A Late Christmas Post

I realize these pictures are late, but there are just some of our christmas pictures from Denver. Colson's First New Year Nielson style!

Colson's 1st Birthday Party

I decided that for Colson's first birthday I was going to make the best cake ever. I started at 6:00am and didin't get done until late afternoon. I completly thre away one cake because it was breaking and wouldn't stack right. I was tempted to just buy a cake, but I couldn't bring myself to it so I went back to the drawing board and came up with what is below. Since Colson's nickname is monkey we decided that a monkey would be the best choice. I think that it cake out pretty cute. Colson really didn't dig in like we thought he would. Really do most children? We had to help him see that he could just put his hands in his cake. He played in it a little as all of his cousins and sunts and uncles encouraged him to make a big mess!

Ya that onsie was so stained by the time he was done........

To Celebrate Colson's birthday even more we headed to his 12month check up the day after his birthday. They wanted to make sure he was getting enough iron for him to grow properly so the Doctor ordered blood tests. They took blood from both of his arms because his veins were so tiny they couldn't get as much blood out as they needed. I was the one who "got" to hold him down in my arms as they repeatedly poked him. The green wrap around his little arms is where they poked him. If that wasn't enough after that he got his vaccines in both of his legs. He just layed on our laps the rest of the night. Happy happy birthday.

Colson

Colson

One Year Older

My little baby turned one today. I can't believe it! It's gone by way too fast. He still has no teeth and hasn't started to walk, but I'm okay with that. I'll let him be little for as long as I can.

Almost 5 Months Behind

So I frequently get the question why don't you update your blog? When are you going to put pictures up etc, etc, etc. Well I'll tell you why I haven't I've been way too BUSY!!!!!! I won't bore you with all the details of my busy life because I'm sure you would stop reading this in a second. So instead I decided that I would just post a bunch of pictures from the previous months that I've never put up. Yes I might put a caption or two, but don't they say a picture is worth a 1,000 words? (I'll put them on in a few different posts)

Colson's first time in the water at the cabin in Island Park.

Shane holding Colson and Elenor (I hope I spelled her name right guys!)

Colson fell asleep on our evening boat ride. I love hi little life vest. Safety first!

Chelsey, Tate and Colson

Janelle, Me, Tate and Colson

Two of my best friends from Colorado came up to visit for a weekend. It was so much fun. We hung out, went to the National Potato Museum :), went to the water park, ate at some of the popular places in Blackfoot and enjoyed each other's company.

Colson's pants kept falling down. In fact in this picture I had no idea they were even down! lol

Tori please don't kill me !!!!! This was during our family vacation up at the cabin in Island Park. We had got a little crazy. When we get together who knows what will happen!

After dinner one night up at the cabin I asked Shane to hold Colson while I helped clean dinner up. When I came back out Shane had put him in the basket in between him and Todd on the camp chairs. Colson thought it was the funnest thing! It was darn cute!

I've Come Full Circle

Well, this is the first of many post this week since I won't have school after Tuesday. This past weekend I've been doing a lot of reflecting. Especially Sunday during sacrement meeting. We've been in this ward since May and Shane already has a calling. He's an Elder's quorum teacher. So two Sundays ago when we got called into speak with one of the counslers in the bishopric, I knew that most likely it was for me...it was. I am now a MiaMaid adviser. Who would have thought. I myself was in Young Women's what like 6 years ago. I feel very humbled to know that my Heavenly Father knows that I can serve him in this new capacity. I feel so greatful to each of my advisers and teachers in Young Women's. I am just praying that I'll be able to be some kind of a positive influence on these girls like my leaders were for me.