Big stuff!!!!

Dylan learned to crawl, probably about 3 weeks ago. Now we can't keep him still! Since then, this is what he has learned to do!

Just hangin out...

Wait wait wait.. He's goin for it!

Almost got it.....

Shhhhhh... I'm being sneaky!

So close!!!

GOT IT!!!!!

So proud of himself! :-)


Hopefully this video works... It is Dylan walking with his lawnmower.. So cute!!

Merry Christmas from the Nielsens!

I know this is a little late, but Merry Christmas!! We made our list and checked it twice! Turns out Dylan was pretty nice this year!
He went and saw Santa and told him what he wanted for Christmas...

And Santa delivered!!! What a lucky boy!!
Turns out Dylan is not big on tearing things open.. He wanted us to unwrap his gifts and then he wanted to play with them.. He only got mad when we would take one toy away to have him open more gifts.. He just wanted his new toys!
Yay! Presents!!
He got a lawn mower to help him walk, when he gets to that point..
Hey! I'm getting a call on my new cell phone! Thanks Grandmas!! (Both grandparents got him the same cell phone toy!)
A nice stylish hat from the grandparents.
He got money AND a present from the great grandparents!!
Cool!!!
Grandma Rea shooting the big gun!!
This about sums up his first Christmas! Happy as a clam!! We did spend time with my family, but we forgot to take our camera in.. :(
The Saturday after Christmas we went down to visit my dad and do Christmas festivities! Dylan loves his Grandpa Coy!!
We had such a wonderful first Christmas with Dylan! We are so thankful for him and for all of our family! They are all so wonderful and supportive to us!! We love you all and we hope you all had a wonderful holiday season!!

Feeding Time and a Pirate!

Ok, so normally feeding time at the Nielsen home goes off without a hitch.. That was not the case in these photos. There are also a couple pictures thrown in of other fun in the high chair.. Enjoy!!

This is what I walked in on....



He really was just happy as a clam.. And even more happy that after he got to play in the bath!!

Aaaaaarrrrggggg!

Fear the sword!!! He is a pro!

He is the happiest pirate ever!

9 Months! Big Stuff!!

Our little Dyl-bug turned the big 9 months today (*tear, *sniff)!! Man! Time sure has flown by.... Andrew and I are both so grateful for him, and even though these nine months has been difficult at times, they have been extremely rewarding!!

There's our handsome little fella!! (ok, so technically he was 7 months in this picture, but still cute).
He is such a happy baby! And he is such a ham for the camera! It is great!!
See... total ham ball!! Gotta love him though! He is always ready to ham it up for the camera!
He has grown like a weed these nine months. It's hard to believe he started out at 7 lbs 15 oz, and only 21 inches long..
Now he is 20 lbs (50th percentile) and 28 1/4 inches (50th percentile)!!! That's a whole lot of baby!!
He doesn't necessarily like to put random things he finds on the floor in his mouth (thank goodness) although I am sure that is coming. He is more interested in licking things.. like his hand, his binky, dad's nose (which personally, I find gross), and mom's arm, among any other body parts he can get.
Also, he loves to be walked around.. It doesn't matter where we are, he wants to walk. He is getting pretty good at it, and he is starting to boogie!

Of course, he is still the center of our world! He loves his dad! Dad likes to walk him around the house when he gets home from work, so he is always happy to see dad!


He also loves his mommy! We have been having a lot of fun together now that I am out of school for the semester.
Happy 9 months of life Bubba!! Mom and Dad love you!!

We should really get together and catch up....

So, I know it's been a while since the last post. So here is an update on our family...
Andrew and I have been busily plugging away at school this last semester. Andrew only took two classes this semester, and he passed both of them! YAY! Good job honey! He took a music class this last semester where he had to go to different musical performances. They had to be non-western-culture performances so it was pretty cool to go with him and watch some of them. I took three classes this semester, and as of right now all looks well as far as grades go! This means that I only have a year and a half left of school.. YAY!
Thanksgiving was wonderful! This was my first Thanksgiving off in four years, so I was pretty excited. We stopped by Andrew's family to say "Hi" and visit. After that we headed over to my mom's and had a yummy dinner. Dylan loved it because people kept feeding him stuff. (He has been on fruits and veggies for like four months now and loves it!)
Andrew and I just celebrated out two year anniversary on the 13th of this month. We celebrated on Saturday because Andrew had important work stuff on Monday that he couldn't miss. We went to breakfast at Beez Cafe in Roy. It is so super yummy! We took Dylan with us to breakfast and I think that he enjoyed it as much as we did and here is why...
He got to drink out of a big boy cup like dad.. In fact it was dad's cup. He loves drinking out of glasses.
Dad fed him the whip cream off of his waffles....
"What?! No, it wasn't me eating the whip cream.."
YAY! Whip cream!
It was a good breakfast!
After we got done at Beez we took Dylan over to my mom's because she was going to watch him for us for the rest of our anniversary date.
We went and saw Tangled, which we both agreed, was wonderful!! Highly recommend it.. Even if you don't have kids. It was fun.
After the movie we walked across the street to the arcade and played some arcade games. We had a ton of fun and I even won the bonus on one of those old school arcade games where the light goes around in a circle and you have to stop it on a certain light. I have never been able to win one of those! I was very excited!! We got a ton of tickets and we got some prizes. Including a fuzzy dice for our rear view mirror. That's right... We roll in style.
After the arcade we went back across the street to Sanora Grill for dinner. They have the BEST Mexican food! And really delicious guacamole. It is one of our favorite places to eat. Then we went to Farr's ice cream and got yummy waffle cones.
After ice cream we made an attempt to go to Temple Square to see the Christmas lights. We drove all the way down there and searched high and low for a parking spot. Finally we decided to just bag it and go home. We will take Dylan on Monday to go see the lights, but this time we will be taking the Front Runner down and just riding trax around.. Same us the headache of trying to park.
Oh!!! I almost forgot! We got a new car a couple weeks ago! Andrew's car took a poop and it was going to cost us oodles of money to fix it, so we decided to just not worry about it and we traded it in and got a 2005 Honda Accord! We LOVE it!!!
Well, I think that is it for now.

Aquarium in photo..

As promised (a couple months ago...) Here are the pictures from our Aquarium trip!

This was the best picture we got of him petting the stingrays.. You will just have to trust us that he actually did pet it.. Several times..