who says "summer people" can't have fun in the winter???

Ally "tubing" on Tanner's back......are you wondering what is pulling them?

a one horse open sleigh?....NO! A 400 horse arctic cat ATV....and who's that Jolly Elf?...

Winter-Lover, himself, Blake!

What is My contribution?....hot cocoa, of course!

That's a Cocoa Latte Machine...Not a Juicer! (Mom)

Best White Elephant Gift....EVER!!!

Does this look like Winter in Utah?

St George, Utah maybe.

Because we are not super fond of cold weather and we have awesome friends (the Boshs) who let us stay in their Castle Rock house, we took many trips to St George in 2008. Especially in the cold months. I enjoyed the trip with our friends to the Parade of Homes the Best!

(Tanner, Jake, and Caleb)

Guess Where?yep. San Fransisco. Just me and Blake on a little work/play trip.

Hanging Out at the Wharf!


We stayed an extra day to see the Yankees play the Oakland A's. We sat 10th row behind 1st base. This was how close I got during batting practice. I think I was making the security guard a little nervous. I took 118 pics at the game.

Thank Heaven...Kylee is finally 7!

Ally took first place in the Mona Days 1st annual Fun Run

for the 12 years and under category.

1 mile in 7 minutes

This summer we had a fun visit with some of the Fluegel Cousins (Ashley, Elizabeth, and Jessica). This was one of my favorite pics. I promise to post a whole album of these when I learn how. We took a TON of pics.
(left to right) Elizabeth, Jessica, Tanner, Cooper, Ashley, Ally, Emily, and Kylee

Young Womens here I come.

For the first time I got called into YW. (laurels advisor)

I also thought this was a good update pic because I was 7 Months pregnant and blind-folding Ally. She is a beehive and a very fun daughter.

This was Blakes Get Away to Lake Powell.

Look at that Spray!

Yah. He still has it at 40+ That's why I love him!

School Days, School Days, Good old fashioned Rule Days!

Ally 7th grade

Emily 4th grade and Kylee 2nd grade
Tanner 8th grade

Halloween 2008

Cooper loved being "oda" and had a great time trick or treating.

Tanners 14th Birthday

Tanner playing with MY camera! He's lucky I thought this pic was so cute.

Ally has won 2 writing contests in her first semester of middle school.
She was recognized at our School District Meeting.

Jaxon (Jax) Blake Nelson

7 lbs. 6 oz. 20 " long

November 25th 3:41pm

We ALL love baby Jax! He has been a wonderful blessing in our home.

SANTA CAME!!!

the boys on Christmas morning

Nintendo DS and ipods from Santa
These kids are on Santas NICE list!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

It has only been a year since I updated my blog...

holy cow!

Santa brought me a laptop, so one of my resolutions is to be a better blogger.

This will especially make certain Grandparents happy since we just gave birth to their 15th grandchild (that they haven't seen yet).

We hope you are having a fabulous holiday season!

from all of us

blake, trisha, tanner, ally, emily, kylee, cooper, and jaxon

I just wanted to give a shoutout to all of our awesome family and friends. Our Holiday Season was so fun. Some of our great memories are: Late Night online Shopping Dates, Christmas cards, Cozy Movie Nights with Popcorn, Stevens Hot Cocoa and Citrus & Spice...which ended up being our neighbor gift to share with our friends, Kamies PJ party, the Nelson Family Party (thanks for the already been chewed box of mints White Elephant), Jane B's homemade caramels and chexmix, and cute cards, awesome neighbor gifts, sweet phone calls, packages from family afar, watching veggietales the toy that saves Christmas and the grinch a gazillion times, Blakes great breakfasts, Sugarcookies, Enchanted-the cutest movie ever, Sledding with the Maughans, Christmas eve crabFeast with the Bosh and Smith Clan, Sledding behind the 4wheeler around our "yard" or lack thereof, Secret Santa, our visit from the Chapmans-Thanks for coming down to our neck of the woods, Our annual couples christmas party, Giftcards, ya gotta' love giftcards, Blockbuster Video-we're old school, I know, reading from our great christmas book collection, oh, last but not least, CHRISTMAS MUSIC!

There are no pictures of Emily because she is a crazy woman. When we do stuff like this we don't even see her the whole time.

I even got into the fun. I went down headfirst a couple of times. Dangerous!

Kylee and Brynlee

Nate pulling my 3 boys...Blake, Cooper, and Tanner.

Ally and her way too cool self!

Cooper is such a trooper. He loves the Snow!

All ready to go!!! What a nice lookin' machine. (not Blake, the snowmobile)

Serial Killer or Anxious Sledder?

Blake tried to turn over a new leaf this year and replace his Grinchy, Bah Humbug attitude with one of embracing, love and excitement for the Holiday Season. You can see that this turned out to be frightening at first, but after a few days we warmed up to the "new Blake." I especially found this enjoyable. Although tonight I turned on the outside lights and when we returned home he said, "who turned on the Christmas lights?" I said, "me." He quickly replied, "Christmas is OVER!"

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

For those of you who haven't yet received our Christmas card...Here is the picture.

We sacrificed being on time to our ward Christmas Party to get this happy, little Pic. Thanx to Walmart.com for getting these done at the last minute. Isn't technology great?

The name of my Blog should be better late than never!

Here are some fun Holiday Pictures...starting with us decorating the tree.

(yes, I let go of the control freak in me and actually let the kids do the tree)

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

For the first time in 11 years our family spent the winter holiday of Thanksgiving in Illinois. After the recent diagnosis of Grandpa Jim's cancer we decided to pay them a surprise visit. A special thanks to our partners in crime... Aunt Sandy, Uncle Bob, and Tracey and co.

These cousins just couldn't get enough of each other. Lots of LATE nights and giggling.


What a bunch of awesome Grandkids!!! We can't wait to get together again.

Happy Halloween!!!

Better late than never. eh? I am trying to figure out how to do this bloggin' thing. I might be calling Alli M....she is a bloggin'fool!