Stewart Family

Vegas

2011-10-07T17:57:00.000-07:00

Tanya and family are headed to Disney land and they stayed over in vegas a few nights. We are so excited to have them here. They are the first ones from Nathans family to meet little Osie. Johnny and Dillon are Nahlia's favorite people in the whole world. Nathan took them to his favorite buffet at the Rio and then we walked to strip. Johnny and Dillon got to sleep over which pretty much made Nahlia's year.

This is the closest thing I could get to a group picture.

Best Buds

They Lion Kings

2011-10-06T16:06:00.000-07:00

Girls Night Out

It is the last year the Lion King will be playing at Mandalay Bay and I've been wanting to go see it but Nathan was never into it. Nahlia saw a commercial for it and told dad she wanted go and the next thing I know Nathan is headed out the door to pick up tickets. Thanks Nahlia.

She was so excited she would stop to get dinner. We could only go to our seats. 20 minutes before the show start I kept asking if she wanted to go get candy or a drink or something to kill 20 minutes but she wouldn't leave her chair.

I started looking through the program with her pointing out the actors. When I explained what the direct did, "They are in charge of telling every one what to do", she responded "Like you at our house."

The show was amazing and a great first choice for kids. I love experiencing everything all over with her. It makes life magical again.

A night with my little girl I wont forget.

Playmates for Life

2011-09-29T14:55:00.000-07:00

First Park Day

2011-09-15T17:47:00.000-07:00

We all went to the park for a little day in the sun.

Owen's First Trip

It was a great day. I got to practice nursing in public a little more. Yaaya (Not).

Owen 1 month

2011-09-12T21:32:00.000-07:00

A month goes by so fast. In the first week of breastfeeding I didn't think I could make it to a month but we DID!!! Owen is doing great a healthy and happy (most of the time) little man.

His height is 21 1/2 in. and weights 10.1 lbs.

His very smiley, which is very fun, and loves to talk to you, also exciting. He'll smile at everyone but the most with his Mommy. Knowing you're your babies favorite person make you feel like a million bucks.

He follows Nathans movements around the apartment and when he hears Daddy talk he stops and listens.

He also loves watching Nahlia and she loves smothering him.

So happy the poopy diapers have started to slow down.

Likes to be sitting up or completely down.

Love's swing.

Dislikes tummy time.

Dislikes car seat.

He has pretty bad gas that interferes with his sleeping quit a bit but when he's have a good day he'll sleep, eat, lay down and play until he's tired which is like 15 minutes and we try and do a little tummy time before he gets to tired. Then he'll want to sit up and watch was going on with Dad and Sissy. Then to the swing with his paci for a nap. Night time feeding is still about 3 times but now he'll go back to sleep instead of staying up. Since I didn't nurse with Nahlia I never nursed laying down in bed and my friend told me she loves it and now I love it to. That helped him go back to sleep fast too.

He still has gray eyes! They are pretty awesome.

As long as he doesn't have a bad tummy his personality is very happy and playful.

Everybody Needs a Mimi

2011-09-06T21:16:00.000-07:00

We are so lucky and thankful my Mom was able to come out. We didn't think it would be for 4 weeks but we'll take it. She helped so much and I was able to relax and recover. If she hadn't been here Owen's debut would have been a lot different. We got to enjoy his first month's and get to know him because she was will to but her life on hold for us. I honestly don't think I've ever been more grateful for her. We are so lucky

Love you MiMi

"The only thing that makes me happier than you being my Mom

is you being my kids Grandma"

Sweet Kisses

2011-09-06T14:43:00.000-07:00

Pool Day

2011-09-06T14:42:00.000-07:00

We were happy to have my parents get to stay a couple days extra. In the past we just get to see them passing through but this time they have time for a trip to the pool. We went to a great community pool that has water slides. We have to sneak Nahlia on them because she's about 1" to short. She manages to go down a few time before a life guard that actually cares checks her height. It was Owens first time in the water and I was happy to get his little swim trunks out. So stink'n cute. I know I'm crazy taking a three week old to the pool but gets what he lived.

Little Jadie is the cutest thing.

My Mermaid Nahlia.

So Fun

Blessing

2011-09-03T19:38:00.000-07:00

My little pumpkin. 3 weeks old.

Nathan gave a beautiful blessing. Owen didn't cry through it like Nahlia did but he did let out a little stinker. We couldn't hear it but Nathan came back giggling.

It was so hot here still that I had a hard time choosing his out fit. I looked all over for something a little cooler I liked and of course he has a blow out right before church. Quick wash and dry and it when right back on him. Mimi made the adorable blanket. Its so soft and cuddly. We were laughing about the difference between Nahlia's (the first) and Owen's blanket (the latest).

Daddy and Owen's hands. 3 things: how little Owen's hand is comparatively, realizing he'll be that big one day, and that Nathan has way nicer hands than mine.

They are really soft too.

We are so grateful to everyone who came to celebrate with us.

Baby blessings make me so grateful for the gospel, families, and the priesthood. It really makes sense of everything. I LOVE my family.

Urrutia's Move in Next Door

2011-09-03T15:58:00.000-07:00

James got a job in Henderson!!!

Not only is that awsome but they also decided to move into our apartment complex. We went from family being 6 hours away to a minute walking distance. Nahlia and Owen will have cousins close and we are so happy to have them. I hope they love it here as much and we do.
Welcome Jame, Erin, and Jadie.

Brother and Sister

2011-09-01T22:27:00.000-07:00

Nahlia is the proudest big sister. She tells everyone about her "new baby brother." Watching her be with Owen "makes my heart feel super happy" (Kailan). Of course she cann't do much with him yet but that doesn't stop her. Trying to change diapers or get him dressed. She still has to learn how to control her body around him, flying arms and legs everywhere. He can't interact but he watches her jump and dance around. I'm excited to watch them grow up together.

Nahlia 3.5

2011-08-29T17:19:00.000-07:00

Just a little something about what Nahlia has been up to, besides being a super great big sister. Basically still amazing us with her intelligence, humor, beauty, physical abilities and of course attitude. Its also fun to see her learn about the gospel and the little things she remembers and ask us about. Like "if we can go to Jesus's house" or one night I told her about the war in Heaven and she'll ask me "Who that guy that wanted Heavenly Fathers children?" Love and grateful for her Nursery leaders. Obviously she's still a handful but I love being her mom.

She started a sports class with the rec but like her ballet class she hasn't loved it as much as we hoped. The both were in the late afternoons when she's tired and sports outside in the heat and thunderstorms so not the best times but we. She got her first pair of basketball shorts that I hope she loves as much as I love mine. I had to get her new running shoes too that she takes very seriously. Whenever she has them on she runs 10xs faster, in her mind at least.

One of our first outings with Owen, ice cream out with Mimi. Loves sprinkles.

She still swims like a fish. If anyone is at the pool when she's there they comment on how well she swims. She had two swim suites this summer and she completely wore them out.

Some mom's in our ward started a rotating preschool that we get to be a part of. It started a perfect time, she gets to be with friends and learning and I get two hours to do whatever with one one kid. I hope she learns to right her name or at least say them in right order. Right now she's practicing her walk down the isle to the wedding march out to the patio. We love her so much. I can't believe she'll be four in a few more months.

Meeting GG and GBaby

2011-08-28T17:15:00.000-07:00

GG and Gbay come to Las Vegas for Grandpa Thompson's birthday party. Jeanna and Matt were here as well, of course, so they got to met littl O too. It's always exciting to introduce your new baby to the people you love.

We went out to lunch and it was my first time nursing in public, Red Robin. Lucky we were in a both, it wasn't as wierd as I thought it would be. I wasn't talented enough to eat and nurse yet so I saved my lunch and eat when we got home.

That's a good cuddle.

Sweet Moments

2011-08-28T14:57:00.000-07:00

Love having our little guy around.

Oh Boy

2011-08-25T22:02:00.000-07:00

Poor thing got his circumcision today. Nathan came with me thank goodness. I was in for the how to take care of it talk. The doctor started getting ready for the procedure and brought in this tray with the outline of a baby and straps for both legs. When I saw it and said it was time for me to go. I was waiting outside the door listening to him cry. Shortly after the doctor came out and I asked if it was over and he said "I was just cleaning his belly button." Well that eased my nerves. Nathan said it was pretty hard to watch but Owen wasn't crying. Stuff like this always reminds me of that General Conference talk when the speaker asked the mothers if they would ever do anything to hurt their children. He's answer surprised a lot of people when he said "Of course you would." His point was that if it is in their best interest you would, like immunizations or saying no. Goodness it's still hard.

Failed Infant Pics

2011-08-20T21:23:00.000-07:00

These pics are the best of a failed attempt at DIY infant pictures.

HAHAHA!!!

C is for Cookie

2011-08-16T21:17:00.000-07:00

Special delivery from GG and Gbaby. Thank you and Love you

First Bath

2011-08-14T09:02:00.000-07:00

Later That Night

2011-08-13T05:42:00.000-07:00

While showing off my little man to the rest of my family

over Skype this is what my other cuties were doing.

Going Home

2011-08-13T05:12:00.000-07:00

We only stayed in the hospital for the required 24 hrs. I felt amazing and we wanted to get home to Nahlia. Plus the food wasn't very good and our TV broke. My over night nurse was wonderful. I slept so good because of her. She gave me everything the day nurse didn't. Stronger meds, ice pack pads, that spray stuff, and a hot pad for my cramps. Owen slept great that first night but that was short lived.

Happy to be home with Big Sis.

Meeting Big Sister

2011-08-12T22:30:00.000-07:00

Nahlia was so excited to finally have the baby out of mommy's tummy. She loves little Owen so much and wants to help with everything. When she first saw him she said "He's so cute." Everything that's baby is so cute now.

Mimi took her to build a bear to pick out a present for the baby. It's a koala doctor.

After about 15 mins the excitement of the baby wore off and she said the hospital was boring.

Happy Birthday Owen

2011-08-12T13:32:00.000-07:00

Heading to the hospital to meet Owen for the first time.

