Santa Run 2009

Over Thanksgiving I planned to do my 1st 5K. Probley the best part of the whole thing was that my brother was gonna be visiting and wanted to do it with me. He ran the whole thing with me..even stayed by my side when I had to stop. We finished in at 30 minutes and 6 seconds!!! Not to shabby for my 1st 5k if I may say :) It was so much fun and so rewarding. Thank you everyone who was there to root us on!!

They had milk and cookie stops..of course Derrick is eating a cookie in this pic! LOL

Playing in the nose (or snow)

Nelle's word for snow is nose..hince the title to to this post. The other night we got quite a bit snow so we bundled Nelle up in her winter clothes and let her run and play outside. She loved it!!

Happy Halloween

This year for Halloween I decided to have all of us dress up with a greek theme. I was a greek goddess, Jake was Hercules and Nelle was our greek princess. Mimi Eldredge and I made her costume and it turned out perfect, she looked so cute! We went out trick or treating at 7 around our neighborhood. Nelle didn't quite understand until after we had hit a few houses but then it was like she was a pro. She knew to walk up to every door and knock then grab a piece of candy out of the bowl and put it in her bag. She is a little hustler tho. At some houses the people would drop a piece in her bag then she would reach up and take another one. She came home with enough candy to keep her on a sugar high for a year!

GRRRRR

Fall Hiking

Prodigy

Nelle halloween costume

This is a rough draft of Nelle's Halloween costume...

The carrot

Silly girls

Nelle's new winter outfit

Playing with daddy

Hiking

Beautiful Girl

Amusement park

A few weeks ago we took Nelle to the nearest amusement park with a big group of our friends. This was her first time riding any rides other than a ferris wheel at the park. It was a little on the ridiculous side because it cost us $21 just to get Nelle in and there really weren't many rides she could even ride. She was to short to ride any by herself and they didn't have many that a parent could ride with a child but she still rode 4 rides. I rode with her on her first kiddy roller coaster which was a lot of fun. I think she liked it cuz she started crying when we had to get off. Then Jake rode on a weird octopus thing that squirted water and she liked it till she got squirted with water. Then we went on a huge ferris wheel which she loved. She kept trying to climb out and then our friend Kimmy took her on a smaller ferris wheel which I was totally unaware of how fast it actually went. She got scared a little on that but was ok. It was a lot of fun and we cant wait till shes older and can ride more!

Zoo

So I have really been slacking on my posts here so Im gonna update you. I cant even remember how long ago it was but we took Nelle to the zoo again. Its amazing how many more animals she saw and how much more fun she had vs just a few months ago when we took her. She really liked the monkeys and the bears. She knew exactly what a bear was, she was pointing at them saying "bear, bear."