Nifty Nelson News

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Snapshots of November 2014

Oops just realized my last post was October snapshots and it is mid-December so time for November snapshots! We had a lot happening in November - don't we always!? Here are some random highlights...

Shayla finally lost a front tooth (;

Best friends night out to see another dear friend perform!

Magic Mountain with friends!

Girl Scouts Pet Patch day! Meeting the bunnies!

Crazy hair day and Pomegranate picking!

4h fieldtrip to the school farm to visit the Thanksgiving turkeys!

Mitchell's preschool harvest craft day...

With mom! So blessed to be able to be home to have the flexibility to enjoy all these special days with my kids!

Seeing our friend perform in the Nutcracker!

The Nutcracker is an annual mom/daughter tradition for us too!

Kicking off the holiday season!

Thursday, November 20, 2014

I have not blogged very much in October but we had a lot of fun happenings going on so here is a recap of Oct 2014

A fun visit from our aunt Rachel!
We got to go to the beach, Fright Night at Magic Mountain and
to enjoy time with family!

Celebrated Terry (Jon's dad) birthday!

Met our newest niece, Sabine!

What a sweetie!

Megan's family visiting!

Cousin fun!

Sister love!

Jon and I took a trip to Las Vegas...

...and ziplined down the buildings of Rio!

Visiting my old bestie Michelle!

Beautiful Atrium!

Jon and I rode in our our first Metric Century ride in Santa Barbara! It was a beautiful day and a hard ride (lots of hills!)...

...but we did it!

We got to see our cousin Cliff who was visiting from Japan too!

Cousins and siblings!

We had a successful fundraiser "Evening to Spain" for Shayla's school!

Here are my mom pals supporting the event!

Shayla's end of soccer season!

Yay another fun year for this rocking goalie!

Monday, November 10, 2014

Days of Halloween Past

Okay I gladly and proudly admit it...I am a cheesy parent! I love to use Halloween as an excuse to dress up in coordinating fun costumes with my kids! Yes I even did it with my dogs before we had kids too! Anyway, I thought it would be fun following my Halloween post to share days of Halloween past! As you can see Jon is not one to dress up a lot so often he just had a hat to coordinate with the family, but he played along that way. I know my days are numbered (maybe my last year of matching costumes) as this year I had to bribe Mitchell to wear his cowboy costume and then he took it off after our family photo and walked around without a costume the majority of Halloween! And Shayla only wore hers when I told her it was a Bandit costume vs a Cowgirl costume. So I am enjoying it while I can and if this is the last year it works out, then at least I have these cute photos to remember these days! I think most are self explanatory costumes, but I will label them just in case you cannot find the common denominator...