I almost typed we woke up at 5 am to head to the hospital but I didn't sleep at all and neither did Nate because we were so excited. My mom and Nahlia dropped us off at a little before our scheduled time and Nahlia must have been excited too because she didn't go back to sleep until 11. Being induced scared be quite a bit because both of my sister in laws didn't have good experiences with their induced labors. Plus the idea of forcing my body to do something it wasn't ready to do yet wasn't really sitting well. I was hoping that if I just waited longer I'd go into labor on my own but I realized that wasn't going to happen because he was just floating around and I had to get my water broken. The doctor wouldn't break my water unless I was on pitocin. So I decided to just do it as soon as I could. After we checked in I tried to walk around and stand up as much as possible because I knew they would put me on the IV and monitors and in bed the rest of the day.

At my last apt I was dilated to about a 3 but his head hadn't come all the way down so the doctor thought that I should get an epidural fairy soon after my water was broken. She was right. I jumped to a 6 pretty quickly without much pain. After the epidural I slowed down a bit but I remember the nurse just giving my more and more pitocin. The worst pain I felt was when I was around an 8, the epidural was wearing off and the nurse just hit me with an other dose of pitocin making the contractions almost continuous and my body started pushing. I told the nurse and she check me and said she'd call the doctor but that his head was still a little high. My back was in so much pain and my whole body was shaking. I was using Nathan's arm to hold myself up off my back. I was still waiting for more epidural and was preparing for lots of pushing because the nurse said his head was high still so I just started pushing without her, way waste all that energy. Epidurals are heaven. At least for me it makes pushing so much more concentrated. The nurse was getting frustrated at me because I kept letting my breath out when she was telling me to hold it in when I pushed. She must have said it 20 times. It made me laugh. The doctor and nurse were so encouraging it made me laugh too. "That's it, that's it". Then when I'd do it wrong they'd say "Push right here, right here". And I'd laugh because its not like I ever claimed to be an expert at pushing "right here", I'm trying people. But I only pushed for about 20 mins or less which was great. Then little Owen made his appearance. Seeing your child for the first time is something you never forget. Your just in awe at this precious little gift. Then he pees on the doctor.

Owen Dean Stewart

8.8lbs

19 3/4in
1:32 pm

Dr. Turner

First Boy Time.

Waiting for Baby

2011-08-11T08:51:00.000-07:00

At my 38th week apt little Owen was no where in sight, which made me a little nervous because Nahlia was making a b - line to the world, so I asked the doctor if maybe he was big and suck. She decided to have do an ultra-sound to see if everything was OK. On the Monday, two weeks before i was due, we went in and the technician said everything was fine and he's normal sized. She did have a doctor that wasn't mine look at them, which meant she saw something but he waved me off so I didn't think anything about it. Wednesday was my regular apt but my doctor had to go deliver a baby so I didn't get to see her but I had dilate to almost a two and she could feel the babies head but it was still pretty high. Friday morning I wake up to a message saying the doctor reviewed my ultra sound (four days later) and wanted me to see a specialist, too much fluid. That made be freaked out a little because I was only a week away at that point and to then have something wrong I wanted to find out right away. So I didn't understand why non of the nurses I was talking to didn't feel the same way and the soonest they could see me was Wednesday. Having five days to simmer I looked up what having to much fluid could possibly do and talked to a friend that had it too and everything lead to inducing, which I really don't want to do.

So on Wednesday a friend took Nahlia to swim group for me and Nathan and I went to see the specialist. Nathan and the technician hit it off talking about the Jazz and cats. Random but true. She was much nicer than any of the other nurses we've had so that was nice. She said that Owen was over 9 lbs at first but after he moved a little she moved him down a little to 8 lbs 7 oz. She and Nathan got a kick out of me have a 9 and a half lb baby, not funny. I asked if his head was big and she said no it was normal so that made me feel better. She also showed us his large feet kicking my ribs and I think my spleen (so uncomfortable and painful to have a baby that high) But I did end up having one cm more fluid than the normal range, that and a big baby explains why my stomach is so huge and had a second growth spurt. The specialist said that because of the extra pressure blood flow can be interrupted so we did some fetal monitoring. Everything is fine though, its just making it harder to go into labor on my own and since the baby is already big they don't really want me to wait.

After that apt we picked up Nahlia and left her and Nathan at home while I went to my regular apt. I was probably going to have to pick an inducing date so I told Nathan to answer his phone when I called (he has a tendency "not to hear it" when I call). My apt always take forever even though I'm only with the doctor for 3 minutes. Average wait time is over and hour. This time I made a little more progress, almost a 3, but she still didn't sound very hopefully that I would be going into labor on my own. Which makes me sad and if I wasn't so uncomfortable or in so much pain all the time and if the baby wasn't already big, I'd probably would have waited it out a little more. I first scheduled the inducing for three day after but I've now realized I'm pretty miserable so I want to do it sooner. I really don't like have to pick a date, you think I would like have control but I don't feel like that at all, weird. So now I'm waiting to see if she'll move it up to this Friday (tomorrow!!!! woohoo).

When I called Nate, I could tell it woke him up from is afternoon nap, to ask him what he thought but he wasn't really helping me out which made me very frustrated. I hung up and called back in a more private area and he's distracted and he finally says I can't find Nahlia, Is the door locked, yes, k, she's probably sleeping in our bed go look in our bed, she's not there. I'm freaking out i can't find her, i get off the phone because he's not paying attention to me and Nahlia has done that to me before so I wasn't really worried because it doesn't take me that long to find her. He calls back I can't find her I'm freaking out, calm down she's not in the bed, i looked she's not there, is she in the closet, no I'm looking all over, you know you are not very good at finding things she just hiding look on the side of the bed, no Carly i can't find her, OK I'm coming home. mom calls what happened at the apt, Nathan can't find Nahlia

So now my house is torn apart from Nathan "searching" (he's really really bad at finding things) after I've been get things clean and organized for my mom and baby to arrive. Nahlia wakes up completely unaware of what just happened. Nathan "I though you were lost, I called the police", Nahlia "But i wasn't I was in bed." Nathan "I was screaming Nahlia as loud as I could", Nahlia "I was sleeping in bed. Mom can I have pancakes."

Nathan then goes to basketball at the recenter, is gone for about and hour and a half calls me and says "Umm I'm going to need stitches." We then spent the next 2 hours at the ER. This was the first time I've ever been to the ER or been with someone getting stitches.

My mom's flight was delayed so she didn't get in until 12:30ish am. We all made it to bed around 2 am and now I'm up at 7 sore and blogging and waiting to see if I can have a baby tomorrow.

3 Weeks to Go

2011-07-24T15:49:00.000-07:00

There haven't been any posts and very little talk of our little addition. But that doesn't mean we aren't extremely exited. So consider this one mega baby post.

Nahlia will be 3 and a half when we have the baby that seems like a big gap and there were lots of reasons we waited so long, (very sick first pregnancy, Nahlia giving us a run for our money, Nathan's job) but mostly it just didn't feel right yet. With Nahlia I knew that was when we were suppose to have her and I wanted that same feeling the second time. It was a little over a month after we started trying that we got prego. I know that's not long at all but it felt like forever (I think because we waited so long to start trying in the first place). Right before we went to Utah for Thanksgiving I had a dream that we were at Tanya's house and I was prego. Well I was pretty sure I should have started my period the week we were there and hadn't (I don't keep track of my periods so my suggestion is to keep track). So I really wanted to go get a pregnancy test but Nathan didn't want to. So the week after we got back I took a not so great dollar store one that my friends said worked fine. A very very faint line appeared so I wasn't completely sold. I showed Nathan and he didn't buy it either.

Another girl in the ward and I knew we where both trying and shortly after the dollar store test was the RS Christmas party. Well, not purposefully, she kind of outed me. So the ward found out before our families and with everyone knowing has made this a very long pregnancy.

With Nahlia I was very sick for a long time. I threw up everywhere, work, stores, movies, parking lots, church. It was awful. I felt nauseous all the time and hungry but no appetite until i was about 7 or 8 months. My nose was also very sensitive so everything in my house including Nathan smelled. We also learned that I'm not a very nice pregnant lady so it was hard on us both. For some reason Nathan started heating up salsa and cheese in the microwave that was very smell, he had never do that before and has maybe done it a few times since but it drove me crazy. I gained a ton of wait, my face was huge, and I was swollen all the time. Nahlia didn't move very much and I didn't have very much pain but she never had a bad doctors visit. I'm anemic so I have to take iron pills with my prenatal but that's about it. This time around the first three months I felt nauseous but only threw up once. Feeling sick made me cranky so I quite my job sooner and I planned. Brides don't want to be around a cranky prego lady and I didn't want to be around my cranky boss. I when I really started to feel sick I asked for motion sickness pills and it was like I was born again. Why I didn't have them with Nahlia is crazy. I didn't think I could feel normal when I was pregnant. Unlike Nahlia this baby moves a lot, all the time, and I've been really sore and achy. When I hit 8 months I hit a wall and have been tired a lot. Sleepless nights because I'm so uncomfortable and therefore cranky again.

When I had the ultrasound to find out the sex Nathan and Nahlia came with me. Nahlia was so cute. She held my hand and randomly just said "I love you mommy" it was so sweet. I felt because my pregnancies were so different that it would be a boy and that ring thing said it would be a boy. Nathan actually said "That's exciting" something he's never expressed before.

You wouldn't believe how much Nahlia has matured over this time I've been pregnant. She's very excited to be a big sister and talks about the baby with everyone. I think she is a little tired of me being pregnant especially now that I'm so big and can't play like before. She said she's had a dream that she was the best big sister and that she's going to give the baby hugs and kisses at when the baby goes to sleep. She also says that she'll sleep in her room with the baby when he comes. Here's hoping.

I don't like being pregnant so the last month feels really long. Not working as also let me get the house in order so I don't have that much to do. Weight wise I thought I wouldn't gain as much as last time because I've eaten a lot better and been way way way more active but with three week left I'm two pounds over what I was at the end of last time. I don't even fit into most of my maternity clothes anymore so I've been rotating the same 5 things. All my dress are to short and Nate's tees are feeling tight around the tummy. And just to emphasize that my tummy has reach an all new roundness I have a new patch of stretch marks. I also thought that I'd go early like I did with Nahlia but that doesn't look like its going to happen. There have been no changes or signs that labor's coming soon.

Wow not a very exciting post but we are very very excited to finally met our little man.

