Stuck…..Again

How many pictures do we have of Rett under or in or stuck in something!  He is so Kollin!

He is army crawling now.  The girls call it the worm.  He can go forward now not just sideways rolling.  He is so fun!

Cousin Maddy

Rett is lucky to have a couple of cousins his age on both sides of our family.  It is interesting the difference in age when they are just months old, but when they are about 2 or 3 you cant tell much difference at all in a couple of months.  We got to spend a little time with Madelyn at out house.  My big girls have been wanting to see her more so bad and then they spent the day at Grandmas house with other cousins!  Maybe next time!

Maddy is a finger sucker!

It looks like she is telling Rett what is what!!

She reminds me so much of Emma as a baby with all of that dark long hair.  It was fun to have a little girlie girl around!

Twilight

Lain made each one of us a “team” shirt.  It was a really fun idea.  Now I just need to watch the movies! HA!

Sunday Shots

We had a sick day today.  Poor Emma had her Sunday sickness.  I hope we can get her figured out, I also hope it isnt really the flu this time.  We really don’t want to take it with us to Washington later this week either.  It was a nice quiet Sunday other than the sicky.  Claire bear made herself a paper manicure, she is so creative!

Not much going on around here, just happy to be home and together!

First Tastes

Claire Bear is good at sharing some things.  She shared a bite of her cupcake breakfast with Rett, he agreed with it and smacked his lips, yum, yum!

Oh what a BEAR!

Strawberry Jam!

The strawberry jam genetics run strong in our family.  I am pretty sure I have seen Grandpa Nielson do this before!

Oh Mom, but it’s SO yummy!

Sunday Shots: Claire’s Version

Claire helped out with the Sunday shots this week.  Justin, Dad, and Rett were having a very important tractor meeting and no girls were allowed.

So the girls decided to have our own meeting in Claire's room.  We wrote some letters to grandmas.  Claire was the photographer and pretty much bosses us all around most Sundays (most DAYS actually)

The men must have finished their meetings, she got a picture of dad. 

I had to go down to Dietrich to speak at the wards young women in excellence.  Ryan was babysitting everyone, including Rett.  I had made a nice chocolate cake and the BOSS got into it while dad wasn’t watching apparently?!

Good thing we have Claire around to keep us all on our toes!

Piano Recital

Ashley and Emma had their fall piano recital, they both did really well.  The theme was Rags, Jazz, and Blues.  We just love Margaret, she is such a talented teacher, we feel fortunate to have her!

Sunday Shots

We got to have everyone over to our house Sunday after Stake Conference.  Cody and Whitny took a break from honeymooning to keep the tradition of opening their presents with the family.  I am glad the humored us, it was kind of them!  We (especially the kids) LOVED to watch them open everything.  They are such a great little couple, we are excited for them to be together forever!

We were tired after all of the busyness of the days with cousins and sacked out for the evening on the couch, check out all of those kids we have!

The Reception

The reception turned out great.  The decorating was really nice.  We used the same lady that did Christine’s reception too.  I love the “tent” it really helps to soften and disguise the gym.  Her colors turned out really nice too.

The kids clothes turned out perfect.

Cody with the parents!  Shannon’s dress turned out really pretty too.

We were sad not to have Jake there,(he travels a lot!)  but look at that handsome group!  That’s a lot of babies!

Our girlie girls.

I attempted some family pictures, it was a nice attempt…..

Oh well, maybe next time!  I have so many pictures from the reception so I am going to spread them out over a couple of posts.  What a great celebration!!!