Sunday, May 9, 2010

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...

Sunday, April 18, 2010

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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Thursday, April 15, 2010

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!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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.






Sunday, February 21, 2010

The Birthday Girls


For those of you who didn't know these past few weeks our family has been celebrating 2 special birthdays. Kadia turned 12 and yes that means that there are five Nelson girls in young womens now. She also had an awesome beading flower making birthday party. She had 6 girls come. Poor dad had a female overload.






Kendra just barely turned her sweet 16 saturday and today she spoke in church and also recieved her young women medallion. She is now elligable for her lisence. Watch out Cache Valley drivers!









(hold on to your seats for this news BUT......





CARRIE posted this) ha ha ha ;-)









Sunday, January 17, 2010

Daddy Daughter Date



Carli and Gordon decided that they wanted to go on a daddy-daughter date. So for their date they went to Hardware Ranch on a sleigh ride to see the elk. She wasn't scared of them but thought that they were cool!