Family!

What a fun surprise. Eric's cousin, Kami, and her family were in town visiting Bill and Sherry and they invited us over for dinner. We were excited just to meet up with them for dinner and swimming, but they found out we were having a boy a few days ago so they made it into quite the celebration. Telise, Kennedy, and Jace made us a congratulations banner. They bought us all sorts of cute boy clothes (Our child is going to be much better dressed than we are) and to top it off they even got a congratulations baseball cake. We were pretty spoiled!

8 year olds really bring out the kid in Eric, we practically had to pull he and Jace out of the pool to eat ice cream.

It's been so great living close to Bill and Sherry and knowing we have a little bit of family close by. Thank you guys for the great surprise party!

Monsoon

Well... I'm a little late posting this, but in Phoenix we have two types of weather... HOT and Monsoon. The other night I went walking with Jenn and Erika and we got caught in the Monsoon. Luckily Eric was on campus and he came to our rescue!

I'm a Boy!

Pure steel and sex appeal

Happy 4th of July!! What better way to spend it than at a demolition derby in Yuma, AZ. Of course I was pulling for our patriotic friend. He did not win the grand prize; however he did win "Best Design." I'm pretty sure the award was titled something else as "Best Design" really doesn't sound right for an event where the cars just drive around trying to kill each other, but you get the idea. Our grand prize winner though was this handsome gentleman exiting the black car!

Eric and I had a lot of fun relaxing in Yuma with my grandparents... Eric did some golfing and I did some baking and babysitting with my grandma. Unfortunately we aren't the best at remembering to take pictures when we're just hanging out so I'll have to repost a picture of my beautiful grandma and I from a couple months ago.

2 years in paradise

So against the bets of our family and friends, we made it to our two year anniversary this past week. It has been a good two years and we really like each other, this whole marriage thing may have a future. We decided to spend the weekend in Scottsdale and had a great time. We named our own price on Priceline and ended up with a great deal on an awesome resort. Here are the pictures that prove it.


I had to comment on this picture, doesn't Chels look beautiful? I am lucky she is not shallow or else I wouldn't stand a chance.

Nothing but fun

As we are getting ready for the baby we thought we would practice picture taking with our first born Danger. Just some pictures of him alone and sleeping with Chels. The picture of the red pillow and his bed is because he made a Danger Fort. I came home from school and let him out of his room and found his fort, but wasn't sure if he really used it. Well later I put him back in his room and left. When I came back and opened his door he was in it asleep. I am excited that he is into fort building, now I don't have to build them on my own. My friend Caloy took a picture of us golfing today, so I thought I would post what I do a lot of (I am still not very good).

Its the popular thing to do

What has two underdeveloped legs, arms, and eyes, and is the cutest thing in the world? A Nielson baby! Please see proof below. We had our first ultrasound today, and it was pretty amazing, I think we were both surprised that there really was something moving around inside of her. Chels is just over 12 weeks prego, is due Dec 3rd, and is feeling pretty good, she has been a real trooper. Today we also learned that our little one can already talk, as can be seen by the bubble the Dr. added coming from its mouth. Anyways we are very excited and feel very fortunate for this blessing. Chels is going to be a great mom and I am going to be a wonderful dad. I mean how can we not be great parents, we have been practicing with a dog for 8 months now, it is pretty much the same thing.