Nielson's

Halloween

2011-11-18T13:32:00.001-07:00

Camping and Birthday's

2011-09-19T13:55:00.000-06:00

Jack turned 7 on August 5th he wanted to go camping for his birthday. So Uncle Ashton came up and went camping with Ryan and the boys. Sam turned 10 on the 15th. For Sam's birthday we went swimming and he had football practice that night. Ryan also had a birthday his is on August 17th he turned 35. On August 7th we also had our 13 Wedding Anniversary! Happy August!

Ragnar June 16-17

2011-09-13T10:48:00.000-06:00

Back in June I ran Ragnar with my friend Jodi, her husband Rich, and some of their friends. On Mother's Day I walked in to Relief Society and Jodi said, "Mel I have to ask you something! Rich just found out that he is going to be out of the country during Ragnar do you want to do it." Yes. I had from May 9th to June 15th to train. I go to the gym all of the time but I hadn't really been running so that very next day I started running. I ran into Jodi two days later at our sons baseball game and she said there is a 90 percent chance now that Rich will be in town but we won't know for a couple of weeks. But my friend who is suppose to run Ragnar with us is injured and she might need a replacement too. I kept training waiting to hear if I would be running, and if so what legs I would be running. Rich found out that he would be in town, but Jodi's friend really wasn't able to run. Her husband also had a slight injury and wasn't able to run over 3 or 4 miles at a time so he was taking his wife's legs and that ment I would get his legs. He had 2 very hard long legs, and one hard leg. I kind of started freaking out because I had only been running for a couple of weeks at this point. So I started training tons of uphill. The week or so before the race Rich saw my legs and offered to switch me. Thank goodness! My first leg was 3.8 easy. My second was 7.0 hard it was all down hill. I was so worried about running uphill I didn't really do any downhill training oops. I was so sore after my second run. My third run was 5.8 miles moderate it was mainly all uphill but just gradual uphill. We had such a great time. I fueled my body way better than I did when I ran the Red Rock Relay a few years ago and didn't get sick.

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We were in the second van!

Our whole team at our 2nd Exchange. Our runner waited a second to snap a picture.

After the race!!!!

Rich and Jodi

Flaming Gorge

2011-09-11T00:12:00.000-06:00

Back in July we went on our annual Flaming Gorge trip. We had such a great time. We went with our friends the William's, the William's, and the other William's, and the Williamsen's, and we of course had our little Will. We also had Big Ryan, Little Ryan, and Brian!

We went cliff jumping!!!

Brooke, Allie, and me jumping. Allie has never gone cliff jumping before.

I did toe touches when I jumped so that is me winding up.

Sam just chillin

My three handsome boys!!!

My cute hubby with a farmers tan!!!

Jack Jack

One of my favorite pictures of Will being Silly.

The boys love hangin with Uncle Ashton.

Sage and Will acting like ROCKSTARS!

Ashton and Tyler were good buddies on the trip.

My Handsome FELLER

Ashton and Ryan acting like each other!!!

The kids had tons of fun going on RAZOR rides!!

We all did a little WAKEBOARDING.

Ryan cut my head off.

Our last day we ran out of GAS and had to do a little paddling

and kicking

and some more kicking

Then we got rescued by Justin!!!

CUTE LITTLE WILL

2011-08-29T12:20:00.001-06:00

As Ryan was walking out the door this morning Will stuck his head out the door and said, "Dad show the people your muscles today." Yesterday he woke up from his nap and told Ryan, 'Dad I sleepted in my belly and my back." Meaning he napped without a shirt on. That kid is a crack up.

4th Of July weekend!!

2011-08-25T10:56:00.000-06:00

On Friday the 1st of July we went with our friends up to their cabin and went boating at Pineview. We had such a great time.

Tyler and Travis

Allie and Bunny

Jack getting ready to wakeboard.

He did it, he got up and went like this the whole time.

Sam and Will

Sam, Will, me, and Parker

Will and Levi

Two love birds

Jack Jack

Ryan getting ready to Surf

Sammy

Then on Sunday we went to Delta for the big 4th of July Celebration. Sunday night we had a bbq at my parents house with most of my family. We also had the Annual Beckstrom Family Boat race. Monday morning we went to the parade with Ryan's family. The kids love going to the parade and getting candy. They also love catching the fish in the little pool. Well Will wasn't to thrilled. He got in and as soon as he saw the fish he jumped right out so I helped him catch his fish.

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Ryan and Grandpa Mike

Ryan, Grandpa Mike, Grandma Tina, and Grandma Lois

Will and Braden

Will wasn't to excited to hold the fish.

Jack caught a pretty big fish.

Lean mean Sam got a big one too.

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Baseball

2011-07-31T20:21:00.001-06:00

This spring we spent a lot of time at the ballpark again. We had games 4-5 days a week and practices in between. The season went longer this year, because we had a lot of make up games due to rain. Sam was on the Dodgers this year and Jack was on the Royals.

Sammy getting ready to steal 3rd.

Will loved going to all of the games. He made some new friends at Sam's games. But of course I didn't take any pictures of his little buddies. Will also loved singing all of the cheers and chants that Sam's team sang. Of course the SNACK SHACK is his favorite part about going.

Ryan was Jack's coach again this year.

My little lefty!

Chattin with the other team.

Spring Break/Easter

2011-07-31T19:50:00.000-06:00

I am a little behind on blogging........For Spring Break this year the kids had a week off of school so we headed down to St. George. We went with our friends for the week. We had a great time. We went swimming, shooting, shopping, and did lots of other things.

Easter morning!!!

Easter Egg hunt in the back yard.

Will, Sage, Jack, Sam and Logan

Mr. Grump

The kids decorated eggs one evening with Logan and Sages Nana.

Will's Birthday....... also way back in Janurary!

2011-05-26T18:04:00.000-06:00

Will turned 3 back in January. He is such a cute, fun, energetic, loud, entertaining, happy kid. He has us cracking up all of the time.

When he grows up he says he is going to be a Penguin!!!

Will helping me make frosting in the morning on his Birthday.......i mean helping eat the frosting!

Will loves football so we had a football Birthday Party!

Brothers

Birthday Hugs

Silly Faces

Girls Night

2011-05-26T14:42:00.000-06:00

Way back in Januray I had a girls night with my mom and most of my nieces.

We went shopping, did Just Dance on the Wii, and had a sleepover at my house. We had such a great time.

Sledding

2011-01-26T12:56:00.000-07:00

On New Years Day we went sledding with some of our friends. The kids had so much fun.

And yes even I got all geared up and went out in the snow.

I think the last time I did that was right after Ryan and I got married.

I just hate being cold and freezing to death.

Which by the end I was freezing. But we had a great time.

Jack and Logan

Will and Sam

Brian, Brooke, and Olivia in the back and Ryan talking to Mike

Sage, Will, and Little Ryan working hard.

Ryan and Justin racing down the hill.

Will and Momma

Will going down by himself for the first time. He ended up going down sideways.

Sage and Will best buddies.

2011-01-19T16:41:00.000-07:00

The day after Christmas we ended up going down to Delta for a few hours to visit. We went to Ryan's parents for a while then we went over to Grandma Lois and Grandpa Rex's house. Last we made a quick stop at my parents house.

All the Grandkids on the Nielson side.

Ryan with his dad

Dena and Braden

Brandon and Grandma Tina

Christmas 2010

2011-01-19T16:28:00.000-07:00

We had a great Christmas this year. We didn't wake up until about eight o'clock Christmas morning. The boys were even in bed asleep Christmas Eve by about nine. We spent the whole day relaxing and playing with toys. My parents and brother David came up that night and had Christmas Dinner with us.

Sammy had a long long list of stuff he wanted this year for Christmas.

Jack had about four or five things on his list he mainly wanted a

BB Gun and BB Gun Bullets(or otherwise known as BB's).

Will only wanted a RED BALL.

Sam ended up getting a Rip Stick,

Jack Jack got a BB Gun and the BB Gun Bullets,

and Little Feller got a RED BALL.

Of course I didn't take very many pictures.

TEMPLE SQUARE

2011-01-19T16:08:00.001-07:00

A few days before Christmas we went downtown to

TEMPLE SQUARE.

We went with Ryan's parents and his two little brothers.

We had a great time freezing to death.

(Okay I am the only one that froze to death.)

Beckstrom Christmas Party

2011-01-17T14:50:00.000-07:00

This year for the Beckstrom Christmas party we did service for our Grandma's instead of picking a needy family to buy gifts for. We went down to Payson and cleaned their houses for them. We split up and did the check lists they made for us. It was so fun seeing the little kids cleaning doors and cupboards. The Grandma's loved it too. Then we went to Grandma Helen's church and had lunch.

