The Happiest Place on Earth

Since September of 2006 Shawn's family had been planning to go to Disneyland in September of 2007. So we just got back from California, well last week we did. It was a lot of fun. All of Shawn's brothers and sisters were able to make it. It was a big deal to get everyone there because Grandma had to get her Christmas pictures there. :) She is so funny.




Well Shawn and I left Saturday (about a week ago) morning and headed to Riverside, CA so we could go to a ward that was in Shawn's mission. We stayed at a really nice Hilton which was pretty cool, and on Sunday we went to his missionary ward, but he was kind of bummed because he didn't see anyone there that he really wanted to see. After church we headed to Newport beach, so Keely could have her first beach experience, which did not go well I might add. She has never really been outside because it is always so dang hot, so she hated the feel of the sand in her feet, and she detested the water as well. After that we headed to Anaheim to check into our next hotel which was called the Castle Inn across from Disney land. About 2 hours after we check in, we had a little incident. Shawn left the room while Keely was on the bed and she fell off and her teeth cut her bottom lip. She was bleeding and crying and I was crying. I think Shawn got a little frustrated with the girly emotions. :) Anyway, so the next day we walked across the street to Disneyland. Keely loved seeing all the people there. Everytime we were in line for something, she was smiling at someone and they would comment on how much she smiles and what happy baby she was. She was so funny with all those people. Let's see what rides did we take her on? She absolutely loved Small World, hated Pirates, loved the tiki room, liked Buzz light year and dumbo, wasn't too fond of the carousel, I think that is it. I wish she was older when we took her so she could remember but oh well we got some good pictures.




At the end of our last day we were taking a picture of Shawn, me and Keely in front of the park and Mikey came right in our picture. He was no where to be found and there he was! It was so funny. I felt so special. We had been looking for him all day and he came to us! Keely loved him. She would not keep her eyes off him. It was too cute.




I didn't think it would be as hard as it was to take her, but going on vacation with a baby was a lot of work, especially in Disneyland because she got so sick of her stroller and being held, she just wanted to be down. I don't know if I would go to Disneyland again with a baby. It feels so good to be home!:)

Dirty!

So today I had to go into work to pick up more stuff to work on and apparently our office is dirty! It looks like she got her self into a bunch of coal to play with. I don't know why it is so dirty. It is brand new carpet. I thought she would get more dirty at home but I guess at the office there is more traffic. Everytime we get home from the office she looks like this. It is so gross! If she would crawl on her knees instead of scooting her belly around maybe she wouldn't look like that :) But even her toes, knee, and elbows get so dirty now. I think she is going to ruin all her clothes, haha oh well I love buying her clothes, so now maybe I have an excuse for Shawn not to shake his head at me haha just kidding :) But other than the dirty clothes she was a good girl for me today at work. Usually she demands more attention, but my coworkers daughter was there who is 4 and Keely had a ball playing with her. I think Keely needs to play with more kids so I don't have to entertain her all day. She totally forgot I was in the room when she was playing with that girl. It was so nice! I can't wait for Jaxon and Madden to get old enough so we can have play dates!

Watch out Baby!

I can't believe how fast Keely is growing! She is offically a transporter. She isn't really crawiling just army crawing, but she gets around. The other day I was getting her bath water ready for her and she suprised me when she came right behind me. It scared me half to death. She is going from room to room and getting into everything, expecially the things she knows she's not supposed to have. Little stinker! Here are some recent miscellaneous pictures.......

Her favorite big girl bath

She knows shes going into uncharted territory.

And there she goes!

Now she sees that I have a camera she wants

Shawn put her in there but she loved it.

She had really bad bed head one morning. It was so funny. Rough night.:)

She loves playing with her carseat.

New York, New York

Sister in front of Lady Liberty

So my sister Ginger is living in Conneticuit for a year being a nanny for a rich family in Grennwich. So... my sisters (Kelli and Kim) and my mom decided that we need to go make a trip and visit her. So about 2 weeks ago we left all our children behind (yes even Keely :( ) to visit New York City! We had a really fun time. It is so beautiful back east and New York is so fun! If I was single and rich I would live there. It was just like the movies. The subways are identical to what you see in the movies, but when you watch the movies, you don't get the smell. They stink so badly. We went into this one elevator and it smell just like urine. It was awful.
We stayed at the house that Ginger nannies for, and it was so beautiful. We went and saw the major sites like Statue of Liberty, Time Square, Empire State, the Met, Brooklyn bridge, 5th Ave, China Town... Ginger was our tour guide and it was so weird for our little sister to be showing us around in this big city. We also saw a broadway play "Hairspray". We wanted to see something else, but everything else was sold out. But I am so glad that we got to see Hairspray. It was halarious. I have never seen anything like it. I would definatly recomend it.
It was so amazing to see how people live there. No one owns a car. I didn't see one gas station in New York. Everyone just walks to where they want to go. We stayed for about a week, and I was glad that is wasn't more, I was getting so home sick to see Keely and Shawn. It was torture. I don't know if I could do that ever again. Especially with Keely being so little.

New York Police Men :)

Me in China Town

Ginger and Mom in Central Park

Hola

Well I don't know if I am cut out for this or not! Haha, this stuff is complicated. Maybe I am just retarded. haha so if mine isn't as good as everyone else's that's why, dont make fun of me :) Well I thought it was fun seeing everyone's little blogs that they have going on so I thought it would be fun if I did it too. it is fun to see everyone's little families. So here is our blog (well mine really; Shawn thinks I am silly) Anyway....that's all I have.. Ummm bye? (is that what you are supposed to say?)

The Nelsons from the Beginning.