big boys

so drake is 2 and 1/2 months older than cooper blaine but you would never know because they are almost the same size... drake is 15lbs and cooper is 14lbs.... all i know is cooper must be getting some good milkies from his momma...gotta love it..

sisters

SERIOUSLY could we look any more different?

cold

here we are on a sunday night just enjoying the cold weather... all we were missing was a cup of hot coco...

santa clause

drake and stella love santa clause, can't you tell....

thursday fun day

stella and tana went to the mall to do some christmas shopping...

stopped by to say hello to santa and let him know what they wanted for christmas... stella wants a puppy(stuffed one with a leash) and tana wants patches(her baby doll she lost)....

and then have a fabulous lunch at hot dog on a stick... corn dogs, french fries, and lemonade, it doesn't get any better than that.. by the way tana did not take off her hat the rest of the day... what a fun day, until next time girls...

adult dinner

every year we have a adult christmas dinner to get the holidays started... the dinner was fabulous and the company was even better... until next year brothers and sisters..

isn't she beautiful...

zana and ren came down from arizona to party with the shepard family...

arizona

so we had a fun weekend up in arizona with stella's auntie nana and uncle ren.. we went up with my parents for a pre thanksgiving because zana had to work and i was spending the holiday with my in laws, so we celebrated early with our parents in az.. my mom outdid herself, there is nothing better than your moms cooking and of course her famous chocolate chip cookies.. we love arizona, i am craving a diet coke with fresh lime from sonic (they bring it to your car).... we went there everyday and i am going through with drawls.. ca needs one asap... the weather was great, it just started to cool down a bit.. so ren took jereme duck hunting for the first time and stella walked in the house with a dead duck and of course i freaked out, we are not hunters like the knights.... they also went golfing and we did some shoping, had some great food, and of course saw twilight(loved it). zana had a lot to be grateful this year because she is pregnant (we think we her little girl navy due in july) and they just bought their first home... we are so excited for their family... thanks for such a fun trip.... love you both and see you soon...

playgroup

stella LOVES to have her friends over and i just LOVE to drop her at her friends house....

brother and sister

we love our pj's........

love hate relationship

these girls just love each other... they fight like crazy but would die with out each other..

brother

4 months old, i can't believe how big my boy is... we just love him and think we are going to keep him....

halloween

all the wicked witches.. stella with her cousins chloe,lucy, and tana.. sadie, where were you?

drakes favorite uncle. we love our uncle guy...

stella turns 2

so stella had her birthday party at chuck e cheese's and she loved it... she had never been there so i was a little worried but she wasn't even afraid of chuck e.. she was up there dancing with him and having a blast.. all her cousins and little friends came to help her celebrate her special day... i can't believe she is 2, i love it she is such a little lady, we even flat ironed her hair for the occasion... happy birthday stella monroe...

stella did not know what to do with all her presents.... we are all stocked up with princess gear for the whole year...

stella had practice to blow out her candles all week long (with a candle).. she did it on the first try, so fun.. she also sang happy birthday with everyone to herself...

stella eating her pizza crowned for the day..

family night

we had so much fun with the fenns for family night... we went to the pumpkin patch and it wasn't that crowded due to the wind.. i'm just glad we made it out alive considering a huge teepee fell and almost killed my daughter... very scary....

drake is all smiles

stella and brinley bffs

newborn babies

all the babies....
all the little boys drake, ethan, and parker

all the little girls...

cousins

here's the two little cousin boys who are exactly 2 months apart... drake is ready for the holidays in his pajamas.

cooper blaine

i hope you approve sister....

i had to take the picture of cooper off the blog because summer did not approve.... sorry sister i didn't have the cutest picture of your boy.. i will post some asap because he is so handsome...

cooper blaine 1 week old

we are so happy to have cooper here with us, we have waited a long time for him... one week ago today summer was in labor and we all united at the hospital to welcome cooper blaine... i asked summer this morning if she would go back and do it again and she said in a heart beat.... we had so much fun and it was a day to remember.. he is such a little peanut, we had to go get him some premie gowns because everything is too big for him. ps he is such a weaver baby as usual....

sprinkles

stella and tana love sprinkles cupcakes.... we had some left over from the shower they each got one.. so yummy for their tummy...

drake jamesons blessing day

we had such a special day for our family.... jereme blessed drake on sunday and he was such a good baby boy... we had all of our family here to support us and had so much fun... everyone came back to the house and spent some family time at the snyder house...

family photos