our activity staples...

Birch Aquarium...

Playing with the "sea creatures." This photo taken right before he proceeded to lick the octopus! Germs! I about died.

Petting the starfish.

Petting sea cucumbers and anemone's.

Janie and Boston groovin' to the man powered radio!

Different day at the aquarium, but this was our first outing! Pretty momentous!

San Diego Zoo...

Feeding the goats red leafs from outside the gate! We were pretty popular with the goats until we got yelled at for feeding them "toxic" materials! Whoops!

Darling Sage!

Cute Boston. This orangutan wanted that little yellow flower so bad...it was just outside the glass!

Eating his pretzel by the hippo, we have to get a pretzel every time we go to the zoo!

Best Baby Ever award goes to Mackay! We love you buddy! You're going to love the zoo one day!

In the Neighborhood...

We really love San Diego, the weather {the fact that you can play outside almost everyday of the year}, and the complex where we live! We managed to find a very quiet homey neighborhood and love all of our friendly neighbors!

Ellie and Lola are some of those neighbors and friends! Here they are on the chalk trail we make for them out front. Comes with a candy store, pet store, gas station, bike wash, cupcake store, balloon store, grumpy old troll bridge, and individualized parking spots for everyone's bikes! Boston loves "the girls"!!

Another almost daily activity is looking for "shells" and potato bugs! In our bushes there are tons and tons of potato bugs that Boston of course discovered! He is such a boy, has no fear of picking up all the bugs and checking them out! We can't get in the car without first making a stop here! He's even snuck a potato bug or two in the car with us a few times! I hate it!

Weekend at Home...

We love the weekend at our house. Mostly because we have Dad home! This weekend we just hung out at home, but still had some fun!

Mack knows how to chill...

Seriously could you just die?!

Bos and Dad making cookies...Who doesn't cook in an apron and underwear??

Love this little bum!

This video is from dinnner Friday night. I must add a couple disclaimers...

A. Don't judge me that our child is drinking Dr. Pepper, I don't give it to him very often!

B. If any of you know Boston, you know he is a VERY picky eater! Well, don't judge us for teasing him!! We were having quesadillas for dinner, so I made Boston a cheese one. We really tried hard to get him to try it...no success. Little did we know the teasing would produce so many different emotions!!

Mackay Jeffrey Nelson


..May 24, 2012
...8 lbs 14 oz
....20.5"
.....5 hours of labor
......4 pushes

 He's seriously the perfect baby....eats, sleeps, smiles!
I knew he was going to be chill from the second we met him. Our delivery was so peaceful and quiet and so is he. 
What a sport he is with his big brother too...Boston loves {smothers} him.


We know Mackay was sent especially for us. Both of our boys were. Having a newborn in the house again has been so great. Seeing my 
family grow makes me so happy I have the life I have.


Many of you probably don't know this fact about Kyle...he loves to make up songs to sing to all of us just about normal things we're doing. I remember when we were first dating and married he'd ask me to try..."just sing about me driving", or "just sing about what we're wearing.." I was always way to embarrassed!
It was so sweet when I found Kyle rocking Mack singing him his very first "Dada Made Up" song!

His name is Mack....

He's sharp as a tack....

He's soft to the touch....

We love him so much....

{the dots inbetween sound like t-t-t-t {a soft symbol sound??}}


A HUGE thank you to Mandy for these amazing photos! We love them!