Have a Good Laugh!

Easter!

First time meeting the Easter Bunny

I don't blame her. . . The Easter Bunny is kinda scary lookin'!

Easter Egg Hunt

Roxy loved it and dug right in. We actually had to empty out some of her eggs so the other kids could get some. That's my girl!

Easter Dress

Guess What??

That's right, I'm PREGNANT!!!
I'm about 10 weeks along and due October 24th.
We are super excited to have another baby!

Nelson Memories

So if you saw the house that burned down in Sandy on the news last week... that was my Grandparents old house. Even though it's not their home anymore, they built that house and lived in it for many many many years. When I lived at home growing up, we and all the aunts and uncles and cousins would meet there every Sunday night and have homemade ice cream. There are so many memories I have in that house and it was so sad to see it burn down.



I'd just like to take a second to remeniss with all the Nelson side of my family of some of my memories.
- Homemade Icecream
- playing capture the flag, ghost in the graveyard, kick the can, basketball
- playing nertz, and murder in the dark
- Picking rassberries, apricots, and cherries
- Climbing on the roof of the barn
- Painting the barn
- The little sand box
- swinging from the clothesline poles
- massive domino trains
- watching The Simpsons in the basement
- Grandpa's old chess set
- the beer chair
- Aunt Linda's treats
- Uncle Reed's teasing
- passing around cookies
- not having to serve ice cream anymore
- Mormon bridge
- racing sticks down the gutter
- Dipping chocolates
- Grandpa saying, " My name is Quela...What's yours?" Ha Ha
- Fitting everyone in the bathroom
- Inviting Matt for the first time to face the wrath(I mean questioning) of Aunt Linda(I mean the fam)
- Thanksgiving dinner, the handprint table cloth, and the kids table.


So so many memories. Let me know what I forgot, or what your favorite memories were.

Mom of the Year!

You heard it, Mom of the Year! Look what I left my child alone with. Every Mother's dream. And yes, that's permanent marker.

"Look what I did mom!"

Hill Air

No, not as in Hilarious, but as in the Aerospace Museum. On saturday, we went to Hill Aerospace Museum. We've lived 15 minutes away from it for 3 years and this was our first visit. It's actually pretty cool. I never realized how much cool history and massive planes and choppers they have there. And it's totally free to visit! I recommend it to anyone that has never gone, Especially if your kids, or you I guess, like planes. We had a great time.

Pic of the Day

Snow Sculptures

This weekend we had lots of fun building snow sculptures in our yard. When the snow is so wet and heavy like this it is great to play and sculpt with.

Castle

Bat and ball

Matt's super cool sisters, Ani and Sarah visited on Sunday and helped us build this scene.
It's 4 snowmen chasing after a snow monster with stick and rakes. It turned out pretty cool.

Matt sculpted the face. So good.

The back view

Playing in the snow is so much fun. Roxy had fun too, but I forgot to take any pictures of her. Sorry.

Superbowl Pics

Here we are at John's Superbowl party.
Me and my sisters

You Ready for the SuperBowl?

ROXY IS!!!

Photo of the Day

New Song

I don't really have anything interesting to post about, but I heard this song on the radio today and I kinda like it. It helps me remember to cherish every moment I have with Roxy.

Built in Babysitter

He's Gone. As some of you may know, Matt's brother Ben has been living in our basement for a while. He's been out of the house for about a month now, but officially moved out this past weekend. It's good and bad that he's gone, but the thing that I'll miss the most is that he was there to babysit for me when I needed it, most the time. I could go to the grocery store or run other errands alone and didn't have to worry about finding a babysitter for nights when Matt was out of town. And even though Ben only changed like 2 diapers while he was here, he was great with Roxy. So thanks Ben. Now that you're in your new place, I'll still be calling you to babysit every once and a while cause you definitely owe us.

Roommies!

This post is a little late, but here are some pics from a little College Roommate get together we had the first week of January. We watched a little 'Friends' like old times and had lots of fun. It was great to be all together again girls! Thanks!

Christmas in Wisconsin!

We've spent the last week and a half in Matt's hometown of Baraboo, Wisconsin. It was great spending Christmas there and spending time with all of his family. Here are a ton of pictures from our trip. And when I say a ton, I mean a ton. I probably could have put a lot less, but who doesn't love pictures and videos? Alright, here goes. . .

Roxy finally got to spend some time playing with her cousin Ava.

Cute Ava!

Playing in the Snow!!! They had so much snow there! I loved it!!

CHRISTMAS DAY!!!

Every year the Leonhardts pick a theme for Christmas. This year was a Tropical Christmas. We had Hawiian haystacks for dinner and all the girls made grass skirts out of fabric.

Roxy loved her grass skirt and playing with all the hawaiian leis.

Roxy and Grandma Leo

Roxy and Aunt Analiesa

Roxy dug right in to all her gifts. She loves opening presents!

Roxy opening Ava's gift to her.

Ava opening Roxy's gift ot her.

The whole family watching a movie on Christmas day.

Roxy is very protective of her daddy!


So for Christmas I got this game called QUELF. And it is so random and fun. Hillarious actually. It makes you do things like
this. . .
And this. . .
And this. . .
And this. . .
And this. . .
And this. . .
And this. . .


And this. . .

So Funny! You might have had to be there.

Sledding at Devil's Lake

Is an awesome picture taken by Ani.

Snow Angels

Hanging out with the fam.
Roxy and Uncle Jordan

Playing piano with Ani

Roxy and Grandpa Leo

Roxy and Uncle Peter

We spent the day after Christmas at Great Grandma and Grandpa Laube's house. It was a lot of fun!

Ice Soccer

They have a river out past their back yard that was frozen. The snow had been cleared off in this little area so we decided to have a fun game of ice soccer it was awesome.

Next we had a fun game of snow football.

The day before we came home we went swimming to add on to our tropical Christmas theme. It was a great way to end the vacation.

Roxy loved the water!

Aaron's attempted back flip

So Cute

Roxy was a little dare devil and wanted to go down all the slides by herself. We started with this little one. She kept going on it over and over again.

Then she showed us all up by going on the big slide. I can't believe how much she loved it.

We also got some family pictures taken with the whole family while we were there. They turned out pretty good. Here are a few.

This trip definitely pooped us all out!!!

See, I told you it was a ton!!