Wrapping up 2009!

What can I say? Another year has passed and it was a good one! Lots of things to be thankful for! We celebrated Preston's first birthday, got wonderful news of another boy on the way, we finished lots of projects on the house and I finally graduated! Here are a few pictures of what we've been up doing in the last month of 2009.

I realized that one of the perks of being a teacher is that I get to spend really nasty snow days at home with my buddies!

We got to play in the snow a few days after our 6-8 inch snowfall.

This was Preston's first time in the snow! All I can say is "looked like a tick ready to pop!"


He really liked it and loved sledding!



Smiled the whole time!

I smiled the whole time too!

We made messes...

but helped clean them up!

Christmas came and we had to get creative with the tree placement!

Preston was really into the decorations! He now runs up to trees, screams oooooooooooooh, and then says pretty! You can tell he wants to touch it so bad. He knows he's not supposed too.

Preston really liked his fire truck from Gpa and Gma AZ.

He's been riding ever since.

He wasn't as into unwrapping presents as he was into wanting to destroy the trees. Once the gifts were open he was excited to play with them!

All he wanted to do Christmas morning was cover up the mysterious packages with his blanket and climb on them.


So with a little help from mom and dad, he got them open and got to play with them!

Relaxing after opening his gifts on his new bean bag chair from Great Grandpa Glenn and Great Grandma Kippy!

Trying on his new hat from Nana!

Well that sums up our December and our 2009! We hope 2010 brings health and happiness to all our family and friends!

Happy New Year!

Oh Boy!

That's right we're having another boy! Preston will be a good big brother and hopefully he will be ready to share in time! For now he is making life crazy for mom and dad who are starting to wonder what it is going to be like with two silly boys in the house. Watch out for the Nelson Boys! Preston is now climbing onto everything! Occasionally we catch him on the kitchen table and my new favorite sitting on the arms of the couch. When he is not doing that he is taking all the toys out of his playroom, pulling every book out of his organizer and tearing up the house in general. Ladies and Gentlemen we have now reached toddler hood! It is amusing, fun and brings us much joy though we have learned to cherish bedtime:)

Here are some new pictures. I tried to scan a picture of our new addition but for some reason my scanner is working. I'll try at a later date.

Preston just before a climb and his first big boy haircut!

and here he is after his hair cut. I still need to get the actual hair cut picture from my friend (Mommy forgot the camera:( but I think I'll be forgiven)

I guess with all boys in the house I should get used to pictures like this. This is Jeremy's deer that filled our freezer with meat! Yay!



I love this picture it's Preston with his cousin Ava playing and I am sure they sounded like two musical geniuses!

Another couple of fun pictures from our Thanksgiving visit from the City Nelson's!

They crack me up!

Lastly this is Jeremy getting ready to mail out my first resume. Does he look happy? Graduation is just one week away! It's been a long 3 1/2 years!