Lucy receives her baby blessing/ Mary's birthday

On, Sunday, 8/24/08, Lucy was given a name and blessing from her father in church. After, we all got together at Scott's parents' house to celebrate Scott's mom, Mary's birthday. (I won't mention her age.) We had fun gathered around their table. Annie, Shane, and Jayleen were there, along with Carolyn (Scott's aunt), Miles, Sarah, and my parents.


Okay, so she wasn't at all happy with the bonnet on...

Sophie is born!

My sister Camille and her husband Steve just had their second baby girl. She weighed 6lbs 13oz. My parents drove up to see them at the hospital Friday morning. This baby now completes the trio of grandbabies being born this summer on the Nelson side. There are now 5 Nelson grandkids- 4 girls, and 1 boy!!

Christmas this year will definitely be exciting and no doubt very busy!!

FIRST TIME AT BEACH

We took Lucy to the beach with us, when we took the young men from the church. It was a bright sunny day and cool at the same time. Lucy slept most of the time in the tent (with her mother) but enjoyed the weather later on. Scott loves to be in the water so there was most of his time spent with his buddy Darren. Overall it was a great day and fun filled.

Matt and Jenn's baby

I want to make a posting about my brother and wife's baby boy, Aethon, who was born on 8/3/08. He and Lucy are exactly 4 weeks apart. Matt and Jenn live in Phoenix, so on Monday morning, 8/4, my mom, sister Annie, her 4-yr.-old daughter, myself, and 1-month-old Lucy drove to the hospital to meet them. When Aethon was born, he weighed 9 lbs. 3 oz. And Lucy at the time probably weighed about 8 lbs. at a month old! Aethon is definitely going to be able to stand his ground with 4 girl cousins! Here are pictures I took.

Taking Lucy's Blessing Pictures

My mom and I went to JCPenny today and had some professional pictures taken of Lucy in her blessing dress. We really had a lot of fun getting Lucy dressed up and trying to get her eyes to look at the camera. The first outfit was the blessing dress in case Lucy didn't make it through our other outfits and poses for her. The background was black to give contrast to her white dress. My mom followed through on her promise and had the cutest little bonnet ready for Lucy to wear. She even embroidered tiny green leaves with pink flowers on the top! I just love how motivated my mom is and how willing she is to do things for her children/grandchildren. Lucy did really well for that outfit with us changing her pose and taking some pictures with the bonnet off.
However, her patience was wearing thin and started crying when I went to dress her in her second outfit: a pink onesie and a tulle tutu (is that how its spelled?). We laid her on her stomach so she would look like a pretty ballerina. These poses were harder because we had to stop to comfort her from crying. We still managed to get some cute pics.
Next, was our third and final outfit: naked!! No, she still wore a diaper with a whit bottom to cover the bottom. The pro's called it the diaper pose. They changed the background to white and laid out a blanket of roses in shades of pink and white. This was my favorite- and the hardest- especially for Lucy because she was really fussy and now hungry. We made it through it though with some more adorable shots!
I really am glad Lucy had some pictures done. She will be 7 weeks old on Sunday and I wanted pics of her still little. Plus, with the blessing at the same time made it even better timing.
Now the hard part- deciding which pictures to keep! And if you know my mom and I, we are not quick decision makers when it comes to these sort of things, and being together makes it worse because we feed off each others' indecision and end up frustrated. But, the studio was closing soon for lunch break and we had to speed things up. I'd say we did pretty good actually. We got the poses we each wanted and were happy with the result. So from start to finish it only took us 1.5 hours! The pics will be ready in 10 days and I'll post some then. I can't wait to see them!

Lucy's Bonnet

Today I went over to my mom's house after she informed me that she wanted to make a bonnet for Lucy's baby blessing on Sunday. Its going to be white, of course, but the special thing about it is it's going to match the blessing dress that my dad was blessed in. This dress has not only been used for my dad's blessing, but was also used to bless my 3 siblings and myself. My sister's daughter Jayleen was also blessed in it, and now we can add Lucy's name to the list. I'm excited and thrilled to be apart of this momentous moment in time concerning my family.

On a cuter note, my mom was searching through her sewing drawers and happened upon a cute, white bonnet that was already made. We tried it on Lucy and this was the reaction we got:




Too big, so my mom decided to go ahead and make one anyway.

"The Grand Opening"

As Katie's dad likes to call it. The day when our beautiful baby girl Lucy Marie Nielsen was born to us. Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 9:47 am, weighing in at 6 lbs., 11 oz. and 19.5 in., Lucy came into this world on our Day of Rest. However, it was a different situation for Scott and I. The morning started out very early with an epidural for me, which involved a very large needle being poked into my back. I needed the relief an epidural's effect would bring so that I could gather up my much needed rest for labor. After several hours of blissful sleep, my rest was coming to an end. It was time to meet Lucy. And after only 30 minutes of intense pushing, we did. Lucy's Apgar score came back a 9 out of 10and the new father held his daughter. Thus begins The Nielsen Chronicles.