The Niesen's

Baby Kendall

2010-06-30T10:31:00.000-07:00

So it's been awhile since I updated my blog...but I figured since I had a baby it was time. Kendall Lauren Niesen was born 05/14/10. She weighed 8 lbs. 10 oz. and was 20 1/2 inches long. Now that she is here I feel like my family is complete. I always wanted four children and she has been such a blessing to our family.

Kylee's 1st Day of Preschool

2009-09-01T12:39:00.001-07:00

Kylee started preschool today. It's through the city so it's not technically a "preschool" but she loves it. She gets to sing songs, paint a picture, play, and have a snack. She goes every Tuesday and Thursday for two hours. I go over letters and numbers with her the other two days of the week. I thought I would be excited for her to start but she feels too young still. It's weird just being with Zackary for two hours a day. I thought maybe he would behave better but he doesn't. He's still crazy and does his own thing. Anyways, she loved it and can't wait to go back!!

Swimming Lessons

2009-06-22T08:47:00.000-07:00

So this year I decided to sign my children up for swim lessons. Trevor is in the Level 2 class. This year he has really been doing awesome at swimming but I wanted him to learn more of the techniques. These are some pictures Ryan took when he went with us.

Zackary and I are in a mommy and me swim class. He does pretty good except he won't blow bubbles in the water.

This is Kylee. Usually when we go to the pool she just plays on the steps so I wanted her to feel more comfortable and try new things. The first two days she cried because "no one was watching her" luckily Ryan is able to come on Wednesdays and Thursdays to watch her.

Legoland

2009-06-16T08:36:00.000-07:00

Every year we try to do something different with the kids and this year we decided to do Legoland memberships. Our kids love Legoland and we went the first time last Wednesday and these are some pictures of our fun day.... The picture above is Trevor on the Legoland airplanes.

This is a picture of Kylee on the cars. She was so excited to be tall enough to go on them all by herself. She was one of the best drivers on the track!!!

Here is a picture of Zackie. Unfortunately he was too small to go on pretty much everything there but he loved the choo choo ride!!

We had a great time and look forward to a summer filled with Legoland trips!!

Halloween 2008

2009-05-15T08:00:00.001-07:00

Kylee dressed up as Tinker Bell!!

Zackie was Squirt from Finding Nemo!! He looked so cute!!

Trevor was a black Power Ranger!!!

I know I know, I am really behind but they all looked so cute in their Halloween costumes I had to show them off!!!

Easter

2009-05-14T15:31:00.000-07:00

So I am a little behind with blogging. These are our pictures from Easter. We had a great Easter!! This is Kylee with her Dora bubbles and doggie that the Easter bunny brought for her.

Here's Trevor with his new K'nex car that he got.

Here's Zackie sitting in his new dinosaur chair and enjoying his favorite candy, m&m's!!!

Hope everyone had a great Easter!!!

Trevor's 2nd Trimester Awards Assembly

2009-05-14T15:23:00.001-07:00

Trevor getting his award from his Principal Mr. Valdez.

Trevor standing with his award.

Trevor trying to hide his face from the camera.

Trevor outside with his new Bionicle that he got. We were so proud of him for making the Honor Roll. He has improved a lot over the past couple of months and has really worked hard!!!

Bikes

2009-02-25T14:14:00.001-08:00

We broke down and bought Kylee a new bike for her birthday 8 months early. Her other bike broke and she was doing so well that we didn't want her to go without a bike for so long. We let her pick it out and of course she picked the My Little Pony bike. We got it last week and the kids enjoyed being outside on their bikes. Here's a picture of all of the children. Trevor likes to jump on the tricycle sometimes even though he is too big for it.

Here's a cute picture of Zackary. He usually just likes to run into the street!!

Here's Trevor with his mean face on. He of course has a Transformer bike because that is what he loves!!

Here's Kylee in bicycle heaven. She loves her new bike and wants to go out every day and ride it!!

Discovery Science Center

2009-02-23T23:11:00.000-08:00

Last week Trevor had a week off of school and Ryan had a week off of work so we went to the Discovery Science Center in Orange County. We had a lot of fun but it was crowded. Here are some pictures from our day. This is Trevor and Kylee in the wind tunnel. About half way through she started crying and wanted to get out!!

We went outside to "walk" through the inside of the dinosaur. It was raining that day but the kids still loved it!!!

Here's Zackary on the smoke tornado machine. He loved it as well!!!

Trevor's 1st Awards Assembly

2008-12-18T16:20:00.000-08:00

Here's Trevor holding up his award.

Here's Trevor and his best friend Isaac holding up their awards for being Academic Achievers!!

Here's Trevor's whole class, including his teacher, with their awards. Everyone in Trevor's class got an award for something that day. Good job class!!

Well this is my second post this week so everyone should be quite impressed!!! Anyways Trevor had his first awards assembly and he got an award for being an Academic Achiever! I was quite proud of him. I think part of me gets excited because I can remember being in school and all of this stuff was so exciting for me!! Anyways here are some pics from his exciting day!!

Christmas Pictures

2008-12-15T07:36:00.000-08:00

Here is the beloved picture with Santa. Trevor is the only one who looks happy to be there. Kylee is looking like she's going to crawl out of her skin.

Here is the Christmas card picture that I chose because it was at least good of the two, Trevor and Kylee, and not so good of the one, Zackary.

Here is them being silly on the staircase at my mom's house.

Here is one where only Kylee is the only one looking at the camera. I can only imagine what it'll be like with four!!!

Okay so now that I have three children I have found how nearly impossible it is (it's never happened for me) to get a picture of the three of them looking as cute as can be at the same time. I have tried on many occasions and there is always at least one of them that has kind of a weird look on their face. So those of you out there that are about to or are thinking about having three just keep this in mind.

So with it being Christmas time and I love to send out Christmas cards with a picture of my children in it, I am reminded of this difficult task. Also, I take my children to have their picture taken with Santa Claus. This tradition comes from my mother who made us have our picture taken with Santa until I was 20 (yes it's true). However, I really do not like to be in the picture but for the past two years I have had to be because of Kylee. This year she didn't even want to go near him.

I finally entered the blogging world!!!

2008-10-15T15:04:00.001-07:00

Well I finally broke down and started a blog. It's not going to be easy and I can't promise that I will do a good job of keeping it up but I thought I would give it a shot. So let's see how it goes!!!