Christmas Puzzle

This year for Christmas the Woolford's gave me and Jared a puzzle.  Puzzle does not even justify how puzzling this puzzle was.  It took me and Jared like 2 1/2 hours to just do the outside edge.  I am not even joking and it took us the the next three nights to put it together.  Not an easy task when it is on our kitchen table and we have a 3 and 1 yr old.  However, in the end we finished!  It has some funky shaped pieces and it is a really dark puzzle so it was hard but it was fun to do something with Jared when we put the kiddos to bed.  :)

Look really close at the pieces!  

Lillie loving that it is finally done and now she can climb on the table!

Christmas anyone......as

I can't believe another year has already come and gone.  It seemed like the holiday season just flew right on by.  I love the holidays!  I love being with family, eating good food/treats, playing games, going to see Christmas lights, and seeing some good Christmas movies.  I first saw Four Christmases---LOVED IT----next was 7 Pounds----HATED IT----next was Marley & Me--- Loved it-----last was Benjamin Button---Weird but good!  I am usually pretty easily entertained but 7 pounds was just sad and not enjoyable! 

My mom decided to celebrate our Christmas early this year.  I have four siblings and trying to make it everywhere on Christmas Eve or Day is hard for all of us to get a time that matches.  So this year we started a new tradition and we will do our family thing the Sunday before Christmas.  It was a lot of fun.  It is total chaos at the Shepherd house!  My parents have 19 grandkids and the worst part is 13 of them are boys!  It is chaotic but a lot of fun at the same time.  Boston has a blast with all of his cousins!  They all take off their shirts and have a big wrestling tournament.  This year my parents gave all the grandkids an air hockey table and a foose ball table and a wii(it all stays at there house but now they have something to do and not drive the adults nuts)!!  They totally loved it.  My kids are so good at playing air hockey. I will have to get a video of it.  They are pretty good with eye coordination!  

The kids playing air hockey with Uncle Ben as the referee.

Jared, Lillie, Kellie and John playing foose ball!

Shepherd chaos opening all of our presents!

All Lillie cared about was the wrapping paper!

Me, Ben, and Ashlie enjoying the chaos!

And of course no party is complete without the CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN!!!!

The Auger family is starting to be a little crazy too.  When me and Jared got married we only had one niece and now we there are 6 nieces and nephews and they are all under the age of 5!  So it is crazy!  We had such a fun Christmas eve!  We started out the day with a movie, Madagascar 2!  Then we went up to the Augers and ate dinner, acted out the Nativity.  Boston was Joseph this year and Halle was Mary.  It was pretty cute.  Boston did such a good job.  He actually put on the dress up stuff and did what Jared told him to do.  :)  After that we opened presents.  The next morning we got to talk to Jareds brother Tyson.  He sounded so good and we are really excited for him to get home!  

McKay and Lillie hugging it out!!

Mckay tackling Boston!  His favorite thing to do.

We slept at Jareds parents Christmas Eve and I only have a few pics of Christmas morning we mainly recorded everything and JoAnn snapped pictures on her camera.

  

Boston Christmas morning on his new scoooter!

Making breakfast!!

And no Christmas morning would be complete with out Breakfast Rolls!!  Mmm!!

I feel like we did a hundred more things in December but I was such a slacker with my camera.  So I guess this is all you get.  I hope everyone had a great Christmas, and a Happy New Year!  And I hope 2009 is a good year for everyone!!

Baby Jesus

Last Monday for FHE we went up to a live Nativity in American Fork.  I have to be honest and when I heard what it was I was a little skeptical.  I thought it would be so cheesey!  Little did I know that it would be so spiritual and emotional and as a bonus my kids were actually very reverent and enjoyed it.  They were so good. 

Dad, Me, Lillie, Jared, Boston, and Mom

 

When you get to AF it is kinda on a little farm.  Not a ton of houses it kind of reminded me of Lake Shore or Benjamin.  The first thing you do is get hot chocolate and then you go to a big bon fire and you sing O Come All Ye Faithful and then you walk quite a ways down and you go and knock on a door and the "Inn Keeper" has no room!  Then you walk quite a ways more and then you find the Wise Men and they tell you about a Babe that is to be born.  (note:  my kids were good because they had life stock the whole way that you walked!) Then you walk a little further and you find the Shepherds and they read a scripture and you sing another song.  Then you keep walking and up on a hay stack are about 10 young girls and they sign a hymn.  Then off to the right you see a manger and big star on top of it.  You then walk over to the manger and see baby Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.  

