Left hip replacement!

So the day has been set for my left hip replacement! Because of the horribleness of my hips, weddings (not mine!), birthdays, and trips it was moved up about a month from the date that I really wanted to have it on!! It is now on March 30th at 6 in the morning at Banner Good Sam in Phoenix.

This is a drawn picture of what my hip and replacement will look like. Except my replacement will be ceramic and this hip is a hundred times better looking they my horrible but awesome messed up one!

Hopefully this will be my last surgery for a long, long while!! So wish me luck and cross your fingers!!!

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Dad and the Xbox

For Christmas this year Santa brought the family an Xbox 360. Not something I will get a lot of use with since I'm beyond horrible at Xbox with their crazy controllers and jazz like that and honestly I thought it would be something that the Konner and Kristopher would get more use of then any of us.

Well last night my dad gave it a whirl! Now when I was little we had a Nintendo NES. You know the gray box looking one with the huge square games and little rectangle controllers. Anyway him and I loved to play us some Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt on that system! But since that system has died he hasn't played a lot of games, so I had to say that watching him play last night was pretty fun!

This is the game he decided to play, Half Life. A game that I would get thirty seconds into and die at least ten times!!

Here he is playing and before he noticed I was taking pictures!! Hehehe!!

An up close one! See look at that controller!! Crazy!!

And lastly a picture of the front of him while he was playing! Look at that focus!

Hehehehehehehehehe!! Love you dad!!

Shepherd vs Pinnacle

Once again this week I was lucky enough to go to one of my sister's basketball games. This game was against the junior team of Pinnacle high school, so that would be mean that it was their lowest level team out of three teams and it could have 9th, 10th, and even 11th graders in it!! Also this game was in Paradise Valley off Tatum and the 101!!! So after working an eight hour extra shift at work I left shortly after 3 and drove there making it just as the announcer was starting the game!!

I didn't get as many pictures of this game and most of them are of Karli she was happy that I made the 40 minute drive to come and see her play!

Again here is the starting line up watching as they announce the other team' s starting line up!

Karli getting ready to shoot!

Karli shooting a free throw and right as I snapped this picture the ball went in!!

Karli taking her second free throw shot!

Karli focused on the ball!

Karli waiting to go in!

Jen getting ready to shoot a free throw!

Karli getting ready for the free throw to be shot!

Now note here the girl behind Karli. This girl was crazy tall!! From where I was sitting she looked about as tall as Kristopher and Karli had to guard her the whole time they were playing together!! But after Karli got home from the game she told me that she was taller then our Llama Face of a brother!!

Sadly our girls lost the game but they played well and Karli made some really good plays! In the end the girls had a blast and that was all that mattered!!

My dad

So I just had to post this picture of my dad!!

Isn't this the best picture ever!! My mom took it while they were at the Dunes after Christmas and we both thought it was awesome. So I stole it from her and posted it! Yes I must say that my dad is a sexy beast!! Hehehehehehe!

Love ya dad!!!

Shepherd vs Poston

Yesterday I went to another basketball game of my sister's. She is so awesome and the team did an amazing job!! I got a lot of pictures so be aware!!

Here is some of the team waiting as the game started!

From left to right:

#33 Ebony aka Flash

#34 Wilsynn aka Wheaties

#31 Karli aka Brusier

#24 Ashley H. aka Beauty Queen

#23 Jen aka Macho Nacho

The starting line up!

#15 Marissa aka Bump de Bump

#23 Jen aka Macho Nacho

#24 Ashley H. aka Beauty Queen

#31 Karli aka Brusier

#34 Wilsynn aka Wheaties

Yes my baby sister is in the starting line up!! Hehehe it makes me so happy!!

The girls watching the game and waiting for their turn to go in and play!

#24 Ashley H. aka Beauty Queen

#33 Ebony aka Flash

#22 Rachel aka Twiggy

#34 Wilsynn aka Wheaties

#15 Marissa aka Bump de Bump

#24 Ashley H. aka Beauty Queen shooting a free throw!

#31 Karli aka Brusier waiting for the ball after the free throw

Karli getting ready to shoot a free throw!

Karli shooting the ball!

The team practicing at the end of half time.

More practicing!

Karli practicing with the team at the end of half time.

Again Karli shooting a free throw.

Dribble Karli dribble!!

More girls waiting for their turn.

#24 Ashley H. aka Beauty Queen

#34 Wilsynn aka Wheaties

#22 Rachel aka Twiggy

#10 Melissa aka Scooter

#31 Karli aka Brusier

The coaches, managers, and other players

Coach Khalil aka the head coach in the black standing up

Coach O'Connor aka assistant coach in the green sitting down

Cyerra aka assistant coach in the blue sitting by coach O'Connor

#42 Ashley V. aka Big Mama sitting behind coach O'Conner

Megan aka Honeymaker and manager in the black sitting next to #42

Melody aka manager in yellow sitting next to Megan

Not pictured is Jusea aka assistant coach

And finally the score board at the end of the game!! Go girls you are so awesome!!!

If you noticed throughout this post I have added nicknames for the players. These are names given to them by the coaches due to little quirks or things that the girls have done or do. Like Brusier is Karli's because she gets some awesome bruises and such!

Also not pictured in these pictures is

# 13 Alicia aka Mouse

#30 Whitney aka Sparky

#45 Caerensa aka Specs

Again the girls are awesome and I can't wait for the next game that I get to go to!!!

Christmas Monopoly

I totally forgot that my mom took pictures of us playing our Christmas Eve Monopoly game that we play every year on Christmas eve. So I stole them from her and decided to post about it!

So like I said every Christmas Eve us four kids sit down at the table and play a crazy game of Monopoly! We normally start around 7ish and play until 10ish or so. Well this Christmas Eve I was at work so we didn't get the game started until 8:30ish and we ended up playing until well after 11pm!

We all really look forward to this little tradition that we started a few years back and each year will all vow to kick each other's butts in property dominance!

Well this year we all started out playing on our own and then, because I think Kristopher was kicking everyone butt we decided to pair up boys against girls.

Look at us all playing and plotting against the other team!

It was a tough game and a lot of good plays and deals were made.

Here is Karli and I getting ready to make the big deal with the boys that would give us two railroads, five monopolies, and money to put at least one house on all of those monopolies if we wanted to do that. In return we would give them the water company, which would give them both the water and eletric company, and the lands to own the other three monopolies on the board.

The boys thought long and hard about it. We even let them think and talk about our deal over two turns. Finally they said that they would go for it since they to had money to put houses on them.

But in the end the boys used to much money putting houses and hotels on their lands that they were low on cash when they landed on a green space that had three houses. That was the iceberg that sunk their ship! In the end Karli and I were the winners with over seven thousand dollars in $500 dollar bills alone!

It was a very good and fun game and after this year I'm sure next year the game will be fierce!!

New Years

This year for New Years I just hung out with the family and stayed at home but it was a lot of fun!

First Llama, Karli, and I went to Applebee's for dinner since our parents and Konner where still on their way home from the dunes.


Llama pondering over the flavors of his dinner.


Karli and me enjoying dinner.

Their was a plus to dinner! Our waiter was a very cute guy with a British accent!! That made dinner even better!!

After dinner Llama went off to a New Year's Eve party with his friends and Karli and I stayed home with our parents and Konner.

Konner doing some Jedi mind trick to the camera!


And all three of us ringing in the New Year shortly after midnight!!