Disneyland and Football

We love Disneyland! I'm even more excited to go now that my best friends Stacy and Audrey and their kids have passes. More good times are to come.

The Raiders. The past 6 weeks, Nathan played in a pee wee flag football league in Fontana for 3 and 4 year olds. It was a lot of fun watching him run around. I wouldn't go as far as to say Nathan loved it, there were days he didn't want to play, but it was a good experience, doing an organized activity. Maybe he'll be more prepared to start his real sport, baseball.

Getting his award.

Running with the ball. One of the hardest things to teach the kids was to run in the right direction. It was so cute to watch.

Nathan practicing playing catch. None of the kids could really catch. In the games, they just handed off the ball.

Halloween 2010

Trick or Treating with Stacy, Spencer and Cody.

Cutest yoda ever, look at that smile!

Having fun at the ward Halloween party.

He only put his hand in the pumpkin for the picture, I cleaned out all three pumpkins, but that's what moms do right?!

Catching up

You have to love summertime! We've been living it up about every weekend. Collin loves the ocean (I know he isn't smiling, but trust me)
Nathan rode a Ferris wheel for the first time with Grandpa down in Balboa. We also discovered how much our boys love seafood; shrimp, crab and lobster.
We went to Matt and Wendy's wedding. It was so beautiful and we love them so much!
I have the best husband who lets me go out with me girls often and boy do we have a good time.
This year Fourth of July was WONDERFUL! All our family, including most the Utahans were here to swim, bbq and light some fireworks.
I love this picture of Collin at the beach. He was so cold, just hanging out eating some grapes.
We went to an Angel's game with Uncle Justin. Which means Nathan had someone else to bug about getting some cotton candy.
In June, Ryan and I went up the coast for our fifth anniversary. We stayed in Morro Bay and went to Hearst Castle. I would pack my bags and leave again tomorrow to go back up there if I could. It was the best weekend.

Let's go for a run!

My new favorite hobby, running. I started running with some girlfriends a few months ago and now I'm addicted. A few weeks ago my friends and I ran in the Aflac Iron Girl down in San Diego. Abby and I ran the 10k. Never in my life did I think I would run 6 miles, but now I can't wait to go further.

Me, Jenny and Abby after the race.The greatest friends in the world.

This weekend we all talked our husbands into running the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department 5k Mud Run. 3 miles of hills and pits filled with mud and water, running through it, crawling through it and getting stuck a few times. It was a blast and we can't wait to do it again next year.

I love my husband. I'm so glad we got to do this together, we make a great team.

Sea World

Thanks to my wonderful friend Katrina we were able to go to Sea World yesterday for a great price. We had a blast with all our friends. Nathan and Collin really enjoyed watching Shamu and Nathan even got to touch a bat ray, unfortunately I didn't take very many pictures.

Utah and Juniper's baby blessing

All the Nielsen's: Justin, Cam, Rillene (NANA), A'Lea, Collin, Katie, Ryan, Nathan, Duane (GRAMPIE), Melissa, Miles, Bridget and Chloe, Adrienne, Juniper and Kyle.

Grandpa Frank and Grandma Marilyn with all their Great Grandkids.

Our new niece, the beautiful Juniper Kylie Nielsen

My sister-in-law Adrienne and I

Easter

Whatever you can do, I can do better

Well maybe he's not a better scooter rider than his brother, but Collin definitely enjoys trying to do whatever his brother does.

Friends

Collin and his best friend Natalie. You can just tell these two like being around each other. Lucky for me, I like being around Natalie's Mommy too. It's good to have great friends.

Finally!

Collin's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse party

So the battery on my camera died the day of Collin's birthday party and we just used the video camera to take some pictures, but that led to me taking forever to upload the pictures to my computer. Now I'm finally posting Collin's first birthday pictures. His little party was so much fun and he really loved his cake.