Ragnar 2012 "She's with Us"

It's a miracle I know. But I have a disclaimer...my blog was not uploading pictures so I gave up. I have decided to start blogging where I am now but hopefully will back blog because we have been up to so much in the last 6 months. So if anyone still checks my blog YAHOO!

It's that time of year again...Wasatch Back Ragnar Relay time. Like every year it never dissapoints with the fun, food, running, and zero sleep. And this year we truly got zero sleep. I think I am filling it more today than yesterday when the adrenalin was running. You can read about another past Ragnar experience here entitled Run..Eat...Sleep(not)...Repeat, which pretty much sums up the race except for the crazy and slightly innapropriate things you start doing and saying in the middle of the night, but that is why it is so much fun. .

Our team name is "She's with us", we have had basically the same team (except for pregnancies, injuries, etc) for the last 6 years. Many of these girls are very fast runners so people would be like wow is she with you? and we would proudly say yes yes she is, hence where the name came from. However last year when one of our runners Camie Jacobs got diagnosed with Stage 3 Colon Cancer the name took on a whole new meaning. We ran last year for her as she was in the middle of chemotherapy. Well miracles do occur and this year Camie is in remission and actually ran with us. She is truly an inspiration and we couldn't help but get teary this year thinking of how far she has come.

Here are a few snapshots of the race:



Van 2 minus my sister Whitney, people nicknamed us the yellow caps

Slap off for my first leg

And I'm off

 Just having a picnic at 12:30a.m. at a random gas station

Get that stretch on girl! 

 Yes we are slightly innapropriate but think we are funny!

Sisters!!!

Didn't want to wake them from their 5 minutes of sleep so took a picture instead!

Nightime craziness

Nothing wrong with a little Zumba along with your run!

My last leg ready to be done

my Sisters and my very best friends

jessica killin it

Keri looking way too excited to be running up a mountain

Bekah is way too dedicated to look up for the camera

That is what I call a support crew, sponges, spray bottles and water ready for our runner

Adrien flying down the mountain

The whole team at the finish line!

2 years old...going on 20!

It's hard for me to say, "I can't believe my baby is 2" because honestly the girl acts like she is 16 and it scares the crap out of me! Let's just say Blakely was excited about her birthday. For about 5 months (and I am not exaggerating) she has talked about how she is going to have a Princess Party and her cousin Amelia is going to have a Dora Party. Every party we have gone to she has been hoping it was hers so when her birthday came around and it was her turn...she was beyond thrilled. I am going to do a little friend party for her but we are waiting for one of her best friends from Canada to come for a visit next week (a birthday party would not be complete without Bella). Hank now has school on Monday's so I decided to throw a little birthday cake and ice cream for some family on Sunday evening. She loved the attention until we were all staring at her singing Happy Birthday and then she got a little shy.

I was so proud of myself for doing exactly what she wanted complete with cheesy Princess balloons and a store bought Tangled cake (well the cake was from a bakery so it was delicious)!

The next day on her actual birthday she rolled in style like a 2 year old should! I let her do what she wanted and wear what she wanted and it was pretty good. We went to the Carl's Jr. Play place with cousins then to the Sweet Tooth Fairy for some sweets, I then let her go to Target and pick out whatever she wanted for her birthday (we ended up with dancing baby doll that is actually quite hysterical and was on CLEARANCE)! We then spent the evening at home just Blakely and I (since Daddy was at school). He was able to come home for dinnner where we opened a few presents.

Her cousins gave her a Tangled dress up and she was beyond thrilled. As you can see in some pics she made me put it on immediately and didn't take it off!

Opening presents naked..it really doesn't get better than that!

Oh how I love my little Blakely. She is my little buddy and keeps me on my toes. Everyday I call my sister with the latest Blakely saga and she says, "that girl does not like to make life easy, everything is an ordeal with her". This is getting a little long so I will be back tomorrow with a few things that make Miss B her spunky self!

Sunday Snippet

This morning Blakely insisted on putting on her too small tutu and dancing. To her delight her favorite song came on! Enjoy!!!!

Santa Clause Came to Town!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! Around the Nelson home we had a great holiday weekend and a fantastic Christmas surrounded by those we love. We spent Christmas Eve seeing a movie (We bought a Zoo) with my family and then headed off to the annual Nelson Family Christmas Eve Party and had a great time. Like usual Grandma Terry buys the best gifts and the gift exchange was a lot of fun. Blakely came away with a ride on car which she loves. I am fond of it because we needed a more boy looking toy around here with all the pink and dolls.