The kids did the Nativity it was really cute.

We also had a little program with most of the grandkids.

Sam played the piano, Jack did cartwheels, and Will did some break dancing.

We had the Grandma's tell the kids some of their Christmas memories.

My dad also told a few of his Christmas memories too.

Thanksgiving

2010-12-29T21:29:00.000-07:00

For Thanksgiving this year we headed down to Good Old Delta. The kids and I went down a few days earlier than Ryan because they were out of school for a full week this year. We had a good time in Delta. The kids always love being able to play with their cousins.

This is a picture we took on Thanksgiving. We used it for our Christmas Card.

I DIDN'T HIT YOU

2010-12-08T22:29:00.000-07:00

The other morning Will got in bed with me for a few minutes. We were wrestling around a little bit and he hit me. I said, "Will you aren't suppose to hit me." His reply was, " I didn't hit you!" I said, "Yes you did you just hit me." He replied back, "NO, I DIDN'T HIT YOU! I PUNCHED YOU!"

This cute little man just loves to ARGUE and ARGUE and ARGUE! He ARGUES about everything I mean everything. Will and I fight a lot. Most of the time I don't know what to do with him. He is so dang smart and has a comeback for everything. He talks non stop and only has one way of talking LOUD.

But look at this cute face I just love it.

Halloween

2010-11-19T13:38:00.001-07:00

Sam, Jack, and Will all ended up being NERDS for Halloween this year. Jack was going to be a Ninja or Power Ranger, and Will was going to be a Spider or Dracula. But when they found out that Sam was going to be a NERD they wanted to be NERDS too. I loved it because I spent 3 whole dollars on costumes this year. They each got reading glasses from the dollar store and we popped out the lenses. And we used old clothes we already had. Sam had toilet paper hanging out of the back of his pants. Will had a KICK ME sticky note on his back. And they each had a custom made pocket protector.

I wish the pictures showed their hair off better because upclose they had some pretty sweet hairdos.

Here is my cute NERD HERD.

Will's Surgery

2010-11-14T19:11:00.001-07:00

Will with his Buddy Elmo

Back on October 22nd Will had a little surgery. He had a Meatotamy. They told us to talk to Will about his surgery and let him know what was going to happen. We told him that they would take him into a room and put a mask on him and that he would go to sleep then the doctor was going to cut him and then he would wake up. And his response was "when I wake up I am going to scare the doctor like this rarrrrr." Because he thought the mask was going to be like a Halloween mask. He is so funny.

The night before his surgery after midnight he had to start fasting, then the next morning after 10:30 he couldn't have liquids. I did so good too. No food was out, no water bottles out, nothing. I only ate a little bit when he was in the other room. We went for a walk around 11:30 to get out of the house because he kept asking for a drink. We had to leave for the hospital around 12:15 because the procedure was at 1:40. After we got back from our walk I opened the car door and told Will to get in the car. I went in and grabbed a few things from the house and was right back out. When I got out to the car Will was sitting in his car seat eating a sucker. I started freaking out because I didn't want to reschedule the surgery. It is not fun making a 2 year old fast. I took the sucker away from him and he was crying and crying. Poor little Will was so hungry and thirsty and I had taken the sucker away. He cried about half the way to Primary Children's Hospital and was saying "Mom I'm thirsty, Mom I need a drink of water". I felt horrible. I was sitting in the front and eating nuts and sipping on water. He finally fell asleep about 5 minutes before we got there, so he was nice and cranky when we got there. We got checked in and had to tell them that he was sucking on a sucker just after 12:00. The nurse came back and told us that they are going to have to see if they could fit the surgery in at the end of the day. Because he had the sucker we had to wait 3 extra hours from the time he had the sucker. Luckily they fit us in, but we had to wait until almost 4:00. So we sat and sat and waited and waited with hungry and thirsty little Will until almost 4:00. I also had a bad migraine that day because I wasn't able to eat that well. When they were ready for him I walked him down to the room and watched them put the mask on him. He was freaking out which was sad. But thank goodness the procedure was only about 15 minutes long. Everything went well but he did have a hard time waking up. He didn't quite rarrr at the doctor unless screaming like crazy counts. We made it home around 5:20. Barely in time for me to make soup for Friendship Friday for Relief Society at 6:00.

Catching Up

2010-11-09T13:52:00.001-07:00

Ok so I am finally catching up on my blog. Back in August we had 2 more birthdays. Sam turned 9 on the 15th and Ryan had a birthday on the 17th. School also started. Here are some cute pictures from the 1st day of school. Sam started 4th grade and Jack started 1st. Now with Jack in school all day Will and I spend alot of time together. The poor little guy gets pretty bored so we have started going to storytime every week at the library. We also go to the gym a few mornings a week so he gets to play with his friend Sage quite a bit.

Also this fall Sam played flag football and Jack played soccer. But being the unprepared mom that I am I forgot to take a camera to any of the games. They both had a great time playing. We had wonderful weather all season we only got cold maybe one or two games.

12th Anniversary

2010-08-14T10:12:00.001-06:00

Last Saturday was our 12th Anniversary. We went to the Salt Lake Temple and did sealings. We were married in the Salt Lake Temple so it was fun to go back. We were sitting waiting for a sealer and we were talking to girl who recently returned from a mission. We told her it was our anniversary. She said, "Oh is it your 1st?" I looked at her and said, "No it is our 12th." She just about died. She thought we had been married maybe 2 years at the most. Then I told her, Ya we have 3 kids. It was so funny to see someone in complete shock. She really couldn't believe we were old enough to be married that long.

I sometimes can not believe we have been married that long either. But I couldn't have found a better man. Ryan is so great. He is so cute, funny, and perfect for me. He is the best father. He honors his priesthood, and loves the gospel. He is my Best Friend!!!

Jack turned 6!!!!

2010-08-08T20:21:00.000-06:00

Yay!!! Jack finally got a hair cut. I finally talked him and his dad into it. I love his hair short.

Jack also had a birthday on August 5th. I can't believe he is already 6 years old. Jack is such a sweet, loving kid. When he was 2 I was about ready to pull my hair out. But that quickly changed and he is so sweet and just a really good boy. He is such a cutie, I love his eyes they suck you right in.

On Jack's birthday my mom and Grandma June were up staying at my house. That day we met my brother David at the zoo, he was in town from California. After the zoo we went and ate lunch at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, there is a Cafeteria up there and you can see the whole valley while you eat. Then we just drove around downtown and took grandma on a tour of the Avenues and some other fun areas.

Jack at the zoo on his birthday.

Later that night we had some friends over for cake and ice cream.

24th of July!!!!

2010-08-06T23:03:00.000-06:00

On the 24th of July Ryan took the boys on a hike up Bells Canyon.

Sam couldn't believe that he could see downtown from Sandy so good.

Later that day we went down to Lehi and went swimming with our friends the Finlinson's.

Then we went to the Finlinson's house for a bbq and fireworks.

We played an Oreo game. You have to start out with an Oreo

in your eye and who ever gets it in their mouth first with out touching it wins.

Jordyn and Jack

Brook, Jack, and Ryan

Me and Melissa

The kids letting off smoke bombs. Poor baby Parker missed out he was in bed.

Flaming Gorge

2010-08-06T17:09:00.001-06:00

A couple of weeks ago we went to Flaming Gorge again with our friends the Williams. It was a really short trip only two days, but we had a great time. We ate and ate and ate. We had a great time we rode the tube, the wakeboards, the airchair, water skied, rode the Razor, and 4 wheelers.

My four cute boys.

Some of the group

Ryan and Will. Poor Will had goopy yucky eyes the whole trip.

Will was out numbered. Will, Sage, Ruthy, and Olivia.

Jack acting like his Uncle Ashton again.

The last night we were there we were all out talking and this mouse kept coming out over by us. Next thing we know Justin is gone and comes back with his BB gun, then off goes Ryan to get his. Brian asked Justin don't you have another one. So Justin, Ryan, and Brian all had BB guns and Travis was on flashlight duty. They ended up getting the Gross Little Thing.

Brian, Travis, Justin, and Ryan the mighty hunters.

The Gateway

2010-07-23T16:00:00.000-06:00

A couple of weeks ago the kids and I went with some friends to The Gateway and played in the water.

We had a great time. It did rain on us a little though. And a gust of wind came up and blew a table umbrella up onto the second level. But the sun came back out, and the kids had fun.

Will loves to say cheese.

Sam, Jack, Will, Logan, and Sage.

I loved watching him play.

I love all of their faces.

My cute boys.

Jen and I. Sam took our picture.

Wheeler Farm

2010-07-01T16:33:00.000-06:00

Last week I took pictures of my brothers family at Wheeler Farm and my little family came along.

