Piano Lessons

Walker during piano lessons.

He is always so serious.

Maddie's first job!

Maddie worked for Tanin at the restaurant, but everyone knows that you don't count working for your parents.

In celebration for her first "real" job for Papa Murpheys, we celebrated with a cake that said "Who's Your Papa".

You don't need to know about question marks to decorate cakes.

Princess Mere Bear turns 3!

Meredith turns three.

While clearly royalty, Princess Meredith (known by friends and family as Mere Bear), demonstrates that being a princess doesn't mean you are above waving to your subjects while simultaneously picking your nose.

The princess shows she can hold her own with the commoners by jumping on a nearby four wheeler in her flowing pink cupcake gown.

Nice View at Universal Studios

In August, Mom turned 35.

Well here it is! The moment everyone has been waiting for......my 35th birthday present revealed to the public! I have wanted one for years. Literally like 28 years. Our neighbors in Iowa had a super cool tree house. I don't know if this compares, but I like it! And more importantly so do the kids. My only complaint? I actually had to help paint it!

Tanin built and designed it himself complete with a balcony and bridge out into the pine tree. Yes, those are some of my kids in the tree!

Apparently the drawbridge I asked for won't be constructed until next summer. For now there is a make shift bridge over the raging river (aka irrigation ditch), which doesn't have water again until April or May.

California!

This year, Christmas came early. We took advantage of some super cheap airfare and went to California. Everyone carried their own clothes in a backpack to avoid bag checking charges and we packed sandwiches and water bottles each day to avoid high priced park lunches. Note to self... if you only pack a few clothes and must do laundry in a hotel laundromat, check kids pants pockets for crayons...... We would have looked cleaner had we just worn our dirty clothes. There are red, yellow, blue and green crayon on an entire load of laundry.




In true Buhler (aka Griswald) style, we arrive at Disneyland only to see that it is CLOSED!


Thankfully, we discover we are just too early. Disneyland won't open for two more hours.

Ready for 3D!




On the way to Sea World, the signs here said "watch out for rattlesnakes!

The scariest thing at Disney was not a ride but Mom's face during the Tower of Terror. Everyone but Meredith eventually took a turn. Max and Walker went twice! In case your not familiar, in this picture we are dropping a couple hundred feet in a free fall.

May the Force be with you!

Disneyland has Jedi training. After the proper amount of light saber swiping, Clone Troopers, Darth Vader and Darth Mal appear and they want to battle the new trainees. Max battled Darth Vader and Walker battled Darth Mal. I taped Maxwell's battle, then totally missed Walker'sbattle. I hope he never asks to see it.