Favorite Memories of 2007 - Happy New Year!

I have had the opportunity to serve as the Twin Falls temple photographer. From the groundbreaking ceremony in April 2006 until the dedication, I am responsible for keeping a photographic history of the temple construction. My photographs are used in the "Temple Times" publication, and will be used in the history book that will be placed in the cornerstone of the temple. I have also had a few appear in the Church News. A compilation of my photos can be seen on the Twin Falls Temple website.

I am so blessed to be a part of this historic event. I have the privilege of working closely with so many wonderful people on the temple committee. We are preparing for the open house and dedicatory services that will take place some time this summer. For any updates or information about the Twin Falls temple visit the website at

tftemple.com.

Jacob playing on the shore of Redfish Lake.

Will and Andrew Halloween Costumes.


Will and Andrew with Brent at the Staley Family Reunion.

Jacob's Halloween Costume.

One of my favorite pictures of Jacob. He has such big blue eyes!

Will's first day of school!

Brent and Annie after helicopter ride over Twin Falls.

As the Twin Falls temple photographer I have had the opportunity to fly over the temple several times to take aerial photographs. Brent was able to come with me on this trip. We look forward to next time when we can take Will.

Will enjoying the beach at Redfish Lake.

It is difficult to get a genuine smile from Will when taking his picture,

but if and when you catch it, it sure is cute.

Andrew enjoying the bubble gun he got from Grandma Nielson for Easter.

Mom and Jacob at the pool. I took my boys to Las Vegas

this summer to visit Jaime, Eric and Teya.

So far my favorite picture of all my boys together.

Andrew, Will, and Jacob

Brent is such a wonderful husband and father.

One of our biggest accomplishments this year was getting Andrew potty trained.

If anyone is having trouble getting their little boy potty trained here is the solution.

After months and months of trying, it finally made sense to him when he could do it in the trees. (This is not a joke)
Just so everyone is not worried, we only let him do it while we were camping.

(Except in this photo...this was public city property...I just couldn't resist getting this shot)

The whole family got bikes this year for Annie's birthday.

We spent a lot of time this summer riding bikes together.

You can find these 2 Superheros at our house just about any day of the week.

If your ever in trouble give us a call we will send Superman and Batman your way.

I guess that's life when you have all boys!

Jacob's baby blessing on Easter Sunday.

This was our best Valentine's gift ever.

Jacob Gail Nielson was born

Feb. 14th 2007

1:05 am

6lb. 13 oz.

21 inches

Will reading to Andrew.

They are such good buddies. They do everything together.

So far, they get along very well.

Christmas Memories

Will got his first "Shiner". He was bending over to kiss his brother and hit his eye on the corner of the desk. At least that's the version mom and dad will tell you. If you ask Will he will tell you about the fight he got in and how rough and tough it was. His favorite thing to tell people when they asked what happened was, "you should see the other guy".

One of Brent's many talents is that he is a wonderful writer. One of his family Christmas traditions growing up was that he would write a Christmas play and the kids would act it out for mom and dad on Christmas Eve. This year Brent wrote a play for the grand kids to act out.

This photo doesn't do it justice, but you can see how cute the kids were in their superhero costumes. The plot of the story was that Batman (Will), Robin (Lucy), and Superman (Andrew) hear of trouble in Bethlehem and try to help find a place for Mary to have the baby Jesus. In the end of the story all of the superheros realize that the real superhero is the baby Jesus.

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. We spent most of our break with Brent's family. It was good to have everyone together. We spent a day together at Starley's cabin and although our trip was short we had a lot of fun. Don't let this picture fool you, although there was a lot of snow and potential for some serious snow play, we spent most of the time relaxing in the cabin. We got all bundled up for the 3 minutes it took to snap this photo. We will blame that one on the kids. I think all 6 babies were crying by the time we finished our photo shoot.

Overall our Christmas was wonderful. It was wonderful to be together with family. We enjoyed talking to both of our Brothers who are serving missions (Eric-Russia and Aaron-Spain). That experience certainly brought perspective to our holidays. We are so grateful for the blessings we enjoy. We are thankful for our knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We know that it is because of a living and loving Father that we are so blessed. We look forward to the coming year and all of the blessings it will bring.

This is Will with his friends. From Left to Right: Isaac Panter, Andrew, Will, Cameron Higley, Garrison Hammer, and Brec Thomas.

Will's 5th Birthday!

We just celebrated Will's 5th birthday on December 6th! I can't believe it.

For our boy's birthdays we always just do family parties because both of our families are here in Twin Falls. It is much easier, that way I don't have to worry about keeping a bunch of little kids entertained...I would stink at that. So, in talking about his birthday we were discussing the usual plan of having a low key cake and ice cream celebration at our house with Grandmas and Grandpas. Well, now that Will is 5, he has been to a few parties for his friends and understands that birthday parties should consist of bounce houses, balloons and confetti everywhere, goodie bags, friends, friends and more friends. He wanted a friend party. So, we compromised. He got to choose 4 of his friends and we made it a family night birthday party. We held it at the bowling alley so that I did not have to provide the entertainment. We had pizza and did the cake and ice cream thing, and Will got the pleasure of opening gifts from his friends. It was very low stress and everyone had a lot of fun. Will was thrilled!

We can't believe how fast time flys. In five more years he will be 10. David, Brent's youngest brother was 10 when Brent and I got married. Now Dave is a senior in high school, preparing for college and a mission. So, a few blinks from now I guess we will be sending Will off on his mission and we will wonder where the time went.

Happy Birthday Will! We Love You!

Our First Blog!

I still have no idea what I am doing. Thank you Katy for setting this up for us. We really do want a blog it's just that I haven't had the time to sit down and figure this out until now. I love looking at all of your blogs and seeing how well all of our family and friends are doing. I promise I will keep playing with this and get it figured out so I can give updates on us regularly.

Brent and I are living in Twin Falls, Idaho. Brent is working as an attorney at his father's law firm. I am home with our 3 boys Will (4), Andrew(3) and Jacob(8 mo). I have been running my own photography business on the side of being a stay at home mom for the past 5 years. I love photography and this has been such a blessing in so many ways for our family. The latest news in our family is that I have made the difficult decission to give up my photography so that I can put all of my efforts toward being a mom. I am happy about this decission and just hope that there will be a time later in my life that I can pick it back up.

For now, I am blessed to have the choice of giving up something I love and replace it with something I love so so much more, my boys (that includes Brent:)). They are the joy in my life.

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