Ryan & Will

Sam hanging out in a cool tree.

Kelda and Jack

Poor Jack Jack got a bloody nose.

I just love this little guy.

Grandma June's 80th Birthday!!!

2010-07-01T15:38:00.000-06:00

On June 12th we had my Grandma's 80th birthday party. It was suppose to be outside at a park by a lake, but of course it rained most of June so we had to have it at a church instead. We still had a great time.

Grandma June with some of her siblings.

Will singing Follow the Prophet for my Grandma.

All of the Grandkids. It isn't very often that we are all together. And it is kind of hard to get a bunch of crazy adults to all smile at the same time.

Lisa and Cristy were going for the cheerleading pose, so I went in for the splits.

Tony also trying the splits.

Some of the Great Grandkids!

My Aunt JaNene, Grandma June, Uncle Chad, and my Mom.

Sam's First Triathalon!!!

2010-06-25T16:28:00.000-06:00

A few weeks ago Sam did his first Triathalon. He did such a good job. He was pretty nervous because he didn't quite know what to expect. But he did great especially since he didn't even practice.

He doesn't have the best form but he did it.

Look at that Lean Machine!!!

Ryan ended up running with him.

Way to go Sam!!!

BaSEbaLL

2010-06-08T13:56:00.001-06:00

We have stayed very busy lately. Sam and Jack have both been playing baseball so we had games 4 nights a week plus practices in between. Sam's team did really good this year they were in the Championship game and ended up taking 2nd. He had the same great coach this year, and several friends from school on his team. It is so fun to see the team as a whole get better throughout the season. Ryan coached Jack's team this year. He did machine pitch again this year. Jack had a few school friends on his team too. And Little Will loved going to watch his big brothers play, he loves watching any sport. But his favorite this was getting a Push Pop from the Snack Shack, and I am pretty sure Jacks favorite thing was the Snack Shack too. Jack always had his pockets full of pennies to spend at the games.

Sam was a good little hitter. He was the first at bat so he was able to steal home a lot.

I love their cute uniforms.

Jack is our cute lefty.

Will with his Push Pop!!

Eye Dentist

2010-05-11T13:31:00.000-06:00

This morning as soon as Jack woke up he came into the kitchen and he asked me "Mom do I still have the sores in my ears?" I said, "I don't know I can't see very good right now" I had just gotten up, and was still trying to wake up, and the light in the kitchen wasn't on yet. And Jacks says, "Mom you need to go to the eye dentist because I can see."

WOW it has been a while.....

2010-05-05T10:27:00.000-06:00

WOW it has been a while since I have made a post. We have stayed really busy lately Sam and Jack are both playing baseball . We have games 4 nights a week and a few practices in between. Ryan is Jacks coach again this year, he does a great job with the kids. It is so much fun watching Sam and Jack play they are having so much fun. They both have several friends on their teams so that is fun.

Will is still a funny little guys. He talks all the time I mean ALL the time. Back in February we took my Grandma June to Delta with us for my moms birthday. Poor Grandma had to sit by Will the whole time. On the way back home Grandma turns to Will and kind of yelled, "Do you ever shut up? Do you ever shut your mouth?" It was so funny! Poor Grandma we really wore her out, I mean WILL really wore her out. He doesn't ever shut up, he is so loud, and talks all the time. But he is so dang cute and funny. He is still really small and talks pretty good, when we are in public people always look at him in shock and ask me how old is he? Because he is so tiny and talks really well. Will is still obsessed with sports. I mean every sport and he knows what you do in every sport.

Ryan is staying busy with work, church, and baseball. He has decided not to continue with the governor thing right now. There are several reasons he decided not to continue, but there is a pretty good chance he will run again in two years. We have learned a lot during the time he was doing it, and we still have a lot to learn. It was a really neat experience we had so much support for family and friends.

I have been staying busy chasing my boys around, and doing mom stuff. Ryan and I just got an additional church calling to be the chair people in our ward for our Stake float that is going to be in the parade downtown on the 24th of July. Yay.

Playing Bishopric!!!

2010-02-22T09:32:00.000-07:00

Yesterday when I was getting ready for church (the boys were already ready) they were in Sam and Jacks room and this is what I heard.

Ok I am the 1st Counselor

Oh and you are the Bishop

And you are the 2nd Counselor.

My 3 boys were playing Bishopric. It cracked me up. :0)

Ryan is running for Governor!!

2010-02-16T09:08:00.001-07:00

For the last year or so Ryan has felt like he needs to get involved politically some how, but we were thinking more on a smaller local level like school board, city council or something like that. Then a few months ago after much prayer and many struggles over the last couple of years we got an answer. Ryan called and told me he has something to tell me but that he couldn't do it over the phone. So my first thoughts were oh great what did he do. But he reassured me that it wasn't anything bad but he would tell me when he got home from work. By the time he got home I already knew what it was, I just needed to hear it come out of his mouth because I couldn't even say those words. He had a hard time saying them too.

Over the last few years Ryan has gotten very passionate about politics but at the same time he hates them. He feels like so many others do that there needs to be a change, that the people should have more of a say and should be heard. Ryan has never been involved in politics in any way. He does however love our country, our state, and loves people. We both now this is what he is suppose to be doing right now. We have learned alot and are still learning everyday. We have had many neat spiritual experiences over the last few months. I am proud of Ryan and the courage he has to stand up and try and make a difference. What ever the out come will be we will be happy, because we have already had great experiences and learned so much. If anyone would like to help in anyway we would love it.
http://www.ryannielsonforgovernor.blogspot.com/

I feel loved when.....

2010-02-10T22:35:00.002-07:00

Here is a question for you.

I feel loved when.....

Last night for our Relief Society Activity we talked about the 5 Love Languages.

*Words of Affirmation
*Quality Time
*Receiving Gifts
*Acts of Service
*Physical Touch

I found it very interesting. We all feel loved in different ways. Some like to be told I love you, others like spending time with someone, or gettting gifts from someone, or even having someone help do something as simple as taking out the trash for them, and some feel loved by touch: holding hands, kissing, hugging, etc.

Some of us are even bilingual we might have two or three of these LOVE LANGUAGES.

Tonight I asked my little family this question. Not one answer was the same. It is interesting to see the differences. I am excited to try and focus on each individuals LOVE LANGUAGE. So each one in my family feels my love for them. It is very important to feel loved and valued. If we do not feel loved we might turn to things that do make us feel loved and they might not be good things.(I think for teenagers especially)

I think too that we tend to show our love to others they way we want to be loved. Not always but maybe sometimes.

You can go to this website and take a quiz to see what your LOVE LANGUAGE is. http://www.5lovelanguages.com/assessments/ I took the personl profiles test. It takes about 10 minutes. My results were a mix of all of them but my main one was Quality Time. I do love spending quality time with people with no distractions.

I really learned a lot from that little class last night and hope you might learn some things as well. :0) I would love to here some feed back if you take the Quiz.

Oh funny Sam

2010-02-02T09:37:00.000-07:00

The other day SAM said,

"Your my mother from another brother".

It was so dang funny.

Will turned 2!

2010-01-31T16:21:00.004-07:00

Will turned 2 on January 18th. I can't believe he is two. He is still very small, but such a cutie. He loves all sports. He loves football, basketball, tennis, fights(ufc fights), baseball, golf, and soccer. When we were at Grandma Tinas a couple of weeks ago he told her he wanted to watch football. There were no games on so Ashton had to turn on an old game that he had recorded so Will could watch. Will loves to yell and cheer and say touchdown while holding his arms up. Will also loves to sing and loves playing with Sam and Jack. He is such a fun sweet little man.

He shared his birthday party with his cousin Kelda. Kelda turned 6 on January 13th. We had the party at the Legacy Center in Lehi. We did cake and ice cream in a conference room then went swimming. All of the kids had so much fun swimming. The only crappy thing was that there were tons of people swimming there that day. When Will takes a bath at home he always tells us he is swimming, he really loves swimming.

Will couldn't blow out his candles so Kel had to help him.

Jack loved wrestling!!!

2010-01-30T11:42:00.002-07:00

Jack had so much fun wrestling this year. He wrestled with his friends Logan and Colin.

Jack is a tough little guy.

Logan and Jack

Jack in his wrestling stance.

Will and Sage hugging on each other, I didn't get a shot of them kissing it was really cute though.

ChRisTmAS!!

