Happy new year

It's our final night in our sweet little coastal 2 bedroom apartment. We have been here for 3 1/2 years and it's been good to us. I'm mostly excited to move forward with our lives as our little family grows to 4 in just a few short months but as Emmy pointed excitedly to the hot air balloon floating above us outside this evening as we walked to our car and was proud to announce "Emmy's house!" when we pulled into the parking lot upon returning home it dawned on me that this is the only place she knows as home, and the only place we've ever called home together as a family. I got sad for a second...and then I thought of my pretty new kitchen and got excited again. Moving day tomorrow!!! Hooray! I will share pictures once everything is put together. What a great way to end our wonderful year, and start a new one. Cheers to 2011 and a happy hello to 2012! Happy new year.

it's here!

HAPPY merry HOLLY JOLLY everything!!! I am beyond joyful and i don't know how to contain my excitement. our little place is tidy for santa as tidy as it can possibly be in the middle of this packing madness, we watched a christmas movie this morning and have been listening to christmas music non stop. emmy helped me bake brownies with candy cane frosting topped with chocolate shavings, our presents are ALMOST all wrapped and under the tree, our festive outfits are out and ready to be worn to our christmas eve celebration at the Moore residence, and we have christmas spirit like never before. oh christmas, you will forever remain the most wonderful time of the year! Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night! Love Greg, Nikki & Emmy

christmas countdown

christmas/moving/baby chaos is making my brains crazy. trying my hardest to take one thing at a time is keeping me somewhat sane. i'm doing something festive everyday this week with Emmerson to focus on the first of the craziness to come...my beloved holiday, christmas. today we nearly finished up our christmas shopping and attempted to see santa, who was taking an EXTREMELY long break. he never did show up, but we had fun riding the train and jumping our buns off in the jumpy, so santa will have to be sat on another day. tomorrow we shall enjoy the jungle bells festivities of the zoo. wednesday we shall bake and watch christmas movies, thursday we are getting our christmas nails done, and friday we have a holiday party to attend taking us to the holly jolly weekend! due to the little one's enthusiasm with tearing open presents, i have been slacking in the wrapping department. all of which will have to wait until christmas eve day. i'm a lover of wrapping presents, so this won't be overly overwhelming for me. speaking of presents, my sweet parents have generously gifted us with an ipad2. we promised we would not open it until christmas morning and so it sits in our closet, completely unopened. this is a solid display of obedience, that i've never in my life been able to follow through with. i'm quite proud of myself to say the least and i'm overly excited to have a fun toy to play with on christmas morning! and finally, i leave you with a picture of Emmerson at Disneyland. she was going to town on her special lollipop and i felt the need to give her sticky colorful face a little scrub down. she licked the wipe that i was using on accident, and greg captured her mid-gag.

here's to a week full of all things christmas!

home sweet home.

remember how we completely ran out of space in our sweet two bedroom apartment once the little one moved in two years ago with her massive amounts of baby gear? and how we have another one joining us in april? well, that calls for a change of address. we shall pick up and return inland a bit to join greg's family and we couldn't be more excited. slash stressed. plenty more space and a nice change is refreshing, but trying to pack up our life during the holiday season is going to get hectic real quick. i'll be glad to be happily settled in within the next few weeks.

our new place is a three story townhome. it has three bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms, which is far too many toilets to clean if you ask me. and a two car garage. it is currently getting a slight makeover, as the last renters went a little buck-wild causing some minor repairs. the upside...i got to pick out all of the paint colors! we took some before pictures, and i will be sure to show before and afters once we are all moved in.

mickey the mouse.

Our christmastime disneyland trip 2011 was a success! we had so much fun and Emmerson was such a good girl. her excitement made disney more fun than ever...in a magical kind of way. a little less fun in the thrilling kind of way as we had to steer clear of the roller coasters this time due to the little gal's height, and the sweet dude growing in my gut. regardless, we had the best day ever!

christmastime is here!

it is finally december and the rest of the world has joined in with the christmas cheer!! family,friends, disneyland, hot cocoa, christmas movies, christmas cards in the mail, wrapping gifts, shopping, cold nights, sparkles, christmas dresses, santa at the mall, slippers, fires, christmas music, dancing, decorations, smiles, cookies, blankets, christmas pajamas, i love it all. i hope you're enjoying this holiday season as much as i am!

warm wishes, Love The Nielsens