The Nielsen Family

Nice view, adorable girls! This is Zack and JJ playing cars on the tile. Zack was having too much fun and didn't want to get dressed. Luckily, JJ was already dressed before they started playing. Gabbi loved carrying Carlie around for me. Carlie was quite happy with the arrangement. Cadence and Maddi. Aren't they cute? Jeremy played the match game for the longest time! That is one patient guy. Playing with Zack can be, well, difficult. All ready for a soak in the hot tub Zack and gorgeous Nikki getting ready to make some cookies It's so nice to be related to the Kingstons. When they are bored, they like to rent out very nice vacation homes. On Valentines Day, they ended up in a sweet twin home at Thanksgiving Point. They were nice enough to let us and Deardens stay a night with them. It was huge, and nice, and fun and stuff, and I'm now addicted to checking VRBO's website!

Carlie is a happy baby. If you I haven't told you, she's about the world's easiest baby, and she's so smiley! JJ has gotten her to laugh more than I have, and this video is just cute. It's Sunday afternoon, and the kids are all wearing their typical after church attire- Cadence's third dress-up, Zack's undershirt since his church shirt is now dirty, and JJ wearing his pj's.

I actually have begun to feel some remorse for my behavior with my siblings whenever it came time for a family picture. I had it coming I guess, our Christmas card is a product of over sixty pictures and about five hours on photoshop. This is a non-winner. as is this.

Appropriately enough, we saw some of Carlie's first smiles in Disneyland. She's a happy baby and we love seeing her smile! Zack stopped using a binki at Disneyland, and started talking! For some reason, his vocabulary seems to have tripled since our trip! As you can see, Disneyland was good for all of us! :)

If you are around Zack for 3 minutes or more, you will know he's a HUGE Cars fan. He was so excited to see a picture of Mater! This is the only picture we have of all three kids with a character! I think this is my favorite Disneyland picture! Thanksgiving Dinner: pizza, cupcakes, and yes, a bowl full of M&M's. What can you expect when Goofy is the Chef? We ate Thanksgiving dinner (sort of) at Goofy's Kitchen. This is our whole group, except for Michael and Sarah's family. My pictures aren't in order, but this was late at night after watching fireworks. We walked out of one of the stores and found cute little Mickey standing there all by himself. All the kids were asleep, but I had to wake up Zack to see his favorite mouse. The greatest snow on earth isn't in Utah. Cadence was 16 months old when she went to Disneyland for the first time. Pluto has always been the sweetest character to her (even on the Disney Cruise) so she always gets really excited to...