2010-01-26T17:31:00.002-07:00

I am really a slacker, but here are a few pictures from Christmas. We had a great Christmas. We did our usual and had dinner on Christmas Eve. After dinner we went on a drive to look at lights and when we got home the Elves left new jammies for the kids. They also left a note for Sam and Jack reminding them to keep their room clean. Jack did not believe us that Santa was coming that night he was sure that he was coming on Christmas night, we really had to do come convincing. I don't think he was totally convinced though. Sam didn't get any sleep that night he was so excited. We woke up Christmas morning around 7. Sam had to wake Jack and Will up. On Christmas Day my parents and my brother David came up to visit us. The kids always love to have the Grandparents visit. The next day we headed down to Delta for a couple of days to visit the rest of the family. We are so blessed and grateful for great family and friends.

Beckstrom Christmas Party

2010-01-08T19:48:00.002-07:00

This year we had the Beckstrom Christmas Party at our house. Instead of buying sibling and cousin gifts we pick a family that is in need and go shopping for them. It is so fun to go shopping together. It is a great experience for our kids to give up something for someone else. After we went shopping we came back to our house for lunch and to wrap the gifts that we bought.

Rylee, Luke and Mal

Missy

Ryan and Jeremy

Jack, Dexter, Kade, and Sam

Will, Grandma, and Jolie

We did buy some dollar gifts and let the kids play White Elephant.

The kids played Sponge Bob bingo for money and candy. My funny dad put a napkin over his eyes because the lights were in his eyes when he was trying to take a nap.

Nielson Christmas Party

2010-01-08T19:22:00.001-07:00

Back in December we had a Nielson family party in the O.C.(Oak City)

We had a good time hanging out with some of Ryans family.

Ryan with his brothers.

Ryans whole family

The brothers and grandkids. Notice all boys.

Cute Lil' Will

2009-12-13T14:59:00.002-07:00

Will was enjoying some whip cream.

Will is such a fun cute little guy. He is so fun to have around.

Last week I was changing his diaper and he said "SCARY MONSTER" and I asked him where? And he said, " RIGHT THERE" pointing to his closet, then he said "IN BED". So so funny.

He always has us laughing. What a cutie.

Happy Thanksgiving

2009-11-25T12:57:00.002-07:00

Thanksgiving is my favorite Holiday, I just love it. I have so much to be Thankful for and thought I should share a few things.

For a while now our little family has been faced with many challenges. Although things haven't been easy I am so Thankful for those challenges and what I have learned from them. And for what I continue to learn from them.

I am so Thankful for a Sweet Husband who truly is my best friend, who works so hard for our little family.

I am Thankful for my cute little boys who are so good and always willing to help when needed.

I am Thankful for my parents and their great example and their willingness to always help when they can.

I am Thankful for Ryan's parents and their continued love and support.

I am Thankful for all of my family and friends and the great people they are.

I am also so Thankful for the Lord and his love and patience with me, and the Savior who has done so much for me.

I am greatly blessed and am so Thankful for that.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Finally some Halloween Pictures.

2009-11-18T13:29:00.002-07:00

This year for Halloween Sam was Darth Vader, Jack was a MINJA that is how he says ninja, and Lil Will was a very scared Dragon. Will did not like wearing his costume any time you said the word costume he was start breathing hard and then start crying. He doesn't like wearing coats, backpacks, or slippers either I guess they are to scary.

The kids at the TRUNK or TREAT a few days before Halloween.

Will was sick on Halloween so he took it easy and watched Elmo all night. Jack was kind of sick but felt good enough to go out trick or treating.

Our dear sweet TORI!!!

2009-11-14T13:05:00.011-07:00

Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend the funeral of our cousin Tori. Tori was an amazing girl she touched so many lives during her short time here on earth. I am grateful for the chance I had to know her and can't wait to see her again. Tori we love and miss you.

Here is a link to a tribute video of Tori.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdWpvWXTFGc

ThInGS!!!

2009-10-28T12:49:00.006-06:00

Here are a few things that we have been doing lately.
One night for Family Home Evening we had ice cream and Will really enjoyed his. It was all over his face, in his hair, pretty much everywhere. Look at that cute face. :0) Will is talking so much. He loves to sing Tinkle Tinkle Star. He is still very very small he is still zero percentile on all of the charts he is up to 18 maybe 19 pounds and will be 2 in January. He is such a fun little man.
Sam played flag football again and loved it. He was on the same team as his friend Sam. Sam has also started cub scouts, Ahhh. Not a huge scouts fan but maybe it will grow on me. Sam really likes going so that is good.

Jack wanted to play soccer this year he had a great time playing with his buddies Collin and Logan. Oh ya and Jack finally got a hair cut. He still reminds us everyday of Ashton(Ryan's little brother) he talks and acts just like him. When ever he reminds us of Ashton I say, "Okay Ashton", probably a month ago Jacks asked, "when are you going to stop calling me Ashton" and I told him "When You Stop Acting Like Him". That will never happen so he will have to just get use to being called Ashton. He is a fun little guy.

A couple of weeks ago I had my brother Jeremy's kids for a few days. We had a lot of fun. One day we went down to the Beehive house and walked over by the temple it was fun. It was really nice having a couple of cute babysitters around the house too.
I guess Sam didn't get the memo to wear black or green. :0)

Luke & Mal's Wedding!!

2009-10-11T14:03:00.006-06:00

Ok so I have been a big blogging slacker.
My little brother Luke and Mal got married a month ago on September 11th. It was such a great day. I am so happy for them. The day started at the Salt Lake Temple, then we went to Delta for a luncheon, and we ended the night up in the OC.(Oak City)It was a really fun day.
My friend Melissa and I. She is married to Mal's brother. We kind of hooked Luke and Mal up. :0)
Jack hugging Mal.
That is the moon up in the sky. It was such a pretty day.
My 6 brothers and I.

My whole family.

REDROCK RELAY!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-09-15T14:41:00.004-06:00

On September 4th my sister-in-law Amber, me, my friend Jen, eight Delta girls, and one guy all ran the Redrock Relay. Here is what the Redrock Relay is: 187 mile relay from Brianhead to Snow Canyon, a 8 thousand foot decent. There were 12 on our team we each ran three legs any where from 7 to 18 miles total per person. We spent the night before at this cute little cabin.

It was such an amazing experience. We had the best time we had a fun group our drivers were great, we had a blast. Although it was the hardest thing I have ever done. My first leg was 6.5 miles down Cedar canyon. My first mile was uphill then the last 5.5 were all downhill. I dropped almost 1800 ft. It was raining the first part of my run and I ended up getting a blister about 3.5 miles in. I also was lucky enough to wear a cute reflector vest because it was a really busy highway.

I was in the first van with the first 6 runners, after we all did our first leg we went into Cedar to get some thing to eat. By the time we started eating I wasn't feeling well I was getting really sick. My lungs and throat were killing because of the high altitude. (about 4 or 5 of us were pretty sick and we went threw a bottle of Maalox like it was nothing)

We started our 2nd leg around 7:00 PM, I was runner # 6 and started my second run at midnight it was 6.4 miles up for a while then down the last little while, and I wore the cute vest again, and endured with my blister. I ran from Virgin to LaVerkin. While I was running there was tons of thunder and lighting in the distance and I just barley missed having to run in it. Poor Carly runner #7 had to run in it. After our second leg we went and tried to sleep for a while, it didn't work out very well I think I ended up getting maybe 20 or 30 minutes of sleep.

We started our last leg around 5 AM and so my leg started about 11 AM or so. I ran past Gunlock reservoir. I was still sick and it was starting to get so hot. I struggled the most on this leg. It was 5.5 a lot of up and down again. With not much sleep, my blister (that I could feel swooshing back and forth), and the heat----but I did it, I finished. 18.4 miles I did it.

Everyone did such a great job our team finished in 30 hours. Amber and Jen did awesome. Poor Amber fell, and poor Jen had a lot of uphill. The other van had lots of rain, thunder, and hot temperatures during the final legs. But we all did it and had a great time.

Amber

Shannon passing off to Jen. We passed off a slap braclet.

More pictures to come later. I didn't take very many. But Shannon took lots so I will post more when I get some from her.

Jack's 1st Day of KINDERGARTEN

2009-09-15T14:27:00.003-06:00

September 3rd was Jacks first day of school. It is so crazy to think that he is in kindergarten. He is such a fun, cute little guy. :0)

GiRLs TriP!!!!

2009-09-15T14:10:00.003-06:00

A few weeks ago I went on a little girls getaway with my mom, the Shepherd's and the Draper's(my neighbors growing up). We had such a great time. We went to Olive Garden for dinner the first night then worked our way up to Park City. We did tons of shopping, laughing, and not sleeping. It was so fun and so good to get away from busy life for a couple of days. (Lacey left early so she wasn't in the pics)

Jen and I

Jen, Danica, Shelly, Cindy, LuJean, my mom.
We are all a bunch of Shorty's

Sam's 1st Day Of School & Cute Pics!!

