My Little Dancers

Look at these darlings. Here we are at Roy High School for a dance competition. Check this out, Ady's dance team took first place and Lexxy's team took first place and then Lexxy's team took first place over all the other teams. Oh Yeah! I do have to say that they did have the cutest costumes and had better dances (not being partial at all!) Anyway, I'm proud of them and their teacher - they did awesome!

Lexxy's team danced to "If my friends could see me now"

Ady's team danced to "Gootchi Gootchi goo", it was darling!

Lexxy's kindergarten earned a "crazy" hair day - this is the final product. We had a couple different do's going on. The first one had her bangs pulled into side pony tails and she didn't appreciate the "pokies", so then we dropped her bangs and put the ponies into buns. She still looks darling even with crazy hair.

Funnies...

My girls crack me up. I don't know where they get their personality, because we all know that I don't have one. Here are some funny comments straight from the mouths of my girls.

Everyday I do some kind of pre-school something with Ady. The other day we were laying on the floor doing a U.S. puzzle, I asked Ady if she knew where she lived. She thought for a couple of seconds and then said... "South America". I about died!

Okay, so I will confess I have a problem with hair. I don't like it on my floor, on my toilet, swimming pool floors, in my food, you get the idea... Well, a couple of weeks ago, we went swimming for FHE and because it's the middle of winter, I forgot our flip flops. While walking across the swimming pool locker room floor, I am GROSSING out in my head, I turn around to help Ady walk across the floor and she has the most disgusted look on her face - she said while holding her gags back, "mom, there's hair all over the floor". My kinda girl!

How do you discipline? Spanking doesn't work, they just laugh, cause they just think they're love taps... for quite a while I've been using Vinegar, yes Vinegar. It's nasty and it does a pretty dang good job. I even gave some to their dad one day (he needs the WHOLE bottle!) One day, Ady had done something and Lexxy felt like she needed to be disciplined, she came to the kitchen and said, "Ady needs vinegar, I'll get it, what does it look like?" Ady came out and said, "it's in a clear bottle and has a tomato on it"... I've since backed off on the vinegar, poor girl knows what the bottle looks like.

The other day Lexxy started talking to me after taking a bite of food and let out the weirdest noise... while busting a gutt, she said "I just burped like a frog". That girl.

Last week, we had a day or 2 of beautiful weather. I took advantage of it and spent the days outside cleaning up the yard. Lexxy was helping rake up the beautiful rutts the lovely moles make under the snow (grrr!), she came running to me, screaming & doing a dance, "I think a spider crawled in my underpants!" Right then and there, she wanted to drop her pants and have me check. Are you kidding me?

We love our Pops!

Family... do these eyes remind you of anything? Oh, like 13 years ago?

Oh how we love him! Happy Birthday Pops!

Disney on Ice

I'll spare you the details... I don't know why I do it. It's a whole bunch of tired crazy kids kicking and screaming to their parents wanting every stupid little Disney gadget they see. I warned my girls before we went that I wasn't buying anything except snacks. Good thing I have such angels. (hee hee!) Actually, we did have a good time and the girls LOVED the show.

Toofwuss

This little six year old is losing teef all over the place! And guess what? Her mom hasn't pulled one of those dang things! What is wrong with me? There are a lot of things in my life that I can handle and do, but dang, pulling teef is not one of them! Good thing we have a friend who's a dentist in our ward, and is okay with pulling them on the Sabbath.

Our trip

I can't deny it, I have a great family! They are always so giving and willing to help out. We have this one sister, I'll keep her name private, but man, her and her family are top-notch!

They would do ANYthing for ANY of my family, but I think that they've kinda adopted me and my girls for right now. Cause they can... So, they brought us to Washington for five days and took such good care of us. They even bought baby chicks while we were there... my girls thought they were in heaven! We ate good food, watched a basketball game, saw a little track running and went skiing in freezing cold weather, but oh so beautiful!

Who is this girl?

Following suit... as we all know, sometimes we can't have what we want. These girls have been blessed with absolutely beautiful, curly hair. And as it is, they want it straight. Here's my baby with straight hair.

Okay, okay already!

After several requests to update my blog, here it goes! Our life is crazy, but fun. In February we celebrated Ady's birthday a few times... first, with some good friends, then my sister came into town with her family, so we had a family party, went skiing and ate food (my fav!), then with Muppy & Pops, and lastly with her dad at Fat Cats (my life is full of sacrifices for my girls!)

