Happy Birthday Aunt Megan!!

Megan asked me what we were doing to celebrate her birthday...having a cookie at Noodles:)

Our Artist...

He has really mastered coloring in the lines:)

3 musketeers

At Shelly's, Trey, Zach & Tommy are the goof troop and love to be together. Today they celebrated Trey's birthday at Edinbourgh park.

Kindergarten confirmed

We found out yesterday that Highlands Elementary's lottery picked Mr. Z for the full day kindergarten!! What a relief for this working mom...he is so excited for school!

Happy valentine's day!

The coolest part about Zach going to preschool next to BBY...I was able to stop by his party for 15 minutes and enjoy so of the valentines party. He even made me a cookie! Zach was looking forward to the party all week, wrote on each valentine himself and woke up at 5:30 on valentines day ready to go celebrate:)

What a hunk of love my son is!!

Zach swimming videos

Family Holiday Party

4 cool Dads, 4 Rockstar Moms & 9 happy kids...add in presents, movies with popcorn, pizza at the kids table and the run of the house...couldn't be more priceless! 3 of my favorite faces in Minnesota...it's so great to have friends that are more like family!

Jonah, Zach, Charlie, Hannah, Hailey & Emme
Second Annual Christmas/Hanukkah party we call Friends Holiday...cheers!

Swimming lessons

Zach is now in Littles 2! He is now working on swimming to the bottom, swimming a short distance with head down and backfloating

Cousins

Silly faces: Molly, Ashley, Zach & Hannah

Working with Grandpa

Zach was most excited to go to Kansas so he could "work" with Grandpa. He wanted to check out all the tractors and bobcats...the best quote of the week was as we were leaving when Zach told Grandpa not to do any work until he comes back:)

Visit with Grammy

We made a last minute trip to Kansas due to the extra warm December weather...got a chance to spend a day with Grammy

2 generations of cousins

We had so much fun staying in Lawrence with my cousin Julee & her family. Julee & I are 7 years apart but have been quite close for years and as the kids have gotten older they are really starting to enjoy playing together. Zach enjoyed coloring and drawing pictures for everyone!

Zach, Molly, Milo, Olivia (1st grade), Morgan & Madison (4th grade)

Merry Christmas

Boys on Christmas morning in the tradition of matching PJs from Christmas eve...Andy, Bryan, Brett & Zach
Zach & Mamaw
Mommy & Z
3 silly kids in a tub...Molly, Zach & Bailey

Zach at Christmas Eve service
'twas the night before Christmas

Nelson Christmas

Christmas is the one time of year we get all the Nelson's together...fun to watch the kids play.
Cousins: Kolten, Riley, Bret, Brooke, Molly, Owen, Zach, Kaitlyn & OliviaZach & Owen are 9 months apart and though they rarely see each other...they pick up right where they left off.

Christmas card 2011

Zach's gingerbread dude

Exclusively made by Zach at Shelly's

Zach & Trey

Trey has been one of Zach's best buddies at daycare since he started at Shelly's...16 months. They have a lot of fun together...and are getting more and more goofy together!!

Best Buy Family holiday party

First basketball game...

While it wasn't at Allen Field House, it was at one of the coolest, most unique places to watch basketball...Williams Arena aka "The Barn". Go Gophers!!

We had great seats and could watch the game up close...we also got to see Goldy Gopher up close too. They had a great time!!

Our elf..."Elfy"

Last year the kids didn't get too into the Elf on the shelf but this year he is a big deal. He is the only part of our house Christmas we have at the Freeland's so that makes him extra special. The story with the elf on the shelf is the elf works for Santa and moves around the house and hides to see how the kids are behaving and he reports back to Santa. Sunday was the first day he was out, so they kids were so excited and wanted to introduce themselves.Naturally, every elf has their own name...last year they named him "elf" but this year they wanted it to be "elfy".