Happy Birthday!!

Today is my sweet Keely's birthday! December 17th. We celebrated on Monday because Shawn had night class on Tuesday and Wednesday night. Today Grandma Nelson took Keely out to lunch and McDonalds to get a happy meal, which Keely I am sure had fun just being with her Grandma. When we ask her how old she is, she holds up all her fingers and says "toot".

I am so thankful to have such a sweet special girl in our family. Where ever she goes she brightens everyone's day with her smile and personality. She seems to always have a little sparkle in her eye, and I sure hope she knows how much her mom and dad love her. Happy Birthday Keely!

Grandma and Papa got Keely a kitchen for her birthday and she absolutly loves it.

Here is the cake I made for her. It is supposed to be Cuirous George. She liked it so that's all that mattered.

Here comes Number Two!! :)

So Shawn and I have some news.... we are expecting another baby! Yahoo!! I am 14 weeks along and my due date is June 3rd. I have been waiting to tell people till after I went and saw the doctor and to hear a heartbeat, and I just saw her yesterday, and everything is great! We did an ultra sound and it was sucking it's thumb, it was so cute. I am on the fence post to be able to distinguish the sex but it was covering itself up so she couldn't tell us. But we find out what we are having Dec 30th. Shawn and I are so excited to see what the Lord has in store for us next. I have a hard time picturing anything but a Keely, so it is going to be fun seeing what child we will welcome into our family.
It seems that there are so many people pregnant. My sister in law is May 27th, my cousin is May 9th, my brother Ben's wife is due early July, I am due June 3rd, and my friend is due June 17th. So I know of five within a month or so apart. Crazy huh?

Thanksgiving and Getting Ready

So it has been about a month since I last posted. I just haven't really had anything to talk or post about. So I am going to do better trying to find something to post about from now on.

Anyway, we got to go up to Heber for Thanksgiving this year. It was so good to see my family. It was a little different this year because only four of us 8 kids were able to be there for the meal. Us, Ginger, Sam, and Ernie. We all sat at one table to eat instead of 2 or 3. It was kinda weird not having a huge houseful of people. Of course my mom made a great meal and of course too much food to feed only 8 adults; left overs are always good though. I am so thankful for my mother and the hard work she puts into showing her love for her children. I am so thankful for a wonderful husband and little girl that I have been blessed with. Especially in these hard time I am grateful for a roof over my head and food to put on the table.

Kelly loved being up there. She is talking so much more and she loves to say "Papa" and "Abby" (Ben's little girl Keely's age). They had so much fun together.

Friday we helped my mom put up her Christmas lights, because that is the only way it will get done, and it didn't take us long at all. I was suprised with how quickly we worked. I should have taken a picture of the final product but I forgot. Keely loved being outside helping us get all the lights out. Here is a picture of her....

On Saturday we went like we do every year to "Greg's tree farm" and got our Christmas tree. I call it Gregs tree farm becuase he took us to this place on the rim where nobody goes and there are just tons of Christmas trees. It is so much fun finding a tree and cutting it down ourselves. And $15 is a whole lot better than $40 if we bought it at a store or something. It was really cold this year on the rim though. There was snow and Keely loved playing in it, and trying to throw "snowballs" at us.

Keely and Macey


Now I am so ready for Christmas to get here! Well not specifically Christmas day but just the wonderful season of it. I think most of us feel that way. This year is going to be really fun with Keely older. Everytime she sees Santa or anything Christmas like, she says "Ho Ho Ho. " It's so cute. I hope everyone had a good and safe Thanksgiving!
We tried to get a family picture but Keely wouldn't have that. She would rather be playing in the snow, so this is what we got. :)

Halloween Fun and Other

We did a pumpkin this year, well Keely and I did a pumpkin, Shawn just watched. I decided to do something fun, so Keely could appreciate the pumpkin more, so I did Elmo. I was a little nervous, but it turned out really good I think. I was proud of myself. I was hoping she would say "Elmo"and recognize him, but all she could concentrate on is how "hot" it was. That's all right.