2009-08-27T13:26:00.004-06:00

Yesterday was Sam's First Day of school. I can't believe he is in 3rd grade, he is growing up way to fast.

Here are some cute pics of the boys. I just love these little faces. :0)

A Birthday, A Baptism and More.....

2009-08-25T10:23:00.006-06:00

Last week was another crazy week. Our final Birthday of the month. Ryan's birthday was last Monday. We went to dinner with some family and friends we had a great time.

Then on Tuesday we threw a shower for Mallorie, it turned out really good.

Last but definitely not least Sam got Baptised on Saturday. They did his baptism early so he could attend the Temple Dedication on Sunday. What an amazing day. I am so proud of his choice to get baptized. Thanks everyone who came and supported Sam on his big day. :0) Let me tell you it was the most eventful baptism I have ever been too. Tony and Missy were stuck in traffic so they were late plus some lady wouldn't let them in a door and made them go around. Jeremy and Jeanna barely made it in time to see the baptism because Dex had a football game earlier, Dex had the black make up lines under his eyes and was caring his belt in, Brianne was running in with her shoes in her hands because a few doors they tried were locked and they had to run around the building, Drew fell in the font; so so so funny, and during the confirmation there was some girl in the chapel just singing as loud as she could. Sam's baptism is for sure one we will never forget.

Lil' Will

2009-08-16T14:05:00.003-06:00

Lil' Will got a haircut last week. Here are some cute pictures of the event.

Happy Birthday Sam!!!

2009-08-15T15:22:00.003-06:00

Today is Sammy's Birthday, I can't believe he is 8. Sam is such a fun great kid. He is such a big help too. Hope you have a good day Sam.

Our Anniversary!

2009-08-12T09:57:00.002-06:00

Last Friday, August 7th was our 11th wedding anniversary, so we decided a few days before that to make a quick trip to Cali and go to Disneyland. I love last minute trips. I have always wanted to go to Disneyland with out my kids so I can ride the rides I want. We had so much fun. Thanks Ry for taking me!!! :0)
The only reason Ryan went was to get a yummy turkey leg.

This is the first time we sat down all day, it was at 8, we were so exhausted

Happy Birthday Jack Jack!!!

2009-08-05T18:23:00.004-06:00

Today is Jacks birthday. I can't believe he is 5. Jack is such a good kid, he is always cracking us up too. We are so grateful that he is part of our family. Today we had an exciting combined birthday party for him and Sam. (Sams birthday is next week)We had so much fun today. Man I can not believe my boys would hold those icky snakes.

Jack holding the pancake turtle. It was his favorite reptile today.
Jack going for a little ride.

Lake Powell I Love You!!!

2009-07-25T15:48:00.007-06:00

Last week we were able to go to Lake Powell. Man I love that place I have been going since I was a little girl and can't get enough of it. We went with my parents, my brother Jeremy and his family, my brother Van and his family, and my cousin Garret and his family. We had such a great time and I really want to go back soon.
Sam had so much fun wake boarding.
One night we took the girls on the Ski Bob and they had so much fun they ended up naming him Ski Bob Johnny.
Jacks favorite thing at Lake Powell was cliff jumping. We got him jumping even higher than this. When we first got there we could barely get him to jump off the boat.
All of the girls jumping. Me, Brianne, Rylee, Jeanna, Macey, & Amber.
Every year the kids make up skits and perform them for us. We had a huge rock that they were able to use as their stage.
Our Cute little family, minus Lil' Will he stayed home with Grandma Tina and Aunt Missy. It was so nice not having to worry about him.
Ryan and Sam cliff jumping.
This is our camp we had shade until 11 in the morning then again around 5 it was so nice.
Hole-In-the-Rock. Every year we go to Hole-In-the-Rock, but this is the first time we climbed it. I am so glad that we decided to climb it, it was so awesome. Other than the gross rattle snake I saw that totally freaked me out.

This is about half way to the top, look how tiny the boats look. And look how tiny the water line looks.
This is at the very top looking down.
We left Jack back at camp with Grandma and Grandpa.
The kids had so much fun tubing, wakeboarding, cliff jumping and swimming.
Jeanna, Brianne, and I all wake boarded together, I had to use Sams wake board because mine was in another boat, it was so hard using that little thing.
Jeremy beat the crap out of us on that thing.

The kids doing a little bit of morning fishing.
Rainbow Bridge.
Rainbow Bridge.

The day we got there Jack had to use the bathroom before we could get the tent set up and had to go out in the open, he really did look so cute.

4th of July

2009-07-20T13:49:00.004-06:00

The kids and I spent a few days in Delta around the 4th of July. We had a great time. Ryan came down a few days later. We did some great fireworks that our friend pick up for us in Wyoming. We went to the parade, park and finished the day with the Derby and fireworks at Grandma Lois' house. On Sunday we had the Annual Beckstrom Boat Race. T-Bone, Will, and Luke.
Jack
Missy helping Sam.
My Dad and Uncle Gary. Uncle Gary and my dads cousin came down and played in the tennis tournament and won.
Will fell asleep on Luke during the fireworks.
Derek, Sam, and Jack at the parade.
Will and Grandma Tina.
Sam caught a fish in the fish pool.
Kelda and Jack
My mom and dad.
The Beckstrom Boat Race.
Ryan and Will
The finish line.
Will and Grandma Lois.

Beckstrom Reunion

2009-07-08T07:29:00.006-06:00

A couple of weeks ago it was my parents turn to be in charge of the Beckstrom Reunion so we had it down in Delta at the res. Us, my parents, and Van jr all took our boats out. We had a great time tubing, wakeboarding, and playing in the sand on the beach.

We even ran into Ashton.

Cute Grandma Helen :0)

They're BAAACK!!!

2009-06-22T13:16:00.003-06:00

Every year we look forward to seeing little baby quail. :0)

Happy Birthday!

2009-06-18T15:11:00.002-06:00

Last week was Grandpa Mikes birthday we were able to go down and see him for a little while on Sunday when we were picking up the kids.

Zoo

2009-06-18T15:03:00.003-06:00

We went to the zoo with our friends the Andersen's the other day and had a blast.

Newport Beach Getaway

2009-06-16T21:51:00.003-06:00

Last week Ryan and I took a little trip without kids!!! We had so much fun. We spent a couple of days hanging out at the beach. We went to Newport Beach, Corona Del Mar, and Huntington Beach it was so nice just hanging out and doing nothing.
We also spent a day driving up the coast to LA. We drove through a place called Palos Verdes it is so gorgeous there. When we got to LA we met up with my brother David and went down to Hollywood and Highland to the Virgin Record store,and then he took us to Korea Town. Ryan went to Korea on his mission so he loved Korea Town. We could not believe how big Korea Town is it is huge. It is way bigger than China Town. There are 2 or 3 big malls, tons of markets, there are even a few skyscraper. We had yummy Korean food it was great. We were even parked right by a gang shooting. We also went to downtown LA, and went to China Town.
Our last night there we went to an Angels Baseball game. Ryan was acting like a little kid in a candy store that night he was so excited for the game. It was such a fun game the Angels did awesome, and we had great seats.
We also ate, ate, and ate some more on our trip. We hit our favorite little Mexican Restaurant twice while we were there. And of course we had to make a couple of trips to Jack's Surfshop.
We were able to do this thanks to my parents. They take our kids camping every summer, it is our kids Christmas present from them.

School's Out For Summer!!!

2009-06-05T13:32:00.004-06:00

Yay, Today was Sam's last day of school.

Why did the french fry go to French?

2009-06-02T11:59:00.004-06:00

Here is Jacks joke
"Why did the french fry go to French?"
"Why?"
"So he could French"

This morning he told me that when he goes camping with grandpa and grandma he is going to go four-wheelering. So cute.

Yesterday Jack was outside playing with out shoes on and so I went out to tell him he better get shoes on or take his socks off and this is what I found. Do you think he needs new socks???

This one looks like those gloves that the finger tips can fold back.

Jack finished preschool last week, I can not believe he will be in Kindergarten next year.

Major BEDHEAD!!!!

2009-05-27T10:45:00.003-06:00

Will woke up twice this weekend with major BEDHEAD. I just love this cute little boy.

Take Me Out To The Ball Game!!!

2009-05-14T15:10:00.006-06:00

Lately we have been going to alot of baseball games. We have games 4 to 5 days a week. It is so much fun watching Sam and Jack play. Sam is doing player pitch and is getting better every game it's an ajustment from machine pitch. Jack does machine pitch and loves the snack shack, he likes playing too, but he really likes the snack shack, and I just love their cute uniforms. Oh and Jack is our cute little lefty.

