Kitchen
Front room
Master bedroom
Tytan & Ridge's Room. They of course had to be in the picture.
Paisley's bathroom. Every little girl needs a little zebra and hot pink.
I'll let you take a wild guess at who's bedroom this is.
Notice Ridge hanging onto a plastic fork...Who can be in the bucket of a tractor without one.
Tytan attempting to scale the side of the pit.
Notice the large tramp hole to the right and the large dirt hill to the left. A little boys dream come true.
Enjoying the fruit of the landscapers labor. The trampoline is finished!!!
Paisley at 3 weeks old
Two weeks old
One week
Paisley Suzanne Nielson
I started to believe my little girl was never coming. She finally made her appearance very early April 5th. I was thinking she might make it on Easter but she decided to keep us waiting a couple more hours. So far she has been sooo mellow and easy...knock on wood. She is an amazing eater and like all new borns she sleeps like a champ. We are all smitten with her. I am still in shock to have a little girl. Everything feels the same but o so different.
Daddy showing off his Princess!
Tytan again showing off his new prized possession.
Ridge checking out the new sister. He seems to not really care one way or another about her. He will ask to hold her for a second or two then he is done. What should I expect from a 2 year old?
Our family tradition is to go to Rain Forest Cafe for each Child's birthday. This picture totally shows each boy's personality. Tytan climbing and being a monkey. Ridge holding Thomas and sitting as calm as can be.
Of course we have to get the dessert at Rainforest Cafe. The highlight for the Peter...Polishing off a dessert made for 6 almost all alone.
Ridge's cake.... Surprised to see its Thomas?
I can't take any of the credit for the cake. A girl from Peter's work made it for us.
3 weeks ago Mr. Mellow (of course the mellow child not my active one) fell while he was playing outside and broke his wrist. He never complained about having to wear a brace.
I look at this picture and totally imagine him years down the road doing the exact same thing.
I love the drool pooling on the balloon under his chin. Can you imagine how that must feel?
It seems we have been extra busy these last couple of months. I know it is now December 1st so I figured I better post a little about November before December gets away from me too. Here are just a few quick pictures of what we have been up to for the last month. Picture 1. Playing a lot with DADDY!
Picture above- our house! We drive by every Sunday and walk through it and take at least one picture so this is the picture of it from about a month ago.
Yes another picture of the house. This one is from a couple weeks ago. Hopefully we will be moving in the end of January!! Keep your fingers crossed for us.
A lot of playing in the fall leaves.
A lot more playing with daddy!
Ridge enjoying the good weather at the park.
A trip to the Phoenix Children's Museum. Ridge taking a rest on the hippo.
At the Children's museum they have a ton of pool noodles hanging from the ceiling for the kids to run a much through....So they did!
*******For those of you that don't know yet we are expecting baby #3. At the beginning of November we found out its a ........GIRL!! She will be making her debut the first few days in April. We are all so excited. Ultra sound pics. to come.********
Ridge enjoying the best seat in the house...right on top of Tytan's sand castle. Our hotel was right on the water so we could literally walk out of our hotel room onto the sand.
Ridge burying himself under the sand castle.
One of the few pics. I got of Tytan looking at the camera. He is in his stage where he NEVER wants to look at the camera. If I catch him in the right moment I can get a glimpse of his face on camera.
Daddy and Ridge walking the beach.
Ridge is completely fearless. He saw a mom and 5 baby ducks in the water and he would follow them any where. He would walk out into the ocean up to his neck and not have a care in the world.
The boys making a sand castle. One of the many...
The boys driving to Cali. showing off the sun glasses. Tyt insists on putting on his own glasses so they are always a little crooked.
Hard to see but a shark right above his head. Had to post this since it was one of the few showing his face.
Ridge checking out the seals/sea lions.
By far the highlight of the trip for Tyt was the Shark Encounter. I think I lost count how many times we went through and saw the sharks. He can tell you the name of pretty much every shark.
The dolphins were my favorite. They were so friendly they were always right up next to the glass.
Mr. Walrus...Ridge sat next to him for soo long just laughing and laughing. He would eat a fish then spit it out over and over. A little disgusting but he was highly entertained.
The beluga whale
More Dolphins..
The manta rays. Ridge and Tytan sat on that ledge petting these slimy guys forever.
Of course we had to get a picture with Shamu.
More Shamu.. The boys really did so well through the entire vacation. Sometimes staying at a new place and being out of routine can get a little crazy but it was so needed and so fun. 
