Brooke In Spring

Spring visited us for a day, so I took Brooke to Gardner Village for a little photo shoot and free fudge sample excursion.

I Love Spring Blossoms

The Grape Juice

This is the awesome logo I created and that was polished by my little bro Eric. It says "Soccer Mom United" and underneath in latin "Don't irritate the mother". One day I plan to get it on a tee shirt to wear to soccer games. For now it's in vinyl on my car window. If you want one, they're $5. Call me.

This season Brooke's team is called "The Grape Juice" (note the purple jerseys...). She's gotten really good over the last year and it's fun to cheer her on.

Luke's On The Rockies

Luke decided that he wanted to play baseball this Spring instead of Soccer. Mom was sad, but Dad was really excited about this. Luke even got his wish and was drafted by the Colorado Rockies.

Luke and his proud Dad. Jason even took off work so he could be at Luke's first game!

Visit With Lindsey

We had an awesome visitor today! Jason's little sister Lindsey was flying to California and had a 3-hour layover here in Salt Lake.

We picked her up from the airport and wisked her off to our house for a tour and some photos, then out to lunch at Red Robin (Yum!)

We brought her back to our place for a few more photos and then took her back to the airport to catch her flight on to California.

It was a short but sweet visit!

Note: I AM in the picture, sort of, just look in the glass door behind everyone else... oh, and you'll probably see Slugger there too (look behind Jason's ear)!

Newest Shepherd Family Photos (Dec. 2009)

Sparrows

“Shadows of despair are dispelled by rays of hope, sorrow yields to joy, and the feeling of being lost in the crowd of life vanishes with the certain knowledge that our Heavenly Father is mindful of each of us.

The Savior provided assurance of this truth when He taught that even a sparrow shall not fall to the ground unnoticed by our Father. He then concluded the beautiful thought by saying, 'Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.' (Matt. 10:29-31)”
~ Thomas S. Monson