Mary talked about the Christ child and what his life would be like from teaching people all over the world to grabbing the babies little hands and saying these would be pierced and his little feet.  He died for me, he atoned for me so that I could be where I am today.  It was very emotional for me.  I think once you have kids and you want to give them everything possible.  You always want them to be happy and you want the best for them.  I hear people talking about where they are going to deliver their babies and which hospital is good and which nurses and while I was sitting on a haystack looking at the baby all I could think about was Mary.  No hospital, no nurse, no doctor, no EPI!  I guess you could say that I looked at Mary in a different light and I am so grateful for her.  

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season!  And during all the hustle and bustle we can all take time to remember our Savior, Jesus Christ.  Our perfect example!  Merry Christmas  

Fire Pit Fun!!

Saturday night we went over to our neighbors, Pam and Kyles, and had a tin foil dinner and roasted marshmallows.  It was so fun and so cold.  The kids loved it.  Boston is the pickiest eater ever and he loved his tin foil dinner.  He was actually the first one to finish his dinner!  

And of course he loved roasting the mallows!  Lillie doesn't have a coat (well technically she does but she doesn't get it for 24 more days ha ha) and so she wore Grants camo coat.  She is pretty stinkin cute! Anyway it was so fun!  Thanks to the Barneys for a fun night!!

Jared and Lillie ~~  She has become quite a daddys girl lately!

The Family

Car Update

So Jareds MRI went really good.  His muscles were just strained so he needs to do physical therapy.  He keeps getting really bad headaches and so that is scary but hopefully once he goes to therapy they can strengthen his muscles.  We feel blessed that he wasn't hurt worst.  Car wrecks can be so scary.

We finally found a car that we could both agree on!  We got a really good deal.  Car shopping is not fun.  It takes forever and ever.  And I don't know what me and Jared were thinking we took both of our kids.  So we would have to take turns test driving.  When we finally decided on the car we called my mom to come and get the rug rats so we could do paper work.  They were actually pretty good but after 5 hours of car dealerships they had had it!  So we ended up getting a black Honda Pilot.  

This obviously isn't ours but it is the same year and model!  :)

Halloween Anyone??

Lets see it has been a month since Halloween and I wouldn't blog about it but I want to get a book of my blog and I want my kids Halloween.  I will keep it short and sweet!  Lillie was the cutest pumpkin ever.   Boston was a sweet lion.  We went to our wards trunk or treat and then up to Jareds parents trunk or treat.  The kids had fun.  We got way too much candy!  No worries I pulled out all the good stuff for me!  

Halloween is my Moms birthday and so we always start the night at her house and have her yummy homemade chili.  It sounds a little backwards that she cooks the chili since it is her birthday but we all love to go to her house and see all of  the other kids and what they are dressed up as.  Happy Be-Lated Birthday mom.  Your the best!!  

Also I had my sisters kids this year for Halloween so me and my kids went to the school halloween parade. 

Nate, Tanner and Hunter

Syd & Kiah

Brooklyn

We also carved pumpkins at Jareds moms house.  I thought everyone pumpkins turned out great!

CAR CRASH

A week ago today Jared got what at the time seemed like a little fender bender on SF main street. He was totally stopped for a good 3 seconds at red light when a truck came and rear ended him and then a truck hit that truck(Ash Garbe--the 2nd truck was your little brother--he and Jared had a fun little reunion lol)! Jared had just come to the studio and switched me cars(mine has the car seats) to go get the kids from my Aunts house. He called me like ten minutes later and said he had just been a wreck and I immediately feel sick. He says he is okay and that I need to come and get him because they are towing my car. So in my head I am thinking it might be worst since they are towing my car...not just a fender bender. Well long story short my car is totaled. I love my car and I get attached to things really easy. I went to clean it out and I was sad thinking the last time I drove it was my last. So dumb but it was a good little car for me. Don't get me wrong I am excited for a new one!! Jared said he was okay from the wreck but the truck hit him going like 25 or something so I told him to go get checked out. He went and the Dr. told him that his x-rays looked normal but his muscles in his neck looked like they were inflamed. So he tried giving him medication and Jared tried being all tough and told him no. Well come Saturday, Sunday, and Monday morning he woke up with huge headaches. He finally came home last night and was in so much pain. His head and eye were killing him and his hand was tingly. Jared doesn't get sick very often and he hardly ever complains and so I knew he didn't feel good. After calling the dr. and telling him whats up. He thinks Jared needs a neck MRI. He thinks possibly some nerves are being hit by his muscles being inflamed or something else that was a too big of word for me to remember! I will keep you posted on how everything goes.

Here is my poor little car! :(






Just a side note...my sister Ashlie brought this soccer outfit home for Boston for his Birthday. So last Sunday Jared let me sleep in and when I came out both of my boys were all dressed in soccer uniforms and Jared was teaching Boston how to play! Cutest boys I know!