was just enough awesomeness to enjoy until John got back and we could head to the aquarium!

Kaiya insisted on bringing both her dolls wrapped in a blanket for our walk.














Finally daddy was done with work and we could go enjoy the fishies together!!











Thursday, January 23, 2014

Big BIG (and one so tiny) Announcements from the Murphys

Kaiya in a vintage outfit purchased by her Grandfather 30 years ago!
Ok guys, there has been a lot of silence coming from the Murphy household the past couple weeks, both on the blog and on good ol' Facebook. There are a couple different reasons for it but it's taken me some time to wrap my head around everything. Now that we have had time to flesh it all out, we have three major things to share with ya'll. (Southern colloquialism intended.)

*I should preface this with: I'm not pregnant. I know "announcement" tends to be synonymous with pregnancy these days, but not in this case.*

The first thing is about my job. Remember that new job I just got and was super excited about because of the great money and better quality of life? Well... it didn't quite work out. Ultimately, it wasn't a good fit. The official story is that I left for other job opportunities, but if any of you want to buy me a beer, I'll happily give you all the finer (and gory) details.

It's crazy right?!? So, what the heck am I doing now? Well, that's where the second announcement comes in... and it's just as crazy.

Story time with Da-Da
Both John and I are looking for jobs... in NASHVILLE! That's right everyone, the decision has been made and we're 99.99% moving to Nashville (because you have to leave a little room for God to change things). We decided that it was time for us to be closer to family and we took the hiccup with my job as being a sign that this was as good a time as any to make the leap. This Yankee girl is heading south, and much further south of the Mason Dixie line than I EVER thought I'd live. But we're excited about it. We're excited to be closer to family, for the new scenery, and the new adventure of it all.

Cutest baby "selfie" ever
Speaking of adventure, here comes the craziest (at least I'm assuming most will think it so) announcement of all. The Murphy family is going "tiny." I am 90% ridiculously excited about it and 10% concerned that I've lost my marbles, but we're doing it nonetheless. John and I didn't rush into this decision over the past week or two, I've been planting the seeds and letting the idea root for months now and this just seemed like the perfect opportunity to make the investment. For more details about what "going tiny" means and all the many reasons we've decided to do it I invite you to visit the blog that I've started to chronicle the journey (because I'm completely unable to process things without writing about them). You'll find the new blog at www.our24fthome.blogspot.com and I invite you to start reading at the first post here.

All dressed up for her 9 month birthday!
Ok, phew, now that I feel my soul is bared and everyone is up to speed, I need to go figure out what-all is in the hallway closet that needs to be purged. Feel free to comment with your thoughts!!

Our Little Food Activist:) 

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Our Trip to Philadelphia- The Mlynek and Wark Wedding


This has been an amazing year for weddings. Our "baby" brother Bo and Leah got married in Tennessee, Our great friends Kevin and Naina were married in Cincinnati and another set of amazing friends, Alan and Emily, were married this month in Philadelphia! I love weddings, but there's is something super special about watching loved ones get married. It's such an honor to be a part of such a special and momentous moment in a relationship!

John and I love Philly, but we didn't do much sightseeing this trip. We spent the entirety of our time hanging with friends, which is exactly the type of weekend we wanted:)

The wedding was simply perfect. It had all the parts you want to see in a wedding: great food, amazing friends, music you can dance to, and just enough tradition to hit on everyone's favorite parts but not so much that it seemed you were attending the same ol' wedding. There was a lot of love in the important details of the wedding, and all the frivolous stuff was left out. Simply put, it was perfect and the love between Alan and Emily radiated in every detail.

I could go on to describe all the moments of our weekend, or I could just show you, so I'll do that. I hope you enjoy my creative use of google+'s new editing functions; I certainly did ;)

Our ride to Philly went like this

Selfies in the hotel

can we say built in play-yard?

Godmommy love



The glowing bride and her parents!

I love this picture of Kaiya and John. <3

Husband and Wife!!




Besties.