Christmas with the Shepperds

craft night

This Christmas I hosted a craft night for our small group from church. We had a BLAST. It was so great getting together and make a cute decoration for Christmas and Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving

We spent thanksgiving in Longview with my family this year. 

Brooklynn painted her own nails! I went upstairs to see what the guys were doing. My dad and Chris were playing xbox and B was sitting quietly behind them painting her nails. They had no idea she was even in the room! Thankfully she was being very careful and didn't make a mess with the nail polish. She was very proud of her paint job!

Chris has a quadcopter that he played with and we watched from the second story as he flew it in the entry way. 

Sweet Bryn's first thanksgiving!

My dad had to work on Black Friday so we visited him at work for lunch. 

Friday night we went bowling 

Unfortunately I ended up with a stomach bug that came on while we were on our way home from bowling, but we had a blast and always enjoy visiting my family!!

Ben Rector concert

This Fall we drove to Waco for a Ben Rector concert with our friends! 

our fur baby

These are just some recent pictures of our fur baby. We love this pup!

This one from when our friend Lindsay kept him.

Next two are after our friends Bonnie and Cruz kept him. He was exhausted when he came home!

Our friends Maddie and Lindsay took him on an overnight trip to League City.

....and I got this video of my dog paddle boarding. I couldn't believe Scout stayed on the board. 

And that video was loved and talked about with our college group, so when it was time for our leadership retreat shirts...it just made sense that Scout on a paddleboard with a GoPro would be the shirt. Why not?! :) They were a big hit.


We got a lot of rain a few weeks ago and he was a dirty pup!




We've caught him in Chris' chair a few times recently. He is allowed on the furniture, we had just never seen him sleeping in the La-Z-Boy!

5 year anniversary trip

Chris and I celebrated FIVE years of marriage this year! Can't believe it's already been 5 years. This season of life is SOO BUSY right now, so we celebrated with an overnight stay in Austin.

We started out at Homeslice Pizza. Delicious. Would definitely recommend it.

I saw Hey Cupcake next door and HAD to have a Red Velvet with cream. Delicious.

We stayed at the Omni in downtown Austin. It was fancy!

The night we got into Austin was the same night as the A&M football opener. Chris found a place called Moviehouse & Eatery. We watched the game on a huge movie screen from electric leather chairs where we could push a button and get more food/drink. It was AWESOME! A little pricy, but totally worth it.

The next day we drove to San Marcos and shopped at the endless outlet stores for a few hours. My sweet husband said he was taking me shopping and I had a minimum amount I had to spend. He never complained and said he enjoyed himself, although he bought a few things too. ;) So glad I get to live life with that man! Here's to many many many more years!

family time

This past weekend we took a quick trip to my parents' house. It was a great time with family! 

Saturday morning I went with my mom and sisters to a women's conference at their church. 

That afternoon we had some time to hang out at the house and swim. 

Love these people!! We had a blast and we were sad we only got to stay about 36 hours, but short visits are better than none!

This was Scout only a few minutes into our ride home. He stayed this way the entire drive home! He's usually in my lap, so I knew he was exhausted from playing hard.