Merry Christmas at the Nelson's

We had a great Christmas 2011. On Christmas Eve, Kyler and I rode with Uncle Grahamm to Sebeka. The house was bustling as we used most of the afternoon to prepare the following day's meal.

rolling lots of gnocchi...

 helping grandma with rice (hmmm.. not sure how to spell this) rehnrick.

 "mac cheese."

 Christmas dinner

 Hard working power couple..

 Eggplant parm, gnocchi, brigole, homemade bread, parm, salad.... yum!

 In our Christmas best!

 "help daddy."

Kyler had a great time being the center of attention w/ all his aunts and uncles! As you can see, the highlight was the piano...

Also very popular for Mr. Bubbs was a lifesize-to-him bear dressed as santa. He was glad to have a wrestling buddy that he could dominate (vs most other two year olds who are way bigger than him).

Chris had to head back to Minneapolis for work but Kyler and I went to Brainerd for the rest of the week. We had a great time with the Bolt side - no pics to show for it as I got kind of lazy and didn't unpack my car very well during that visit.

Thanks to everyone for the amazing gifts and invaluable company!

We are so blessed! Love love love all around!!

Thank you to those far away!!

We opened a couple gifts with just or little family of three tonight..

Chris has been working SO hard (and long) so his eyes were extremely blood shot but I'm a sucker for presents and really didn't want to wait until we return from Sebeka & Brainerd next Friday.

Thanks Leigh & Dave for sending your aloha from Hawaii!

And this is after all the gifts were opened...

Thank you, also, to the Serpa's!! This is an amazing present & I'm excited (and so is Kyler) to build a little town :-) Pardon my annoying voice.

You're also in our prayers for your father, Keith.

Merry Christmas everyone! Much love...

Artists

My men are so creative! Making Christmas presents... Kyler always need to "help."

Macy's 8th Floor

This Saturday Kyler and I had a great time with Tyson and Kayla (his mom). We all ventured downtown to see "A Day in the Life of an Elf" ~ The Macy's Eighth floor exhibit for 2011. Kyler loved it - he could have stared at each exhibit for hours. I found it very tough to get good pics...

After walking through the exhibit, we saw a great puppet show at "Moose Crossings" - a seasonal puppet theater also on the eighth floor. Kyler was very psyched about hanging with all the kids and galloping around while saying, "moose. tree. christmas tree." It was pretty amusing. He sat on the rug right up front and stared intently during the entire show.

His new favorite saying is, "down town, charlie brown." He loves the city life and all the activities it has to offer :-)

Tyson is such a great buddy! We had him over last week - quite honestly he can't come over enough!! Kyler and I both love playdates!

Kyler really likes having Baby Lucas around. He is 10 weeks now and Kyler likes to help feed him his milk, burp him, play peek-a-boo, and keep track of his where-abouts at all time. In this video you can't hear what he's saying, but he says, "hi Lucas." and then sings, "lucas. lucas. luuuucas.