The Nelson Family Values

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Happy Birthday to a cute Teenager!

Happy Birthday Bryce! You are finally a teenager!

Today Bryce turns 13! So now I have 2 teenagers in my house!

Oh, the fun never ends...no really...it's a crazy world!

Bryce is a really great kid and getting taller everyday.

Here are 13 things I love about

Bryce Wallace Nelson

1. His hazel eyes

2. His big smile

3. His kind heart

4. His cooking talent

5. His creativity

6. The way he opens the car door for me

7. The way he puts his arm around me when we walk thru the store

8. The way he kisses me every morning before school

9. His helpful spirit

10. His love of sports

11. His love of dancing

12. His desire to do what is right

13. His enthusiasm for life

Happy Birthday Brycie! I'm so proud of you!

Love you to pieces!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Happy March!

Happy March 2011! Can you believe it is already March? The weather is beautiful today! I can't believe how fast time is flying by this year already. It seems like we just had Christmas! I feel like I have been on the go ever since. Of course we have all our family birthdays and anniversaries early in the year so it just seems like the celebrating never stops til summer! We have a very busy month ahead of us...well at least I do. I have a friend coming out to visit and we are going Utah Temple hopping, with a trip to Moab. Then I have a trip to Vegas and a trip to Idaho and a possible trip to California too. Then a trip to Logan the very first week of April for a Mission Reunion with an old companion. So, I am trying to keep life in control as much as possible this month so that I can handle all this traveling and visiting coming up. So, much posting ahead coming with some updated pictures of the house....soooo...here's to March 2011!

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Happy Birthday to my sweetheart!

Today Mike turns 48! We are exactly 3 months apart...so I like to tease him about being older than me for just 3 short months! Gosh! Can you believe it? We are actually growing old together and guess what? It is rather fun!

Last night Bryce made this beautiful cake for his Dad as we celebrated

with good food, family and fun!

So, today we can relax and just enjoy being together as a family on this special day of the year! Good thing it is Sunday because I know if he had it his way he would be celebrating by working on the house!

But instead he will be relaxing and enjoying the Sabbath day.

So, happy birthday to the man who is our everything!

And just to name a few:

Loving Husband

Great Dad

Great Cook

Hard Worker

Great Craftsman

Honest

Great Leader

Strong Priesthood Holder

Full of Integrity

Determined

Kind and Loving

Faithful and Strong

And just plain ol' good to the core!

Happy Birthday Honey!

We love you so much!

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Eddie Spaghetti your meatballs are ready!

Yep! That's what we would always say to him!

Today is my brother Eddie's birthday! He is one year older than me and we are both getting closer and closer to being over the hill! However, the older we get the wiser we get...right? I sure hope so! I have been thinking about Eddie so much lately.

He will probably never see this post but that doesnt really matter because I love him just the same and I dont want to ever forget how special he is to our family.

This picture shows him and his daughter Tabbatha many years ago. Tabbatha is turning 20 next week! She was probably around 5 or 6 at this time. Life flies by so fast doesnt it? But for right now I want to just call out a big I LOVE YOU to my big brother Eddie. Eddie was always the life of the party when we were little. He loves to dance and sing (all the Stephenson's love to sing), play guitar and just be silly. He is a great basketball player(even tho he only stands at 5'7 or 8") and was a great wrestler in high school. Eddie used to love to hide in dark shadows in the house and then jump out and scare us...Oh I hated that when I was young...(still hate it when Bryce does it to me). He is quite the handy man and is great at working on cars. Eddie is a very tender-hearted and loving brother. He is one of a kind and is passionate and determined to survive whatever life throws at him. I love him to pieces and look forward to seeing him again when we get back to California. Eddie Spaghetti, your meatballs are ready!

A dancer in the family

Well, Bryce is taking a dance class now. He really wanted to learn how to do Hip Hop. So, we went to a nearby dance studio where they teach all different kinds of dancing and he tried a Hip Hop class and left feeling extremely frustrated. He did see a couple of friends from school there who were also taking a ballroom dance class. So, he decided to try that the following week. And bingo! He loved it! They have been teaching him the waltz and also some swing dancing. He comes home each week and shows me some of his new moves. Mike and I are so excited to see Bryce become better and better at this. It is so fun to watch and even more fun to do. I really hope he keeps up with it. I know it will prove to bless him the rest of his life!

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Hogge Fun

One of the best things about moving to Utah when we did is that even though we left all of our friends back in California, it seems that a lot of the kids that my kids have grown up with are now coming out this way to go to school.

For instance, our good friends the Hogges! They are some of our favorite people that live in Sacramento. However, their kids are getting older and leaving for College now, and guess where they are going? NO, not BYU Provo, but they are going to BYU Idaho and Kelsey is living here in Utah. So, last weekend we had 3 of them over on Sunday after church and they spent the night and stayed til Monday.

We had a blast! (their parents are just as crazy as I am...so it works well when we all get together) The Hogge family knows how to party...I was exhausted...but a good kind of exhausted of course. And we ate and ate and ate....seriously.