Luke's baby blessing!

Last weekend Kirk's parents were able to come to town and we were able to have Luke's baby blessing. It was a nice occasion and a beautiful day. Here are a couple of pictures from that day.

First is a picture of the 4 Shepherd men. Next is a picture of Kirk's parents with baby Luke. Lastly, is a picture of Luke with the Laurel grandparents.

Luke's first photo shoot

I love newborn pictures. Over the years...I have seen friends of mine take some really cool photos of their babies and I have always wanted some of my children. With Grant...I didn't get around to it until he was 2 months old. He didn't really look like a newborn at that point...of course, he was still really cute! With Luke...I was able to get some pictures of him at 8 days old. A special thank you goes out to Carina Olsen for taking the pictures. She is so creative and well...Luke was not that cooperative since he was wide awake. Here are some of my favorites of Luke...
Here is a picture of Grant at 2 months. Do you think they look similar?

Baby Luke is here!

Well...Luke Shepherd is here! He came into this world weighing 8 lbs 3 oz at 12:32 PM. So far things are going really well. He is a pretty calm baby and he likes to eat and sleep. When he is awake he likes to stare at his mobile in his bassinet or playpen. He also loves his bouncy chair. This is pretty nice compared to our first born who cried pretty much anytime he was awake for the first month or two. Kirk and I are getting decent sleep which is also better than I expected. Here is a picture of our new little addition....
We are proud parents of both our little boys!!!

Some Christmas Day photos!

Actually, these are from last night.
On Saturday's we usually have donuts, but Shipley's is probably closed today...so Kirk and I slaved over cinnamon rolls from a tube. They were yummy and Grant especially liked them. Here are some photos from this morning... The first pictures are from last night. So far...it has been a great day! Merry Christmas everyone!

Christmas Picture Mishap...

Well...this morning we got Grant dressed up pretty nice and we even put gel in his hair so he could take his picture with Santa Claus at the mall. Yes...I have procrastinated this picture until the last day. We thought we would be early at the mall, but a line of about 200 people had already formed. Soooo....we will procrastinate this picture again until next year. Since he was already looking cute...we just put him in front of our Christmas tree for a little photo shoot. Here is what we got... Keep in mind that we never finished decorating our tree. O-well!

More Halloween Pictures

Well, like I said before...I am behind on posting pictures to this blog. I will continue with Halloween pictures just to finish off this time of the year. There are a lot, though...so I will probably finish another night. I guess I will probably have a Halloween part 3.

Here are all the Laurel cousins at the end of our Halloween evening. I must say that everyone had a blast! The kids were running around from door to door screaming thank you at all the nice people...it was pretty hilarious.
Grant at the Halloween carnival at the high school behind our house. There were a lot of bouncy houses...and he loves those!Another cousin shot before all the fun!
Well, I just noticed that I put the pictures in reverse chronilogical order. O well! I am tired now...so there will be a part 3 later this week. Still to come is the pumpkin patch and some pictures of me and my colleagues at work dressing up for the season. Those are pretty funny and shouldn't be missed!

Halloween 2010!

Wow! I am really getting behind in all of the different posts I want to do. I have a lot of different ideas, but they just slip by and those ideas are now lost forever. Luckily, I am not a perfectionist and this doesn't bother me too much. This could really drive someone else crazy. Well...better late than never...but here are some of my favorites from Grant's Halloween pictures. Can I just say how much I love Halloween pictures? I think they are so cute! I can't wait for next year where I can have a family theme. :) Pumpkin patch pictures to come. Maybe this will help remind me to actually post them. :)