Nelson Reunion: Olympic Games

 Who came up with this increadibly messy olympic games...oh yeah...Uncle Todd.  So, Wendy is on the very top of the picture getting whipped cream dropped on her face.  Andrew is the unfortunate boy right next to her.  The person above needed to get the whipping cream in the mouths below to score points. 

 The kids had to get all the worms from their pudding.  This is Andrew.

 Rachel and her cousins...

 This was shot put I think.  We needed to throw chips on their faces.  The most chips on the face won.

 Adults had to be blindfolded and fed babyfood, by a child who is also blindfolded.  While the children had to be blindfolded and eat pudding.   I think the baby food flavor was turkey dinner.  Yum...blah.

 Chew salteens, chew gum, blow bubble.  Biggest bubble wins.

 Wendy and Scott were both contenders.  This is Wendy starting her bubble.  Funny pic.

 Kids and Adults ran a 5 k to start the day off.  (That is 3.1 miles)  Andrew ran it!  Good job.  I think he walked most of it, but hey that is still great.

 Eric ran/walked it too.

 Scott ran it.  Hated the elevation.  Utah had thin air.  (at 4500 ft.) 

Here are the first 4 finishers.  I don't think Scott was too happy about the two other fingers he is holding up. 

 Rachel ran it too.  I think she came in before Andrew and Eric.

This is the mighty start of the race.  Wendy didn't run, she had a bad knee.  But took great pics. 

The Nelson Reunion: Minute to Win It

 Eric had to hold dice at the tip of his popsicle stick...

 I had to spin around and get the toilet paper off the roll without it breaking or touching the ground.  Got really sick and dizzy doing it...

 Brian is pulling kleenex out of the container.  Had to do it all under a min.

In the end, we all had fun, some got sick, and everyone got into a huge water fight at the end.  Good times.

Nelson Reunion: Lagoon

 Thirsty?

 Rollercoastering

 Megan with Rachel on a little ferris wheel

 Wendy's sister Holly and neice Meg got to join our rockin reunion for the day.  Best treat ever!!

Fun times at Lagoon...

Nelson Reunion: Iron Chef

 This has nothing at all to do with the Iron Chef Competion, I just think this is funny.  Brian toar off his shirt and started swinging it around his head.  Skinny little funny guy!!

 

Secret ingredient:  Canned Pineapple

We got two hours to plan, shop and make our creation

Had to spend less than 8 dollars, and use what we had at our condos

 Rachel was on Grandma, and Grandma Great, and Zak's team.  They made pineapple icecream w/ a delicious pineapple, carmalized topping.  It was amazing! 

 Scott was on Kevin, Katelyn and Dax's team.  They made carmelized pineapple, cherry chocolate topping.  It was so good. 

 Eric (The one you can't see, blindfolded in the back...???) was on Kelly, Jenny, Emily and Dustin's team.  They made pinapple upside down cake, AND pineapple fruit kabobs with a dipping sauce. YUMMY!

 Wendy was on Brittney, Daphni, Brian and Aaron's team.  They made an amazing pineapple-cherry dump cake. 

 This is the winning team.  They made a savory pineapple french bread pizza, AND a pina colada smoothy.  Both devine!  (None of our little Nelson family was on that team...go figure...)

Andrew was on Cassidy, Whittney, Becky and the twins Beck and Reese's team.  They made an amazing pina colada cake.  I had a hard time not taking thirds of that cake. 

I do have to mention the other team, Bob and Tom's team.  They made grilled pinapple with ice cream and cherries on top.  Unfortunately, judgeing and pictures took too long and their beautiful creations were not up to picture quality.  The taste was wonderful though...

All done!  All gone.

More fun pictures from our Ocean Shores camping trip

This is a bike show Scott and the kids watched.  I wish I could say that was us on the bikes, but that would be kinda not true, nor believable...

Fun with the Jumbo Sized marshmallows...

Eric was not with us on this trip, he was at EFY in Utah...He would've loved this.

Okay, look at Brian in this picture...can you say "Sugar Coma"?  And, I think that is a jumbo marshmallow Andrew is decimating...  Camping is so fun!

LDS Night at the Mariners

 We went to LDS night at the Mariners.  It was so fun.  We invited our family in Portland, and we all got to see a pretty good game.  Mariners won (doesn't happen very often), and we got to visit with family and ward members. 



Another Great Year at Ocean Shores

This is Logan, my friend's sweet, beautiful little boy.  So to all my family, this is not our baby.

We camped, ate, played, were invaded by Harleys, and had a fabulous time.  

Braces Off!

Rachel got her braces off!!!  

A Tour of Our New Home buy Andrew and Brian

 Here is our new home.  This is our Family room area.  We play games here, and watch tv, and play the drums...all day!!!

 This is my new bed.  The reason why I have a tree in my room is my mom thought it would be cute to make my room themed after the book Where the Wild Things Are.  Little did she know I am afraid of the monsters in that book. 

 This is my room.  It is a Harry Potter room.  I love not sleeping with Brian.  He would always wake me up in the morning.

 Dad took a picture of the kitchen when it wasn't cleaned up.  Mom wasn't very happy about that.  But we wanted you to see it anyway.

 This is my mom's favorite room.  The big, gigantic pantry.  Pretty sweet huh?

 This is the back of the house.  We rairly play out here.  We like the front better...that is where all our friends are.  But this is pretty cool.

 This is the front of the house.  The driveway looks really long in this picture.  It isn't really that long.

This is our living room.  And that is our new piano. 

Catching up with May and June

 Andrew turns 9 on May 20th. 

We had just moved out of our home into this temperary apartment.

 Andrew also recieved his Wolf!  Good job Andrew.

 Eric is taught how to throw knives in Young Men.  Talk about teaching needed skills...Hey who knows if Hunger Games times are ahead of us.  We really miss this ward!!!!

 The whole time we were moving out and moving in Scott was helping coach Andrew and Brian's baseball.  It kept Scott and the kids sane.  Drove me a little insane.

 Eric being recognized at school for his GPA.  Great Job Eric.  At least he wasn't recognized for his being the #1 Hunger Games Fan.  (That was a real award...)

 The two cutest kids on the team.  Charlie and Andrew were great this year. 

 And here are the two cutest kids on Brian's team. Sam and Brian rocked in t-ball.  And below, that is Scott doing the pitching for the older boys.  He really did love it.