Life is good

So as you can tell I have taken quite the break from "blogging".  The fad of everyone doing it faded and life got busy and it got pushed to the side.  On a whim today, I pulled up this site and smiled to myself at the great memories I had posted in the past.  I really think that this is an important history for my kids and this is honestly something fairly easy to do. So why am I not keeping up with it anymore?
Today is a new day and today, I believe I will try to pick up the pieces and move on.  So much has changed in our life, yet so much is the same.  We live a wild ride of running here and there and to and fro.  Joey is 5 and half now getting ready for Kindergarten

 Leah is finishing up 2nd grade and just got baptized,

 Sarah is in 5th grade getting ready to turn 11,

 Bekah and Emma are in Jr high in 7th and 8th grade and doing fantastic.

 I started back to school in 2012 and am a full time student now and Zack changed jobs to work for Homecare Pharmacy and joined the Air National guard.

I know you are thinking, "Wow there is so much I missed!" I promise I will try to get on and post some of the pics and thoughts from those missing years, but that may happen in the slow or quiet moments of the months ahead.  I may even have the kids help me to remember and post stuff as they are in the internet world and are excited by this blog.
I also understand that no one may ever read this blog except myself and maybe my children, but that's all right because it is really fun to go back and see what happened when and how I felt about it.  If you are new and joining us along the way, welcome! Welcome to this wild ride of the "Nilson way of life".

A year in review

Here I am !  I didn't disappear forever....  but I've decided that I am quite behind.

My last post was about girls camp and here we had girls camp AGAIN last week  so I am offically a year (or more) behind.

So here goes my year in review:

August 2010:

Back to school!  Leah started preschool at a local neighborhood preschool, Sarah started 2nd grade, Bekah started 4th and Emma 5th.  Here they go... off on their first days

September 2010:

 Joey turns 2

Emma turns 11.  She invited some friends to go roller skating with her and had a great time

October 2010:

Halloween:

November:  I hosted my own Turkey dinner this year for just our little family.  We did great except the turkey didn't get done until a couple hours after we ate... hahaha

here's our harvested sunflower from our front yard... large as usual

December: Christmas time!!

We all got to meet Santa at the Lee Santa Clause party, even Grandma Hart got to sit on Santa's lap!

Pinatta time!!

January:
Bekah turns 10... she celebrates by getting her ears pierced, roller skating with the family and a friend party.
She was very nervous to get her ears pierced and was a bit upset before it happened.

February or so...Joey figures out how messy he can be and the messes begin.....

(okay I admit this is a "clean" messy picture)

 AAAGGGHH TACO SAUCE!!!

March
Leah turns 5

April:

Cruise to Mexixo!   Zack's parents celebrating their 60th birthday's invited all of their children on a week long cruise to mexico.  we had a great time!!

Easter

May: 

Sarah turns 8

End of school

preschool graduation was really cute.  The kids sang a lot of songs and had a great time

June: Sarah gets baptized!

That just about gets me caught up, whew!   Now I can spend some time on some more detailed posts of our adventures of summertime!

here's some odds and ends from the last year: