Playing Catch up!...again :)

It has been a busy couple of weeks for us!  And on top of everything I have caught some kind of cold or something that has had me feeling not that great.  But I figured it was time to catch up on the blog.  A lot has happened so I am just going to sum up!

Kim's Wedding!

We are all very excited for Kim, Chris's sister, who go married in Sacramento on the 20th!!!  This offically means I am the only Kim Nield, which is also cool!  We drove there - it was a long drive but Cortney did amazing both ways!! 

On the way there Chris and Cortney were enjoying sweedish fish, when we heard Cortney said, "Ahhh!  My face!!!  Give it back!"  She was biting off the fish heads and saying that :)

The sealing was beautiful and sweet and the reception was a lot of fun!  Cortney danced the night away, every time we went to sit down she would drag us out on the dance floor again.  Here is a link to pictures from the wedding that Aunt Paula took:

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Basically we had a really fun time!  All the siblings got involved when Kim sang and the Boys danced this is a must see!!!  From the left the order is Matt, Chris, Jackson and Paul!


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Favorite Quotes from the past couple weeks:

Cort's fish head one

Paul asking Derric, Kim's new husband, if he was going to come to the reception in Texas.

I asked Cortney if she wanted to play legos with me and she said "In a minute I am almost done"  - So grown up!

Watching Max and Ruby - Ruby says "Having a heartbeat is very important if you want to stay healthy" 


Cortney and I have also started a new "school" this week.  We call it Mommy and Cortney school because we do it at home but it has been so interesting to see how much she is willing to learn and do new things.  While we cannot afford preschool, we could afford to buy curriculum online.  The particular one  I found comes with over 10,000 pages of coloring pages, activities, arts and crafts projects, recipes and more.  Sometimes as I mom I feel like I don't really know what to talk about or what to do, and this has been fantastic and she has really come to get very excited about going to school everyday!

Our hot water was also out - only in our shower for a couple days.  The handle broke, we have a separate one for hot and cold - so we had to warm up the baths the old fashioned way.  So that was fun for a couple days, but we are very happy to have our hot water back!!

Chris also started school last week - which he is pretty excited about.  One year, two semesters, to go!  His internship was pretty cool, and we love the job because they are going to let him stay on part time while he goes to school!  Big blessing!

We are all getting excited for Jenn's wedding in less than two weeks!  I am going a little crazy not being able to show everyone her gorgeous bridals I took a couple weeks ago!  I am also excited to take her wedding pictures - I have been having a lot of fun learning new things about photography and taking lots of pictures lately!

Overall it has been a busy end of summer, but we have been having a ton of fun!

Angelina Ballerina

Everyday Cortney has quiet time in her room, for her sanity and mine.  Yesterday she started screaming in her room - sometimes this happens when she gets a poppy diaper so I run over to her door - but realize she is not screaming - she is yelling kind of singing, at the top of her lungs mind you, "Angelina Ballerina!"

One of these days I am going some how get a video camera in there so I can see what she does in there by herself!

Yellowstone Day 4 - Final Day!!!

This was our final day!  After going to our first sight seeing place I told Cortney that we just had a couple more places to go to.  She said "No more places!"  but after we went to our last one and we told her it was the last place, she said "More places?" like she was not ready to go home yet.  On to the pictures...

This was the sign that we saw as we left our cabin in the morning - thought it was appropriate for today, "So long pardner - come back soon"

These are pictures of the canyon area

 This was cool - it was a Glacial Boulder

 Some of that "yellow stone"

 Such a good view!

 After Yellowstone we decided to go through Star Valley Wyoming because that is where all the Nields come from I guess.  In Afton Wyoming we found a Nield Ave

Cort wanted to take her picture by the pole too - so we told her to go stand by the pole and I just love what she did!

 Definitely a pole - but not the right one :)

 We also found a Nield Business - Chris was more than thrilled about what kind of business it was - I guess it runs in the family!

 This was the Star in Star Valley

The one thing we didn't take a picture of was that we went and visited a friend Tasha in Cokeville Wyoming.  She was in our circle of friends up at school and it was great to catch up with her, and meet her family!  A great end to a great trip!

We had such a fun time on our vacation,  we got home at 11:11pm that night.  It was so cute when we got home Cortney went to her room and said "Look it is my room!  Look it is my bed!   Look it is my people's!  Look it is my legos!"  Even though we had a fun time she was so happy to be home, I think we all felt the same way!

Yellowstone Day 3 - Part 3

Now for the exciting part!!!  We saw a Grizzly Bear, it was far away, but it was there.  We zoomed in as far as we could and this is what we got!

 But this one is even better.  We went on this back road and found a little black bear!!!  Awesomeness!

I know I am not in focus but the only picture where I was my eyes were crazy looking but you can see how close it was to us!

So cool , then we saw a bison right after that, it was 2 bears and a bison all within 45 minutes of each other!

 We stopped by and saw the petrified tree

 This was our little cabin we stayed in on the third night!

 Even had a wood stove

 This is how Cortney looked at the end of the day, wiped out!

 This is the view from our porch

 This is me and Chris at the end of the day, we were all so so tired!

 This is the outside of our Cabin.

 I love this picture I got of Cortney, Crazy hair and a big smile!

 We went to be early and got up early, day four was our final day!