Easter 2006

 Holidays are so much fun with little kids!  I had so much fun putting together their baskets (me and the Easter bunny...)

 I'm glad they still have not idea that the Easter bunny doesn't use baggies.  They come in handy.

 Babies holding a baby.  Palmer is so little that the three of them together is little awkward.

 New bunnies.  Sadly this is the closest we will ever come to owning bunnies.  I am allergic much to my boys sadness.  

 Hunter looks happy about being held by a 2 year old...Palmer isn't so sure what he things.  

 Lincoln is always loving Hunter.  I love that he puts his head down on him all of the time trying to give loves.

 Easter Sunday best.

 More loving

 Josh's work put on their annual Easter egg hunt.  Hunter slept through the day, but the other boys had a ball!

 The Easter bunny showed up!  Too bad my boys were too afraid of him to want anything to do with him.

 Palmer's face pretty much shows what he thought about that Easter bunny!

 Lincoln loved the donuts.  He ate at least three!

 Easter egg hunting time!  The rest of the older kids ran as fast as they could and got as many eggs as they could.  Our kids took a little different approach, they would get one, open it, eat the contents and move on to the next.  Needless to say, we didn't get much candy...

 My brother David works with Josh so Palmer got to hang out with sweet Savannah for the hunt.  She had a similar hunting style.

 Eating their treats. 

 Can you open this?

We had such a fun Easter!

St. Patrick's Day 2006

I love St. Patrick's Day.  Such a random day to celebrate, and I am all about celebrating random days.

 I heard of a tradition once that someone put out shoes and filled them with candy.  I thought it must be for St. Patrick's Day.  Well, it was St. Nicholas Day, but we decided to make this our new tradition for St. Patrick's Day.  In some families leprechauns cause mischief, in our house they bring treats.

 The leprechauns gave the boys these great monkeys.  They ended up being highly entertaining when attached to a ceiling fan.

 
Fun and festive treat.

Welcome Home Hunter!

 We were so excited to get Hunter home from the NICU.  It was a long 2 weeks with him there.  He came home so tiny, but luckily gained weight rapidly.  

 Such a little sweet heart.  We put the gloves on him to keep him from scratching himself.

 Deep asleep.

 The boys were so curious about their new little brother and excited to have him home.

 Can you believe those three baby boys?  Our house was wild!  And fun. 

One benefit from having McKay in the NICU, is that he came home an awesome sleeper.  He slept through the night from the very beginning.  It was a blessing.  

Birth of Hunter Jeffrey

 Our little Hunter was a bit of a surprise to us.  We had to babies under 2 and felt like life was a little crazy, but I have to say, I was pretty excited to have another sweet Nelson boy.  I just wasn't quite sure how we were going to do it all!  We got bought a cake to celebrate

 We let these too little buddies help us pick out a new outfit for their brother.  

It's funny, we took this picture thinking that we had a lot time left before we welcomed our little boy into our home.  It was only a few weeks later that Hunter made his appearance.  He was 6 weeks early.

 Due to Hunter coming so early, his lungs weren't fully formed when he was born.  He also swallowed a lot of blood.  We didn't know it, but the doctors were very worried about him.

 I got a little time with him, but the doctor quickly whisked him away from me and we didn't see him for a while.

We were so grateful that Hunter's pediatrician was close and could help with everything.  We were so worried.

 Our wonderful doctor that delivered Hunter Dr. Horsley.  He was born at Logan Hospital.

 My sweet little Hunter.  We were so glad that he was okay.

 All of those tubes and machines scared me so much.  It was so hard not to have him with me in my room and to hear all of the other babies with their moms.  

 The wonderful nurses in the NICU, where Hunter had to stay for 2 weeks.  He was still 6 pounds for being born so early, which was such a blessing because he did a lot better because of his size.

 I love his blonde hair!  The people at the hospital said they rarely see babies born with blond hair and so much of it!

Everyone was so wonderful and took great care of us and our new little boy.  After two weeks we were able to bring him home and love him like crazy!