Long Overdue Post

It has been a really long time since I last posted, and there really hasn't been a reason why, just laziness I guess. Well we have been busy in other areas. We pulled up all our tile in our house, and replaced it with new flooring and carpet. I've been painting trim, walls, and doors. Replacing doorknobs and such. Replacing the bathroom flooring. So ya, I guess we have been busy, trying to get our house the way we want it. Pictures will come soon, but we don't have any baseboards yet, so I will wait till we get those in a couple weeks or so. It is fun making our house the way we want it, but also stressful. Paint colors....ugg are so hard to find the right color. It drives me mad. I painted all downstairs, a tan color, but the more I look at it, the more I don't like it. but I think I found the color to repaint it. It's just so much work.

During cousin's sprink breaks, we got to go to the zoo twice. Once with the Nelson's and once with my mom and sisters. We love to go to the zoo and walk around. I didn't get any pictures with my mom and sisters, but here are some of the Nelson trip.I love this picture with the stroller. We got a double stroller, and if you can see Keely in the back with her cousin JP, they are so little that it became a triple stroller. I am so glad that we got it, it makes trips like that a whole lot easier.The girls have been so fun lately. Keely is listening so well now. I put her in a dance class, that she loves. I think it gives her something to look forward to and makes her feel important. She loves to dance. Lydia is in to EVERYTHING! She is such a busy, busy little girl. Keely was just opposite, I am not sure what I am going to do with Lydia. The other day, I found Lydia playing in the toilet water, pulling down all the toilet paper, getting into the trash, ect, ect. She is nonstop going. I don't know what I am going to do when she starts walking.

Keely loves to feed Lydia. She will even be better at it with the next baby. That will be nice.

Easter was a good quiet day at home, with conference and everything. Shawn even made the girls a castle to play in on the stairs. We went to Grandma Nelson's for dinner, and a little egg hunt. I didn't get a picture of them in their Easter dresses the Sunday before, but they were cute. Caslte, with two princesses.Lydia has been standing by herself lately, and gets so proud.Lydia and her cousin Zoey find their eggs on the blanket area.

That is all for now, hopefully by my next post, I will have before and after pictures of our house. I can't wait! :)

Play, Play, Play

All Keely wants to do these days is play, play, play. So lately when Shawn and I have been putting her down for her nap time or bed time, she is always getting out of bed. She will change her clothes, read her books, sing, ect, ect because she can't or won't fall asleep. So this past week, or so, we have found her sleeping in some funny positions.

This is during one nap time, when she fell asleep in the bathroom on the floor. She did look really comfy.This picture was taken like at 11 at night. I went upstairs to go to bed and the light was on. She borrowed that book from Grandma Nelson and loves them.

This one cracks me up. I was going to bed, the light was on again. I love how she has her shoes on. She was probably changing her shirt and got too tired to put another one on?

I think I am going to stop giving her naps, which makes me so sad, because I love nap times, and she is such a good naper, but if she has a nap, she plays unitl 11 at night and can't go to sleep. Darn it.

On a side note, Lydia is crawling, I am really going to have my hands full.

Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam

Keely has graduated from nursery and now is in Sumbeams! She is growing up so fast. She is such a good girl, and just sits quietly in her seat and watches all the big kids. How do I know this you ask? Well I got a calling 4 weeks ago..... I am the Primary music leader. Those who know me will probably laugh. I laughed when they told me. I am a little intimidated, but I am getting used to it, and learning what works and what doesn't. It will be good for me to break out of my shell a little bit. I love primary though. I am so thankful that Shawn and I were primary teachers in our last ward, because Ithink that it prepared me for this calling now. It reminded me what goes on and what is expected during sharing time. But ya, it's fun though to watch Keely in primary. I sit like 3 feet away from her, and she is good to stay in her seat while I am doing my thing which I was a little worried about. "Come with me to primary, come with me to primary, whereever in the world that you may be, oh come with me to primary"

The Holidays and such.

We had a wonderful holiday season. We prepare and prepare, and it seems like it just fly's by. We are so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends, employment, and food on the table. We stayed at our home Christmas morning and visted Shawn's family in the afternoon. We then went to see my parents in Heber the day after and got to play in some snow. For New Year's Eve, we had my family brother Travis and Ginger come over to play games. We played Clue, ya you heard right Clue, and Apples to Apples. After Travis and Jen's family left, Ginger and her hubby Steve and Shawn and I played rockband. Steve was amazing at the drums, It was really fun to have everyone come over. I love having a house where we can actually fit people, now we just need furniture for them to SIT. Baby steps people. Here are some pictures....Keely and her cousin Cossette, playing in the snow. They are 3 months apart and get along so well together.Lydia, Christmas morning.The loves of my life. Aren't they so adorable?

