We Will Miss You Dear Prophet

Well those of you who don't know, our dear prophet President Gordon B. Hinckley passed away last night about 7pm. He was almost 98 years old. He was such an amazing man doing the things he was doing at his age. I will miss him so dearly, as I am sure most people will. He is in such a better place now as he is having his long overdue reuinion with his sweet wife Marjorie. I have had 3 presidents in my lifetime, but President Hinckley is the one I knew the best. I was priveledge to see him at the Snowflake Arizonal Temple dedication. Our ward was one of the few that was chosen to put bootie socks on the people going in. President Hinckley pulled up in a red sports car, which was pretty funny. And when he stepped on those holy grounds, everything was quite and peaceful. You could sense that he was a prophet of the Lord. He was so lively and happy, shaking as many hand as he could. I hope I never forget that memory. I love President Hinckley and I hope he know how much he is going to be missed, and how much he is appreciated for the service he has put into the progressing of the Lord's Kingdom here on earth.

Nelson Highlights in 2007

I saw other's blogs and thought this was a fun thing to do. I as well neglected to do Christmas Cards that I really wanted to do, but never did. Soo....
I will start off by saying that we have been really blessed this past year of 2007. Keely was born in December of 2006, but it's kind of like she was born in 2007 (if that makes sense). I still remember bringing her home from the hospital and taking care of her those first couple of weeks. I was so paranoid that she would get RSV. Ask Shawn, I was constantly reading books so I was educated in preventing Keely from getting RSV. That is one thing that doctors tell you about. So I worried all the time that she got it, and a couple days after her blessing in February we found out Keely was sick with RSV, my worst nightmare. We stayed 5 days in the hospital, maybe the worst days of my life. But everything turned out right, as all our trials seem to do.
Shawn left his job installing Alarms for Southwest Dealer Services, and is now working for Allstate since February.
Shawn went snowboarding in April to Colorado with some friends. In May Shawn turned 25 and I turned 21 (which was a huge break in our car insurance!) In July Shawn and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary. In August my sisters, mom and I went to Connecticut to visit Ginger, and we got to do the whole New York experience. Also Shawn re-enrolled in school full time still working hard. He starts again in about a week.
In September the Nelson clan invaded Disneyland, which was really really fun to have the whole family there. Keely was able to get her first beach experience and Shawn was able to visit his mission.
I think that is all the highlights of the year. We have been so blessed that I can hardly name all the blessing that we have. We are excited for the new year, as we know Shawn is getting that much closer to finishing school and Keely is learning so much everyday. These past years have gone by so fast, hopefully this year will seem to last longer and bring much more joy. Happy New Year!

Bye Bye Christmas!!

I am also so sad when Christmas leaves. We wait with anticipation for like a month and then it comes and is gone just like that. We Nelsons had a good Christmas this year as every year. Last year we were blessed with a beautiful baby girl, and it will alway continue as we watch her grow and experience new things that life brings. It was so good to be with family these past couple of days. Last year we missed the Barnett traditional gumbo because I had just barely had Keely, and I was so excited to eat shrimp gumbo that my Maumau prepares. It was really good this year too, as always. Christmas morning was fun to see Keely opening presents (well really just playing with the paper). She got Little People Zoo from Santa which she loves and a Little Mermaid cell phone!


I suprised Shawn good this year. He had no idea what I got him. Every year that we have been married prior he has either seen his gift of he knew was I was getting him. This year I got him a shot gun, and my brother in law bought it in Show Low and just kept it in Heber until we got there. It was really fun being sneaky.


Here are some pictures of our day, Oh and Keely's bottom. I coudln't resist. She ran away from me when I was changing her diaper to go play with her leap frog table. :) So cute.

How do you like my dad's hat? I love Christmas Morning.

Keely and her Mermaid phone

Playing with her cousing Macey

The Nelson Clan

We are so very grateful for our family and friends. We love them so much!

Happy Birthday Keely

Happy Birthday to my sweet little baby Keely! I can't believe that she is one year old, and I have been a mom for a year now. It feels like just yesterday that my water broke and I was delivering her in the hospital, I swear the memories are still so fresh in my mind.