Don't you think it turned out good? I am so proud.
It was fun having Keely being older this year for Halloween. She understood a little and even tried to say "Trick or Treat." We only took her to Shawn's parents house and hung out. Well she went to their neighbors as well and got scared by other trick or treaters that were there. She is so funny. I borrowed a costume that my sister Kelli made for her little girl a couple years ago. I didn't feel like paying money for one, or making one so she was Strawberry Shortcake and she was so dang cute....


Here is Keely with Shawn and his motorcycle. She calls it a "horse" I think she knows the difference between the two, but motorcycle is such a hard word that it just comes out as horse. She's so funny, everywhere we go and there is motorcycle she gets so excited and yells out "dad" and points. Anyway, Shawn is sad. We have to sell the motorcycle. He has to move out to Ahwatukee to go to work now, and it is just too long of a drive everyday to be on a motorcycle, and kind of dangerous to be on the road like that for long periods of time. The chance of him getting in an accident goes way up. So we are selling it to get another car. He is sad now, but he will have the opportunity to get another someday.

Bye Bye Cast

Today, we got Keely's cast off. I am so happy to get that thing off even though it was really cute. Bath time is so much easier, she is taking a bath right now acutally. I ask her where her cast has gone and she waves "bye bye" at her arm. The doctor was impressed by her mobility that she already has in her wrist. I don't think she will have any problems getting her strength back.

This past conference weekend, my sister Ginger and I got to visit my parents. Shawn wanted to ride his motorcycle up, so he came up the next day. Boy did he pick a bad weekend to endevor the trip. He froze on the way up and froze plus got hailed on the way home. I felt so bad for him, but I thought he knew it was going to be bad weather. He said he had no idea that the weather was going to be bad, guess I should have made sure he knew. I have yet to put a picture of him on his bike with Keely. I will do that soon. He has just been so busy working full time and going to school full time. He has been a busy guy, but we know it will be worth the sacrafices.

It was great to spend time in Heber. I of course ate more than I should. Everytime I go up, my Maumau makes us cookies. This time there were cookies and pie! My mom dug out some fabric from my Senior year prom dress that I am going to make Keely a Christmas dress out of. Here is a picture of my dress. I think she will look pretty in the color blue..... I will put a picture on here when I'm done with it.

Welp she did it...

As I was saying that Keely wanted the cast off - welp she got it off. I will be back at the doctor tomorrow for another miserable tramatic day. I don't know how she did it. I went into her room because she was crying and I felt both arms and nope nothing was there. Haha goofy, stubborn girl. Anyway wish me luck tomorrow.

What a Small Cast...

So on Sunday evening we were at Shawn's parents house visiting as usual and Keely had wandered off into the back yard while Shawn and I were still at the table eating. Hailey, Keely's cousin came running in yelling "Keely fell and hurt herself really bad!" So I jump up and run to the backyard and Keely was on her way getting up crying. She had fallen off the jungle gym they have about 41/2 feet or so. She seemed like she was fine, just shaken up, then later that night I noticed her arm was looking weird. I took her to the doctor the next day, and sure enough she broke her arm. Poor little thing. They didn't want to cast it until 3 days after the injury. She didn't seem in too much pain except when she put pressure on it. The doctors called it a distal radius frature of the right arm. Once she got it on, she has been trying to pull it off and get her little fingers underneath to try to take it off. She just looks at me and say's "mom, mom" while pointing at it.

This was the break before the cast (She's not in pain, she's just stubborn)

Keely doesn't like doctors as it is. Once we walk in the room, she freaks out. So this experience wasn't so good. I had to wrestle her down so she would hold still so the doctor could put the cast on. Now we have to look forward to baths and making sure it doesn't get wet. I can't imagine her keeping a plastic bag over it. She doesn't even like keeping a hat on. I feel so bad for her, but she looks so cute with that teeny cast on her arm....

I think purple suits her don't you?