Some Things We Have Been Up to This Summer

Carrie, Kadia, and Carli at their dance recitals.


Gordon's happy birthday pie topped with animal figurines.

Carrie Going on Trek in her pioneer clothes and trusty 5 gallon bucket.

Carli riding Blackjack at our fun family reunion in Island Park.

Before Kadia's tonsil surgery.....

and then after.

Africa Returns!

Our Grandma and Grandpa Baxter just got home from their mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa. They have been gone for 18 months. We were so excited to have them come home. Here are a few of the pictures of the exciting day...

Carli's Dance Recital

Carli just finished her year of dance. Here are a few pictures of her in her dance recital costumes...

Mother's Day #2

I also got one of those papers and here are my answers...

What does your mom do while your at school?
Kadia-takes people places and cleans

If your mom was famous what would it be for?
Kadia-being awesome

What is your mom good at?
Kadia-sewing, cooking, cleaning, playing the piano, planning, organizing, helping....etc

Not good at?
Kadia-working with computers

Whats her job?
Kadia- taking care of us

What cartoon character would she be?
Kadia-Snow white

What does your mom always say?
Kadia-be nice, wash your hands, how was your day...

What makes your mom happy?
Kadia-cleaning up, practing piano, being nice

What makes mom mad?
Kadia-when i do bad or wrong things

what makes your mom laugh?
Kadia-when we tell her about the silly things we sometimes do at school

what was she like as a child?
Kadia-she was the oldest...

How old is she?
Kadia-43

How tall is she?
Kadia= 5 feet 5 inches

Favorite thing to do?
Kadia= be with family and talk

What would her perfect day be like?
Kadia= if everything/everyone did what was supposed to be done.

How does she get money?
Kadia- from the bank

Mothers Day

So last week Carli came home with a piece of paper about her mom. Here are her questions and answers....

I think my mom looks just like...
Carli-ME!

How old is your mom?
Carli-about 40 years old.

How much does she weigh?
Carli-50 pounds

Moms are hard workers. She is a...
Carli-smarty pants

My mom can do this better than anything else...
Carli- shop

If I could I would buy my mom a...
Carli-Big hug and kiss!

Turkey Hunting

No it isn't time for Thanksgiving but it is for turkey hunting. Did you know that there are wild turkeys in the Cache Valley mountains? They are pretty hard to get, but after much trying Gordon got a turkey.

Junior Prom

So here are pictures of Kirsten and her date to junior prom...

Traveling #2

So once again I'm late on posting this but its better late then never. During Spring Break our family had a chance to go to Cancun! It was nice to get away from Utah weather for a bit. We had a lot of fun snorkeling, sight seeing, fishing, and having fun on the beach. Here's some pictures...

Right behind the ruins at Tulum they have a good beach. Carrie and Kendra had fun in the water.

Carli thought that this "pyramid" was pretty cool.

This is a bone-fish that Dad caught one day.

Mom, Kirsten, and I out snorkeling. We had lots of fun doing this. Most of us it was our first time.

After doing some snorkeling Kendra and Carrie got on a spinnaker swing and let the wind carry them away...

Carli had lots of fun at this little kids pool.

We had lots of fun on the beach. One of the favorites were the hammocks.

We all had fun at the beach. There were fish in the water that we could all feed pieces of bread and they would swim around us. fun fun fun.

Another fun thing we did is we all got our hair french braided and some of us a fun colorful wrap. This is what our heads looked like from the top.

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Traveling

So last month (I haven't updated recently) some of our family went to Disneyworld/Florida. It was good because everything worked out with school and dance. We really do like to keep things fair around here. Kendra and Kirsten got to go with Dad years ago when Carli was a new born baby. So here are the pictures of our eventful trip.

We had to spend a LOT of time in the airports. Had a few flight problems.

Carrie and Kadia checking out what Jaws had to eat for the day.

Pretending to be Nemo's buddies.

Outside Cinderella's castle at night.

Outside the Epcot "Golf Ball"

Carli loved meeting all of the princesses. Especially loved meeting Ariel. Carli showed her her Ariel baby doll. Ariel showed Carli her dingle-hopper.

Carli with another of her favorite princess Sleeping Beauty aka Aurora. Notice they have matching crowns.

Our last day there we lived in ponchos. Here we are standing in front of one of our favorite rides Splash Mountain.

Carli enjoying her large lollipop.

One of our favorite characters Tigger!

Dancing

It's been full-out dance season here at the Nelson home. A couple weeks ago Kirsten and Kendra finished their dance year had their Vistaun year end review. They got to do all their dances from the past year. The bonus was that Carrie and Kadia's dance school was invited to bring a couple of their dance groups to perform the same night. We were also able to see them perform during the night also. (That doesn't happen often.) Here are just a few pictures from the night. Thanks to Aunt Jesse and her fabulous new camera for the great photos.

Kadia doing leaps in her Can-Can Paris dance.

Kadia doing her air-split and kick line below.
She's the tall one middle. Imagine that.


Carrie doing her America dance from West Side Story.

One of the fun traditions during the year-end review is for the Father's of the dancers to escort their Vistaun daughters out as someone reads some of the girl's favorite memories from the past year. I'm not sure but I think that Gordon looks pretty happy to have TWO beauties at his side. (Side note- they picked out a new tie for him to coordinate with them both.) This is how Carli and Cinch looked and spent that night.