Shepherd Family Pictures! And Christmas!

We had a great Christmas this year! We had the opportunity to go down to Arizona and spend it with my sister, brother-in-law and nephew. They are so cute, We miss them already!

We decided that we were going to leave the morning of Tuesday the 22nd. But when my dad heard on the news that there were suppose to be bad storms through Cedar City & Flagstaff we decided to leave Monday night. We all worked Monday, so we already had a full day, running around packing and things like that then we left at 9pm and drove all night. It was probably the craziest thing we've ever done. I thought it was terrible. Justin was such a trooper. He drove the WHOLE way. I stayed awake most of the time, all but two hours. Luckily we were following my parents and we had 3 people in each car so 2 people were awake and 1 was sleeping.

We finally got to my sisters house at 7:15am. We were all exhausted, but we were so excited to be there. After a 3 hour nap we got up and the fun began.

While we were there my sisters friend, who she works with, took some family pictures of us. I think they turned out great. These are only some of them, I can post more later when I get the CD from my sister.

I love my family. We have SO much fun together.

My sister on Christmas morning. Doesn't she look good!? (That's because we waited for her and my mom to put on make up and do their hair!)

I gave my sister a waffle iron for Christmas, She was so excited!

Lincoln looking at his new movie!

I should have woke up and done my hair and make up, I look TERRIBLE. But oh well, it's Christmas right!!

My brother Marcus gave me these things for my cake decorating :)

I surprised Justin with a new cordless drill! He loved it!

Justin surprised me with a digital camera, obviously we don't have pictures of that cause we took these pictures with the new camera. I love it!

He also bought me my favorite perfume!!

We gave Lincoln some books

Marcus gave Justin and I a DVD holder. We've needed it so bad!!

Later that day we just sat around and spent time together, we played games, ate a YUMMY dinner prepared by my wonderful sister & parents.

This is Lincolns nightly routine, he has asthma so he takes a breathing treatment to help while he sleeps.

Such a good boy!

Carly got into nursing school this year. She was excited to have a whole bunch of Guinea pigs around to practice putting IV's in and taking blood. She did very well! I wouldn't let her do it on me tho. I don't care for needles

Then kyle... Well my sister let him practice on her. Kyle is in a class right now in high school to become a CNA/Doctor. He loves this stuff just like my sister.

He's intently trying, my sis is such a good sport!

This was the result in kyles try at putting an IV in my sisters hand. He popped her blood vessel. It got worse every hour! Hehe, good try tho Kyle!

Ok... These next pictures have an explanation. My sister and I get in these moods...

Weird moods...

Playing ticket to ride-- and looking like death!

I don't know if i will ever forgive myself for putting this picture up. I don't think i can mimic this picture.. I don't know how I did it. I just know we were hyper! HAHA! How embarrassing!

It looks like I have gumballs in my chin. LOL

The boys played a new game they got for Christmas. Its Jenga Maxx. Instead of taking things away, you are adding it on. It looked fun!

Beautiful Arizona Sunset!

We had such a great Christmas! When we came home on Sunday the 27th we went up to Justin's parents house and exchanged gifts with them! They gave us a camp chef! Its a big portable camping stove. We always borrow theirs when we go camping so they decided to buy us our own :) it is great!

Thank you everyone for a great Christmas. We love you all! XOXO

The rest of my Arizona trip!

I had so much fun down in Arizona with my sister and her family! I got to spend so much 1 on 1 time with my nephew and i loved it! I love the little things that he says! He now calls me "Kam" haha. His babysitters name is "Kamela" but he calls her "Kam". So the name stuck and now he calls me "Kam". We kinda think he's trying to say "Em" but it's coming out more like "Kam". But that's ok! Kamela is such a cute girl so I take it as a compliment :)
Some of my favorite things that he says now, are like when you give him a treat he says "Thank you Kam" but it's always in a whisper. Or when you sneeze, even FAKE sneeze he says "Bless Yous" with the 's' on the end and everything! I love it! Another cute thing he says is "Sorry Kam." or "sit down kam" and he'll point to the couch next to him so i will sit by him. Also he loves to run! So he'll start at one corner of the house and say "Set, Set, GO!" , instead of Ready, Set, Go and then he'll start running. I love that little boy! He is such a character! Here are some fun pictures of some other things that we did.

I use to sleep like this when I was a toddler. My mom thought I looked like a bug when i slept like this so she called (still calls me) buggledoo. I had to snap a picture

This was so cute! On Monday morning Dawn (Carly's sister-in-law) invited Lincoln and I to go see Horton Hears a Who with them. So we popped some popcorn and took it to the theater. After he still wanted to eat his popcorn but i had gone into the other room for a minute and this is what i came out to find! The cute boy had poured and thrown his popcorn EVERYWHERE! But then he had gone to the closet by himself and got the broom and dustpan out and was trying to clean it up!! What a smart, smart kid!!

Luther of course had to help out.

Trying to wear his dads flip flops
Right here he's saying "Me hold it" cause he wanted my camera!
Flowers Cody bought Carly & Chloe sunbathing
My sister is the biggest goof! We were sitting in line for In-N-Out Burger and all the sudden i look over and her tongue is hanging out of her mouth and i hear a dog panting noise. Well i guess when she pushes her brake peddle in the car it makes that noise! I laughed soo hard!

This next picture cracks me up! We were sitting in the car at walmart eating our In-N-Out Burgers and my sister says "Em look at that ford." So i looked and said "Yeah, so? What about it?" So she says, "Look harder..."

After looking at it for a minute, this is what i see! Poor bird, but we laughed really hard!! It's not every day you find a smashed bird in the grill of a ford! Haha!

Well we had lots of good times, and I'm sad the trip is over. But I rode back home with them so now they could visit the rest of the family. they'll be here till Sunday! I love my sister so much. She is such a wonderful person and I really look up to her. She is such a great mother, a hard worker and has a great funny personality! Love you SIS!

4th of July in Arizona

On Saturday morning I flew out to Arizona to spend the week with my sister and her family. I'll be tending her son Lincoln while she is at girls camp. Cody will be home but works during the days. So Linc and i get to hang out!
On Saturday when i got in, Car and i went to the salon and got our nails done. Then we came home and made some 4th of July cupcakes. If anyone wants this recipe let me know!*

They turned out sooo cute!Going in the oven

All done!

Here's the frosting on top

The Middle.

Lincoln found them on the counter and had to try them out.

"Uh, oh I got caught!" :)

After dinner and cupcakes we went to a Cubs and Rangers game at the training stadium. Arizona + baseball game= REALLY HOT WEATHER!! We had a lot of fun but we spent the whole game eating snowies & using magazines to fan ourselves and keep cool. It was super hot! After the game they did a firework show! It was awesome!

Crazy Carly & Cody

We took Lincoln's shirt off cause it was soo hot!

After the fireworks we came home and did some pop-its. Since that's the only kind of fireworks Arizona allows... They won't even let you do sparklers cause it's such a fire hazard!!

I'm so glad I was able to come down to spend time with my sister. We're excited to head back to Utah to spend time with the rest of the family!