Our Home

Our home is our favorite place!  We live in an adorable 4 bedroom home in a quaint town in Utah.  We absolutely love where we live because the people are super friendly, there are plenty of parks to play at, and lots of little kids to play with. The neighbor kids are always knocking on our door to see if Ellie can play, and we LOVE that.  We have a big fenced backyard, with swings and a playhouse, that they have a lot of fun with. Our neighbors are super generous, and always willing to help us with anything: lending tools or cutting down trees. There are many young families here that we have play-dates, parties, and park days with.  There are also at least 6 families that go to our neighborhood church who have also adopted, and they have such a great help to us already!

Every night, we try to sit down and have dinner together as a family, which is really important to us.  It's just important to sit and talk and be together.

We also have a "family night" once a week where we play games with Ellie, have a treat, and usually have a short lesson something like "kindness" or "sharing" and so on.  

There is never a dull moment in the Nelson house!  We both like to crack jokes and laugh about life.  We try to make even the littlest things enjoyable for Ellie.  We believe it is not so much WHAT you are doing, but HOW you are doing it.  We may "just" be watching a movie at home, but you better believe that we are popping popcorn, buying a special treat, and turning out the lights (just like the movie theater) while we do it.  We don't just "bake" in the kitchen, but we do it with Disney music, singing at the top of our lungs, and dancing our hearts out! That's how life should be! Full of adventure and fun! But mainly, full of EACH OTHER

Our home is our "safe place," where we can be ourselves, laugh, make messes, and live life.  While we love to travel and visit family, there is nothing quite like the feeling of finally coming home.  We love it here!  "There's no place like home!"

Our front living room: first thing you see when you walk in.
Our long and spacious kitchen.
I love making signs with fun sayings.
Especially funny ones!
We like to laugh a lot, so we dedicated a wall to it.

Our children's library....
....that sometimes looks like THIS.
Ellie's play area....
....that sometimes looks like this.


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