The finished stocking that i completed after 2 years in the closet. I thought they turned out awesome.

Celebration of Life

Today was Keely's birthday. She is three. She had a wonderful day. She got a barbie. And loves it. We love her so much and are so happy she is in our family.

KEELY

She loves to smile. She hasn't stopepd smiling since she was four months old.

She knows her ABC and most of their sounds.

She loves to play with cousins and any kid that wants to.

She can swim all by herself.

She was named after the girl on "Phill of the Future"

She loves tv, especially Cauiou on PBS (maybe too much)

She give the best "tight" hugs.

She love to dress herself.

And she gives the best growl you have ever heard.

Happy Birthday Keely! We love you!

I have a three year old. What?

See. Loves her barbie right after she opened it.

Thanksgiving, 6 months, New addition

This is a little late for thanksgiving, but better late than never. Thanksgivng 2009 the Nelson's extended family got together for maybe the last time for Thanksgiving. It was so fun to have family come into town to get together. Shawn and I had 4 of his cousins stay with us, which was a lot of fun, because I love to host and make breakfast and cookies for people. The day after we all went to the zoo. We love the zoo! and it was such a beautiful day. Shawn had to work for half a day, but met up with us in the afternoon. Oh and I made my own Turkey, very first, just thought I would throw that in there. Here are some pictures of the zoo....Lydia was so good.

All of the 2nd and 1st cousins.Keely was being little Mermaid.


Lydia is 6 months old! Between looking for a house, moving, Shawn's school, Shawn changing jobs, Ginger's wedding, and life, I really don't know where all the time has gone. I really can't believe Christmas is only 2 weeks away... Anyway, Lydia is doing great. Her stats are 16.4 pounds, 26.5 in. She is around the 70% range. It feels so good to have a baby that is normal weight, and who actually looks forward to eating. I was so stressed with Keely's weight gain, it feels good not to fret anymore. She sleeps 10 hours at night, which is great. She loves loves to watch her sister, and if Keely is taking a nap, Lydia will look around for her. She likes her solids, and is sitting up by herself. Oh and she love her walker, she has been "walking" all over the house in that thing. We love her!

Yes we have a new addition to the family. He doesn't have a name yet though, but it's a puppy. Shawn got him free from a guy and he's so cute. This dog is really for Shawn though. He said he got it for Keely, but don't let him fool you, it's his baby. The dog looks kind of big in these pictures, but he doesn't really seem that big. He is just 8 weeks old.

At first Keely was timid around him, she really wanted to pet him, but just couldn't be brave enough. But as you can see from this picture she is pretty warmed up to him. When we asked her what we should name him, she said "Bird" Don't ask me where she got that from. Now she wants to call him "Boy" So I don't know, any suggestions would be great. We are no good at naming dogs around here.Anyway, that's all for now. Can't wait for Christmas. I love this time of year. :)

Halloween.

Halloween was a busy day for us. Not only was it a fun day for Keely to dress up and get candy, but we moved into our house! Yahoo!! We are so excited and relieved to be here. It is amazing how much more room we have, and the difference it makes in our everyday lives. Keely has her own backyard, the sellers left their swing set, and she calls it her "own park". It is so nice to leave the sliding door open so she can run in and out. A huge difference is that Keely and Lydia are in their own rooms again. I don't have to worry about them waking each other up when they go down for a nap. We are almost settled. i have to put the office together, and odds and ends, but other than that we are feeling pretty good. Now I need to get busy and paint. I will post pictures later.After we moved all our stuff in, Shawn went to help his other brother move. He has such a great family that help whenever they are called, and the Nelson's had some tired boys after that day was done. We are so grateful for such wonderful family who are willing to help at a moments notice. They are great! We love them!

When the sun was setting, it was time to get Keely's costume. I borrowed my sister Kim's costume that she used for her little girls dance recital. We went with Shawn's brother and his kids to his neighborhood to do the knocking. Keely had so much fun. She was so excited, almost hyper knocking on doors, saying "trick or treat" and then yelling "Thank you!" she didn't know which direction to run next. It was halarious. She got a pretty good load, and I am so glad that we took her to a good neighborhood that was really into it. It will definatly be a Halloween we remember. :)

Keely with her cousin Megan (she was Hermoine and she made a very good one)I am glad I dressed Lydia up. I was debating whether or not to, just because it doesn't really matter, and it was such a busy day, but finally I decided we would go with Shawn and Keely and enjoy the night air. She was so cute.

She is such a funny girl. Til next year!