Mother's Day

2009-05-12T11:01:00.005-06:00

I had a really good Mother's Day on Sunday. Will gave me a great gift he woke my up bright and early at 6:30. He never wakes up that early he always sleeps at least until 7:30. I think he couldn't wait to tell my Happy Mothers Day. Ryan did let me stay in bed so they could do Jack's secret and bring me breakfast in bed.

We went to Sacrament Meeting then headed down to DelDa. My kids had 6 grandma's in Delta that day. My two grandma's were down at my parents for the weekend, and of course Ryans grandmas already live there. So we saw Grandma Margie, Grandma Helen, and Grandma June first. Then we went over and visited Grandma Nielson, and last we were able to see Grandma Tina and Grandma Lois. We had a really good day. We didn't leave for home until 9, so we had a late night but it was worth it we had wonderful Mothers and Grandmothers to visit.

Drew,Kelda, & Jack
Grandma Helen & Grandma June
Ryan & Van Jr. were the Chefs. Van made french fries and Ryan helped out.

Grandma Lois, Grandma Tina, Grandpa Mike

OuR FuNnY LiTtLe JaCK jAcK with MaJoR AtTITudE!!!

2009-05-01T10:28:00.004-06:00

Jack decided yesterday to have a lemonade stand, but we didn't have any lemonade so he had a punch stand instead he is soo funny.

Jack has us cracking up every single day here are some of our recent conversations with him.
(Jack was crying the whole time, and we were getting ready for bed.)
Jack: Mom I wish I was Sam.
Me: How come?
Jack: Because Sam is nice.
Me: Well sometimes you are nice. Your nice at school aren't you?
Jack: Ya
Me: Your nice to your teacher aren't you?
Jack: Ya
Me: Your nice to your friends aren't you
Jack: Ya, But all I am is funny.
Me: Well you can chose to be nice.
Jack: I know.

The other night Jack was in brushing his teeth and he was singing a song and Ryan walked in.

Ryan: Jack what are you singing?
Jack: Dad what is a oneanizer?
Ryan: I don't know.
Jack Singing as he walks out the room: Oneanizer, twoanizer, threeanizer.

He was singing the Brittney Spears song Womanizer.

Happy Birthday Grandma Tina!!!

2009-04-28T12:45:00.003-06:00

Yesterday was Grandma Tina's birthday. We were able to call her last night and sing our wonderful version of Happy Birthday, you all really missed out. We hope you had a good day. We all love you.

Happy Birthday Old School!!!!!

2009-04-02T22:25:00.004-06:00

Today is my dad's birthday. Tonight the kids and I were able to give him a call, and sing him a sweet Happy Birthday song on speaker phone.(You really missed out) Tomorrow part of my little fam is going down to visit and have a little Birthday Celebration. We love you Grandpa Old School and hope you had a great day. :0)

6th Birthday!

2009-03-13T11:58:00.002-06:00

Today is Eli and Eddie's 6th Birthday. I have been thinking about them a lot this week, and I am so grateful for the wonderful experience they gave me. We talk about them all of the time and look at their cute footprints. Sam gets very emotional when we talk about them he misses them so much. Even though they didn't live one day on earth, they have brought us so much joy, sadness, and hope. We have two sweet angels waiting for us to return to them. I feel with all my heart that we will be able to raise them one day and really get to know them, and I know they chose to sacrifice their time on earth to do their part in heaven. I feel proud to be a parent of such sweet, courageous spirits.

Will's Cheese Face and More

2009-03-08T21:02:00.004-06:00

JR. JAZZ

2009-03-08T20:52:00.003-06:00

Sam is #5.
He had his last Jr Jazz came a couple of weeks ago, he had a lot of fun playing, and had lots of his friends on his team. Way to go Sam!

The Aquarium

2009-03-08T20:39:00.003-06:00

One day last week I decided to take the kids to the aquarium, we had a good time.Look how cute Will looks. He loves saying cheese when he gets his picture taken.

Sam and Jack are looking at the Stingrays. Sam was touching them, Jack didn't dare.

Draper Temple Open House

2009-02-28T11:39:00.003-07:00

I had the opportunity to be a volunteer at the Draper Temple Open House. It was such an awesome experience. I was able to go last month and do a shift, and again yesterday. I was an usher it was so much fun. We are so blessed to be surrounded by so many temples. I am going to take my kids to see the temple next week and I can't wait.

8 THinGs

2009-02-18T12:56:00.004-07:00

8 Things about me......

Here are the Rules:
1) Post rules on your blog
2) Answer the six '8' items
3) Let each person know they're tagged by leaving them a comment

8 Favorite TV Shows:
1. Lost
2. CSI Miami
3. Without A Trace
4. The Bachelor
5. Dancing with the Stars
6. American Idol
7. So you think you can dance
8. The Hills

8 Things I Did Yesterday:
1. Woke up and got the kids to school.
2. Did laundry.
3. Paid some bills.
4. Watched 2 of my nieces.
5. Talked on the phone
6. Got Del Taco for Dinner. Their famous Tuesday 3 tacos for a dollar.
7.Watched American Idol
8.Went to bed.

8 Things I Look Forward To:
1. Spring
2. Summer
3. Boating/Lake Powell
4. Spending time with family.
5. Summer
6. Shopping
7. Wakeboarding
8. Going to the Gym.

8 Favorite Restaurants:
1. Asian Star
2. Cafe' Rio
3. Outback
4. Los Hermanos especially their Chips and Salsa I drink the salsa like water. Yum Yum
5. Inn and out Burger/ I heard they are building one in Draper. Yeah!!
6. Texas Roadhouse
7. Pei Wei
8. Joe's Crab Shack

8 Things On My Wish List:
1. Warm weather.
2. Not to be sick during pregnancy.
3. Shopping anytime I want.
4. To get some of our unfinished house projects done.
3. A clean house with out having to clean.
5. To go back to Southern Cali.
6. Warm weather.
7. To go on a trip with just Ryan and I
8. Warm weather.

8 People I Tag: Please note: if I don't tag you I either....
a) don't think you'll do it or
b) think you've already been tagged by someone else... don't be offended!

1. Amber
2. Jimi
3. Kim
4. Darla
5. Katherine
6. Courtnie
7. Chanda
8. Megan

My Mom's B-Day

2009-02-09T14:28:00.003-07:00

On Saturday it was my mom's birthday, so Friday night the kids and I picked up my Grandma June and headed to Delta. We had a great time. We stayed up way to late, and ate lots of Chocolate. On Saturday Night we went and watched the BYU Ballroom Dancers, they came down to Delta to perform. It was so much fun, I love ballroom dancing. We hope you had a good birthday mom!

i LovE mY FunNy bOyS!

2009-02-05T15:09:00.005-07:00

Here are some funny things my kids have said lately.

JACK (we were on our way to preschool.)
Jack: "Mom you are taking the long cut and I don't like the long cut I like the short cut better."

JACK (I think this was last spring when we were at Grandma Tina's. Grandma Tina reminded me of this one.
Jack: "Grandma I like chocolate"

Grandma:"Me too"

Jack: "My dad likes chocolate and so does Sam, but my mom can't have it because it is connected to the milk" (I was nursing at the time and it bothered Will when I ate chocolate. It is so funny how they relate things.)

JACK (Ryan was on wiping duty. Sorry for the potty talk)
Ryan: Jack you stink like pooh. You need to turn the fan on when you are going.

Jack: No I don't.

Ryan: Yes you do you smell like pooh.

Jack: No I don't smell like pooh I smell like GREEN GRASS WITH DOUBLE EGGS!

SAM
Sam: Mom is it nervy when you ask someone to marry you?

What a Cutie!

2009-02-03T13:58:00.002-07:00

We went to our friends The Finlinson's for the Super Bowl. Melissa just had a baby on Jan 20th, it was our first time seeing little Parker. What a cutie he is. Him and Will are one year and 2 days apart.