(Update blog . . . . Check)

Nahlia Say What . . . 2

2011-07-14T01:26:00.000-07:00

Setting: Ward member's house hosting swim day. In front of 5 young tween boys.

Me: I'm going to go put my swim suite on.

Nahlia: Are you going to get naked.

Me: Yes but not in front of every one.

Nahlia: Can I come? I love seeing you naked. I'm not scared.

Setting: Living room. Nathan showing Nahlia his injured foot.

Nahlia: Thats because you're getting old. And that means you are going to die. But I wont be sad when you die . . . . or when mom dies . . . . . because that means you're going to be with Heavenly Father and Jesus.

Swim Day

2011-07-14T01:19:00.000-07:00

Waterslides are so much fun.

Why Moms Can't Go to the Bathroom

2011-07-14T01:04:00.001-07:00

Happy Birthday Breelyn

2011-07-12T15:54:00.000-07:00

Breelyn Graci Urrutia

was born July 12th at 12:28 am.

She is the third grand child and daughter in the Urrutia bunch. Finally girls will run the house. We can't wait to give her kisses.

Independence Day

2011-07-04T01:03:00.000-07:00

4th of July in Boulder City.

Nathan had to work in the morning so no parade but we made it up there for the second half. Not really knowing what to expect we got there really early and later learning that was pointless. If it was any hotter we would have been in big trouble.

Nahlia and Nathan played in the splash park most of the time. We it started to cool down we went back to our spot to listen to the live music. The also had sky divers, which was very cool that Nahlia just loved. It ended up being completely worth it because the fireworks where the best we've ever seen. We'll definitely go next year but just for the fireworks.

Happy Father's Day

2011-06-19T00:51:00.000-07:00

Yeeeaaayy for DADs

You guessed it we went out to dinner for Father's Day. He also shot some guns with friends from out of town. The place they went is set up like a golf course, sounds pretty cool.

You know your a good dad when you can sing all the songs in Tangled. Oh and Cinderella. Oh and just happen to return the empty case of your favorite movie.

Mt. Charleston

2011-06-16T21:21:00.000-07:00

What a great trip to get out of the heat. It was in the 100s at home but up there is was in the 70s. So nice. We took a little hike off the side of the road to a waterfall. I didn't think the whole thing would be up hill but it was and I just kept thinking its ok because it will be down hill the whole way back thats good. That rule doesn't apply any more when your huge. By the end of the day my entire lower half was aching.

Nahlia attempting to put my socks on my pre hike swollen feet. PS my shoes didn't fit either.

Beautiful scenery.

Nahlia was so excited when we came across snow (in June, in Las Vegas). She would have been happy if the hike stopped there.

Crossing the little river. The first time we crossed it Nathan and I were trying so hard not to get to wet and carry Nahlia over. Little did we know that our efforts were extremely pointless because around the corner from that you could only climb up in the water.

Please try to ignore how large I look. I wish the lady taking the picture would have told me not to stand like that.

We really liked finding something new to do in the summer. Except we probably wont be going again when I'm prego or have an easily distracted 3 year old. We stopped to look at every ant Nahlia found. There were a lot. One of them was dead and the other ants were carrying it. Of course Nahlia needs to know why its dead so I told her that it probably just got old and died. Wrong answer. On the way home she cried because she didn't want me to get old and die. ( It felt good that she was so devastated that I could die but at the same time you don't want her to be thinking about that) I told her I would get old for a very long time, that she could never get rid of me and that she didn't have to be sad when I did die because I'd be with Heaven Father and Jesus. She then made me promise to try and not get old.

Tiny Dancer

2011-05-27T15:32:00.000-07:00

We made it back from the beach just in time for Nahlia's first dance class. It's only a 5 week session at the rec center. She's so cute in here little outfit. It started out a little rough but she's got'n better every week. I'm not that happy with the class and teacher but I think my expectations were a little high. As soon as we can afford it we'll go to a studio and hopefully by then she'll be less distracted by the other girls.

Getting Out of Town

2011-05-25T15:20:00.000-07:00

So Nathan came home at 3 and said he didn't want to go to work the next day. I jokingly suggested we go to the beach house. Well a few phone calls later we were headed to Oceanside by 6. We are so lucky. Thanks GG and GBaby.

The weather was beautiful. We couldn't have asked for better weather. And there was hardly anyone there, thats the best. So many times I was just sitting on the beach thinking this is the best kind of get away. At home Nahlia needs something every 5 seconds "MOM, MOM, MOM, MOM" but there she's so happy and occupied and I just sit there and watch her.

This was a big trip for Nate. He discovered sand crabs for the first time. I had never seen that many it was kind of gross there were so many. It was a good thing Nahlia loves bugs because they just dug for sand crabs for hours.

Nahlia found the biggest sand crab they dug up. Nathan was so proud.

At the pier.

Nathan's favorite Mexican restaurant. We can never remember the name so I made him take a pic in front of it.

Nahlia has started doing crazy possess.

We walked out the jetty and Nathan wanted to catch a crab. He got nailed by a couple waves but he did catch one.

Nahlia tickling Dad's feet. His face cracks me up.

We went to Ruby's on the pier one night and there were a bunch of people fishing. Nahlia of course is very interested in it and would get into people's buckets of fish. She was standing next to this one that had all this bloody water into and the fish were splashing it all over her. It was disgusting. One man catch a fish we she was watching and she goes "I love your fish." We laughed so hard.

A random persons dog that they let her hold and she wanted me to take a picture of her holding it.

We had a great trip. Either Nathan or Nahlia at least once a day will ask me if we can go to the beach again. We love Oceanside.

One Year Older and . . . .

2011-05-10T18:43:00.000-07:00

. . . well older.

What a handsome 29 year old.

Nathan's favorite thing is eating so we went out twice for his Birthday. I also gave him some cash to gamble with, a little out of character for me but its his birthday. He lost it all in about 5 minutes, it wasn't very much but i think he's realizing he's not very good.

We made him a candy card too.

It said, "It's your Birthday Hot Tamale!! We wanted to give you 100 Grand to go on a spending Spree but the money fell through our Butterfinger's. So instead you'll get Extra Hugs and Kisses. You are our Big Hunk and not just on PayDays. No one can Rolo or Twix step and make us Snicker like you. You complete our 3Musketeers. You are a Giant Sweetart, a total Eclips of our hearts. You keep our Milkyway in Orbit. So if you feel your bones Crunch or your Whoppers turning to Milkduds with a little more Jelly Belly know that there's still Good and Plenty of time to love you to Pieces. Love your Sugar Babies.

That's a lot of fire.

Happy Birthday Sweetie!!

Fun With Mommy's Camera

2011-04-30T18:19:00.000-07:00

Easter 2011

2011-04-26T18:00:00.000-07:00

First Easter as a family. Nahlia and I have had the last two Easters in Cali so this is the first time we were together on Easter morning. I was really excited about Easter this year probably because we'd be together.

Hopefully we started a new tradition. The church magazine had the week before Christ's Resurrection by day with a picture and scripture references so we read those together everyday. I'll just have remember to to it next year.

I had to buy stuff for the Easter baskets and it was kind of hard. The day before the ward had an Easter egg hunt at the park and that was our main festivity. Nathan took off two hours so he could stay at church with us the whole time but still worked later on so I didn't have to make a nice dinner. Nahlia loves her holidays. She keeps asking if are going to have Easter again and wants to make valentines all the time.

Easter Morning.

5 YEARS

2011-04-22T10:50:00.000-07:00

Happy Anniversary to us! 5 years its a small milestone. Thinking about everything that's happened and everyone that's crossed our little families path just in 5 years makes me excited for whats still to come (especially buying a house!!!!).

Side story. Whenever Nahlia sees wedding pictures she'll start crying because she wanted to be there and asks if she can go to the next one.

Bug Love

2011-04-18T10:47:00.000-07:00

We'll call this phase in life Bug Love.

She is always looking for "nice" bugs. The lady bug is the bug of choice. One day she said she was going to look for a lady bug, the chances of finding on is slim because there is dirt all around our apartment. About 5 minutes later to my surprise she found one.

The more common bug is this little yellow and black one. She is always bring them into the house and of course she looses them in the carpet and die. She get very distort about it.

Game Night

2011-04-11T08:48:00.000-07:00

After all the wedding festivities we headed north to see Nate's family. My camera battery died so I don't have any pictures but I still want to remember our funny game nights. We stayed at Tanya's the first night, Paul and Linzy were there. Nathan has been obsessed with Hearts lately so I suggested we play. Johnny played with me and was doing really well, he just kept asking the same questions over and over "whats a spade?" Anyways Nathan tried to "shoot the moon" (another term new to Nathan) pretty much every time so it was pretty easy to win. We somehow started to play what pretty much was a drinking game without the alcohol and with kids. We held a card up to our forehead and tried to guess what it was. It was silly but fun and the kids played with us.

The next night we were at Lorna's and I wanted to play another game, Lorna picked pictionary. So how I was able to get everyone involved except for Nate. He was the only one asking question when we started playing. It was the funniest game of pictionary I've ever played. Nathan, Linzy and I were one team and Lorna, Paul, and Jason where on the other. Well it just happened that the three people that made ridiculously easy thing to draw on the same team. Every time someone from our team would draw it took 3 seconds. Some of the pictures where hair, lighting, shoes, ice cream, bridge, birthday cake and more like that. Another highlight was Paul's drawings. He was getting so mad at us for laughing at his drawings. Such a fun night.

Linzy's Baby Shower

2011-04-10T18:05:00.000-07:00

The day after the wedding was a baby shower for Linzy. Erin and I planned it and Linzy's sisters Charity, Haley, and Sara help. So glad they were there because I spent most of the prep time driving around lost. I only have a few pics because my camera died and I didn't have the charger which ended up being a double bummer because I wasn't able to take pics the whole time we were with Nates family.

The theme was pinwheels and pearls so I made a ton a pinwheels. Nahlia had been helping me make them and I'd have to tell her these are for Linzy's baby shower. Day off she was in charge of placing them around the room. She would put them all out, I'd say wow they look great then she would change them. That happened about 3 times. She was very upset they just weren't they way she wanted them so I calmed her down by letting her put them in the cupcakes. It was kind of funny but like I had created a monster at the same time. But cupcakes seem to help her relax.

