Londyn Elaine Nelson

She arrived Oct. 1 2009 at 2:10 am, weighing 6lbs 15 oz and 19 inches long.

The kids were so exicted to meet their new sister. Rylee is home helping me with Londyn, while Taya and Walker are spending the week at Grandma's. Thanks Mom!

School Starts SOON!!!

Summer has gone by so quickly! I am however looking forward to a school starting in the fall, and of course ending this extremely long pregnancy. We are down to the last month!!! Not sure how it will be with four kids. Rylee will be in Grade One and is very excited. Rylee and Taya are both starting gymnastics and Rylee is starting her second year of piano. We are hopefully going to wean Walker from ME and his blanket!!! Potty training is on hold for now, since he wants nothing to do with the potty. I need Geniel to take him for a week. (I would pay good money too!!!) Eric has been loving work, I have been loving the pay checks! It is hard to believe while you are in school that you will actually get paid one day. So we are working on paying off all the loans! We are loving Cranbrook, besides the fact there is no shopping, but I have been finding ways around it. Eric is currently looking for a truck, he quoted "I deserve it! I have been driving a mini van, and riding a bus for the last 7 years" yes you do deserve it. I hope he finds his Man truck soon!!!

Summer...

Of course we also hit the Cardston parade and this year Rylee decided to ride in the parade instead of collect candy! She is her father's daughter when it comes to sweets. Taya on the other hand couldn't give up the candy.

Here is the only picture I have of my prego belly. I would of been 31 weeks!!!

Summer!!!

These are a few pictures of what we have been doing all summer. Natural Hot Springs! The kids loved them and it was fun to have Rob, Christy, Ashley and all of the cousins, come visit.

The kids have been playing out here a lot! This is the best part of our new house. A fenced back yard!!!
We spent a weekend in Calgary with Grandma and Grandpa Nelson. Took the kids to the zoo, waterslided at the hotel and of course a little shopping.

The Cabins are a must every summer. We couldn't keep walker out of this hammock.

And of course Riding Velvet. Rylee and Taya went on their annual fishing trip with Eric and the rest of the Nelson clan. No fish were caught this time, but Eric claims the fish all died in the winter??? Ya right! Rylee has decided that it is time to pass velvet on to Taya and next year she gets to pick a new horse to call her own. Good thing Grandpa has over 60 horses to choose from.

DR.....

So I am a little late posting but Eric Graduated after 7 long years of school. He is now offically Dr. Nelson! Which is kinda weird, He is still Dad and Eric to us. We are very proud of him and all of that hard work. I don't think anyone knows how long and hard it is until they go through it! Eric was lucky to go through his education with Armes. Who knew that these Cabin Boys from Mt. View would be Dr.'s one day...

This is a picture of the Mormon gang! From Left to Right: Jen, Conner, Eric, I, Erin, Dustin, Armes & Becky. There class was a total of 27 students, four of who were members.

Taya Turns 4!

Taya Celebrated her 4th birthday today. It was pretty low key with both Eric and I sick today. Eric did wake up and make her a pancake breakfast. Followed by opening of presents. Which Taya informed me yesterday that it was okay that I was sick I could just pass her presents to her. Eric did try to take the girls fishing today at request from Taya but after 4 hours she said Mom we couldn't find the lake so we will fish next time, to finish it off we had Turtle Cheesecake for dessert. (Taya's pick) This picture is for Grandma! We are headed home next week for Eric's Grad and I just wanted to send you a picture of what was coming to visit.

Victoria Day!!!

We took the Kids out on Victoria Day to Fort Steele (which is a heritage town just outside of Cranbrook). We were watching Grace Bevans for the week and decided that since it was a nice day(26 degrees) we would attempt to go out with two toddlers. The girls learned to pann for Gold and thought it was pretty cool.

This was the Dental Office! It had some pretty old equipment in it, good thing there has been a few updates since then. (1898 is when this town was build)

Here are the girls already for church. Ry and Taya just love Grace and now have decided they want another sister, not brother. She is such a cutie and very easy going. We had a lot of fun with her while she was here.

Walker not wanting his picture taken! But he always looks so handsome on Sunday that I tried my best to get it.

Easter!

Here are a couple pictures from our easter egg hunt! Walker showing off his chocolate. I couldn't get him to look at me he was too happy. Duke in the background loved it. The girls and Rueger with all there eggs. This was like the first nice day so the kids were just happy to be outside. Ry and Taya are going to miss Rueger and Briggs (not in the picture). These kids have grown up together so it is going to be sad when we will be 6 hours apart.

In 10 days...

I always put these in the wrong order, but here it is.... This is a picture of our house!!! This is an angle shot and I love that we are not surrounded by neighbors. It is nice to have the trees right behind us too. This was taken back in March so hopefully it is a lot green by the time we get there. This is about double the size of what we have been living in, so I am looking forward to a lot more room. The yard is fully landscaped with a play set in the back. (the kids are super excited). And finally our dog is going to be an outside/garage dog and not an inside dog. It has a huge heated garage for storage, 5 bedrooms, an awesome en suite to our bedroom, a/c, and much more. We will definitely miss Saskatoon (not our tiny condo), we have made a lot of great friends here. 7 years of -40 degree winters did us in so we are looking forward to the mild winters of BC. We our lucky to only be two blocks from Brett and Christy, and approx. 8 blocks from Scott and Heidi.

UNEXPECTED SURPRISE!!!

We have been so busy this last month and a half! After showing our condo many many times, it finally is SOLD!!! What a relief this has been. It is no fun cleaning, cleaning and more cleaning and then having to get rid of three kids and a dog. Thanks to my great friends for the help. Eric spent two long weeks up in Northern Sask. for school. So the kids and I headed home for two 1/2 weeks. Thanks Mom and Dad I know we over stayed our welcome but we really appreciated it.

Then off to Cranbrook to find a house! After two long days of seeing house after house we finally made an offer!!! YAY. I never new that it was so hard to find a five bedroom house...Yes that's right we have to make room for our UNEXPECTED SURPRISE coming early October.

So we move May 1st to Cranbrook, BC. I will be sad to move away from Saskatoon and especially good friends, but we are lucky to be moving close to other good friends. We are excited for warmer weather, and to finally start paying off the debt we have accumulated over the past 7 years.