The First Kick

Sitting in Sunday School yesterday I could feel the baby moving so I poked Kelly and told him to watch for her to move.

After a couple seconds she did a giant kick and Kelly got a big grin on his face. I don't think he knew you would be able to see her move.

She is starting to become more and more active everyday, especially once I hold still. She's not a fan of that.

Kelly was so funny the rest of the day he would stare waiting for her to move again. We are excited to have our 24 week ultrasound with the Tech on Wednesday. It's becoming more and more real & I am buying more and more little girl things.. oops. (I hope Kelly didn't read that..hahaha)


Little Miss Nelson is an active little wiggle worm.

I dare you!

I really do dare you to go through your entire house to move things around different rooms, trash stuff & reorganize everything. Two Words ... it. sucks. I have spent the last few days going through rooms & rooms in our house changing things around to get ready for this baby.

Kelly built shelves in the laundry room for all the food storage we got from his parents for Christmas. I am glad its finally out of boxes and I can start to use it. We also are going to use the shelves for other miscellaneous stuff.

We have a small crawl space under our family room, right now its full of boxes with crafts but I have so much more stuff I will be putting in there from my childhood & who knows what else.

The 'blue dungeon' aka our basement bedroom is going to be turning into the craft room. Which that was a storage room, workout room etc. Moving all of the things out of it & finding new places for everything is a little overwhelming. I am excited to have a even bigger craft room now & have things a little more hidden in the basement.

I am 95% positive our upstair rooms will now look so much better with my craft room downstairs. Mainly because Kelly will not have to see it nearly as often.

Plus it will be weird & exciting that we get to start working on the babies room soon.

I have also gone through all of my clothes and shoes to get rid of things I haven't worn in forever or probably won't ever fit back into. I don't know if any of you are like this but there are somethings that I will be attached to but I know in the back of my head I won't ever use it again. Other days I could throw away my whole house and not feel a bit guilty.

I am going to be so thankful to my sister Marci who will be coming over later today to put her insane organizing skills to work in our house.

We are HALFWAY!

I was little excited about being halfway through this pregnancy. Probably because everyone marks it as such a milestone.

We had an appointment the morning before (July 2nd) we left to the Virden Reunion. I was exactly 20 weeks, the doctor was a little behind since he had just got back from a c-section. Kelly didn't want to miss work since he was going to be taking a week & a half off. My mom came to the appointment with me, I will admit out of the appointments I have had at Circle of Life that day was crazy. There were so many more pregnant people it made me start to have a phobia. My mom agreed.

After getting the lovely glucose drink from the nurse and telling me I would be doing it in 8 weeks & that my next appointment will be with the Tech. We finally were able to start an ultrasound. Lets just say Baby Nelson was a complete stinker. Sitting indian style with hands resting on its forehead. My doctor poked and prodded for it to move for a good position well... lets rewind a little bit.

At 16 weeks (May 28th) they had told me what we were having, Kelly & I both left the appointment a little relived but at the same time not sure if they really could 100% tell. So for this 20 week appointment we were hoping to get a definite.. and well after one of the longest ultrasounds we had since the stinker wouldn't move or was asleep we are proud to announce that Baby Nelson is .....

Little Miss Nelson!

I apologize it has taken me almost a whole month to finally announce it. 

Yes, this little girl has her first pair of shoes & yes I have a pair that will match it!

I had them take a guess at one of our last practices at the studio. I figured these girls saw our ridiculous skit to announce I was pregnant that they would be able to find out before Summer starts what this little bean was.

My young women also guessed on the poster of what they thought I was having... it was fun to watch people not know what to do.

Especially the few who signed completely down the middle.. cheaters!

My dance girls found out after our recitals and they all thought it was a boy. I wouldn't budge and give them any hints; which to them made them think it was a boy.

Alexa & I went to Zurchers and got some balloons. It gave them a little inkling that something was happening.

(PS. Don't mind the fact that Jack Sparrow is helping announce and the fact I am dressed as a pirate...We were pirates for our Alumni tap this year.) 

These girls were so excited to know it was a girl & they instantly started combining all of their names together as ideas for Kelly & I.

Kelly was super sick the day of the recital & it was just the beginning of a long week for us.

But, he came to the last performance and sat next to my mom. 

Halfway through the recital he leaned over to my mom and said; "I just had a realization I am going to be going to dance recitals for another 18 years!!" 

My mom just laughed.

So here is our cheer to another girl in the house, dance recitals, dress up parties, drama & everything else this little girl will bring into our lives.

I am a dairy girl & 70 Years of Happiness

Saturday morning we had breakfast all together as a family. They were yummy breakfast burritos that Kelly's Aunt Laurie made. She is such a sweet, fun, spunky, nice, anything marvelous lady.

Then we all headed over to Uncle Nelson's dairy that is on the border of New Mexico & Arizona. I had never been to a dairy before and it was neat to be able to go in one and see how things happen.

So... as you can see I, Maggie Nelson milked a cow. 

One of the workers that does the milking took me to where the cows line up to get milked she grabbed a cow that was friendly and would let me pet him. Although, I had to laugh because the 60-70 cows that were lined up all kind of squealed when they saw this lady.

She was super nice & I wish I had some magic way to have been able to speak spanish to her.

We saw all the different groups of cows. The 'sick ward', 'healthy', 'maternity ward', 'heifer ward'.

Then we got to drive down a little ways and see all the new babies. 

It was nice to see these little ones and luckily they had some shade.