Mom to be.

One of the games was drinking juice out of bottles and sipper cups.

Linzy's wearing her mom to be pinwheel and pearl necklace.

if u have pics send them to me please

Angela and Kyle's Wedding

2011-04-09T18:03:00.000-07:00

Utah in April. Snowed the whole time. Crazy cold.

These are in random order again.

Nahlia, Mimi, and sweet cousin Morgan. I'm so thankful for my wonderful cousins that are so sweet to Nahlia. Nahlia followed Morgan around the whole time.

At the luncheon.

My beautiful cousins Aubry and Mackenzie.

Me about 5 months prego. My tummy is much bigger now.

All the Ladies prepping for the luncheon.

Groom and Best Man

Waiting for the couple the come out.

Just Married

Leaving the reception.

Reception

At the temple in the wind.

Love that girl

Reception

GG and Gbaby

Precious Jadie

Family

Life as a 3 year old Princess

2011-02-28T17:58:00.000-08:00

Height: 40"

Weight: 36 lbs

Clothing: size 4T or 5T

Shoe: 9

Likes: Dancing, Singing, Dressing up, wrestling with Daddy, bugs, playing computer games, princess movies and playing with her princesses and castle, nursery class, climbing on everything, sugar, cereal, mac and cheese, learning and asking a lot of questions, anything new, exploring, helping with everything,

Dislikes: sleeping in her own bed, not being in charge, being patient, being inside

Spotlights: Can do the monkey bars at the park, makes mommy laugh a lot,

Chores: matching socks, cleaning widows and mirrors, helping cook,

Music: Dynamite - Taio Cruz, Baby - Justin Bieber, Firework - Katy Perry, Just the Way You Are - Bruno Mars, I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas

No words for how much we love her.

3yr Old Fairy Party

2011-02-26T18:00:00.000-08:00

So I had been planning Nahlia's birthday party since she turned 2 and the Nemo party didn't happen. Part of that is because when it was going to be a fairy party I knew I wanted to make a lot of stuff for it so I wanted to start early. We are lucky enough to have friends that would let us have it in their backyard. For some reason whenever I try to rearrange the pictures they get deleted so these are in a random order, sorry. Mimi, Papa, Uncle B and GG where able to come out and helped a lot. At this point in my pregnancy I got tried very easily so I'm so grateful they could be there.

This pic is a reminder of I though was the funniest thing that happened. Nahlia had been opening presents, she was doing really well giving thank you hugs and being patient when all of a sudden she got overwhelmed stood up grabbed all the presents she could fit in her little arms and said "Ok I'm ready lets go" and tried to leave. I had her finish opening and saying thank you and by then people where leaving and all chaos broke out. I packed all the present back up, Nahlia picked them all up, posed for this picture (she wasn't happy I stopped her), and headed to the car. Nathan followed her out, helped in to the car and they left. Pretty much all of the guest where gone so it wasn't rude or anything and I just laughed.

Thank you hugs

It had been windy at the party so we light them again at home so she could blow them out.

Family presents at the house after.

Getting her fair face make up on.

These are the greatest girls from our ward that came and did the face painting and finger nail polishing. Two of them came out as fairies and danced and played with the kids.

Reading a fairy book.

Party food

Has to have her nails painted just her way.

I had made these little mushrooms for a fair circle to sit around and wish for fairies to come and they DID!!!

After party

Thank you hug

This is Kyler. They have crushes on each other.

All the mommies.

Attempting birthday candles.

Getting pixie dusted.

So when the girls came in they got a skirt, wand, wings, and crowns, oh and little flower rings and got their faces and nails painted. The boys got swords. Because the party was so girly we weren't going to have boys but Nahlia insisted that Kyler was invited. They got pirate mustaches painted on. They also didn't care at all about any of the activities and just wanted to play swords. Nahlia sometimes seemed like she only wanted a sword and didn't really want to wear her outfit.

I had picked up her cake and cupcakes the day before and she wanted them really bad and I kept telling her she had to wait until her birthday party. So when she arrived at the party she wouldn't put her out on, cried when people tried to talk to her or even just looked at her and she hide behind me. I brought her into the house and gave her a cupcake. She was an angel after.

Will You Be My Valentine

2011-02-14T17:34:00.000-08:00

Nothing says I love you like a giant teddy bear.

I was super excited about my present. Nathan got us tickets to Phantom. I've been wanting to go since we moved here. It was amazing. I was a little nervous it would be as good as I remember the on in SF was. We were not disappointed it was so good. They had amazing voices and we got burns from the fire and lighting flashes. LOVE IT.

Thanks Nathan. WE LOVE YOU!!!!!

Ice Skating

2011-02-05T12:15:00.000-08:00

So cute. She looked like a newborn deer learning how to walk. Being prego I didn't want to risk anything so Nathan was trying to help her. With Nathan not too comfortable on ice and the height difference it wasn't all that graceful. You could tell they were both a little scared.

A worker told us they have learning walker things so that made it much easier. There were two girls training with there couch that Nahlia would try to keep up with. But her little feet and legs didn't last very long. She gave a great effort for the first time.

I have videos but they aren't uploading right so if I can figure that out I'll post them.

Christmas Morning

2010-12-25T11:31:00.000-08:00

When Nahlia woke up I don't think she realized it was Christmas morning. We asked her who comes to your house on Christmas Eve and she said the Grinch and that he takes all our stuff. We laughed and told her Santa came last night and she got all excited and ran to look out the front door to find him. Sadly she came back to our room to tell us he wasn't there. She completely missed all the presents under the tree. It took her a little while to notice them.

Her "big" present was this table and chair set. It didn't come with "girl" colors so "Santa" had to paint a pink and purple one. He did a great job. She had asked Santa to bring her Dino Dan for Christmas, a Canadian TV show that doesn't sell merchandise. So she got a dinosaur flashlight and a folder with dinosaur coloring pages and Dino Dan's picture on the front.

One of the outfits from her Princess dress up trunk.

Nathan had to work later that day (not the first time that's happened) so we just hung out and played with our new stuff.

Ward Christmas Party

2010-12-20T20:47:00.000-08:00

Best Santa we've seen. Nahlia LOVE's Santa and still in March sings Santa Clause is Coming To Town and Elf is her favorite movie right now. When Santa came out he was going to walk right by Nahlia. She started running toward him to give him a hug but he kind of gave her the stiff arm and when right by. Nathan and I laughed so hard because we know how much she loves him. We have it on video but it wouldn't upload. She asked him for Dino Dan, if you don't know who he is he's on Nickelodeon, a little boy who sees dinosaurs. It's origonally from Canada and they don't make any Dino Dan toys. The primary was asked to sing and eventhough she's not in the primary and doesn't know the song she decided to join in anyways.

Engaged!!!

2010-12-16T20:32:00.000-08:00

Congratulations Kyle and Angela. We love you. Angela is a beautiful girl, "inside and out" (my grandma always said that). When we were in Utah we met Kyle and Angela at the jewelry store Nathan got my ring from and she ended up picking her ring from there. It's beautiful. I did feel special being there. Can't wait to spend more time with you guys.

Snow in Vegas

2010-12-15T20:20:00.000-08:00

Thanks for the Christmas package MiMi.

Fashionista

2010-12-05T20:08:00.000-08:00

Ummm . . . . Not quite

You know she runs the house so why not her wardrobe.

And daddy's hair do's

Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree

2010-12-01T19:40:00.000-08:00

I had Craig and Linzy take our family Christmas pic when they were here for Thanksgiving. So cute, haha. Honestly I almost retook it because I couldn't figure out if I looked orange or Nate just looked white. Craig convinced me it was Nate, haha. The day after we got back from Utah we got a Christmas tree. I was very excited. It was the first tree our Pacifica carried. I thought that was note worthy. Nate's so manly.And the decorating. Nathan decided the blue and silver ornament's where not Christmassy enough so I get to buy new ones next year.

It smelt soooooo gooood. That poor tree didn't last very long. The tree lot guys said to add some sugar to the water to help it last longer, well I must have add to much sugar because it only made it a week before it started to get dry and stiff. I turned a beautiful tree into a sad little Charlie Brown twig.
Merry Christmas

Thanksgiving 2010

2010-11-26T20:33:00.000-08:00

We headed to Utah for Thanksgiving. Since I'm writing this long after I'll try to remember as much as possible. One thing that I remember before we left was I had had a dream that I was pregnant on Thanksgiving at Tayna's house. Well all weekend I wanted to go get a pregnancy test but Nathan didn't think I was so I didn't get one. Had I taken a test though we would have found out a lot earlier that I was pregnant!

We met up with Tanya and the boys for some bowling at Grandma's work. It was Nahlia's first time bowling. Nahlia beat Nathan!!Next was some sledding at Grandma's house. Another first for Nahlia. The hill behind their house looks much bigger when there is no snow on it. I was fine for a first quick sledding experience but next definitely bigger. She really really wanted to push daddy down the hill.Thanksgiving was at Tanya's house. It was really nice to have everyone together. It was her first time hosting in her new house.Fist time cooking a turkey. I know this isn't the best pic but out of about 20 it was.George was on Man Vs. Food a while ago and it re-runned so I got this pic of him with him. I thought it was cute. Nathan thought I was weird.We stopped by Dave's house just as the sun was going down. I love his backyard.Nathan got up to go shopping with me on Black Friday. Something I never thought would happen but it did. We went to Kohls and Target and Rue21 and Big5. I think that was it. This was during our pit stop at McDonald's. It was the nicest McD's that I had ever seen until just recently. There's one there in Vegas that I was like "What this is a McDonald's".Tanya gave Nahlia some Princes shoes that lit up and played music when you walked. Johnny and Dillon took turns dancing with her. They would dip and kiss her and it was the cutest. Nahlia has some awesome cousins.Making a gingerbread train. It was testing Tanya's patiance and I just laughed.Whenever I start taking pics the Boys always ham it up for me and then ask to see the pic. This is another series of pics.The finished train.Eating the train.Nahlia's first attempt at a sleep over. She lasted about 2 minutes and then came and slept with me. It was cute while it lasted. I don't know of many kids that attempt to play hide and go seek while in a car seat but ours does. I was the one that had to find her. I got old real quick but she thought it was pretty fun.We stopped by to see James, Erin, and Jadie on the way home. Jadie is so cute. Nahlia tries to play with baby toys still so whatever Jadie was doing she wanted to do.

