Our sweet little girl

I LOVE AUDREY!!!!! She has been wonderful and she is so cuddly! I am so glad we made the leap of faith and tried once more. We both felt there was a girl to come to our family and now here she is! It has been a rough go this past yr and a half, but all worth it! The pregnancy was so terrifying and LONG (especially the last 3 mo w/ NO SUGAR!!!) We are so glad she is here and safe and very loved!

Is this really the only picture with Daddy? It is! I will work on that one!

Kates getting closer and finally more excited for her baby sister! She is thrilled to pick her clothes everyday!

A VERY annoyed Evan as I tried to take a picture of him before his game, since I am missing most of his games. I interupted his TV show... He is apparently the big hitter on the team (according to Derek) he does look nice and tough here to scare the opponent! Oh Evan!

A happy Conner before his game and a crooked picture? The kids and their dang darts..! Conner LOVES baseball this year and is doing great! Even though he isn't on Logans team, he is surviving!

Audrey and Grandma Loretta. She has helped SOOO much by taking the bigger kids all day a couple time (LIFESAVER) We love her!

Audrey with Aunt Gina and Cousin Brenna Newell

Conner LOVES his sister Audrey! he is so sweet!

I apparently need to put on make-up so I am camera ready! I have put it on 3 times in 2 weeks! Whats the point? Conner snapped this one of us!

A THRILLED Colette holding Audrey and a very ready Averie! Soon Audreys cousin will be here! If she doesn't go on her own, she will have her on the 12th of June!

Some more Audrey Pictures!

Our beautiful new baby Audrey! Mae is after my Grandma Boyer, Wilma Mae! Yes I had no epidural and pushed out all 8#13oz of her! Shes been a joy ever since!

As you can notice she is adored in our home! We love her and are blessing her July 5th @ 11 am here in Payson for any family and friends who want to come!

Chubby cheeks= Nielson Baby! We did find some dimples, so its all good

After her first bath before she realized how hungry she was!

A good shot of the red, I know I will shut up about the red eventually! I just cant believe I got what I wanted! A red head girl! She is such a great baby too!

Evan has absolutlely loves being near Audrey, he is so cute and gentle when hes around her!

Her brothers adore her! Kates warming up...

I didn't realize how leprechanish she would look in all green to leave the hospital! Her red hair completes the look!

I was brave enough to post an ugly picture of me! She was in Special care for her hospital time. Her white blood cells were elevated so she was on an antibiotic to be safe, turns out it was nothing, but we died seeing her all hooked up. As you can see she eats everything and is doing awesome!

Daddy and his newest princess! She had to have some formula due to my Gest diabetes to keep her sugars up, so daddy got to help feed her, you can see the coloring is so similar!

We have LOVED having her home with us! We left the hospital 30 min after school got out for the summer, but we will get through we have a lot of friends willing to help entertain my kids! It amazes me how easily she has fit in! My Mom is here now so its all good, we'll see next weeks post! Colette is due any second w/ Averie! Mom might be here a month! We have had 4 dinners brought to us so far and loving the beautiful weather! what a great time of year to be born!

Audrey Mae Nielson finally arrived!

She was born May 27 2009 at 2:37 pm in Orem. 8lbs. 13oz. 20in. Strawberry-blonde hair, white eyebrows, looks like dad. Mom did it with out an epidural! The middle name is Mae after Kemari's grandma. We will post more pictures and update more later.

Posting while I can!

I know I have posted my spring yard a lot with Kate, but everyday it got better!

So Kate graduated from 1st yr preschool today! Daddy took of work and met us there and then took Kate to Hogi yogi! She did so great at school this year, and will miss her other half Claire Maloy as she gets to enter Kindergarten next year!

Kate refused to put on the "boy" mask to participate in this song.... are we surprised?

Kate had a hard time wearing the graduation hat, because it ruined her hair, so her BFF Claire was awesome and prevented a fit by fixing her hair for her & putting her headband back in place!

This is Kates teacher Mrs. Amy explaining how wonderful Kate is, and how she is a total princess referring to dresses as gowns, shoes as slippers etc. things we deal w/ daily!

Claire and Kate walking out for graduation! Next year Kate will be back for 3 days a week! Yeah! We love Kate and she is such a good girl!

Kate had fun being "Kemari" and wearing my hat, I only wish I was this cute! Oh the dimples...

Kates new favorite thing vacumning when I do, her vacumn is even Yellow and looks like mine. She even hauls this upstairs, as she "cant stand messes!" Who is she around all day?

