Kenadie

I love it when friends have cute little babies and I love it even more when they let me take pictures of them.  Amy works with me at Cherry Creek. She teaches 1st grade and was smart enough to plan her baby's birth BEFORE school ended and not in the middle of summer like me.  

Kenadie Braithwaite was born April 14th and she is the cutest little "Easter Baby" I've ever seen.  I always get nervous trying to take pictures of a newborn but it was fun. I think that every kind of fluid came out of her little body in all different directions and yet she still managed to deal with all of us trying to lay her  body in all sorts of funny positions.  (I honestly don't know how Anne Geddes does it.)  She was just sooooo precious and sooooo little. 

This is big sister Andee!!!  She doesn't know it yet, but she is in a prearranged marriage with Sitani. She is the cutest little blondie I have ever seen.  


Special thanks to my trusty sidekick/assistant/sister Gracie for all the fun ideas and help.

The Smartest People

I just can't believe they are done already (for now at least).  Mark and Laura just graduated yesterday and are ready to enter the world of smart people.  Hahaha.  It seems like yesterday Mark was just a lil freshman and well Laura has always acted older than me anyway.  (I do remember throwing all of her kindergarten papers that she WOULD NOT throw away into the trash.  I couldn't handle her messy lil red desks in the room we shared.  She was in 3rd grade and had kept every paper since kindergarten.  I hope you've forgiven me since then.)  Thank you guys for being examples of smart people.  :) 














Jace also just graduated from Baby University.

Look at THAT hood...

Good luck on the road ahead. 

We love you guys.  Don't forget about us here in O-town.  We'll still be here!!!

Recent Pictures

Just a couple photos caught from last weekend in Idaho...

and of course the cheeser... Jace

A Couple Minutes of Sunshine

It's Spring Break and we woke up to about 10 inches of snow.  I've never seen blossoming spring trees covered in snow before.  Just glad that we got in a couple of sunny days before the snow came back. I'm officially terminating winter from my life.  FOREVER!!!

Bunnies + Candy + Eggs + Aunties = Easter Sensation!!!

This year was seriously the funnest and most craftiest Easters I have even seen. Laura has an amazing mother-in-law who always lets us budge in our their family fun.  We call her the "Utah Grandma".  Needless to say she had the whole night planned out with an Easter Egg Hunt, cupcake decorating, some-kind of bird nest crispy treat, and egg decorating.  Sitani had never seen so much candy and Marley face was covered in chocolate the whole night. And...I want to give a big thank you to the wonderful Grace and Kelsy who played with the kids all night and had them wound up until 1:00 a.m. (hahaha, the best aunties ever). Thank you Gene and the whole Nelson gang for making it a great one!!!

Jace loved his purple egg.

Grace loved her look-alike cupcake.

Joshua's basket was the coolest ever!!!
I think that Grace had the most fun on the hunt.





This is Jace's newest funny face. He is seriously the most goofy little boy I have known.

Once again... Jace's purple egg