Trip to Red Rock

2010-11-15T21:31:00.000-08:00

Another family hike at Red Rock. We love it there. We had lunch there and we shared with the local wild life.

Visitor's from Idaho

2010-11-10T21:13:00.000-08:00

It wasn't the first time they've been to our house but it was the first time they stayed for a while. Craig and Linzy got to stay for 5 days on their Thanksgiving break. They actually like shopping so I got to go shopping a lot and we did a little strip tour.

Nahlia asked for a picture with "those things."

They kiss all the time and everywhere. Newlyweds.

They took our family Christmas picture for us. We tried to take some family pics too but I had no energy for it so this is the only good one we got. Well that I think is cute.

Nahlia made everyone cuddle. Nate was super excited about it.

We love you guys. Thanks for coming.

1st HAIR CUT

2010-11-05T20:24:00.000-07:00

So we made it almost 3 yrs before ever cutting Nahlia's hair, not even a trim. You can only imagine how badly she needed one, especially after all her swimming this summer. I splurged a little and took her to one of those kid places where she sits in a cute little car chair and watches a movie of her choice. I told her to just trim the dead super blond stuff off so it pretty much looked the same. Nahlia love the little bow she got, its for babies but since it was her first they gave her one.

I didn't want to possibly mess up her first hair cut so I didn't want to do it myself but there was still a lot of dead ends, so after a couple of days I cut it again. Nahlia wanted some input about her hair so she decided to cut a little in front off. It was just short enough to fall out if I did anything to it. So at the encouragement of my mother and sister in law she now has bangs. Thick, a little short, and crooked bangs. She only sat still long enough for one cut. Nathan doesn't like (prefer) bangs so I was really nervous about the hack job I did but they have grown on me. And really Nahlia is pretty much adorable no matter what. I don't have a great pic of them yet. This is when we visited Jadie.

Happy Halloween

2010-10-31T16:59:00.000-07:00

So you already know Nathan loves going to the Base Pro Shop to look at all the dead animals and the fish tank. This trip was all about Halloween. They had a trick or treat for the kids along with some activities and a scene for a nice photo opt. We went to their Christmas stuff last year and it was pretty fun but sad to say going for Halloween wasn't really worth it. Since Nahlia was dressed up as a Mermaid that night it was still fun to go over the the Mermaid Lounge and the casino connected to Base Pro Shop so see the Mermaid in the huge fish tank. But she wasn't there. Sad again.

Nahlia did get a balloon which is always the best part for her.

They have some nice Mermaid art around the tank so that was nice costume related atmosphere.We had a fun day with the kids from our play group at a mini festival. Nahlia was thrilled at the to spinney rides. Rides are always fun. And big blow up toys.

This are the cute kids of the wards playgroup, minus a few. We love our play group, great kids, great moms, fun time every time. Thanks ward. I love kids because even if the wagon ride is lame they still love it.

Wild group shot.

This is baby Sydney. She lives in our apt complex and she and her mom give us ride to playgroup when its too hot to walk or to cold soon. We love them. We'll be very sad when they move out. Its nice being in a ward long enough to watch the babies grow up.

Pumpkin carving.

My little pumpkins.

Nathan did the spider (not really he just asked me to give him credit for it). Note for next year the pumpkins wont make it if carved four days in advance.

Ward trick or treat.

We made chili for the party that is now going to a regular dinner. Nathan liked it so much, thanks Dad. A the car deco. I love a good trunk or treat and this was a good one.

Madelyn and NahliaSara and SydneyErinNahlia loves a good cake walk. She kept going back.

This is was the third cake walk prize.

Urrutia Cousin Pic Outtakes

2010-10-23T17:54:00.001-07:00

Jadie's Blessing

2010-10-23T16:55:00.001-07:00

Following Disney Land my parents pick Nahlia and I up on their way to Utah for Jadie's blessing. Nathan had to work and it was to bad because he loves Utah air and this trip was pretty mellow. Like we actually got to hang out at the hotel and relax and we went to an all you can eat pizza buffet.

After we went bowling. The Giants were playing in the playoffs so James and Jadie were decked out. Go Giants. I'm trying to turn Nathan from a Braves fan and we just happened to bet them in the first round.

It would have been the first time Nahlia went bowling and could have bowled but she slept through the whole thing, music blaring and people cheering. Bowling alleys are loud.Sunday was the blessing at 8:30 am, crazy. It was really nice though James did a good job.

Nahlia helping carry Jadie to the car. Erin being patient.

Eva and Nahlia just being silly.

October Birthday's

We were the only one's that got to stay a little long so we had extra cuddle time with Jadie.

Cousins hanging out for the first time.

I'm not use to holding calm and mellow babies. I feel like I have to entertain them the whole time. So Jadie would get irritated by me playing with her so much. She was happier chill'n on her play mat. That is completely foreign to me.

I made her a crinkly ribbon blanket, isn't she so pretty.

Nahlia found the dress she wore for her one year old birthday. It hit the floor then.

Look at that face, those eye's, that mouth, those cheeks, that skin. What a cutie.

First Urrutia cousin picture.

Disneyland!!!

2010-10-19T11:37:00.001-07:00

Our first trip to Disneyland was everything it should be.

I'm in love with Disneyland and really wanted Nahlia to fall in love with it too so the first trip in my mind (obviously Nahlia will remember very little of it) was a huge deal. So I was so happy that we had such a great day and that we decided to go in the first place. Nahlia had a great time. She very few requirements for the day, get a balloon, see Buzz Light year and Cinderella. Nathan did such a great job doing all the little princess things, like the only dad in line to see the princesses. I was extra proud of him because he isn't much for waiting in lines, taking pictures, crowds, walking around for very long, or getting up early so doing all of those things in one day with out one word of complaint until even Nahlia was to tired to stay awake was everything I could ask for.

We knew Nahlia would love seeing a castle she had already told us that princesses live in castles and she's always on the look out for them.

Before the Tea Cups

After the Tea Cups

She didn't want to get off. This was the only brake down the whole day and it was a small one so that was awesome. She just loves spinning. Daddy however only made it through the first minute and needed to get off. Through out the day he kept saying he was still feeling sick from the Tea Cups, so Dad isn't allowed to go one the Tea Cups anymore.

Waiting in line at the Matterhorn. The Abominable Snowman scared her a lot and she came off crying. She was scared on a lot of rides.Not into meeting Mickey but it went better than meeting goofy. I couldn't even get a pic of that. Nathan had to take way far a way because she wouldn't get close.One of the reasons we decided to go was because Johnny and Dillon and Charlie were going to be there. The day we went was their third and last day so they weren't at the park for every long but Nahlia was more thrilled to see them than anything else. Her face lights up with joy. Johnny couldn't stop picking her up. We went on the Buzz Light year ride together, such a fun ride we really liked it especially with the boys.

Hugging in line.More hugging in line.More hugging in lineNahlia makes them walk with her like this. Its so cute.I love all the silly faces and pictures they take. This is on the Juggle Cruise ride, more silly pictures.Nahlia was actually scared on this ride. She would cover her face and hide it in Nate chest. The tour guide didn't help though, it was mostly because of the inflections in his voices.

How about the twinner facial expressions. Fairies

Meeting the fairies was fun. This is Aridessa.

Tinkerbell and Vidia.

The girl being Vidia was so good, we loved her. In case you haven't watched the Tinkerbell movies Vidia is the "mean" fairy (she really not that mean) and Nahlia gave her a hug and not Tinkerbell. When she didn't it Tinkerbell said "Finally someone that wants to give Vidia a hug." It made us laugh (I guess you had to be there).

Princesses

Am so glad we went at this age because Nahlia was just so mesmerized by them. I do have to say that the Princesses are just the sweetest girls and where so wonderful to Nahlia. I think it is just as exciting for the parents to watch their little girls meeting them as it is for them and the way the Princesses treat them is a big part of that. Nahlia would run up to them and give them a hug and the Princess would hold her hands and talk to her. When she was close to them Nahlia wouldn't look in their faces and I think it was because she was so overwhelmed that they were there talking to her. So precious.

Aurora

BelleJasminCinderella

Oh my goodness the moment we came all that way for. In love with Cinderella. Cinderella suggested they do matching posses because Nahlia was so excited they had matching chokers. I got Nahlia the dress specifically for Disneyland and she'd ask me all the time "What's it called" referring to the choker. So when she went running over to Cinderella saying "I have a choker like you." It was just too much. After meeting Cinderella we went on one more ride and walked through Sleeping Beauty's Castle and then made it to the parade. By this time Daddy and Nahlia were getting tired but instead of sleeping Nahlia decides to go run and dance around in circles out in the middle of the street that is lined with people waiting for the parade to start. The parade was more like a dance party which made Nahlia happy because she got to go out and dance. The dancers had been standing on these cylinder things and that was what Nahlia headed for but one of the dancers got her off before she made it all the way on.

Shortly after the parade she fell asleep in line for a ride and we decided to head for the shops and call it a night. We found a perfect first visit to Disneyland keepsake. A Cinderella jewelry box that plays So This is Love (Cinderella's song) and has a spinning Cinderella inside.

The next morning the first thing she did was put her dress back on. We told her that Cinderella gave us a present to give to her.

The necklace is a present from Grandma Lorna, its an N with a Mickey Mouse charm. It was inside the jewelry box.We stayed at my cousin Jacey's house. It was so good to see them even though the older kids had school. They are always so great to Nahlia.
Jonas and Nahlia playing. He made Nahlia a princess castle, so sweet.

Wedding Details

2010-10-12T23:06:00.000-07:00

Linzy was nice enough to let me pretend to be a wedding planner for her. I loved every minute of it. Luckily the day of when off without any mess ups, thanks to everyone that helped. Anytime something almost went wrong it was fixed before I could finish my sentence. These are some pics of the day.

