"The Day My Mom Saved My Life" by Morgan Barker

All the kids entered Reflections this year. The theme was Wow!!! Creighton and Bennett did Visual Arts and Morgan did Literature. Morgan ended up being a finalist in her school in the Literature category. Tonight we had an award ceremony where all the finalists were honored. Morgan wrote a story, and it is handwritten and all in her own spelling and grammar. Here is the story, just like she wrote it:

The Day My Mom Saved My Life by Morgan Barker

Based on a true story

I was jumming on the trampoleen with my brother then he went inside. A few minets later I fell in between two springs and hit my head on the wall and got stuck. I was haning upside down with my head barly touching the ground. I was crying and crying for help. then a thout entered my head saying say a praery. So I did. It was three days befor my step dads birthday. My mom was tring to hid a present because it was almost my step dads birthday She thout ubout hiding it in the garauge but somthing told her to put it outside. She followed the coice inside her head to put the present outside. She did. Wile she was doing that, she heard crying and she found me hanging there. She took me inside. Allthough I was outside hanging for thirty minets. My feet were tingling like crazy cause my legs were bent. After she took me inside she rubbed my legs, and feet. After a wile I felt better. then my head started to hert. She rubbed my head and I felt better for the rest of the day WOW! I am glad my mom saved my life!!!

We are so proud of her.

Here Mousy Mousy.

I discovered last night that we have an unwanted guest in our kitchen. Under my sink I found little mouse poops, uggghhh. I'm sure the little mouse has been having a blast rummaging through our garbage. After I cleaned everything up, I went to the store and got old school mouse traps. I was thinking, there is no way a mouse is going to be this stupid. Haven't mice evolved by now to know not to go there? But sure enough, in the morning, we had to have a little mouse funeral (not really, I just threw him in the garbage can.) SUCKA!!!! I was going to take a picture of the dead mouse, but I thought I might get hate mail from animal activists. If there are mouse lovers out there I'm truly sorry...lol.

Thanksgiving Tag

Things I am thankful for:

A: Adam...he helps me in so many ways.
B: Boys...lets face it, where would we be without them???
C: Cycling...its fun and good excercise.
D: Down time...especially at work!!!
E: Email. Sometimes its just easier.
F: Family. Oh-and food.
G: Gym...when its too cold outside to ride.
H: Holidays...gives you an opportunity to hang with family.
I: In-laws. They make life interesting don't they?
J: Jesus...my savior.
K: Kettle corn
L: Little girls...I love my Morgan.
M: Makeup.
N: Nursing...I love my profession. Be kind to nurses.
O: Outdoors.
P: Pictures
Q: Quotes...puts things in perspective sometimes.
R: Rio...Cafe
S: Sleep...(a Nelson through and through)
T: Trials...otherwise, how would we grow.
U: Undershirt...thank you SHADE clothing
V: Vision.
W: Work...teaches us a lot.
X: X-mas...are you ready???
Y: Youth
Z: Zion National Park...we are so lucky to be so close.

Ok I tag Toni.

Halloween Slide

"Cereal" Killer meets Dr. Pepper

I haven't dressed up for Halloween for so long, so this year was fun. We decided to do "punny" costumes. We had a lot of fun.

Painting Party

Grandma and Grandpa Nelson are finishing their basement and they are making the cubby under the stairs a "playroom" for the Grandkids. Mom and Dad wanted the kids to paint the walls so we had a painting party during the annual Halloween Party. Here are the works of art. It will be so fun for them to look back on these pictures in the years to come. Each kid put their own thought and creativity into what their paintings and had little help from the adults. They are so creative.
Mackaylee's work of art.

Morgan's profile and Dixie Mountains.

Bennett's art.

Creighton's "Big Foot"

Cute Zaiden's foot print

We will get Jake, Maddie and Maclayne's work at Thanksgiving time.

Shout Out

I wanted to give a "shout out" to Grandma and Grandpa Phillips. These pics are from our visit to Idaho in July. Adam wasn't able to get time off for more than a few days this summer, so I decided to take the kids up north for the week. We had so much fun with them and they were so awesome to plan some fun things. Some things we did are:

1. Camping in Island Park.

2. Dinner Theater at Mac's Inn. Sooo Fun. The kids loved it!!
3. Big Springs in Island Park. This is a natural spring that flows into Henry's Fork. It produces 120 million gallons of water every day and is one of the countrys biggest springs. Huge fish, very cold. The next day the news reported that this same area was evacuated shortly after we left because of a bear sighting. Scary.4. Of course swimming at the sandbar.5. Story telling by Grandpa Phillips. 6. Playing with Sarge and Toby.
And many more memories were made. We all made our Mii's on the Wii. The kids boxed, jogged, played baseball etc. on the new Wii. We were able to visit and play with Uncle Jared and Aunt Amy and all the "C" cousins.

Love you Mom and Dad Phillips