Newport Beach trip with the Nielson's

2009-01-26T16:58:00.001-07:00

We just got back from a trip to Newport Beach. We were gone for 9 days and we had so much fun. The first day we got there we had my brother David (he lives in LA)take us on a tour of the LA, Hollywood area. It was so fun we saw so many fun sights, we went to Rodeo Dr. in Beverly Hills, the Santa Monica Pier, we drove past the LA Temple, we went pretty much everywhere. It was so much fun. The rest of the trip we stayed in Newport Beach. We went to Huntington Beach twice, Laguna Beach twice, the actual beach in Newport Beach once, and Disneyland three days. We had such a great time the weather was between 70 and 80 the whole time except for the last day it rained and we spent that day in Disneyland before we flew home. We couldn't ask for better weather, we had so much fun spending time with Ryan's family. We also had Will's 1st Birthday down there. Oh, and our trip would not be complete with out a couple of trips to Jack's Surf Shop. We go there everytime we go to California and we have to buy Jack's t-shirts. We have dozens of them.
This is us on Rodeo Dr.
We are up on Mulholland Dr. and the Hollywood sign is behind us.
Sam and Jack with the city behind them.
The Santa Monica Pier
The kids and I with David out on the pier.
We rode the Subway down to Hollywood and Highland that is where the Kodak Theatre is.We were on the top floor of the Kodak Theatre where they have some of the fancy Hollywood Parties.
Ryan and Will in front of the Kodak Theatre
Sam and Jack in front of the Grauman's Chinese Theatre. They are on the Harry Potter Square.

Will & I at Huntington Beach
Ryan and the kids at Huntington Beach.
I love this picture you can see Will's reflection.
Grandpa Mike & Russell at the condo.
Will with Grandma Tina at Huntington Beach
All of the boys.
Brandon & Dena
The kids playing in the sand.
Our little family.
Laguna Beach
Ryan and Will at Laguna Beach
Will at Laguna Beach
Sam at Laguna Beach
Will at Laguna Beach
Jack at Laguna Beach
The kids at Laguna Beach
Our fam with the sun in our eyes and me not paying attention.
Grandpa and Grandma with Will and Jack in front of the Winnie the Pooh ride. Oh ya Jack wore his hoodie, hood on and everything for 2 full days at Disneyland and pretty much half of the trip he is a funny little guy.
Jack had to do everything with Ashton. Jack reminds us so much of Ashton, they even dressed alike that day.
Sam, Will & I at Disney's California.
Ashton, Ryan and Will at Laguna Beach.
We kind of buried the kids at Laguna Beach.

I am ready to plan another trip, anyone want to go?

Will's Birthday!

2009-01-25T16:35:00.004-07:00

Last Sunday January 18th was Will's 1st Birthday. We had a great day. We were down in Newport Beach, CA on vacation. After lunch we had a little party at the condo then headed off to Disneyland for the evening. Disneyland was open until midnight that night because the next day was a holiday so we got plenty of time in.

Will is such a sweet baby. He is always happy, he is a good sleeper, and he is so much fun. I can't believe he is already 1. We feel so blessed having him in our family.

Shopping with the girls

2009-01-12T16:46:00.002-07:00

For Christmas my mom took the older granddaughters shopping. This year I was invited to go too because they spent the night at my house. We had so much fun shopping, doing pedicures, and doing karaoke to High School Musical.

Macey and Rylee wanted to go up the escalator the wrong way so we let them.
We stayed up until 2:30.

Thanks girls for a fun time. :0)

Review of 2008

2009-01-08T16:27:00.001-07:00

Wow what a year 2008 was. We started off the year with a few unexpected surprises. Will decided to come 3 weeks early, it was great for me because I was sick the whole time. My due date was Feb 4th or 5th I can't remember but he came on January 18th. What a sweet baby, he has brought so much joy and happiness into our home. Sam and Jack both love him to death.

On Super Bowl Sunday we went to our friends to watch the game, Will was 2 weeks at the time. When we go home Ryan's truck had been stolen along with all of his work tools that were in his truck box, and our door to our house had been kicked in. Tons of stuff was stolen, my poor kids were terrified. They slept on our floor for about 3 weeks it totally freaked them out. They are still scared sometimes. When we went in the house to see what was taken Jack looked in the pantry and said "at least the robber didn't take our cereal and at least the robber didn't take our pudding" so cute. It just makes you so mad and you feel so violated. That night Will also got really sick. He came very close to getting RSV, I had to watch him night and day, but luckily he didn't get it. A couple weeks later they found Ryan's truck it was totally stripped. Let me tell you working with insurance is a pain in the butt. We had to deal with our home owners and our auto. It was a pain but after paying our wonderful deductibles we got everything taken care of.

A couple of weeks after our house got broke into Ryan had an appointment with the Stake President and I had to be there, :0( got to love those appointments. Ryan got put in the Bishopric. The Sunday they put him in we decided to bless Will because our parents were already coming up. But we didn't decide this until 5:00 the day before. I had to make a mad dash to Costco before they closed to get some food, call the rest of our family, and I didn't have a blessing outfit. Everything was closed by the time I realize I needed an outfit. A friend of ours owns White Elegance and she met me at one of her stores and open it so I could get a blessing outfit. So the first month and half of 2008 was very emotional. I was not looking forward to taking my 3 little boys to church by myself. Jack was where I was most concerned he is kind of a challenge. But he has done so good. When I would have to go feed Will, Sam and Jack would just sit so good all by themselves. I was definitely being blessed.

The rest of the year was pretty mellow we went on some fun camping trips, and spent time with family. Then in the end of September Ryan decided he was going to start another business. We spent the end of the year setting up a new business, getting financing (when the economy was not good, which was a pain in the butt), and learning a new product. And also taking over the business he already was part owner in. His business partner left just after Thanksgiving. So he has been shuffling his time with both business, and a crazy church schedule. It has been crazy, scary, and emotional year. But we would not change it for anything we have learned so much through all of these experiences it has brought our little family so much closer, and we were bless with a wonderful baby boy.

I am looking forward to a new year that will hopefully be a little less emotional, but full of great experiences.

GO UTES!

2009-01-04T20:16:00.006-07:00

On Friday night we had a few of my brothers over to watch the Utes game. We had a lot of fun, and the Utes kicked butt. Poor Ryan is the only Utes fan in the family. My brothers are all BYU fans (so is Sam). My brothers did cheer for Utah I am sure this will be the only time though. Will & Jolie
Gordon & Pon
T-Bone & Luke
Kade & Sam
Missy
Ryan Cheering on the UTES
Jack with all of his gear on.
The Gang
Later that night Luke, me, and Ryan played Pass the Pigs
Kade & Kayla spent the night. Kade & Kayla on the futon, and Jack & Sam on the couches.

My cute BOYS!

2008-12-31T22:03:00.004-07:00

Christmas

2008-12-28T21:08:00.003-07:00

We had a really good Christmas. On Christmas Eve we went on our famous drive to look at lights and when we got home the Elves brought our kids pj's. The kids were so excited to get their new pj's.

We spent Christmas at home. We got up and opened presents and just hung out for a while, then we went and saw Marley & Me. It was a good movie, but it was really sad. I think the kids would have liked to see Bedtime Stories better, I think we will go see that one this week sometime. Then later that day we just played games and the kids played with their toys.

The day after Christmas we headed down to Delta for one night. The kids had a good time playing with all of their cousins.

Christmas Program

2008-12-20T15:24:00.003-07:00

On Thursday Jack had his Christmas program.
Jack & Weston

Jack and Weston got a little excited. Thanks Jill for the pics.
And yes Jack has to wear his snowboots everywhere. And that green shirt has a snowboarder embroidered on it so he likes to were it all the time too.

Ward Christmas Party

2008-12-14T22:53:00.003-07:00

Yesterday we had our ward Christmas party. We had a yummy breakfast, the primary kids sang a couple of songs, and we were suppose to have Santa but he was told the wrong time. So the bishop filled in. :0) Only a few kids were able to see Santa, the ones who were last in line seeing the bishop. Of course my kids got to see Santa we are always the last ones to leave anywhere (We have Ryan as a dad and husband, he likes to talk alot.)

Will just loved Santa.

Thanksgiving

2008-12-02T11:51:00.003-07:00

Jack with his Indian stuff he made at school.

We had Thanksgiving with the Nielson's this year. We had lots of yummy food the Pomegranate Salad was probably my favorite. When we were almost done eating poor Will threw up all his dinner. I don't know if I fed him to much mashed potatoes and gravy or what but he lost it all. The kids had a lot of fun playing with Derek and Braden. Of course they guys watched football. I also went to visit my friend Jennifer it was her birthday that day.
Will riding the horsey at Grandma Tina's

Will had a rough time not having his crib to sleep in the stinker didn't sleep very good at all. We got very little sleep between Will being a punk and just staying up late.

On Black Friday Amber, my mom, and I all went shopping in good old Delta. We only got a few things but we had a good time. The guys went shooting that day and were gone for like 5 hours, I am sure they had a great time. We had a birthday party that afternoon for my niece Jolie she turned one. Friday afternoon Luke had an allergic reaction and was throwing up in the sink, his breathing was getting closed off. He is allergic to tons of things turkey is one of them. My mom ended up just chucking the leftover turkey. We must not have been careful enough. Sorry Luke.