THE FLOWERS

We bought the flowers from a distributor and I put them together the night before around 11ish got to bed around 1 (we thought that was pretty good by the way). After a full day of decorating and craziness with no caffeine it was actually really hard to keep my eyes open. So the next day I was pleasantly surprised they looked so good, which is really bad to say because I don't like the fact that I wasn't sure about them the night before.

Invites

I had Linzy show me a pic of an announcement she like from a magazine. These don't really look the same but the "look" is the same.

Centerpieces

We had two different center pieces. Linzy said she wanted a "spring romance" feel so grass and flowers and trees is what what we settled with. So I went out to Cali two weeks early to grow grass. A LOT of grass. 25 trays full. Of course the first week was cold and rainy and it wasn't looking good but as soon as the sun came out they grew really fast. The birds and something larger (a squirrel probably, it was never actually seen but left big wholes) really enjoyed nibbling. Until the grass took off I was running out side to shew birds away every 10 mins. Purple stock was put in tubes with stakes and put in the grass. So the roots didn't show we wrapped them with ribbon. Linzy made some wire picture holders with blue and purple beads. Pretty easy and looked great. The other centerpiece was a branch cover in bunches of carnation made to look like spring blossoms. I called them trees. We put the favors on the place settings. It helped add some color. I folded all of them a little over 200 and my dad made cookies to fill them. He also built the white frames for the tree bases.

Decor

We draped the hole gym in lights and plastic table cover. It never would have happened without Calvin Wilks. He just told us what to do and we did it. I did cause a hang up when he said use wire and I only had fishing wire. After being up all night I went and got wire. It wouldn't have taken half the time had I just got the wire in the first place.

The other time consuming project was the 30 plus lanterns we hung in the middle. There was fishing wire everywhere.A cute detail was the Mr and Mrs and I Do letters on the head and cake table. Food and Cake We had fruits and vegies - Linzy favorite, roast beef sandwiches - Craigs favorite, pasta salad, and dipped pretzels. We had someone from the ward be in charge of the food and she displayed it really nice. The woman who made their cake is the same person that make the cake for James and Erin's wedding. Its the best cake ever. Its actually so good that its better then cake cake. Nahlia Of course I have to do a section on Nahlia. I actually made her dress and never got a really good pic of it but she also did not want to cooperate that day. Pay close attention to her in these two pics. By the time we left the temple she had ripped the ribbon off the bottom and put a whole in the skirt. I was just glad I didn't pay that much for it. She danced the night away and kept stealing the bridal parties flowers. While Craig and Linzy were dancing she was spinning in circles around them. It was like a side act.

Cleaning lasted about 15 minutes. It seemed like everyone helped. It was the fasted clean up I'd ever seen. Thanks everyone.

Finished Projects

2010-10-12T11:35:00.000-07:00

It feels so good when you plan something and finally get it done. It doesn't happen that often well within the same year. I think I inherited a easy to start hard to finish gene, so I tell myself I can't start another project until I finish that last one. The excitement of starting a new projects give me energy to finish the old one.

These are paintings that I started pretty close to when we moved here but only got the blue and purple one done. The green one just got finished and now I can blog about it.

So Nahlia can barely sit still for more than a minute and this can be a problem during Sacrament meeting. Growing up we had a quiet book and I wanted make Nahlia one. There are more pages I'd like to make and I want to put rings on to hold it together but we use it as it is so its fine for now.

This page is for braiding her hair but since Nahlia can't do that yet I made some hair accessories and earrings to change. Yes I made it to look like her. When we have a boy I think I'll make a boy with changeable hats or ties or something.

On the left page the spider moves up and down, the lady bug's spots are snaps, and the caterpillars body is Velcro. The right page is shapes that are Velcro to take on and off.

These are classic pages, flower buttons and a barn with animals inside.

A little town for a car to drive threw.

This is probably Nahlia's favorite page. I'll make more outfits but right now there is a ballet leotard and slippers, princess dress and crown, casual Capri's and T, soccer uniform, Sunday dress, and a wedding dress and veil.

Numbers and Buckles

Classic mail box with a love note from mom and the cover has pockets on the inside for stickers and coloring books.

Other Sunday related crafts are the crayon roll and the look and find game. Sunday's go a lot better now.

My mom gave us a dresser that they got originally for James when he was little. I just painted and added flower nobs.
I made a leaf garland out of some leaves that where in the Dollar spot at Target. I've decided I'm making garland for all occassions because it so easy. When Nahlia saw it she said "Mom thats so beautiful." It make you feel so good inside. It will most likely be are only fall decor unless I make a wreath out of felt balls but it's going to cost a bit so I'm waiting but its so cute.
Crafts for around the house.

I need one of these so bad. I also made a swiffer mop reusable pad.

Nahlia Say What!?!

2010-10-07T17:37:00.000-07:00

So earlier in the day Nahlia was at the pool and she can do flips in the water now and yes I think thats crazy she's 2 and can do flips and dive really deep, aways when she woke up from her nap she was complaining about her hear hurting but it was coming and going and wasn't that bad so I was just keeping an eye out for it. She has never had an ear ache before so I was like finally she has an ear ache. So Nathan starts looking up places we can take her because it was really late by then and he found something about maybe water being in her ear. So on the way to the doctor we think the pressure popped because she completely stopped crying and when to bed fine. In the early morning she woke up to go to the bathroom. While laying back in bed i hear he say "Dear Heavenly Father please bless the doctor to make my ear feel better in the name of Jesus Christ amen." My heart melted. She woke up again in the early morning and metioned her ear hurting but no crying so I woke up Nate to give her a blessing. Two nights later I'm putting her to bed she asks " whats that called that daddy made my ear better?" My goodness she's special. Me "A Blessing", Nahlia "A Blessing". Then we talked about how blessing work and having faith and believeing in Jesus and the preisthood. Now when she talks about her hurt ear she always mentions the blessing daddy gave her.

She Did It!!!!

2010-10-07T17:04:00.000-07:00

She Did it!, She Did it!, Yeah!

(you would get that if you have to watch Dora)

Nahlia is now potty trained. So we didn't make the 2 years old mark but before 3 and not two kids in diapers. Potty training is sooooo much fun - not really, but so great when its over. It is definitely entertaining, you get little treasures like, "Daddy I have something for you! Its POOP!! Come See My POOP!!!"

So I decided I could spoil her a little because we hardly ever buy "expensive" toys (other then dollar store toys) and her Bday was a while ago and she needed new books for older ages and I wanted to replace some broken toys, it was far enough a way from Christmas. It turned out well because we would always say she had to "earn" the next prize and I think it was a good way to teacher that principle. So I made a game board and every 5 squares was a reward square. The prizes got better as she went a long. The first time she didn't take it serious I took all the prizes away and did it all dramatic in front of her to make a point. Then the next time she went on the toilet she asked to play the game. After that it went great.

This is the game board I made and the Belle toddler doll is what the grand prize was. Her Cinderella dress wasn't part of potty training but is for our FIRST TRIP TO DISNEY LAND!!!!! Nahlia has been asking for a Cinderella "Blue Dress" and when I gave it to her she was very excited and said "Oh that's cute" and when it was on her said "That's really cute on me". She also loves the choker (not pictured) that came with it but she doesn't know what it was so she has to ask me "Mom whats that thing called I need it." Very Very Excited. Also we've learned a lot about Princesses.

Princesses like pizza

Princess stinker and like to tell you about it

Princesses like dancing

Princesses live in castles

Princesses like cold water and cold drinks

Princesses don't get mad

Oceanside Trip

2010-08-15T16:39:00.000-07:00

The long awaited trip to the beach finally came. Nathan and I had to work so we didn't get to come out until Tuesdays night but Nahlia went ahead with Mimi and Papa. It was so nice to get out of the heat but then I was to cold to get in the water. We did have two nice days but the last day was cloudy all day so we got to play a lot of game which is still fun. Nahlia couldn't make it the whole day at the beach so we'd do a half day, take a nap or get lunch and finish at the pool. Getting buried in the sand was very popular. Shaped like MermaidsNathan made an extra effort to bury Brennen. It took him at least 10 minutes to get out of it. Running was also very popular. To the water, away from the water, in the water. Falling asleep at the beach. Awesome sand castle that looks like the Oakland Temple.Just love the view from the condo and how cute my family is.Mermaid Nahlia. She is getting very good at swimming. Seems like every time we go to the pool she gets better.

Oceanside Favorites
*The Beach

*The View

*The Pool and Spa

*Walking the boardwalk

*The Pier

*Playing Spoons, Ping Pong, Pool and Golf

*The Harbor

*The Park

*The Sunsets

For next time: Ladder Golf, BBQ more, bonfire

We tried to go to the Price is Right but didn't get there early enough. Like 4 am early. Note: get group tickets, the only guaranteed seats.

Hiram and Bridget's Wedding

2010-08-08T18:55:00.000-07:00

Since the reception was going to be about 5 mins from the temple so the sealing wasn't until 3 which was awesome. They made a cardboard cut out of Brett since he's on a mission. He want to the store and took a picture of himself in the grooms men outfit. Coming out of the temple as Mr. and Mrs.

I told Nahlia that Bridget was the princess for the day and she gave Bridget a kiss.

Pre-Wedding Festivities

2010-08-08T18:22:00.000-07:00

So we all filled James and Erin's condo in Orem for the weekend. Nahlia loves her Uncles. She also walked around the mall hand cuffed to Craig. There was a family party on the eve of the wedding that was really fun. We all did talents. I don't think her family knew who they would be partying with. One think I love about the Thompson pre wedding party is that you get to know the couple, together and as individuals, and the families really well. It was so wonderful and will be an awesome memory for them. Aren't they cute. Craig and LinzyKyle and his girlfriend Angela. She helped us with our dance moves.Saturday we had our Urrutia cousins come over for some lunch. Tyler and his girlfriend Bailey.

Jordi's Blessing

2010-08-08T18:01:00.000-07:00

We are so greatful to the Belnaps for picking us up on their way to Utah. We were able to be a part of a great weekend. Nathan didn't get to go because of not enough vacation days and we missed him very much.

Jordi's blessing was wonderful. I love family blessings (oppose it during sacrement). It's intimate and you can feel the spirit and you don't have to worry about your two year old making noise, it works better for family scheduling, anyways I love it. The great grandparents. Girl cousins.All but one great grand baby.Nahlia did surpising well holding him even with him crying.

Jadie Jeret Urrutia

2010-08-08T17:15:00.001-07:00

My very first beautiful niece!!! She was born on August 5th, 9 lbs 13 oz 22 in. She made her mommy work really hard to get her but she was worth it and mommy is recovering well. The happy family

It was Erin's mother's birthday so they celebrated with together.

Mimi and Uncle Kyle got to visit before their trip out to Utah.

HE'S A DADDY NOW!!!!

Look at those cheeks. I can't wait to give them kisses.

We love you baby girl.

Thoughts from Church

2010-07-25T17:09:00.000-07:00

The Relief Society lesson was "Tell Me the Stories of Jesus" by Elder Neil L Andersen from the recent conference. Quote "Have our children felt the power of the Savior's miracles? Do our children believe that "it is by faith that miracles are wrought", and do they pray for miracles in their own lives?". Comments continued with ways to remind children of miracles that have happened to them. A Sister said that we need to let Heavenly Father now that we remember the miracles He's blessed us with so that we might be worthy for more blessings. Another woman told of when they go to say prayers at night she reminds her child of when they had a blessing and they felt better, that it happened because Jesus loves them so much and when they pray they show Jesus that they love him.

Sometimes its hard to remember those times if they aren't written down so I'm doing that now and I was trying to remember a time when Nahlia was part of a miracle I can think of two. When we were in SLC, she was around one, she was sick and crying and crying, we couldn't figure out what was wrong or how to console her. As it got later into the night Nathan gave her a blessing and as soon as it was over she had stopped crying and slept perfectly through the night. That probably happens a lot but to fairly new parents tired and out of ideas it was a miracle. The second is the car accident, in that it could have been so much worse because of the speeds we were going we feel it was a miracle that Nathan was able to keep control of the car.

The talk also included quotes from Elder Daniel Forrest father one being, "Two men can do anything as long as one of them is the Lord"

Congradulations Linzy

2010-07-25T16:55:00.000-07:00

This weekend Linzy graduated from BYU-I, health science. We wish we could have been there to celebrate but are so excited for her accomplishment. She graduated Magna Cum Laude so extra props.

Jordi

2010-07-24T19:05:00.000-07:00

On July 8th Jordan Matthew Nielsen was born at 2:50pm to Giffard, Jenna, and Maddox. He was 9lbs and 22 inches. From what I'm hearing hes pretty big. His nickname Jordi is a favorite name from Giffards mission in Spain. We look forward to seeing him and the family soon!!

Nahlia Story

2010-07-24T18:26:00.000-07:00

Location: Sprint

Nahlia: "I want a phone"

Mommy: "When you're older"

Nahlia: "I'm older today"

My feelings - "No you are only this big"

Location: Bathroom

Topic: My Little Pony safe to sallow toothpaste

Daddy: "Oh My Little Pony"

Nahlia: "No my little poney"

Daddy: "No thats what it's called My Little Pony"

Nahlia: "No it's my little pony"

Daddy: "No see" pointing to the box "it's called My . . Little . . Pony"

Nahlia: "Oh"

4th of July Weekend

2010-07-24T17:53:00.000-07:00

On Fridays and Saturdays they play free movies out on the lawn next to the carousel at the District so we went to check it out. The movie Nahlia had no interest in but she sat with us for a little while. It helped that some friends came and sat by us. She really loves the carousel and running around with the other kids that are there. They have free popcorn too. Nathan doesn't like just taking the free stuff so we try to by something. We've been once more and both times Nahlia has spilt her drink all over the blanket so the three of us have to huddle (cuddle) all together. She actually did pretty well when we saw Curious George but it's getting to hot for Nathan and I so we are looking forward to the fall movies. Brooklyn and Lukas Nathan and I both had to work Sunday so between that and church we had just made it to watch the fireworks display at Basic High School. We ended up about two blocks away in a parking lot, maybe next year we'll be able to participate in all the activities: parade, games, bbq. Nathan has been waiting to watch something out of the back of the car so it worked out nice. Her favorite thing this year was the sparklers. Nathan let her stand by him while he was lighting one of the bigger ones and he told her to run when it was light, so she ran very far away. Everyone after she would yell run and not even watch.

Nelson Family Reunion and Father's Day

2010-06-24T15:50:00.000-07:00

Our weekend in Utah was so much fun. We had a free day before the reunion so we planned on going to the water slide park in Draper Cowabunga. We've been dieing to go on some water slides in Las Vegas but they don't have a water slide park right now and Cowabunga looks like so much fun from the freeway. When we pulled up there were about 20 cars parked but all in the employee lot so we were the first ones there. It was amazing, a few other people did show up after us, like 5 people, so there was no waiting and the water was heated. We think because it was Thursday and the forecast said 65 it was too cooled for people but because the water was heated it was fine.

Some shots coming out of the slide. Nahlia loved the slides and wanted to do all of them by herself.

The beach and lazy river where so warm almost hot tub temp.

Nathan and Jason are in there somewhere. I think in the middle.

I loved the spring mountains in the background especially with the snow still on them.

The park is perfect for younger kids because the slides are fun but not that fast so they could go on all of them, the way its set up you can keep and I on them, and the grounds are fairly small so they can get lost. We took a long nap after and made it up to Johnny's baseball game.
Dillon modeling his Indiana Jones hat.

Johnny had a great game.

Brownie Lake. We love it up there.

When we first got up there Nahlia kept falling and she'd cry like every five minutes it was very annoying and did let any one touch her. But as soon as Johnny and Dillon showed up it was all rainbow and sunshine.

Nathan got his Fathers Day present a little early. It was binoculars.

Annual hobo diners

They are being bears I think

My little pyro nephew.

Tanya was very brave. She brought all three boys with out George.

Linzy's first dutch oven dessert. It was delicious.

Nahlia's first time four wheeling. She loved it. One time she was being cranky so Nate took her out on one and she came back asleep hanging over Nate's arm. She slept for 2 hours after. It was awesome.

Since it was Father's Day and we where in Utah I figured we should go over to Dave's house. He got out a little truck for Nahlia and yes she loved that too.

2009 TR

2010-06-16T08:36:00.000-07:00

The Nelson reunion reminded me that I hadn't put anything up about the Tait Reunion from last year so this its it. It was Cali while we were living in TX so we were lucky to be able to go. These are Nahlia's cousin entertaining her in the pool. She is sitting on a boogie board supported by Austin and Hunter and Cole on either side would swim underneath her and switch sides. Nahlia would laugh historically when they popped out of the water on a different side. All her cousins are so good to her I'm lucky to have them around. She saw that I had a sucker and made hunter bring her over.

She is able to produce tears at the drop of a hat, back then it was a fairly new thing so I took a picture of this one. Obviously I gave her the suckerOne of this things is not like the others. G Baby as Carnac. He tried to retire last time but we wouldn't let him. He's so funny. GG in the background as his assistant.Jenna and I in front.
Jeanna, Jessie, and Jamie in back.My mom, Jeran, with sisters Jeanna, Jody, and Jamie.

Oh, we are dressed up because we had to design a reunion shirt and they were my mom's idea and I made them. The picture is of my Grandma Julie, its a glamor shot, so we did an 80's rock star theme. On the back are tour locations that are where every one lived at he time. The 80's theme continued with ripped shirts and side pony tails. Nahlia inspiration was Madonna

After the reunion everyone met back up at the Thompsons for a pool day.

Cousin Love

Maddox the oldest great grand child on my side.

It always amazed me how she can just pull herself up out of the pool.

Yeeeaaah . . . no words

We Miss Autie

2010-06-08T13:38:00.000-07:00

Auntie Laura sent Nahlia a package in the mail. Pink Cowboy Boots!!!! so cute. We had to pick it up in the office and Nahlia came out with a big pink balloon and a piece of candy in each pocket.That kiss was for auntie.I can't believe she's only been gone for a few months and though time is going by so quickly it still feels like forever before she gets back. She is doing very well and enjoying every moment.

Nahlia asks about her and I'm sure misses her very much.

Memorial Day with Paul and Lindsey

2010-06-08T13:07:00.000-07:00

The weekend after we got back from the Utah Idaho trip Paul and Lindsey came down to visit us. Nathan had to work Saturday and Sunday and I worked Friday so we didn't get to do everything we wanted to do with them but it was really great having family in town. Friday Nathan took them to the Bass Pro Shop (he takes everyone there and he and Nahlia go there on his days off. I cracks me up) The casino next to it has a mermaid that swims in the shark tank. Saturday Nahlia and I went shopping with them at the Outlets. Paul was very nice to watch Nahlia for me. The stores were mostly loud and crowded but every once and a while you'd hear Nahlia laughing. Saturday night and Sunday they did more shopping and sight seeing on the strip and Monday we went to the pool.Nahlia was obsessed with Lindsey's towelsA week later on Tuesday, Scott made a surprise work trip down to Vegas so we went out to dinner with him.Picking out ice cream. I think she picked a scoop of each.The strip is behind them but you can't really tell.

Nahlia Update

2010-06-08T12:16:00.000-07:00

2 years and 3 months

Counts to 10 (with little help - she skips 4 all the time)

Identifies most (80 - 90%) of the alphabet

*says cba instead of abc *I note this because I have dyslexia and it runs in my family

Loves chocolate milk

Hates the heat

Doesn't like the brightness of walk outside after being inside

Big attitude

Gets instantly frustrated when she can't do something

Loves the pool

Funny

Fearless

Still loves to dance and sing

Polite and Friendly (when not tired or hungry *like her dad*)

More cuddly than when she was a baby

Gives lots of kisses

Doesn't like babysitters

Eats in small portions

Plays Princess and has to have her crown (mommy is also a princess and daddy is the king)

Starting to pick out her outfits and how her hair is done

She's very particular about how you velcro her shoes, it has to be perfect

This was the last day she wore this sweater. Its just to hot. She carries her water bottle around when she's playing. If ever I can't see her I wait for the water bottle to come out of a side and then Nahlia comes out after. She would always take her shoes off at the park and she learned this day that your feet burn if you do.
Our friends moved recently and we went over to help them back up the truck. Nahlia fell of their swing set twice. First backwards, that wasn't so bad, and then the front. She was bleeding from her nose and it was in her mouth and her head swelled up right away. It looked worse than it was apparently because Nahlia started crying more about Bonnie taking the swings down. Lucky Mark is a doctor so he was able to look at it right away and Nahlia was fine once she got some feel better ice cream (that is what is around her mouth). We are going to miss Mark and Bonnie and the kids a lot. We wish them all the luck in Washington.Nahlia using YouTube. Once daddy puts up a video "Doggie pop balloons" she likes to pick the next ones. What happens when she finds her bows

Ellyn Margaret Urrutia

2010-06-07T15:11:00.000-07:00

My cousin Ellyn past away this last month due to a car accident. She was 19 and the oldest of 6. She was a wonderful sister and friend to those she knew. She was a beautiful daughter of your Heavenly Father who has called her home. She had earthly struggles with self worth and I know that she is happier now and her family faithfully awaits their reunion. We were able to go to Idaho for the funeral services and are so touched by the example of her family, their strength and knowledge of Heavenly Father's plan for us. I'm grateful to have known her and blessed to have her in my family.