This was too funny! Every now and then the boys have some keep out sign on there doors, but Derek and I did not expect this one! To translate Evans handwriting, no girls allowed only Mom and our lovely girlfriends. They will not mention who they are, but the sign is still up! And no when the time comes their real lovely girlfriends will not be allowed in their room!

Evans dang cute 1st grade program, we were so proud of him singing! He has previously stated he only hums! SOOOO cute.

Evan heading back to class to show us his books, and writing from this year! Wouldn't wear a belt, it was either the shirt or the belt not both! I remember this fight w/ Conner last yr! He did let me comb his hair for once though.

Heres Evan at his cute desk! Oh how these days will fly by! If he would quit eating paper that would be a step ahead! you'll notice his name tag on his desk is missing some pieces. He has started doing things like this to get attention for being "funny" Didn't we all have some weird kid in our class who ate paper at some point? I cant believe its now my son!

Here is Evan and Mrs. Kirk his teacher! Its so weird that both of my boys teachers are younger than me!

Conner, Evan and Kate getting ready to take off to get treats! Evan has really done great this year! We love him so much!

Audreys Nursery!!!

The Nursery is finally complete! Derek and his Dad put up the beadboard Sat. I painted and stained the bead board and walls the week before (like a crazy woman!) Heidi hand designed and made the quilt on the crib, what an awesome lady! (BFF) We tied in browns and were able to use some things from Kates old nursery like the mobile and diaper holder. We decided to "get creative" and paint the top rail pink! It wasn't taking the stain right, and we wanted to be done so... tell me what you think????

here is her new fun swing and the boring wall!

This is the last wall, with the old letters I made like 4 months ago! Still using Audrey!

So many may want to know why I am not holding this baby right now! I had a CRAZY weekend with early labor 36 1/2 wks. So I had bleeding on Sunday went in at a 3 cm, and needed to be checked out due to the gest diabetes. So I checked out fine and was told I was fully effaced and ready so I needed to take it easy to get to Friday 37 wks. Well that whole night and into Monday (no sleep) I was contracting 4 min apart for 7 hours! I decided since the hospital was 30 min away we needed to go. We got Dereks Mom @ 5 am and took off! Well I noticed in the car they were "letting up" but when we got there they saw them strong and weak and I essentially got out of a pattern and was sent home! I went to over a 4 in the hour I was there, but they didnt keep me because I was 36 wks. So they got there way and things have calmed somewhat and I am still having contractions off and on, and I lost my plug. So now its a waiting game, but if it happens again they will keep me. As anyone that has had babies knows, I am a rainbow of emotions... Stress, anger, excitement, fear, swelling (is that an emotion?) All in all, it turned out for the best! everyone but me is really sick with bad head colds, and we got the nursery put back together! So in a couple more days or up to 2 weeks (kill me now) the kids should be healthy, and the baby will be more mature. Its hard not to be so selfish right now, but in the end its for the best! This gest Diabetes makes the waiting game so much harder! Derek has been wonderful of course and taken me out a lot to get my mind off of things! We do FINALLY get to see Angels and Demons tomorrow on our hot date! AHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Spring is a wonderful thing!

Testing the sprinklers is fun for the whole family!

Hallie has a new favorite thing to do! She runs around to each sprinkler head and lets it splash her face!

Kate loves to take "beautiful" pictures for me! Here she is with some of the spring flowers, can't wait for the chocolate mulch to fill in everywhere! This weekends project!

Kate posing beautifully again filling up hallies new birthday pool! She will be 1 on May 3rd! She is a good dog 90% of the time! We only lost some dripper lines so far! Its been fun! The cat has been getting sick lately and we are kinda worried! Its an infection in her pancreas, a 700$ Vet bill and she was better for 2 weeks and now she is not looking so hot... we shall see!

The birthday girl!

I love spring and being outside all of the time! I love planting new things and doing lots of projects, I know it sounds crazy, but I do! Even 8 mo pregnant! Derek is getting sick of my honey-do lists, but I am on a timeline here! Can't wait until the baby comes, it will be a completion of things and should make for an interesting Summer! hopefully I will put up pics of her nursery completed soon!

"BBBC"

So Evan started this adorable club today, and he was so bossy and cute I couldn't help myself! I took these pictures of them, I wasn't supposed to! Only a mother could be this excited! He called everyone, and made drinks and snacks, every Monday at 4:15, our front porch! Its a Bakugan Battle Brawlers club, no girls.