Skyler lost her first tooth!

A couple of weeks ago Skyler lost her first tooth. I can't say she was too excited about it... she actually was pretty scared. And then to make matters worse the tooth right next to it was really loose also. She didn't understand why her teeth had to fall out. The second tooth just fell out the other night...well I shouldn't say just fell out....it was really loose so I grabbed a hold of it and yanked it out! But she was all ok with it once the tooth fairy came and brought her money :)












ohhh our dear Madison. Starting to want to become very independent... which is good but sometimes difficult. She thinks she can do everything that her big sister can do! Here she is playing a game on the computer (something she sees her sister doing all the time).


Trouble maker!





Where did my baby go?



How blessed I am to have 3 wonderful kids!

A look back at christmas.....

Alright...so I haven't blogged for ever. I feel like I have started the year off hitting the ground running and haven't slowed down yet. I've been getting grief about not posting any Christmas pictures...so here is a look back. I did notice though that we must have video taped a lot more than we took pictures, I didn't realize til today that there weren't that many taken on Christmas day.

A look back....


Gingerbread houses!

Baby Santa!









Gotta get pics of the new pjs! BOYS


GIRLS







Ryland loves to play with balls...he is going to be baseball player like his dad :)

so fun to be with every one!






love this picture!


The boys reported into the MTC on Jan. 28th. They are both doing awesome and working hard! We are so proud of them!


TROUBLE!

So cute! I can't get enough of him! He is now 10 months old. In to everything including the kitchen cabinets... and everything else he's not suppose to get into. It makes me so sad to think that he is going to be one in a couple of months. Where has the time gone? So crazy!

LOST

Congrats to my big brother Lance for the start of his 5th season on Lost. To the one person in the family that's not a social worker. We're proud of you.

For those that don't know my brother, he doesn't play Locke's character. But he is a big fan of him.

Winter Wonderland at Grandma Nielsen's house....

It has been snowing almost all week here in Portland, Oregon. Me and the girls and Ryland flew in last Saturday (13th) and it has pretty much been snowing off and on since we arrived. School was canceled all week long for the kids here and church was canceled last week and will be canceled tomorrow also. So crazy! But definitely fun for us coming from Arizona where all we get is sun. Today (sat. 2oth) we have gotten 3-4 inches so far and they have forcasted 6-10. This is really unusual to get this much snow here...so kinda fun. Jake will be flying in tommorrow night to join us...just hope his flight wont be canceled and that we will be able to go pick him up!


Having fun in the sled!



It's freezing!


Gotta jump on the tramp!





This was the first day it started snowing.. sun 14th.


All bundled up!

Poor Madison....

Madison broke her arm the sunday before thanksgiving (23rd). Skyler and her were at the table doing a craft that sunday night, Madison was standing on the kitchen chair and fell (we have one of those high tables which has definitely been a huge mistake from the beginning... this isn't the first time one of them has fallen...just haven't hurt themselves like this). We ended up in the emergency room that night and took her in to an orthopedic surgeon the next day thinking we were just going to put a cast on her. The doctor informed us that she needed to have surgery because she bent the bone instead of broke it. Her bones are still so soft because she is so little...so the doctor wanted to bend the bone back to make sure it would heal straight. So, that same day we took Madison into the hospital where they put her to sleep and the doctor had her arm under an x-ray and bent the bone into place. She had a splint on for a week in case it swelled at all and then she got her pretty pink cast with sparkles!

Here is Madison waiting for surgery... she got a doggy which she had fun putting stickers all over it.

She got to go on a ride in a wagon when she got restless waiting...you know how hospitals and doctors offices are...it takes forever. She did really good though.

She got her pretty pink cast on this wednesday... yes with sparkles on it. As you can see she is still as happy as can be...and as active as usual. (thank you Lance and Aimme for the dress-up clothes and jeans...my girls love it!)

Here is some pics from the last month and a half. I've been slackin' again...


Here is Skyler's Super Girl B-day party

They got to decorate capes that I made them

Skyler got a doll house from mom and dad...

and roller skates which she loves from G&G Nielsen

ohh yeah...Ryland loves the doll house too!

he is starting to pull himself up to things

We went to the Zoo Halloween Day. We had a lot of fun!




We had a lot of fun at the ward party Halloween Night.

Ohh yeah If you can't tell me and Jake are dressed up to- we wore

Jake's old Baseball Uniforms.

Don't worry..Jake didn't secretly join the army...

He does look pretty Hot though huh?

For work the leadership team put on a Road Show for the managers that was military themed so they all got dressed up for it.


Jake got called to be the High Priest group leader in our Ward. We were pretty shocked since the High Priest group is primarily made up of age 70+. When Jake got called, the bishop asked him when he was going to go buy a suit...so that's what we did :) He looks nice huh? He has been doing an awesome job this last month since he has been called. I know that he will be able to touch the lives of those he serves.