Christmas Day

We had a pretty quiet Christmas day - just our family & Uncle Steven. The kids opened gifts from Santa - they had to be patient because David is such a late sleeper :) Michael got his taxi (which is what he told his surgeon right before his surgery that he wanted for Christmas). We also got some snow - not  as much as we were hoping for, but enough to say it was a White Christmas :)

Downtown OKC

We kept hearing people mention the spectacular Christmas decorations in downtown OKC - we were really cautious about getting M out in the cold or in public, but we finally decided to bundle up (it was SO cold) & go see! Such fun! Uncle Steven was visiting for a few days too!

Christmas 2012 Family Pic

Look at that happy, healthy, handsome kiddo in the middle!! Only 2 weeks post-op in this picture!! God is GOOD!

 And a silly pic - David posing & Andy's creeper face make me laugh :)

Nelson Christmas

BB & Papa took care of Michael for the week before Christmas so he could have some more quiet time to rest & heal. We decided to celebrate Christmas w/ BB, Papa, Uncle Steven & Uncle Matt, Aunt Manda & cousin Henry the weekend they brought M back to us. It was a fun time, yummy food & lots of laughs with the Nelson/Morgan family tradition of writing poems to help people guess what their gift is.  I cooked ham, green beans (had an unfortunate incident with black pepper - the lid to my pepper shaker wasn't on tightly, so when I went to shake pepper over the green beans, the lid fell off & a mound of pepper went into the skillet. Lovely.)  We also had sweet potatoes, pineapple salad, spinach salad, bread & of course, I had to make my mom's chocolate pie!

I think this was our first Christmas to celebrate with Matt & Manda ??!! Yay!

sweet cousin picture :)

Uncle Matt & Uncle Steven!

love this one :)

the Nelson ladies 

David just likes to sit - on the fireplace, on toys & on presents. 

me & my girl

cutie pie 

Ugly Sweater Christmas Party

Backtracking on the ol' blog...so much catching up to do! In December our neighborhood had an ugly sweater party. SO much fun! And hilarious!! We were all really heavy hearted that day because Sandy Hook had just happened, so it was nice to have some comic relief. 

Hilarious that one guy came in an OU sweatshirt & another in a UT one. The sweater vests on the men definitely made a nice statement! The guy in the footie pj's won the "ugliest sweater" award - which brought about some questioning - footie pj's aren't really a sweater?!?!

 My sweet friend Erin, who did an awesome job hosting the party!

The pretty ladies in some pretty sweaters!

Kate's Funnies...

...that I don't want to forget -
*She made a comment about the sun, so I said, "Do you know that God made the sun?" and she said, "Yes! And he made the twinkly stars & the shiny moon!!"
*When something is loud she still covers her ears & says, "That scares my ears!"
*I guess I've told her that I have to "get some stuff done" a lot because now she will say, "Momm-EEE? When you get done with all your stuff, will you do this puzzle with me?" (or play with me, etc.)
*She sings ALL the time. We will definitely be putting her in some music classes at some point. She gets most excited about music at school - yesterday when I picked her up at preschool, I asked her what she learned today. She said, "I learned music!!"
*My favorite "Kate lyrics" right now to Row, Row, Row Your Boat - "Mary, mary, mary, mary jumps into a stream." instead of "Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream." So cute :-)

Alisa Nelson Studio

I am excited to announce my new art business name --

Alisa Nelson Studio 

I am busy painting some custom orders, getting my classroom ready for art lessons & working on some other fun projects! I will be updating my webpage & FB page on a weekly basis...and be watching for some fun giveaways! 

Please visit me at my new website -

alisanelsonstudio.com

& my facebook page - (You don't have to be on FB to see this page :)

facebook.com/alisanelsonstudio