Blakely and her car

Christmas Eve Party Pic, could not get Blakely to smile!

After the party we headed home so we could start our Christmas Prep. We opened up our Christmas Jammies, started taking pictures, got cookies set out for Santa and that is when little B lost it! I hope to have the video posted this week because it is too good not to post. Blakely put two and two together that tonight was the night that the man whom we call Santa, that she does not care for, would be coming to her house! She started balling and say, "No Santa my house, Santa Bye bye, I'm Scared satnta, no cookies for Santa". It was both the saddest and cutest thing that you have ever seen. At that point we had to pretend to call Santa and tell him not to come, stop all Santa prep and cuddle up in bed. Needless to say she slept between the two of us that night. I was shocked that at such a young age she really understood what was happening and she was not ok with it. ha ha

Blakely pre freak out in her Christmas Jammies!

Our attempt at a family shot in our PJ's

Blakely starting to cry about Santa coming

Santa still came! We figured she would get over it when she saw the goods!

Needless to say she was excited when she woke up and saw her kitchen and baby doll! She has not stopped playing with her toys since and is beyond thrilled. We had a fabulous Christmas day with going to church and spending the day with our little family!! My parents stopped by in the morning to join in on the fun.

 Soaking it all in

 Hank showing off his goods

 Pretty Princess

 Loving on Papa and Suzy

 A GIANT MESS EQUALS A JOB WELL DONE!

That evening we headed down to my sister Adrien's for our annual Weggleland Family Christmas Party. This year we decided to switch things up and went Ugly Christmas Sweater style and had a dance party to boot. Let's just say people did not disspoint in their outfits. I am still so mad I didnt get a picture of everyone because it was hilarious.

Check out that hair...

 My best friends and cousins Annie and Sara

 My cousin Sam and his wife Caitlin wore BYU sweatshirts as their ugly sweater...not funny! ok maybe just a little!

As you can tell by this really long post we had a fabulous Christmas. I can't wait for next year!

Merry Christmas

I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and enjoy this most wonderful time of year! This year has been filled with a lot of changes for our little family and we have been blessed beyond measure. We know that the choices we have made for our family were the right ones and our adventures are only beginning. Thank you to all of you who love and support us from close and from a far. We are grateful for all our friendships, they mean the world to us!

Love,

The Nelson's



O Christmas Tree

Just wanted to give you all an update that our tree is still standing straight up!!! I may be cursing myself by writing this post but I think we may have picked a winner. Although my mom called our tree hideous (ok she said that prior to seeing it so beautifully decorated) we love our little tree and are so excited to celebrate our first Christmas as a family waking up in our own home!

Early Christmas...Modern Family Style

If you watch Modern Family you will think my title is funny...if you don't than move on with the post! ha ha

Since my brother is in residency he gets little to no time off! So that meant we had to take the week off he got and celebrate Christmas early! We tried to fit in some of our Christmas traditions and had a blast with our big, loud, crazy family! 

First up: Annual Family Ski Day! Since people still had busy schedules with work and school we did two different ski days. It was so fun to spend the day on the mountain with a smaller group and just relax!

Next up: Christmas Dinner/Chris' Birthday Party!
My mom held a dinner at her house and like always it was delicous and we ate a lot of food. Allen's know how to eat. The dinner was followed by a birthday celebration for my nephew Chris who turned 7! He wanted to have a dance party and boy did we dance. Imgaine all 17 grandchildren and all adults going crazy. Lights out, strobe light going, music blasting. I would have to say it was probably the higlight of my year. Hank has some video on his phone I have to upload. Imgaine Blakely doing a pony step for a straight hour. EPIC!

 I love my sisters!

No we are not greek, but apparently we like to carry the birthday boy in a chair! ha ha

Ski Day Take 2! The rest of the crew headed up Saturday for another round of ski day. I sat this one out with Blakely but Hank got in on this action and they had a great day.

 Seriously cannot stop laughing over this picture and how my sister Bekah looks like she is 10yrs old next to her son who is only 14 years old!



We had such a fun week and I am so excited that we basically get to do it all over again this next week as we celebrate real Christmas...Judd, Jackie, Christopher, Tyler, and Caroline you will be missed!!!!