Fall Fun

Roger, Samuel, and Mikey


Our last time Picking Raspberries for the year! Samuel did more eating than picking- but that's what made it so fun! We have Loved going to the zoo this summer to see the dinosaur with our good friends the O'Neil's. The boys really didn't care about seeing anything else. We would stay with the dino's for hour, looking and learning all about them! It was one of Samuel's favorite things.

A Few Of My Favorite Things!

We are so blessed to enjoy the Ohio in the fall- What beautiful majesty! This is my favorite picture spot, Ceder point hill!

The Braces are OFF!!

We have a happy girl- her braces are off! It was just a short 10 months and so worth it! One challenge down a million to go!

2nd session and Ella's Blessing

More precious pictures of my beautiful nieces! I had so much fun with their photo shoot!

Ist round of the pictures of my neices

A visit from aunt Nicole

We had a fun week with Aunt Nicole! It's so fun to have her visit! We played at several parks and just enjoyed hanging out. It was a beautiful week and we had a great time together!

First day of school

My baby girl is in 3rd grade. I remember my 1st day of 3rd grade like it was yesterday.
This day was HUGE for us! This is Jay's last 1st day of school! We can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. We are so excited for what the future holds for our family. I am soo proud of Jay and his overwhelming tasks that he accomplishes. This has been a long road for us, one with many challenges and pitfalls, but also many blessings and lessons in humility. The Lord has blessed us so much and we continue to receive his blessings which have made this journey possible.

Zoo with the Williams

Our big group! Carrie, Ethan, Samuel, Brenden, Suzy, Colin, and Jenna
The new baby
Just in case you thought my son didn't belong in the monkey cage!
The picture on the wolf

Our big Kids!
Riding the Tram
We have been friends with the Williams since I was pregnant with Jenna and Suzy was a baby. They were each other's first friend. We have had so much fun together over the years. In amazing to see how much our kids have grown! These have been our picture spots over the years. They live about an hour and a half away so we don't see them as much as we would like but we still do some of our same traditions. And we have so much crazy fun when we are together!

Gabriella Marie Nelson- born August 20th 2009

Sweet little Ella!
With her big cousin Jenna
Proud uncle Jay
She was a little blue at first- she came out so fast she hit Tanya's tailbone. Poor baby.
The proud parents!
Holding her baby for the first time
Labor is getting harder-
This birth was one of the best experiences of my life and I'm so grateful to David and Tanya for letting me a part of their precious miracle.
Tanya's water broke on wed. at 3:00 p.m. at Walgreen's. So the rest of the night we were waiting for the contractions to come and they were only coming 10 min. apart. So we all went to sleep on call just in case it happened in the middle of the night. I got a call at 9:00 the next morning and Colleen wanted her to get to the hospital. Once your water breaks you only have 24 hours to have the baby. So she got put on petocin at 10:30. She was strong and ready to do it.
Now Tanya was not due til Sept 1st and our friend Andrea was due the 31st of august. They were both at the hospital that day having their babies! I think that is just amazing! So, mom and I walked over to see her new baby girl- Abigale marie. She is very cute. We were even more excited to see our new little one. The above picture was taken at 11:00 a.m. That is when the contration's started to come about 3 min apart. As they progressed we were right there with Tanya helping her through it. She was going natrual on petocin so she needed our help. It was so amazing to watch her go through labor knowing what she was going through and how it felt-but all I could do wasgive her moral support and try to give her some support through the contractions. I hope that mom and I were able to do that. I thought we had a good team going. Dave was on her back pain and mom and I were in the front holding her. It's amazing to me to watch the strength that we women have. Ella entered the world at 2:45 p.m. weighing 6lbs. 14 oz.
She reminded me of Samuel when they laid her on Tanya. She was dark with dark hair. I think she might end up having dark skin like him. It was so fun to have this experience and not have any of the after effects. I think I would like to be a doula someday and be able to help women realize the strength that they have. We were made to this and we can do ANYTHING we put our minds to.

The Zoo

The zoo had a Dinosaur exhibit this year so we went to the zoo a lot! Samuel loves dino's and this was a really cool exhibit.