A long overdue post

For a long time every time I tried to post something, the upload would get stuck so...

I'll start with the birthday boys in the month of April...

Breakfast in bed 

Now six-years-old!  So smart!  So tall!  We are so thankful!!

Then in April 27th Elias turned 1!  He wasn't so sure how to open his present so Josiah was happy to help!

All gone!

Flowers...one of my favorite subjects!

Tenth anniversary trip to Seattle

Decided to go to Seattle for a long weekend for our tenth anniversary, so fun!  Went to the Aquarium, the science museum and just had fun walking, hopping on the tram and checking things out!

Pike Street Narket, love all the fresh flowers and produce, a feast for the eyes!

Seafood dumped on our table along with corn-on-the-cob, sausage...someone was started out being crabby, but ended up having fun!

The skyline of Seattle

Under the space needle

Hiding out in one of my favorite instruments...

Love the serene beauty of this picture 

Me and my boys!

Moving and Josiah starting school

Life has been busy here at the Nelson Nook...between moving and having five-month-old Elias and now hopefully building in the near future...Josiah has started officially homeschooling with once a week Classical Conversations Community Day on Wednesday mornings.  He is learning so much about history, skip counting, art, music, geography...so much I am wondering if I ever learned it or have I just forgotten that much?  He is learning the seven wonders of the ancient world as well as math, telling time, calendar reading and so much more.  It has been fun and challenging both!  Elias is now holding his head up much better and is now 14.5 pounds and 65 1/2 centimeters (anyone remember the conversion to inches?)

We have plans to go to the pumpkin patch soon, but have had a fun-filled summer with going to Glacier National Park this Sunday.  Kent worked on clearing some brush at the property on Saturday in hopes to begin building some time this month if all goes according to our plan...

So, here are some of the pictures from the last several months...with two little ones around it is hard to find much time to keep up on this blog with everything else going on; but better late than never they say (whoever "they" is; :)

Happy New Year!

Another year has come and gone and a new year is now upon us....how strange to think that it is 2015 already!  Life is flying by...though I am home, the days go by so fast with cleaning, cooking, sewing, grocery shopping, errands, medical transcription and finding snippets of time to play with Josiah...

Since pictures speak of one thousand words...here is our story....

 

Marly loves to sneak into every available space...

My veggie tray that I made for Thanksgiving dinner at the O'Dell's house

Bowling for Owen's 5th birthday party

Mom and son hot chocolate date...

Future bell ringer

Christmas stroll downtown...

Josiah sleeps beside his bed on Dumbo

A cute photo op of Marly

Sending off shoeboxes through Samaritan's Purse...went to Mexico....

Another birthday...yikes!  Had an ice cream pie from Baskin Robbins...and a new calligraphy set...

New pajama bottoms for Josiah that I made...I'm learning to sew....took only three tries😄

Playing the game of life...

New potholders that I made...

A cute moment...

Having fun in the sun at the library

Our snowy street

A doughnut treat on Christmas morning 

Helping Mom make Angel food cake

Walking the grounds of the Conrad Mansion on this snowy Christmas Eve 

Our house guest Trey who has been with us for ten days while friends are out of town...Marly's nightmare, he has literally been jumping on every high place to get away from him...a true scaredy cat!