Aundrea's Dance Recital

Aundrea had her first dance recital this past Saturday. She was so excited to go and dance with her friends in their new costumes. When we first got there she was shaking so bad and I was nervious that she wouldn't dance because she was so nervious. But she stopped shaking and then decided it was time to dance. She went up to the front by the stage and wouldnt come back to where we were sitting because she was going to dance. She did really good and we are so proud of her. We had a video of it but it got deleted so if I can get it from some of the other moms I will post it. I went to the Dr's today and found out that we are going to have another little girl. We are so excited!

Another Snow Day

With all the snow we have been getting the last couple of weeks, we decided to take the kids out to the park with some sleds. It wasnt all that great of a hill, and they didnt get going fast at all, but they had so much fun. They ask all the time if they can go on the sleds again.

HALLOWEEN

It was a good Halloween, we had Aundreas preschool Halloween parade and we also got to go trick-or-treating. Aundrea had to be Thumbalina this year. I was going to have her wear one of her many princess costumes, but she informed me ealier this week that she was going to be Thumbalina. I was really lucky to find the costume since I went shopping 5 days before Halloween, but Aundrea was really excited about it. I was going to have Nelson wear the skunk costume, but I realized that it was a 12 month costume so Karen found the Monkey costume for me! He was really cute.

First Snow

It was the first snow of the season and it stuck to the ground. Aundrea saw that and had to get on all the gear to go outside and play in it. She had a lot of fun, Nelson wasnt so sure about it, being his first snow to play in, he was to young last year. But we stayed out for a little over a half hour and I thought that was good since there wasnt really any snow to play in!! I was lucky I had enough gear for both kids, but thanks to Josh we were able to find his old stuff for both of them. :)

Nelson's Home

So I promised my mom that I would do a much better job on updating my blog for her while she is gone, so I am going to try. I have been so busy with kids and school and such that I havent had much time to blog. But I do want Grandma and Grandpa to know what is going on back here in Utah. I will also have to get better at taking pictures. Nelson has been home for a week and I took one picture even though we have been out almost every day doing things on Aundrea's list that she made of things that she wanted to do with Papi. (She started the list about 2 months ago) But the pictures I posted are of the airport when we went and picked up Nelson. We made a big deal out of it and I let Aundrea make a poster to take to the airport with us. It was fun, late at night, but we are just so glad to have him back and dont want him to have to leave anytime soon!!!

Our Summer so far....

I have been getting emails about updating my blog. So since I have all three kids watching TV this morning, well two and Nelson is playing very happily, I figured this was as good of time as I was going to get! It has been a very busy summer with family. Spencer and his family were here for 4 weeks and we played pretty hard with them. Before that it was getting Nelson ready to go. So we have finally slowed down a bit, well my kids have but being on only parent I dont think I will slow down till Nelson comes home! Nelson is doing good, he says basic training is one of the hardest things that he has ever done, but is glad he is doing it. His last letter he wrote he talked about going to the gas chamber. If that wasnt bad enough they woke them up in the middle of the night to do it. HA I am so glad I am here and not there! So anyway here are some pictures of some summer fun. Enjoy.


We went to This is the Place Park on free day, Josh and Aundrea just had to test this out.

It was so hot that day, it was a good thing they were giving out free Popsicles!

These guys love riding horses! Aundrea was very brave this time and did it by herself and loved it!

We got these "passports" to take with us as we visited different areas of the park. We got a stamp at each stop. Aundrea loved this, she was very proud that she got all her stamps.

Aundrea got ahold of my camerae and took some pictures! She is such a good camerae person!

We took the train to Temple Square one day, everyone loves to ride the train. We had lots of fun looking at the sights of Salt Lake City.

We went to Heber for a Family Reunion, this is at the fireworks for the fourth. We had sparklers and necklaces to make before hand. It was awsome.

We went to the parade in Provo that morning. Aundreas favorite part of the parade were all the people dressed just like her papi.

Betsy was really good to help me with my hair, we had to take a picture to make sure that it looked ok since we didnt have a mirror.

We went fishing the first day we were there. Alan was the only one that caught a fish.

Aundrea didnt have a fishing pole so I made her one with a stick. It didnt have a hook because I wasnt going to be eating any fish that she caught!

We went the the Temple open house, it was really a beautiful place.

Its Official

For sometime Nelson and I were trying to find a way to pay for school since the student loans total just kept growing to a much larger number then we wanted to. So we decided that Nelson should join the National Guard to help pay for school and get the money that we need to live on. He was sworn in today and he leaves for boot camp June 22. He will be a cannon crew member, and will be gone for about 4 months. We are excited for him but the kids and I will really miss him when he is gone.