Build A Bear

Brighton has been dying to go to Build A Bear so we decided that was her reward for throwing the sippy's away. She had so much fun picking out the bear and the outfit she wanted. It was such a fun day.

The big day has come

The day has finally come to throw away the sippy's. To some this may not be a big deal but if you know Bri she is obsessed! Every ten minutes she begs for a full sippy of juice or chocolate milk. This is not ok. If she doesn't get it she acts like she is going to die.

I don't know about your christmas but guitar hero world tour took over our lives this Christmas.

Scott's darling Family

My darling Family

A fabulous day in the snow

Santa

Brighton was obsessed with Santa this year. We had to take her to the mall to see him about every other day. Don't get me wrong, it was darling but the whole month of December even after Christmas she would beg ten times a day to go to the mall to see Santa.

Ok were going to do a little and by little I mean ALOT of back tracking!

Cheznie Beth 6 Lbs 19 inches

So, Cheznie Beth decided at 4:50 am on the 24th of February that she had had enough of this whole prego thing and that she should come out at 35 weeks and 5 days. Angie went into labor and the delivery went pretty smoothly. When she came out she was doing pretty well but she wasn't real active and didn't have strong cries. She had APGAR scores of 8 and 9 and after a little suctioning and some blow-by oxygen she was doing fine. It had been about 20 minutes and Ang was holding her skin to skin to keep her warm and stimulated. When the nurse went to reposition her I noticed she was a little blue looking. We put her on the table and she quit breathing turned literally purple and dropped her arms. I grabbed the oxygen mask and the nurse started bagging her while i got help. The NICU team was there in seconds and she was back breathing on her own and doing fine. So.......after trying to die once they decided to keep her on the monitor for 4 hours to access her. She was grunting a little (auto peeping) and had a few apneic events where her oxygen levels dropped. They where a little concerned so she went down to the NICU and was put on a CPAP respirator (like what they use for sleep apnea), started an IV and put in a OG tube to feed her gut. She steadily improved over night and in the morning they took her of the respirator and pulled her OG tube. They kept her there to monitor her blood sugar and she did fine. So finally this afternoon she came back up to the nursery and she is back in the room with Ang. She is now eating and doing great.

Thanks to my fabulous sister-in-law

for all of you that are wondering how I have my new baby pics posted before 2010 that's thanks to my fabulous sister-in-law Amy. She is so on top of things. Thanks Amy. I love you

Presenting Cheznie Beth Nielsen

weighing in at 6lbs. She came 4wks and 1day early, and still a little chunk! She is in the NICU due to some respiratory problems, so keep her in your prayers! Mommy is doing fine, just a little tired! Don't you love that dark hair? And want to squeeze the cheekers?

My Princess pumpkin

Brighton insisted on being a princess this year but I had already bought her costume so we convinced her that she was the princess pumpkin off of Cinderella.

John McCain and Sarah Palin

Ok is this not the cutest thing ever. All you people from Utah you may know who I'm talking about. These are Mike Morgan's kids. They dressed their kids up as John McCain and Sarah Palin. Is this not hilarious.

I know I'm Pathetic!

My blog is not only sad but very pathetic. I realize I am about six months behind but I am hopefully going to catch up in the next few days. I don't know how all of you do it with your daily posts. It always seems like I have a million things to do and this just happens to be at the bottom of the list and I rarely reach the bottom. I have so many things I want to get done before this baby and this is one of them. So sorry friends. I love you and thanks for putting up with me.

Carving pumpkins with daddy

Scott and Bri spent the evening carving pumpkins. She loves her daddy.

We spent the day with our friends stopping first at the chocolate festival where the girls had to get their faces painted, then off to the Hughes where we roasted marshmellows and drank hot chocolate.

Bri and Heidi

Ward Sock Hop

We had so much fun at the ward Sock Hop. I thought I would try to be domestic and make poodle skirts for Brighton and my friend Jessica's two girls.

My mom, Brighton and I at the downtown mall in Charlottesville

4th of July

We had a fabulous 4th of July. We started the day at the ward breakfast where the kids decorated their bike's/cars and had a parade. Then we were off to MInt Springs where we played on the beach and in the water for the afternoon. Last we had a BBQ at the Cannon's where we had a great dinner, fireworks and my favorite, homeade ice cream.

Bear Lake

I know can you believe it, I actually put some new pictures on my blog. I still have alot more to catch up.

A day in the life of Brighton

Brighton is just enjoying her spider which means popsicle. We have no idea where that came from?

This was such a fun day. Us and a couple of our friends went on this gorgeous hike in the (MOUNTAIN'S) HA HA... Scott and I refer to them more as hills. I'm pretty sure this is the day I got bit by the tick and got Lyme Disease. Did I mention how fun that was.

ok are they not the cutest!