Dear Santa

Dear Santa:

This was the first year since the girls were babies that they were not afraid to sit on your lap. Bailey still was not sure what she thought, but at least there were no tears.

They both have been really good this year (on most days). When you come to our house tonight please bring Kennedy and Bailey a bike. Not a REAL girl kitty cat like Bailey told you at the mall.

Hope to hear your bells this evening and reindeer on our roof tonight!

Love, the Nelsons

Tangled, Tumbling, and Taller

The girls have been dying to see the new Disney Princess movie, Tangled. So we took them Thanksgiving weekend. They had to dress up as princess' of course, and were glued to their seat LOVING every minute of this show. Jer and I actually really liked it as well. One of us may or may not have cried.

Bailey is officially a ballet drop out. She has joined her cousin Cece and sister Kennedy in "nastis." The girls love to tumble everywhere and just had a cute holiday show for the families to watch.

And...... Bailey who has always been the munchkin in the family has outgrown Kennedy. She is actually noticeably taller than her sister.

Heartbroken

Everyone has probably already heard, but our last and final in vitro attempt did not work. Now, we are working on healing and saying good-bye to the little boy that we thought would be ours.

Happy Turkey Day 2010...

... from my little Pilgrims to you!!

Family Pics

At the beginning of the month, we got some family pics done. We have not had pics with all of us done since the girls were little babes! Anyways, I am more than happy with how they turned out - I love them and I love my little family!!!

All Hallows Eve!!

So this was the first year, my girls refused to let me pick out their Halloween costumes. They were determined to pick out their own! Both were going to be mermaids, until Kennedy was watching Finding Nemo one day and HAD to be Nemo. Bailey wanted to be a PURPLE mermaid so she had to have her costume made for her. Imagine my Halloween happiness when I realized they both sort of went with a theme: An Ocean one! So I made a Jellyfish costume!

Here is Bailey and I before out ward trunk-or-treat.
And here is little Nemo Kennedy and I.
This was the first year the girls "got" the whole "we get candy just by saying 'Trick or Treat' thing." All of us!
Jer wimped out. I totally wanted him to make a octopus or lobster costume, but alas, he was a fisherman. Lame. He says he was boycotting my craziness.

My costume got a lot of attention. Here is why I loved it. I literally looked like a floating jellyfish at nighttime.

Oh yeah, AND I got told that this year - we will NOT be putting these pictures on our Christmas card. So I guess I will just say it now....

"We FISH you a Merry Christmas!"

(insert Jeremy rolling his eyes here)

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Can I just say how much I love fall?? Well, I do. It is the best. The smells, the activities, and the holidays are great. Apple Hill is one of those places we look forward to going to. This year the girls were REALLY excited to ride the "baby horses." Bailey was super brave and did not even need to hold our hand. KK's needed Dad's hand though :)

COUSINS! (Well all except the floppy guy)

Here is our masterpiece. We have a pumpkin carving contest every year with Jeremy's family and our's won this year! Ya-WHOO! Now even though I did not carve anything, I take credit because I came up with the idea. Jer couldn't think of anything to do for his pumpkin, and I couldn't figure out how to pull it off - so WALL-A we combine out forces to create perfection. j/k Pretty much this pumpkin confirms that we were meant for each other.

No fall would be complete without a school field trip to the pumpkin patch.

So I tried to copy my friend's blog where she made all these cute dinners the week of Halloween, I didn't get to them all, but here is what we did:

Mummy Pizzas

Mummy Hot Dogs

...and Scarecrow Tostadas