2009 SPRING BREAK

Before I share pictures of Turner's 1st Spring Break trip, I need everyone to go to the below blog and check out what 3 amazing women are doing to make additions to the Oklahoma adoption laws, so that Oklahoma can be more "adoption friendly" like many other of our bordering states.

http://promoteokadoption.blogspot.com/

I can tell you our birth mother was also very nervous about going to court to terminate her rights. I strongly believe she would have gladly terminated her rights before she left the hospital if that would have been an option for her. Thank you "Murphy girls" for being so passionate about adoption, birth mother rights, as well as adoptive parents. It's going to be so cool to see what these 3 women accomplish in the next few months! You Rock ladies!

For Turner's 1st Spring break, we took a trip with Aunt CC & Eric to Eureka Springs, Ar. We had an absolute blast! The weather was perfect, we managed to eat way too much, watch several good movies, enjoy reading & birdwatching and definitely got some good R&R. Aunt CC got to love on her little man all weekend long.

Here are some pictures from the weekend. Enjoy

2009 Spring Break: Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Sunday morning, Aunt CC, Eric, and Turner enjoyed swinging in the hammock, watching all the birds, and enjoying the warm sun before we headed back to Oklahoma

We found this bargain at the dollar store at Holiday Island. Can you tell he's having fun standing and playing with all the neat attachments. So determined to walk to his new play table! Look at that stare...

Turner's big boy outfit for Saturday's dinner at Ermilio's. He sat in big boy high chairs all weekend long and behaved like a little angel!

Laughing at daddy making snake noises!

We woke up to this view Saturday morning. You can't beat drinking coffee and eating a yummy breakfast (thanks John for cooking for us all weekend long) with this as the background!

The 500 ft statue of Jesus at The Passion Play. It's breath taking

How cool is this picture! Thanks Eric for being such a good sport with all my picture taking. One of these days, you'll learn to love pictures as much as the Felix girls :)

Turner sure enjoyed the day outside. He loves his stroller and was such a good sport with mommy and Aunt CC going into all the stores.

The Cresent Hotel in Eureka Springs, aka "The most haunted hotel in America"

Friday afternoon was spent walking the streets of Eureka Springs enjoying the sunshine. We met up with Aunt Georgia & Uncle Charles for lunch.

I absolutely love spring time! All the flowers were in full bloom.

Turner was having a good time just relaxing and playing with his Aunt CC

Eric-you know I had to post about this...sorry you didn't escape it :)

On Friday morning we hurried around to get ready so we could head to Eureka Springs fairly early and beat the spring break crowd. Of course, I was the last one to get ready so John & sis were giving me grief that they were all ready..just waiting on me. So we grab all of our stuff and headed out to load up the car and lo and behold, Eric had managed to lock the keys in the car....I laughed, thinking quietly, I was SO glad it was him and not me! So like all men, he wanted to try and unlock it himself vs calling a locksmith. Nearly an hour and a few scratches later, Crystal convinced him to give it up and we called a locksmith! It made for a humorous start to our Friday. It's a good thing we are all pretty laid back and didn't have any "real plans".

Turner's new shades...Thanks Rawley & Grey for sharing them with us. He loved them! And boy did people smile when they saw Turner coming down the street.