Reason to be Thankful.....

The Big 3-0!

Everyone had a groovey time at Jessica's 30th birthday celebration - we are convinced she knew about it all along but was a good sport and pretended to be surprised! Guess that degree in performing arts really paid off! Family and friends came from far and wide to help her celebrate...

Now if someone can tell us where the 30 yrs went?

We hate to continually talk about the weather but besides fishing, it's the big deal up here. We had a touch of winter weather on Sunday - temps around 35, blustery and some white stuff blowing around! We spent the day snuggled up reading the newspaper, watching football, an old movie and making some comfort food, beef stew - yum! The way the waves were up, maybe we should have invested in surfboards and not a boat!! Check out the get up Ed wore to walk across the road to get the newspaper - what a Berwynite!

The calendar says it's October but...

it's been in the upper 70's all weekend! We spent some time enjoying the warmer weather - did some fishing off the pier at the end of the road - caught some smaller ones. The Schmitts have been busy, Mikes brother Dan wed his Katie last weekend, Benjamin - always the life of the party - crashed into a table at the church and dented his cheek! This great weather can't last forever - it will be back to reality next week!

Summer Fun

Lot's has happened since the our last entry. We spent a lot of time on the boat fishing and having fun, we welcomed the Schmitt family for a BBQ, our good friends Carol & Judy joined us for Labor Day weekend, adorable Kelsey turned one, Chris added another candle to the birthday cake and the fall colors have started! Soon it will be winter and we will be hibernating in our beautiful home!

Even bigger!

This is turning out to be some sort of a competition - hard to believe a Murphy would be competitive! The Schmitts hung out last Monday and joined us for some fishing after work - look what I found! Who's going to be next??

The Bassmaster!

The Brookfield Murphy's graced us with their presence this weekend - we spent all day Saturday on Lake Minnetonka cruising and fishing on our "new" boat - Terry was the big winner pulling in 3 nice size bass! The rest of us had to settle with smaller pan fish and having to listen to his boasting! We had a blast! Look forward to their return this fall for muskie season -