Sydney's Baptism

With my good friend the photographer Diana & me at Temple Square, Salt Lake City. May 2009

Us

The whole Family. I love Alejandro in this picture, he was just being himself.

Victoria Julieanne Nielsen

Victoria, Sydney & Alejandro

My husband Tim and my daughter Sydney at Temple Square in Salt Lake City. My friend Diana took these pictures for Sydney's Baptism invitations.

Sydney Celeste Nielsen being herself!

Sydney for her Baptism Invitation Pictures.

Victoria Julieanne Nielsen 1 yr old!

I know it has been....since last year since I've made a post, but Facebook has been keeping me busy ;-) Of course a lot has happened since then. Alejandro turned 4 yrs old in January. Victoria turned 1 yr old February 4th. And Sydney turned 8 and just had a baptism. And I'm off for the summer from Culinary School.

Tim and Victoria

Auntie Julieanne and Victoria Julieanne

Our convict neighbor Rudy

Our friend Diana and baby Ambree

Sydney with her best friend Ariana and her brother Mateo

I know, I know, I know I almost never update my blog and my friends and family probably never even read it anymore because of it. sorry, but with school and all I just don't have time to sit on the computer anymore. So.....Culinary school is going great. We are in baking portion of the semester. Baking breads such as Baguettes, soft rolls, Honey wheat bread, oat bran rolls (my favorite), cookies, pies, creme brulee, puff pastry and that sort of thing. I do have to be in school by 6 am! My alarm goes off at 4:30 am, it's horrible but I got used to it. But I'm learning a lot and having fun so it's o.k.
Halloween was fun, especially since the weather was so nice. We had friends come over and all of our kids went trick-a treating together.
For thanksgiving, we went to my mother in law's house. Tim's aunt Sandy was visiting from out of town and we had a lot of fun. My father in law, Bruce, cooked the most moist turkey I've ever eaten in my life!!!
The kids are doing great. Victoria is 10 months december 4th and her teeth just look so funny!! She looks like a vampire. We can't get over it! We love her so much, we just can't stop kissing her. Sydney and Alejandro go crazy over her. She's crawling everywhere and stands on her own for a few seconds. She's a very smiley baby and sleeps a lot.

Yellowstone!!!

Can you guys believe that I'm writing another post within a month of each other?!!! I'm trying to get good at this blog thing. Well, we went to Island Park in Idaho, it was really close to Yellowstone so of course we went. I loved it!!! I had never been to Yellowstone and now I want to go back soon to see it all. We went to Tiffany and Seth's family cabins. They were so beautiful. Lyndee and Chris George and Diana and Tyler Coe also went with us. Our kids had so much fun. They loved playing in the dirt and riding the 4 wheeler!!! We went swimming in Yellowstone and we all loved it. (sorry if I don't make sense in what I'm writing. I'm trying to do this while I work answering phones at the same time)

The girls were laughing at me because I asked if "Rexburg" was a supermarket. They all could not believe I did not know it is a famous city in Idaho. Sorry...I'm not from around here. I'm a New Yorker!!!! But they forgave me. The entire trip was great!! We had a blast! We even saw a Buffalo while in Yellowstone..just walking around the street. gotta go. peace!

Camping with the Santo's Family at Yuba Lake July 24th weekend

We went camping with the Santo's family to Yuba Lake the weekend of July 24th. We had a blast with them. Alejandro just wanted to "go fishing" the entire time. Sydney, of course, just wanted to be in the water swimming all day long. And we just kept Victoria in her little walker the whole time. I had only been water skiing once before and was not able to get up at all. I finally got to get up this time, thanks to Magno's patience of letting me try over and over and over again. It was so cute, we were all cheering each other. Amanda Santos did it on her first try, she made it seem like it was the easiest thing in the world. We were all so mad!!! Tim of course, did not have a problem either. We all had such a blast. Rosie doesn't enjoy boting as much so she stayed fishing, and boy did she catch us fish. There was a total of ten people and we all had plenty of fish for dinner plus the next day and I still brought one big fish home.

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And yes, Sydney and I both cut our hair. I'm an Oprah fan and I had seen a show about donating your hair, so I decided to do it. I told Sydney that there are kids her age that are embarrassed to go out because they have no hair from being sick. And how important it was to try to make a difference on someone's life. Plus, I told her since our hair grows so fast, we'll be back to our long hair in no time! She loved the idea and did it with me. It felt really good doing it. Knowing that MY hair is going to go to someone who really needs it is an amazing feeling. I donated 14 inches and Sydney 10 inches. I recommend it guys!!! Just go to www.locksoflove.org for details.

Tim's Rockband Party

o.k. so I'm a little behind doing this blog thing. The last post was for our baby Victoria's birth in February. What has happened since then....Tim had an rockband party just for boys. He kicked the kids and me out of the house so I called Diana and we took our kids to Chick fillet (is that how you spell it?) to eat and play. I'm glad the boys did an activity. I feel bad me being the one with all the 'activities'. They were supposed to come dressed rock style and some guys did.