Welcome Gehrig Drew Woffinden

My little brother Drew and his wife Katee had their baby!! He was born Feb. 1st. Weighed 7 pounds 8 ounces, 20 and 1/2 inches long. We're so happy to have him in our family! He is so ADORABLE! We love you Gehrig!!

Family Photos

On New Year's Day. I decided that we MUST go out and take some family photos. As soon as Max woke up from his afternoon nap. We headed out to take the pictures. My brother in law Thom let us borrow his really nice camera lens. I'm so happy we did this! I think the pictures turned out really nice.
I love how we were able to capture Max's little personality. :)

A great way to end the year

We're happy to announce the birth of

Sailor Carolyn Maher

born 12/31/09

10:31pm

8 pounds 1 ounce

21 inches long

What a GREAT way to end the year, With a beautiful baby!

Good job Kelley and Tim Maher. Mom and baby are doing great.

Max gets a new cousin and I get to be an adoring auntie. :)

Christmas Eve & Christmas

On Christmas Eve we went to my Brother Andrew's house.

We had a great dinner and a great time.


Drew and Katee invited Ruby. She's an 81 year old widow. She was hilarious! She's from Mississippi. She's sweet and also feisty! It was fun having her with us. She made me laugh.


We had a spiritual message. It was very beautiful and heart warming. Then we opened one present. I opened a present from my sister Taunya. Thanks Taun! Drew also gave me a picture of himself doing Nacho Libra. It was so funny! He signed it with, "These are my recreational pants."


Max with his presents Christmas morning. ( At the bottom of this post is a video of Max's first Christmas morning.)




Our neighbors invited us over for a wonderful Christmas breakfast. Here's the kids waiting to start eating.



Then we headed down to Shaun's brothers house. Here we are getting ready for our brunch. It was delicious.




Max with his cousins. He was loving all the Christmas presents Santa had left for his cousins. He had fun playing with them.

Then we opened more presents. All for the kids. The adults decided instead of buying presents for each other. We would all go out for a nice dinner and a movie. On the 21st we all went to The Keg and then the movie, The blind side. It was a really fun night out.

My mother and father in law still bought us presents. It was really sweet of them. Shaun and I now have a date night planned for the Olive Garden. Thanks Dick and Marge for the gift card.

After all the fun and the great time we had being together. This is where we found Ireland. Fast asleep on the tile floor. I hope everyone had a great Christmas! I know I had a great time being with family and friends. I wish I could have also been with my family in Utah. Love you!

I caught Shaun on tape saying, " Who is this from, My mom and dad or your mom and dad." Because the present said, "To Max from mom and dad. " I had to correct him laughing. "Form Max's mom and dad!" (ha, ha) You'll also have to excuse my annoying baby voice! Now that I've heard how bad it is on tape. I'll be working on it! :)

A service project

This is a picture of my beautiful niece Elle. She was born with a cleft palate. The poor thing has been through a lot in her short life. She has a lot of surgeries ahead of her.

48 hours after she was born she had to have a sleep study done. My sister in law Amy went home to shower and get some much needed rest. When she came back to the hospital (Primary children's medical center in Utah) She found the nurses had bathed baby Elle and put this cute blue bow on her head.

Upon asking about the bow she found out that the bows are donated by a family who was grieving the loss of their little one. This really touched me as it did my sister in law Amy. That little bow had a lot of meaning behind it. She made a request on her blog to help make and donate the bows to the hospital.

I'm all over doing this. If you would like to get together and make the bows with me. I would love that! Especially, because I'm not the best bow maker. :) I could use some help.

I want to come up with an idea for little baby boys too! I'm going to be brain storming. Give me any ideas if you have some. That's my new goal.

You could do this for a church activity or with your family. Then send them to:

Primary Children's Medical Center

Attention: Marie Hendrikson

Salt Lake City, UT 84158-0249

Or you could add some special touches to your own local children's hospital. I love the idea. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling! Let's honor that grieving family and all grieving families who have children born with complications. :)

Even when I had Max and he had to be taken from my room and stay in the nursery because of his jaundice. It broke my heart! It was really emotional for me. I wanted my baby to stay with me. I can't even imagine the pain or heartache some people have to go through with their little precious angels.

Who has some ribbon? Let's get started!