The simple mind of a 3 year old

The other day, Ady and I ran to Ogden to run some errands, on our drive down the canyon, I asked her what kind of a cake she wanted for her birthday coming up. She proceeded to explain this American Girl cake to me, however, I wasn't getting it (or didn't want to!) So I told her when we got home to show me it, sure enough she brought this out to me (WHAT!) I love to cook and bake, however, I really don't pay to much attention to making it "look pretty", I thought I'd better try it out. We're headed to some friends house tomorrow for Super Bowl and I decided to start her week of birthday celebrating with them, so today I busted out the cake decorating materials and after a couple hours of concentration and back pains...

here's the end result. Who cares anyway what it looks like, right? It just matters how it tastes.? The whole time Ady was trying to convince me what I a good job I was doing. She's my sugar-pie.

Ski Day

I didn't dare take my camera up on the slopes, so you get one of us in the ski rental store. Lex and I finally got to go skiing last week and HAD A BLAST! I didn't get to see Lexxy ski the first time she learned how and I was totally amazed at how talented she is (totally a Nielson gene!). I was nervous cause I hadn't been skiing for over 10 years and thought for sure that I was going to have to help her re-learn. No way! She was cruising down those slopes with a gigantic grin on her face. So fun!

'Da Salon

When you live in a house full of girls and an occasional Pops, you have to get your hair done at 'da salon, this was salon night and the girls wanted to take a picture of "my do"... you can see Pops in the background, it wasn't his lucky night.

Celebration tres and quattro

I don't have pictures for the other 2 celebrations, but we went to dinner with her dad at her favorite restaurant Texas Roadhouse and then to dinner the following weekend with Muppy and Pops - so all in all, I would say it was a pretty darn good week of birthday celebrations (she's spoiled!)

Celebration numero dos

I always load the pictures in the wrong order... this is lunch from our second birthday celebration. Both Lexxy and Ady have girl-cousins close to their age and they live in the same state as us. So Lexxy requested Build-a-Bear workshop with her cousins. Thankfully my sister (with her husbands approval :) ) agreed to meet us at Gateway. We had fun, a little crazy with 6 kids, but we accomplished and even got some lunch!

Lexxy with her cuzs at lunch, wish we could get together more often with them!

Lex and Ads at Build-a-Bear, look how happy they are! By the way, that place is stinkin' expensive, highway robbery I say!!

Lexxy got to ring the bell for her birthday and then everyone in the store yelled "Happy Birthday" to her, it was funny cause she didn't know what they were going to do, so it embarassed her. Hee hee!

Happy Birthday Lexxy! Celebration numero uno...

We celebrated Lexxy's birthday the whole week. I told her we wouldn't be doing a "friends" birthday party this year, so we ended up celebrating 4 TIMES! Whew! I think I'd rather do a party. This is the first celebration, we had some friends over Sunday night for Lexxy's favorite dinner (Teriyaki chicken salad) So delish! I was brave and made a 4 layer chocolate cake with stabilized whip cream ( I had no idea what that was!). It was AMazing!

Look at my big girl growing up before my eyes. I can't stand it! I tell her to stop growing and she just giggles at me...

For the Beauty of the Earth...

Although I complain about the snow banks being high and 3 inches of ice on the roads, it really is beautiful in Huntsville. This is out past our backyard.

Ady's new crib

This here little basket holds our blankets to cuddle up with on the couch - well, it's now Ady's new crib, so she says... this is how I found her the other morning.

Watch out!

Watch out for stupid, stinkin garbage cans in the middle of the road! And those are not the words I used when I hit one either! In the little town of Huntsville that I reside, the snow banks are tall, the roads are 3 inches thick of ice and they take the plow down the road one time, yes one time. I looked down for a split second and BAM! Ady said, "what was that mom?" I couldn't even tell her cause I was so, well you know...

Oh yeah, baby...

So, my baby's a skiier! Well, she's really not my baby anymore, she'll be 6 next week... but I can't believe it! One day on the slopes with her uncle and she's a pro, she even wanted to miss school the next week to hit the slopes with her mommy. I couldn't allow that, but did promise her a date. She healed really quickly from her tonsillectomy, so when my sister came to town, I thought it would be good for her to learn. So glad - thanks Cahoonies!

Meet my new boyfriend and other happenings...

Cutie petooties sitting in the snow at Wolf Mountain, so patiently waiting for our fam...

So, this kid is pretty dang cute if you ask me... I LOVE to kiss him too. And, he even likes me! Couldn't ask for anything better! For now, I'll call him my boyfriend. Love you M!

New Year's Eve

We had a great time with long-time friends on New Year's Eve. I used to babysit her 21-year old son and 19-year old daughter many, many years ago. Ahhh, I'm getting old, but you're older my friend... It was fun to hang with you guys!