We had a party for Keely on Saturday with family and friends at Freestone park. It would have been nice to do it at our home, but it is just too small to fit anyone in here, so we did it at the park. It turned out good. The kids were running around and having fun; Kelli brought a pinata which was fun for the kids. I am glad it is over though, I don't know why I stress so much. I know it drives Shawn crazy. Here are some pictures of the day....

I had a lot of fun making this cake.

Keely was crawling around everywhere. She got so dirty.

Keely and her pinata. She got really mad when the kids broke him apart.

Keely eating her cake. MMM good.

Her messy face. She was so tired. She was ready for a nap.

Here is a slideshow of Keely's first year. She is not a baby any longer..... :(

Elfing around :)

So we got sent an email last night with this fun thing. Haha I couldn't stop laughing at it. I wanted to post the video, but all I can post is the link. So click on this link and laugh. You have to make one for yourself as well. Haha I think it is so funny. Enjoy, Merry Christmas!
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1169230826

Thanksgiving

Well this Thanksgiving, we went up to Heber to spend it with my family. It was so nice to be up there for the cool weather and enjoy family for the weekend. I love my family so much; it is so much fun when we get together. Everyone was able to make it excpet for Travis's Family and Ernie's family, but we still had a crowd. My mom made a wonderful meal, I have never seen Shawn pick at a turkey like he did. We played scum, rummy, and phase 10 that night, which is always so much fun. Keely had fun playing with her cousins, especially Ben and Emma's Abigal. She is like exactly one month younger and they were just following each other around. Here are some pictures.....

Aren't they so cute?

The day after Thanksgiving was my mom's birthday, and we made her a cake and sang to her. I am so grateful for my family and the love that they have for me and my little family. I don't know where I would be with out them.

I love this picture. That is Ben my brother, he is such a goof ball sometimes, and is usually the life of the party.

The day after Thanksgiving we went out to hunt for our Christmas Tree. Can't beat getting a permit for 10 bucks. My family has been going to the same spot for the past 3 years or so now, so we have made it kind of a tradition. It is so fun to get bundled up and cut down your own tree. We got a really good tree, small but good. We strapped it to our Jetta and took it back with us.

This is Keely's new thing - walking with your fingers. It seems that all she wants to do lately. She gets so made when you don't do it with her. It will be so nice when she will start walking.

This is Hailey, Kelli's girl. She loves to hold Keely.

Well that was our Thanksgiving weekend in a nutshell. Now it's time for Christmas. I love the holiday season. :)

The Zoo and a Suprise!

This past Saturday Shawn and I went to the Phoenix Zoo. I had never been and Shawn's sister gave us some tickets, so we decided to go on Saturday. It was really fun. It was so nice to get out and walk around and enjoy the weather. It got hot in the afternoon but the morning was really nice. Keely really didn't show any emotion towards the animals, except the turkeys by the petting zoo. Probably because we could get right up close to the cage. The petting zoo wasn't open for some reason. I think they were doing som renovations, but I was curious to see how Keely would react to the goats and sheep. Saturday was also her 11th month birthday, she will be one year in a month. Here are some pictures of our day.

This is Keely with the turkeys.

I don't know if you can see the giraffes in this picture, but that's where we were.

Keely with her sippy cup. She is still learning how to use it.

On another note, that same day, my mom came down to bring my Grandma down for Thanksgiving and also to pick up some groceries. She came by to see Keely about 3:00 and then left to get her grocery's. She called me about 10:00 at night and said "I forgot to give you something, so I will be by in about 5 minutes" And I was wondering why she was still out and about when she should be in bed and relaxing from her busy day. Well when I open the door for her out popped my sister Ginger!! She has been in Conneticuit for 8 months and wasn't going to return until next month just before Christmas, but she got to come home early! It was the biggest suprise I have ever had. I was so confused when I saw her. My mom and her had been planning to suprise everyone since September. Not even my dad knew she was coming home for good. They are so funny. But it is so good to have my sister back home and safe. I have missed her so much. Welcome home Giner!! :)