"Ma'am, did you know you were being attacked by a flamingo?"

It was a fabulous weekend with Judy, Carol and Jim. We managed to stick to our itinerary of food, wine, gambling, wine, music, wine, games, wine, naps and more wine!

Mr and Mrs Dennis Ryan

It was a beautiful day in Milwaukee on Saturday as family and friends gathered to witness the wedding of Erin and Dennis. The ceremony was wonderful, the party spectacular! It was great to see old friends that we hadn't seen in over 20 yrs and to have the entire Murphy clan under together for a happy occasion! You will notice some more creative photos on flickr, those were taken by Benjamin, he's got quite a good eye!

Spring has sprung

Update: April 13th 6:42pm - Hennepin County Sheriff declares it "ICE-OUT" - boat is coming out of storage tomorrow - watch out fishies!

Been a while...

Not much has been going on - we are waiting for the rest of the lake to defrost and the waterpatrol to declare it "ice-out"! Then we can get the boat out of storage and start our fabulous 2nd Minnesota summer (yes, it's been almost a year)! But first, we do have some serious business to take care of - Erin and Dennis' wedding - yes, the whole fam-damily will be gathering in beautiful Milwaukee to celebrate the happy couple - they are coming from as far away as Florida and California! It will be nice to see everyone for a happy occasion...if you were smart, you'd stay away from Brookfield WI on April 18th!
Check out some new pics of Benjamin and then wander over to the Familie Schmitt blog for a hysterical video!

What a beautful bride she will make....

The clan gathered this weekend to celebrate the upcoming wedding of Erin and Dennis with a shower at a centrally located Kenosha restaurant. Seeing that Erin and Dennis both have some Irish blood in them and it's close to St Pattys day, we decided to go with a Celtic theme. Jessica made beautiful celtic invitations with matching menus and irish wedding sayings for the flowers. Small celtic candle holders were the choice for favors. Everyone had a fab time and were extremely generous! After the shower, the girls (including some "older" ladies) went to a unusual restaurant in Milwaukee called the "SafeHouse" when we got there, we were asked to give the password to enter, naturally, we didn't know it so we had to get on one knee and sing "For she's a jolly good fella" to Erin, then spank her on the butt - voila - the door opened! After dinner, the bridal party went off for some unmentionable fun while the older folks went back to the hotel. You will need to check out Jessica' blog for details on that part of the evening!

Now the next step is for us all to find our dresses for the wedding!

When in Rome....

We finally gave in to peer pressure and took the plunge - so to speak...we drove the car onto the lake - very eerie but it was a good thing we did it then since it's been over 40 for the past few days!

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