Our Nephew Zane was going around letting all of the calves suck on his hand, it started to bleed since he never stopped letting them suck on it. He was a sad camper.

I couldn't just milk a cow and not let a calf suck on my finger.. it was definitely weird feeling and they sure do like human fingers.

The picture at the bottom is of a day old calf it was born on July 4th. They have quite a few calves born every day year round.

                 

After we were done with the dairy we had lunch that Kelly's family was over.

We also went to a couple of my favorite places. We got more soap from a boutique down in Duncan. We went to the bakery and got a milkshake & sadly we didn't remember to go to the antique stores.

Later that night they had invited the community out for a celebration of Kelly's grandparents being married for 70 years. It was awesome to watch their lives come together and hear both Grandma & Grandpa get up and talk to there family. They definitely have had a great marriage and have had some rough times. 

Can you believe it?!

Grandma's Wedding dress. It didn't look like a day old.

A quilt that was made during the reunion

                           

This picture above was during the program. Uncle Skip sang their favorite song, which of course was a love song. They both stood up and danced with each other. I don't think that many people held it together. They sang to each other while they danced and hugged each other.

Cutting the cake 70 years later!

It was a long hot day again but I think there were lots and lots of memories made. 

We finally cleaned up the church so everyone could leave the next morning, it was sad how fast the party had come and left.

Virden, New Mexico man do you know how to party when the Nelson's come to town!!

Reunion Time - Happy 4th of July

Today we woke up and had breakfast. Our niece's and nephew requested pancakes and cheesy eggs.
It was delicious. The lady that owns the Bed & Breakfast is so nice and a great cook.

     

 After we were done eating, I walked into our room and I found the cat that lives at the B&B laying on our bed. I went out and told Kelly he wasn't very happy about it. I thought it was quite funny. The cat reminded me a lot of how Nala (cat) looked. It made me miss my little kitty.

We then drove the few miles into Virden to meet all the family at the 'Virden Church'. The church use to own this building now it is for people to rent out. Its like a giant hotel, I never pictured how a LDS church could be turned into 30 bedrooms. 

It was a great morning of chatting with family. Seeing cousins, aunts & uncles. They had a great program for Grandma's 90th birthday. It was filled with memories from her kids and pictures. She was in love with it & I think everyone learned something that they didn't know before. 

This picture was taken of Grandma and her kids singing a song she taught them when they were little.  Lets just say Grandma still has it- as for the kids... eh.. not quite.

Jeanne, Diane, (Kelly's Dad) Grant, Grandma, Dale

                                 

I snapped this picture of Kelly with his grandpa. I think Kelly will look just like him when he's 95 years old. He is the stinking cutest old man. 

                                             

This little boy is named Colt. He is one of Kelly's cousins kids. He is four months old and weighed about 30 lbs. He was so cute and well heavy. He was actually a premie and was the biggest premie that the hospital had seen. Colt has two sisters that are just cute divas. They both have bright red hair & were so friendly to everyone. 

Kelly wasn't so sure how to hold a baby. I guess we have our work cut out for us.. Colt instantly started crying when Kelly started to hold him! 

When Kelly was a little kid they took a big family picture out on these steps, so everyone was taking pictures with their families.

We obviously had to do it as well.

(Yes, we matched on the 4th of July.. because we're cool like that)

Something is growing in there. (We were officially half way on the 4th)

After a great dinner, games and watching the kids play we went to Duncan to watch the light parade that night.. lets be honest it was smaller and a little small town.

We then went to the high school to watch fireworks! It was the best show I have ever seen better than the Weber State fireworks. I thought we may go to Duncan for the 4th every year.

I have had a cold for about 3 weeks and was kind of miserable between the lack of air in the church and stuffy sinus pressure. We finally got back to the B&B to find out that there was a band playing across the street.. I will be honest I was pissed. I just wanted to sleep.. but after turning on the AC in our room we were probably passed out within 10 minutes.

          

Long Drive.. Day One!

We drove to New Mexico today for Kelly's family reunion. We had to leave a little later than we wanted so we could drop Nala off at the kennel hotel she was going to be staying at. She really didn't care that we left her in fact she remembered the place from our cruise. She was so happy to see all the other dogs and the owner loves her.

We left our house at 8 am and made it all the way to Moab by noon. We stopped and ate at Milt's Diner. It's like Burger Bar but, not exactly. Kelly knows all the good places in Moab from working down there for a few weeks with Questar. (I guess thats a perk, although Moab is quite far.)

Once we got back on the road we took a different way than most people in his family take to get down there. It was through the Indian reservation which to be quite honest is very interesting to see just for the fact it makes you grateful for having a laundry room in your own house.

With this pregnancy of mine we stopped at a gas station on the reservation so I could potty. (I will admit, by the time we got to our Bed & Breakfast I was sick of public restrooms and nasty doorknobs.) We really didn't fit in with the rest of the crowd; A- being white people B- driving a Mercedes.

Everything seemed to go well & we drove through a couple rainstorms, spotted some rainbows.


The last two hours of the drive seemed to go on forever. I was annoying Kelly by saying "Only 100 miles left" ... the last 200ish miles consist of winding down a canyon that the max speed at night is probably 30 mph. It's the worst part of the drive.

After a little over 12 hours and 700ish miles we made it to Duncan, Arizona. It was so nice to walk into the Bed & Breakfast. We watched an episode of Parks & Rec.. which made us both fall asleep.