Nelson Newz: 2009

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Vegas Christmas Vacation

This year was our year to go to Vegas for Christmas. We had tons of fun despite the freezing cold weather due to the wind! Beware this post has lots of pics so I won't blame you for scanning through real fast. Or, if you want to enlarge a pic of me and put it up in your room, I won't blame you either!

Almost All of Us

Great-Grandma Olvera and the girls

Girls "shooting" at Bass Pro Shops

Kennedy's pose at the MGM Grand after we went to see the Free Lion Habitat. If you haven't seen it, don't. It was free what else can I say?

On vacation, we took the girls to the Leid Discovery children's museum (a personal childhood favorite of mine). There .........................

they are dressed up and did a dance on their big stage,

blew bubbles,

took flight lessons.

put on a puppet show,

grocery shopped,

picked the hottest guy working the register to check out with,

and experienced 80 mph winds of a hurricane!

Here is great-grandpa Kennedy and the little ladies.

We baked cookies for Santa by rolling,

cooking and frosting them,

and adding mucho sugar to them! (Jer didn't stop them as he said Santa likes his cookies that way).

Here the girls are playing with some of their favorite presents from Christmas presents.

Christmas dinner was at the Webbs. Here is my friend/cousin. We still can not figure out what to call each other.

Cousin Jordan

Best Christmas family pic we could get.

Me and my lover.

Monday, December 28, 2009

Bailey

Due to the seizure she had on Halloween night, Bailey had a scheduled EEG. Here she is getting glue all over 24 points of her head.

She looked like one of Frankenstein's monsters with all these wires coming out of her!

...All with a smile on her face =)

Thanks to the sleep deprivation, Bailey slept through the whole process just like she was supposed to.

Today we got the results. And unfortunately, she had a few seizures while the EEG was going. So she is going to have to be medicated twice a day. Jeremy and I feel awful that she has been having them and hope the medication will help her get better without any nasty side effects. For now, we wait and see...

Monday, December 14, 2009

It's Beginning to Look alot Like Christmas

Go to Dovewood Court to walk around and look at the lights. (To get a full history of Dovewood, please see Jeremy as he recited it at dinner the other night).....

$20 Dollars for Food and Gas for the evening.

Go to a Ornament exchange party (where I made my own ornament)......

$10 for the ornament and the fillings

Go to our ward Christmas Party.....

FREE, but since I am on the committee I'd say $50 in labor!

Seeing Kennedy's face when Santa walked by....

PRICELESS!

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Santa came early this year.

He Brought us SNOW!!!....

... and a trampoline. "He" was supposed to deliver it for Christmas (not on December 5th).

But, Jeremy told me Santa was too excited to keep this surprise from the girls. Sheesh.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

These boots were made for walking and other such nonsense

Bought some boots the other day and the girls just HAD to wear them.....

P.S. She will NEVER own a pair like these while she lives in this house.

They thought these pictures were soooo funny! Notice any thing odd.

We are super nerdy and starting decorating our Christmas tree one evening on a whim (before Thanksgiving even) and let the girls stay up until midnight doing it!