Happy St. Pattys Day!

We love celebrating our Irish Heritage and St Pattys day requires green and shamrock and IHOP?  

The kiddos off to school!

Shamrock pancakes at IHOP! Shayla's favorite restaurant!

Shayla and one of her best friends Lindsay

Mitchell and one of his best friends, Todd

Even Colt had to wear green!

Shaylas shamrock says "Your lucky to have me as your kid" !  And I am!

Valentine's Day Selfies

Happy Belated Valentines Day!  I took some selfies of my Valentine Loves this day! 

Happy New Year 2016!!!

 HAPPY NEW YEAR!  

It's 2016!  So CraZy!!!

We had a low key new years eve starting with our New Years tree activities - fun things to do every two hours - and our annual tradition of Ice Blocking with friends!  Ending with dinner and the start of the Star Wars Marathon for the kids! Since the 7th Star Wars came out over break, we figured it is time for the kids to start the series!  So here we are in 2016!  May yours be blessed and full of all good things!!

Mitchell and Chase Ice Blocking 

Shayla Ice Blocking 

The troops playing in the bushes at Arroyo Verde after Ice blocking

HAPPY NEW YEAR (at nine PST/midnight EST)!  

They did their noise makers and poppers to celebrate the end of the year!

Christmas Memories 2016

Christmas Day!  A day to celebrate Christ's birth!  We try to keep Christ in Christmas by focusing on helping others, reading Christmas stories of giving and cheer every night in December, giving gifts related to the gifts the Wise men gave the Savior and surrounding our self with family!

Kids on Christmas morning!

Stocking time!

Celebrating Christmas with Nanny and Poppa and Rachel and her family!

The Nelson Family Christmas Day 2015

The joy of opening a gift!

Spy stuff for Shayla! The kids asked for Spy stuff, Skylanders and Legos.  We don't overwhelm them with gifts as they get 3 main gifts but they did get Skylander and Lego Dimensions and Spy stuff too!  They were happy. 

The kids participate in a Secret Santa at their school where people donate gifts and the kids shop for their family member - everything is $1 - and the money raised from selling the gifts goes to a Charity!  It is a great project for all!  Mitchell got Jon a "Bacon Cookbook"

We had Christmas Dinner at Rachel's House - cousin love!

Megan and her family came to visit the week after Christmas so we got to spend more time with our Abbott cousins too!  The kids always love going in the river bed. 

My beautiful sister!

The kids having fun with the jeep and Skateboard

Fun times!

And that ends another Christmas season!  My favorite part of the season is getting to spend time with family!  I am so blessed to have a wonderful family and a wonderful family I married into! I am grateful that our Heavenly Father gave us the gift of eternal life and forever families! That's the best gift I could ever hope for!

Christmas Eve #1 and #2

We had two Christmas eves this year!  One the week before to celebrate with Grandma Betty and one on the actual day to celebrate with Grandpapa too! 

First we stopped at Grandpa's sister houses Aunt Lois to say Merry Christmas 

The over to Grandma Bettys to celebrate Christmas with her!

The sisters who were there!

The Hulihan Siblings

Christmas Eve #2 - we got to celebrate at Tommy and Christine's with everyone!

One of the cute babies there - Emeric! Just turned one!

David practicing holding two babies at once - Emeric and Sabine - preparing for the TWINS he and Amber will be having in 2016!  Everyone was so excited as the announced it in person with a ultrasound photo of two babies wearing Santa hats! 

Here it is!

The Christmas Eve Crew!

A special family photo with Grandpapa!

It has been years since we had our Grandpapa with us for Christmas, but all growing up it was never Christmas without him, so it was a nice to have him visiting this year from Idaho and it felt like a real Christmas eve! 

Here is a link to more photos from these days!

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE NELSONS!

Here are our last minute family photos that our sweet friend Susie took for us - they were done in December but look more like fall photos!!  Anyway here are the Nelson Family 2015 family "Christmas Card" photos!  Sorry no smiles this year from Jon!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

We are so grateful to have such wonderful family and friends and the Savior Jesus Christ in our life! We love you all and wish you a very blessed 2016!

Love The Nelson Family

Love the Nelson Family

 

This was a test shot but I love the Fillmore view that is 2 seconds from our front door! 

Halloween Memories 2015

We love the fall - even though most days it has been in the 90s and we really try to get in the feeling of the fall spirit!  We do have fun and enjoy the beautiful time of year!

I was able to go with Mitchell on his class fieldtrip to the Pumpkin Patch (Underwood Farms) 

Mitchell and Mommy

Crazy hair day at school!

We have an annual tradition to do a girls night at Fright Fest Magic Mountain!  Another fun - and not tooo scary - night!

Church Halloween Party & 4h Halloween Party!

Mitchell as a Skylander - I already forgot which one it was!

Cookie decorating!

Shayla went as a skylander too!

School Halloween parade!

The cute 3rd graders!

Trunk or Treat - We won the coveted Gold pumpkin for our decorations- thanks Pinterest! 

Silly kids!

And I did get one night - on actual Halloween - to have everyone dress up for my annual family costumes!  I think this may the last year unless I want to be a Skylander!  Hmmm..

Happy Halloween to all!