Our Many Cars

We recently got a minivan and sold our civic, in doing so I have reflected back on how many cars Jake and I have had in our marriage. It is an ongoing joke with our families, because we do trade cars a lot!!! We also have had several dogs! My mom the other day said, "Its a good thing you can't trade in kids, or Marshall would have been gone a long time ago ha ha ha." So here are our vehicles. If I have forgotten any let me know.
1. Nissian 200sx
2. Ford Eddie Bauer Explorer
3. Jeep Grand Cherokee
4. 1997 Jeep Wrangler
5. 2000 Jetta
6. 1999 Ford F150
7. 1992 Ford F250
8. 2001 Ford Focus
9. Ford 2004 Expedition
10. 2003 Ford Taurus
11. 1996 Ford F250
12. 1997 Pontiac Sunfire
13. 2004 Honda Civic
14. 2004 Honda Odyssey (our vehicle now)








Somewhere in there Jake had an old Bronco and an even older Bronco and a 59 Buick (this we did not drive, but we did own.)
So if I have them all, we have now owned 17 cars, that is really sad!!!!

As for recreation, we have had
a 1977 Jamboree motorhome, given to us by my parents
a 1996 21' Coachmen trailer
and now a 2005 Prowler
we owned a boat
and we have owned 3 different 4 wheelers and we can't forget Jake's Harley Davidson





I don't have pictures at the moment of all our vehicles. But some may say WOW that is too many, yeah maybe, but with each one we have such good memories.

I love my Family

I have been thinking a lot lately about how much I love my life. I have a great life and a great family to spend it with! That probably sounds weird, but it is so true. I am so blessed to be able to stay at home to raise my beautiful children ... its a struggle sometimes and we are house poor, but it is so worth it. I have an amazing husband who works his butt off for our family and then comes home and loves to be with us. I have a 4 year old that is full of life and makes me so tired, but everyday he makes me smile and realize the little things that are so important. He loves his little sister and is the best helper ever!! I have a 7 week old who is so beautiful and loves to stare at our faces and take it all in. She loves to watch Marshall and is so smiley now.

I have decided we all in our home have addictions, it would go as follows: Jake is addicted to Rock Band, he and his buddy Jon could and do play that game for hours ... luckily they have patient wives.(next time I will take some pics of them, just to prove the addiction)

Marshall's would be Mario Party on the Wii. If I were to let him he would play it all day long, but I don't. So when he is not playing it on the Wii, he is still playing it, jumping around the house being Mario or Bowser, taking away my hotels and my stars... he is obsessed with that game. He used to always play Primary but now it is Mario Party.



And I am obsessed with feeding Kambria ha ha ha, not because of my choice, but she is a little pig. I also like to eat myself, food is pretty important to me!!! Jake's family will laugh, because when we get together at our home and I have prepared a meal .... we will bless the food and then I go right over and help myself. I figure why wait for everyone else, I made the food, I want to eat it :0)




And last, Marshall is so cute, yesterday he wanted to take care of Kambria, so I laid her on the floor and he was sitting next to her. He took his sock off and was waving it over her head saying, "Kambria do you want this sock, do you, do you?" and then he laughed and said, "You don't want this sock it is smelly, it has been on my stinky feet all day." and then chucked the sock. It was so cute that I said your a good brother Marsh and he said, "STOP listening to me mom!!" He is so cute with her, I just love watching them.




I am truly greatful for Jake and for all that he does for me and for our family. He is the best husband and dad ever. I love my family so much and love being able to experience new things with them all the time.

Kambria's Baby Blessing

Yesterday we blessed Kambria at church. Jake gave her a very nice Blessing. I am so thankful for Jake and for him honoring his priesthood. We are so thankful for all of our family and friends that came to support us, it was a special day for us. It was pretty funny, Jake was giving Kambria the blessing ... there was a pause so I opened up my eyes and looked at the circle, just to see everyone in the circle reach in with both hands and then they were back to normal. Kambria slipped and they almost dropped her, so thankful she didn't get dropped, but pretty funny!! After the blessing everyone came over for lunch and visiting. What a wonderful day it was.

Grandma Nielson

This last Week Jake's Grandma Nielson Passed away. She was diagnosed with cancer and passed away 3 months later. What a blessing that she didn't have to suffer long! Grandma was an amazing lady, I am glad that I had the opportunity to meet her and to build some memories. Every thanksgiving the entire Nielson family would get together for dinner. There were always a lot of people, but the food was always yummy, and the company was always great! The funeral was really nice, Jake's mom gave a talk, that was so nice, she had a lot of love for her Mom. Jake's Grandpa passed away many years ago, but he had recorded some songs and they played 2 of them at the funeral, it was very nice. He had a different voice, kinda twangy country, but I really really liked it. It was nice to be around family and to reflect on the memories that everyone has of her. It is comforting to have the gospel in our lives and know the plan of salvation. It is a wonderful feeling to know we will see her again and to have the understanding that she is in a better place. Marshall was really cute, as we walked into the chapel Marshall waived to the ceiling, Jake asked him what he was doing and he said he was saying Hi to Grandma up in heaven. Then he said, "When I go to heaven I don't think I will recognize her dad, because she will be young and perfect." Jake went on to tell him that he will know her. I love my family and I am so thankful for the Plan of Salvation and the comfort that it brings me when loved ones move on to a better place.

Cousins

Jake's sister Kim had a baby girl just 10 days after me. They named there daughter Cadence. It has been a lot of fun. Here are some pictures of them together at our Super Bowl Party last night. I hope they grow up to be best friends, being only 1 week apart they should be pretty close. I think it will be fun to see how they both grow. Right now Kambria is longer, but Cadence may just jump in size ... you never know! They are both such cute girls and we are so happy to have them both. From the pictures you can see they both like to have there tongues out, and Kambria is going to be great at karate one day. One day when we get together again we will have to attempt some better pictures. We will make sure they are both fed and happy :0) We had a fun little get together and we are happy the Steelers won. We also played Rock Band, for some reason these are the only pictures that were taken.