Halloween Decor

So my house is a mess. A real mess. Josh decided to take down the popcorn ceiling in our room so everythings in the living room. Anyway, these are the best pictures I can get right now of my Halloween decorations. I'll have to add on my new ones I made with Krista and Aranic later.

What makes me happy

My boys riding bikes

and playing at the park

My sweet little girl

My adorable children

My Best Friend

I can't imagine what my life would be like without my family. They mean the world to me.

Aaron, looking back the past 4 years!

1 month old

1 Year old

2 years old

3 years old

4 years old

Aaron turns 4!!!!

So Aaron's b-day was this past weekend. Ever since Michael's b-day he's been asking me almost every day when his birthday was. So it was finally here, which he was so excited about. So he LOVES spiderman right now (so like his dad), so that was the theme he chose. He wanted a spiderman cake, and I went to Walmart to look and the one they had was $20. Well, being the chepo I am, I decided I would try and make one. For future reference, Josh told me to buy the icing and not make it, cause he said it was gross. Oh well, we aren't big cake eaters anyway.

So the night before, after Aaron was asleep, Josh and I sat up and blew up over a hundred balloons. It took forever....j/k. We cheated and used Josh's air compressor. Thank heavens for that!! He woke up the next morning and opened his door, and there they all were. He loved it! Only that they kept popping and scaring him, so Josh gave him one of those gun ear muffs, and after that he was jumping up and down in them.

So after breakfast, I started frosting his cake. It took me 3 hours, and it turned out looking better than I hoped, but I'm not sure if it was worth my time. But it looked way cooler than the one from Walmart.

His party started at 1, and we weren't sure who all was going to show up, but he had 2 friends from the ward and his two cousins come, along with other family.

So I tried to organize a couple games with the kids, but they were more interested in just playing in his room with the toys, then playing games. But we did play "pin the web on spiderman's enemies" (like pin the tail on the donkey), and hide-and-go-seek, easter egg hunt, and a scavenger hunt. They had fun, though it was hard to keep them focused. We had cake and ice cream and then he opened his presents. Overall he had alot of fun, and at the end of the day he said, ok mom now it's going to be your birthday. I can't believe he is 4 now. He's been so excited for his birthday to come, and he keeps saying that when he turns five he can go to school. I hope he stays that excited for school in years to come.

How time flies......

So my mom called me the other day and reminded me that I still haven't given her a updated pix of Aaron and a pix of Kylee for her wall. So i was going through my pictures trying to come up with some. I have tons of Aaron, but not any that have good backgrounds and that i would like to see hanging on a wall. Except for a couple that Ben took I really liked but never got around to printing out. But I was looking at those and realized in six months he looks so different. So i pulled out the camera and had Aaron put on his church shirt (he was still in his pajama bottoms for the pix, lazy me). The pictures aren't anything fancy, but I loved both their smiles, so I thought I would share.

Introducing our new addition......Kylee Christine Nielsen

We are so excited that she is finally here. Well she's been here about a month now, but I'm just now posting it. She is a beautiful little girl, and we love her so much. Just an recount for those that haven't heard how she's doing, and how everything went. Well, to start off, I woke up about 12:30 am, with some slightly strong contractions. I didn't want to show up too early at the hospital and I wasn't even sure if this was the real thing, so I took a bath, kind of tried to relax, but the contractions started getting stronger. I told Josh that we should probably get going, so at about 1:45 we left towards the hospital in chandler, which from our place is about 25 to 30 minutes. Come to find out, the 101 was closed so we had to take a bunch of detours and we finally got there at about 2:30. During this time, my contractions are getting way stronger and really painful. I had originally planned on doing a natural birth this time around but in the car I told Josh that I didn't think I could anymore. Anyway, we got to the hospital, I went in while Josh waited for his mom to get there to pick up Aaron, they checked me out and told me i was a 5. They took me back to the labor room, and within 15 minutes I was a 9 and my doctor wasn't there yet. The nurse told me I would have to try not to push so my doctor would get there. It was hard, but luckily 5 minutes later he showed up and I was ready and about 10 minutes later, she was born at 3:12 a.m. Needless to say, since everything was so fast, I wasn't able to get an epidural, which now i'm glad I didn't anyway. So from the time we actually got to the hospital till when she born, was less than an hour. Kylee Christine was 7lbs. 8 oz, 20 1/2 inches long and in perfect health. She was so cute and when I first saw her I thought she looked so much like Aaron did when he was a baby. Aaron unfortunately wasn't able to come to the hospital to meet Kylee, because they had it restricted to no one under the age of 12 was allowed, due to flu season. But the next day after we were discharged, we went and picked Aaron up from Josh's parents house. He was so excited to see her. He commented several times saying how beautiful she is.

4 weeks later she has already grown so much and is doing great. For the 1st week though she had pink eye, which I don't even now how she could of possibly caught that. And then Aaron got a bad cough, so we confined him to his room and he wasn't able to go near her for about a week. Lucky for us, he did pretty good, though we had to put a tv in his room so he could watch some movies. I felt so bad for him. I was so worried though that Kylee would get sick. But we are all happy and healthy now. I feel so blessed to have our little family.

4th of July weekend

So for the 4th of July this year we went down to Tucson to celebrate with Jeremy, Nic, Michael & Sofia. We actually went down on Thursday to spend a couple days with them, since Jeremy had a week off we decided to take advantage of his break. Aaron is always asking to go play with Michael so it's always fun when they can get together. We spent the weekend in the pool, playing Rock Band, eating some GREAT steaks (thanks to Jeremy) and having fun just hanging out. So on the 4th we went and picked up some KFC and drove to "A" mountain where the fireworks would be. It took us a while to find a good place to stop but Jeremy found us a great spot with hardly anyone around, so we got out some blankets and chairs and waited for them to begin. The fireworks were awesome. Some of them were going off almost directly over us. Aaron was having fun telling us the colors of the fireworks and Josh took some great shots. To top it all off, Aranic and I had this fun craft idea we wanted to do, so at the end of the night while everyone went to bed, except for Sofia who decided she was wide awake (she is so adorable), we stayed up until 3:30 making it. It took longer than expected, but turned out WAY WAY cuter than I had imagined it would. We had spent the previous couple of days picking out the perfect colors/paper/ribbon/paint and brainstorming to figure out how it would all work. Even though we hadn't planned on staying up so late it was so worth it. Who needs sleep right? Anyways, thanks to Jeremy & Aranic for an awesome weekend!