Happy Birthday Nathan

2010-05-08T20:24:00.001-07:00

28 Years Old. Wow.

Some people would be worried about getting gray hairs but not my sweetie he's had them since high school. Even though there may be more I like gray hair. If you ever ask Nathan what he wants for a present any present - Christmas, birthday, anniversary, fathers day - he'll always say nothing. This time I knew what he wanted but he wasn't going to get it, a big flat screen tv. Its not that I don't want him to have one its just not right for us right now. One day baby you'll get it. So we usually got out to eat. He loves food. He got to choose any buffet he wanted friday night and bought a shirt from TJMaxx that he wore everyday for about a week. Then on monday we had cake and went to Iron Man II. (I love Iron Man).

Just as a note Nahlia didn't get her own cake to blow out one had a 2 and the other had an 8 because Nathan said he didn't like layered cake. We taught Nahlia the Happy Birthday song and she probably sang it 28 times just while eating cake. I was very cute. Nahlia had blown herself off her chair. Daddy was there to catch her.

We love you daddy and hope you have lots and lots more birthdays.

Gymcats

2010-05-08T20:23:00.002-07:00

Nahlia started gymnastics!!! She loves it. The first day I was exhausted from chasing her around and having to help her be patient. They get to do a lot of things, bars, beams, tramps, the foam pit, and tumbling. Her favorite is the tramp, we sing the ABC's while they all jump. She also does very well jumping over things on the low beam. She actually does every pretty well, its the focus and slowing down enough to do them.
She also went to her first non family birthday party, it was Nathan's trainer's daughter and was at Build A Bear. I didn't get to go but She brought how a bunny that is completely Nahlia. Nathan said the helper tried to get her to pick a different one but she had to have that one. Its has pink, yellow, green, and blue flowers all over it.

4 Years

2010-05-08T20:23:00.001-07:00

Happy Anniversary Baby ! ! ! This day feels like so long ago.

To celebrate we went to The Melting Pot. It is a great place and now we have a new favorite place. I totally burnt my lip on a skewer, luckily it didn't leave a mark.
Thanks for saving me the pineapples in your sweet and sour! Love you.

Families are Forever - Linzy and Craig

2010-05-08T20:22:00.001-07:00

All and all it was a wonderful wedding. When it was all over my mom and I couldn't believe how flawless everything went, shocked really. I can't say everything was perfect you'd have to ask Linzy but from my view point it went sooooo well. I think it was because I prayed every night that it would go ok and that I won't forget or screw anything up. All of the pics are from my Auntie Jody's facebook page and Jenna Cooper's (the photographer) blog, she did such a great job. Linzy looked beautiful and Craig was so happy. The only time they weren't smiling was when they were kissing or had their foreheads together. We did have a bit of a rain scare but nothing came of it and there was no traffic or lost drivers.

This picture is when they first came out of the temple as husband and wife.

This is our family picture and tells a lot about how things work in our house. Nahlia wouldn't stand up for the picture so we knelt down. Hahaha

I made her dress and was so happy with it. The whole time I was making it I was terrified I'll spent all this time and money and would end up hating it but she looked so cute in it. A classic Nahlia moment was when everyone saw her for the first time in it and they were all (aunts, cousins, GG) taking pictures and saying how pretty she looked and Nahlia starts to spin and everyone goes Awwww!!! in unison. I was laughing so hard. Nahlia LOVED it. I had a feeling the dress wouldn't make it through the day, Nahlia is very active. It didn't even make it through being at the temple. The ribbon at the bottom was coming off and when she was walking up the stairs she stepped on it and put a huge hole in the tulle. It didn't even make it back to Vegas because it was unrepairable. Kyle and Julie AnneThe Girls

Erin, Julie, Me, my Mom, Jeanna, Jody, Jamie

G Baby and GG

Easter

2010-05-08T20:21:00.000-07:00

Nahlia and I spent Easter in Cali because it was the weekend before the wedding. It was sad Nathan wasn't there because we were in Cali for Easter last year too but both times he would have had to work. So I took a break from wedding planning and in between my parents working we went to my Aunt Aprils house to have an Easter egg hunt with Aleen and her kids Lea, Jonah, and Micah.Keeping the eggs warm.Pre Easter egg hunt bounceHuntingEnjoyingThey were so cute sharing and trading and having fun together. This was eater morning. She got a play dough set. I finally gave in. I don't know why but I just pictured disastrous things but it's been a really great indoor activity. She likes to play with daddy more than mommy but that's ok with me. She also got a really cute back pack that says I Love Dance and this flower petal head band that quickly became a lion's mane from MiMi.
She really liked the peeps That weekend was also General Conference. It was hard to watch with Nahlia and when I was watching it, it was hard to pay attention or at least enough to really concentrate on what the spirit wanted to tell me, so I've been reading it all (and not just the ones that look interesting or by my "favorite" speakers.) I'm so grateful for the gospel and the knowledge I've had since I was a child. The beautiful simplicity of it humbles me and reminds me to not complicate it because of temporary earthly thing.

Later that week it was Travis Taylor's surprise birthday party. It was Nahlia's first experience with a pinata (note worthy I think). She didn't really get it. She did hit it but when candy came out she could care less. Kyle and I were like "GET IT GET IT" and she'd just stand there so Uncle Kyle got some for her but she still wasn't that interested. She did how ever like the hat and was the last child to wear the hat while hitting the pinata.

Kyle was asked me to go with him so he didn't have to go alone and so then I debated about bringing Nahlia because I didn't know if it was a kid party or not, so we left her with grandpa. Then we get there and its only Travis' close married friends (so kyle would have been totally out of place had he gone alone) and their 15 kids that were playing on a tramp, swing set, and many other various cool toys so we went back and got Nahlia. We thought it was pretty hilarious.

Fun in the Sun

2010-05-05T09:30:00.000-07:00

Ok so a lots happened in the last month (going to Cali, Easter, and Craig's wedding) and I'll get to it all eventually. I don't have any pictures so I'm waiting until I get some. Before we left though we played a little. We went to the lake again and to the valley of fire with Mark and Bonnie and their kids. We did all the normal stuff at the lake, picnic swimming, finding the fish, walking the pier. I was very clear, sunny and windy. This picture was me trying to be more creative with my angels but Nahlia wasn't happy with the sun in her eyes "Sun in the eyes, Sun in the eyes"

Cute on of Nathan and Nahlia

Nahlia getting mad that the wind was blowing her hair so much. Its long enough now that I have to do something with it or it starts to bug her.

Valley of Fire is another cool place for hiking for all levels. Its really great because there is so much to look at and explore for the kids (and dads).Nathan calls Mark SharkO so when he'd say it I think Nahlia thought it was really a shark so at first she was a little surprised that it was just a person but then she was stocking Mark or SharkO the entire time. As soon as he'd but Josie down she wanted him to hold her, SharkO was the only person to help her, "Come on SharkO, SharkO come on". It was very funny.Nahlia looks sad here but she really liked it and didn't want to get out.Another hole to look out of.Mark trying to show me how to take cool pictures with the red rock but Nahlia didn't want to participate. He took about 5 and she didn't look normal in any of them. In other update news my cousin Hiram is engaged and getting married in August so we look forward to that. Nathan Birthday is on Monday so I'm trying to think of what to get him. He really wants a big flat screen tv but since we don't have cable and a perfectly good tv I don't think its the right time. We are also anticipating a Nelson family reunion in mid June. We haven't seen Nate's family in a couple months now so we're really excited for the trip.

Nothing too exciting just Life Stuff

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We didn't do anything exciting this past week. Nahlia has been potty training and is doing really well. I got the "Potty Power" DVD from the library and looked up some videos online that she watched. It kind of felt like brain washing but it helped. She has a potty chart that she gets to put stickers on, it's organized by days but she puts them where ever she wants. We decorated the corner of the bathroom that her potty chair is in with pictures from a old Disney Princess calender my mom gave her. She loves wearing her panties that have Tinkerbell, Ariel, and Aurora on them. We now have a lot more things to laugh about because of potty training, like I ask her if she needs to go poo poo and turns around, sticks her butt at me and ask me if I can see the poo poo coming and if I say yes she says I want to see and starts spinning in circle trying to see the poo poo coming.

She has also been watching Toy Story constantly. There's a part when Buzz realizes he's a toy and tries to fly out the window, Nahlia says Buzz is sad and starts to cry and tells him "No fly" because after he is all depressed and she doesn't want him to be sad. She even has tears when she watching. She's a sensitive soul.

At church last Sunday Nahlia could not sit still so I took her out. We were down the hall when she realized the door to the gym overflow was open so she took off running. From down the hall to the back of the gym all the up to the seats on the stand, when she finds the one she wants she announces it to the room yelling, "I want to sit in this one Mommy". Oh and it was fast Sunday right in the middle of someones testimony. It was awsome.

I got a job at TJMaxx and started last week. I really like it so far, when I'm done training I get to be in the back doing bookkeeping stuff. Nathan is working away and doing well. It really is stressful in part because of the consequence if you mess up. He has a skills check coming up that most people don't pass so he's feeling the pressure right now.

We went back to Lake Mead on Nates day off. We went prepared with Nahlia's swimsuite and sand toys this time, and more popcorn for the fish.