Saturday night my mom, my sister-in-law Missy, my niece Kayla, and I all went to Twilight. I loved it. It was my second time I also went to the midnight show opening night with my sister-in-law Jeanna, and her daughters Brianne, and Rylee we had such a fun time.

Saturday night Sam woke us up at 2:30 (I guess it was morning) he had thrown up he had too much candy the day before. So Ryan and I were up for about 45 min doing laundry and cleaning my moms couch and floor. That has happened to Sam before the poor kid. I don't think that I have ever eaten so much junk that I have thrown up.

Other than all of the throwing up we had a really good time visiting family it just went by to fast.

Wrestling

2008-11-25T21:14:00.002-07:00

Over the weekend Sam had a wrestling tournament in Mapleton. It was his very first wrestling match ever. He did such a great job.

We were running a little late as usual. Thank goodness Jeremy & Jeanna were there to take care of us. They got Sam signed in and let us know what mat number and every thing. As soon as we pulled up Ryan and Sam booked it into the gym because they were waiting for Sam to wrestle. When they got there the first kid he was suppose to wrestle wasn't there yet so they waited about 15 minutes and just gave the match to Sam. When they called Sam for his second match the kid standing there on the mat that he was going to wrestle was a kid in his class at school. It was crazy. Sam ended up winning 11 to 1. He did so good. His next match he wrestled a kid that goes to our club that he practices with and Sam ended up pinning him. His last match he wrestled a kid that was quite a bit bigger but he did a great job Sam only lost 6 to 5 and he was up some of the match. So in the end Sam ended up taking 2nd Place. Which is so good for someone who had never wrestled a match before.

It was so cute Ryan took Sam in for his very first weigh-in the night before, and he had to strip down to his undies and he weighed 43 lbs. His weigh class for the tournament was 46-50.

It is so different being the mom of a wrestler than the sister. I mean I always got nervous for my brothers when they wrestled but it is definitely different. It was a new experience for Ryan too, he has never been to a wrestling tournament ever other than state wrestles. He had such a great time and thought it was a fun atmosphere.

Good job Sammy we are proud of you.

Tag

2008-11-19T14:56:00.003-07:00

Here is a fun Tag you can only answer in one word.
I stole it from Jill B & Jill O

1. Where is your cell phone? pocket
2. Where is your significant other? work
3. What is your hair color? blondish
4. Your mother? wonderful
5. Your father? joker
6. Your favorite thing? family
7. Your dream last night? kids
8. Your dream/goal? eternity
9. The room you are in? office
10. Your hobby? kids
11. Your fear? snakes
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? happy
13. Where were you last night? dinner
14. What you're not? creative
15. One of your wish-list items? vacation
16. The last thing you did? bills
17. Where you grew up? Delta
18. What you are wearing? jeans
19. Your T.V.? big
20. Your pet? none
21. Your computer? black
22. Your mood? ok
23. Missing someone? sure
24. Your car? dirty
25. Something you're not wearing? hat
26. Your summer? hot
27. Favorite store? Target
29. Love someone? lots
30. When was the last time you laughed? today
31. Last time you cried? Sunday
32. Favorite music? nickelback

I tag anyone that wants to do it!!!

My 30th BIRTHDAY

2008-11-13T16:18:00.005-07:00

Last Saturday was my 30th birthday. I can't believe I am already 30 I still feel like I am 16. This birthday has kind of been a numb one for me I haven't been to excited about turning 30. But we did go to dinner with some friends and family we had a good time. We went to Joe's Crab Shack I love BBQ Crab and Coconut shrimp. We stayed there for 4 hours just hanging out it was great.
Ryan & I
Pon & Gordon
Sarah & Brian
Steve & Justin
Jen & Karri
Karri & Steve
They sang to me and made me wear this lovely stuff and say "I am a pretty pretty pretty princess"

SNOW

2008-11-05T21:46:00.003-07:00

This is what I woke up to this morning! I can't believe it. It was so nice and warm on Saturday and now this? I am not ready for winter. Plus this morning I was sending Sam out the door for school and his boots didn't fit and they had holes in the toes, but he wanted to walk so bad he wore them any way. Jack wanted to go out and play right after breakfast and we were getting him all bundled up and same thing his boots didn't fit either, but I did find some old galoshes that worked for today. So tonight we had to make a quick trip to TARGET one of my favorite stores :0) to get snow boots. There were snow boots strung out up and down the aisles it was like a tornado hit. Boy were my Boys so happy to get new snow boots. But it doesn't take much to make my kids happy. Sam and Jack are so so happy when I buy them new tooth paste. When Sam was little he use to sleep with his new toothpaste that is how excited he would get. Sorry I am rambling.
So today for us SNOW OUTSIDE + NEW SNOW BOOTS=HAPPY LITTLE BOYS

90th Birthday Party

2008-11-01T23:47:00.005-06:00

On Wednesday the 29th my Grandma Helen turned 90 I can't believe it and she is still in such good health. I called her Wednesday night to wish her a happy birthday and she said it was the best birthday she has had she got flowers, tons of cards, phone calls, lots of visitors, and her very 1st Helium Balloon. Can you believe it she is 90 and she has never had a helium balloon it made her so happy to get one. Tonight we had a birthday party for her it was great. She didn't want to have a party she just wanted to go out to dinner, I bet she is glad she got talked into having a party. All of her kids, most of her grandkids, and some of her nieces and nephews were there it was great. She is such a great woman. During the party they wanted us to get up and tell one of our best memories of grandma and I requested that she sing the pig song. It is a song that she sang to us all growing up it is quite the song. She wanted some help singing so my Aunt Charlotte, Aunt Sherie(They are Twins), and Luke all helped her sing.

I wanted to get a picture taken of Grandma, my dad, me, and Will because we are all 30 years apart. My grandma was born in 1918, my dad was born in 1948, I was born in 1978, and Will was born in 2008. So Grandma turned 90, my dad turned 60 earlier this year, and I turn 30 this year, and Will was born this year. I think it is pretty neat. She is such a cute grandma.

HaLLowEen

2008-11-01T13:55:00.005-06:00

Our Halloween was two days long this year. The kids were out of school on Friday so Thursday was when they had the parties at school. Thursday morning I had to get Sam in his costume and out the door just after eight. Then I had to get Jack and Will in their costumes and Jack to preschool by nine, Sam's Halloween parade was also at nine so we were a little late but we were able to see Sam. I love the Halloween parade at school I love seeing all of the cute creative costumes. After the parade I took Will home for a quick 20 min nap before Jack's program at school. So Thursday morning was kind of crazy. Then Thursday night was the Trunk or Treat at the church the kids had a fun time.

We have been so busy lately that we didn't even have time to carve pumpkins until 5:00 last night, right before we went trick or treating. Gordon and Pon came up and went trick or treating with us again this year, the kids had so much fun.

Jolie & Will
Sam the scary skeleton.
Count Jackula and Kelda.

Will is such a cute little Froggy!

Gardner Village

2008-10-29T08:44:00.003-06:00

Last Friday my friend Jen and I took our kids to Gardner Village for the afternoon to see the witches. We had a good time before we left we had to make a stop at Sweet Aftons candy store to get those suckers on the long stick for Sam and Jack, a powdered sucker for Will, and FUDGE for me!!!
All of the Boys
It is so hard trying to take a pic of 5 little kids. Poor Sage is out numbered.
Sam, Will, & Jack
Logan, Sam, & Jack being silly.

Will and the Shark

2008-10-24T22:02:00.005-06:00

DON'T FORGET TO PAUSE MY MUSIC THAT IS AT THE VERY BOTTOM OF THE BLOG

Will just loves our Shark(the cordless sweeper) He loves to follow it around when I am using it. Tonight however he wanted to sweep himself then take it for a joy ride.

2008-10-24T21:44:00.003-06:00

2008-10-24T20:10:00.008-06:00

The Zoo

2008-10-24T09:27:00.007-06:00

On Tuesday Van, Amber, and their kids were up and we went to the zoo with them. We had a lot of fun. It was really cold but we had the whole zoo to our selves.

On the way home I asked the kids what their favorite things were at the zoo. Sam's said his favorite things were the snakes and the black widow. (The black widow was just in a display of bugs and beetles not alive)Yuck he isn't my kid.

This is what Jack said he liked He was yelling this by the way "I LIKED THE ELEPHANT AND THE BLACK WIDOW. ACTUALLY I DIDN'T SEE THE BLACK WIDOW." He is such a crack up.

Will's favorite thing was the little stream of water by the elephant he liked it better than the elephant.

Will, Sam, Drew, Jack, Beau, Macey
That is a cougar right above Sam, Drew, and Jack
Will did so good even in the cold
Sam & Drew by the tired cheetah
Jack by the cheetah too.