Hi friends and family,

I am sorry I haven't posted on my blog lately. I do a lot of posting on face book and have lots of pictures there. I apologize.

I took some pictures on a recent fall day. I hope you enjoy them.

Ben in a tree.


Mariah is the one who suggested the photo shoot. Isn't she beautiful?

You're a braver man than I am.

Carder was in a melodrama play last month. He played Cokie Joe. It was a melodrama. He was so funny!
Below is a picutre of Sam from that fall day.

Sad News.

We said goodbye to some dear friends the last two months. First we lost one year old Cosmo. (above)

Then two weeks ago we lost Mangy. (below) He has been with us for around 12 years.

This is the last photos I have of him, in Earl's arms. It was taken about 5 hours before he died.

Happy Halloween

The kids and I carved pumpkins together for FHE

We had a family portrait taken at the ward Halloween party. Devon (back left) was staying with us for a little over a week. He came with us. It was fun to have him there. Mariah had already left the Ward Halloween Party when the above picture was taken.


Mariah and Micah.

Ben and Hyrum playing in the fog machine in town.
Carders "Edward" had the girls (and women) in the ward swooning.

Tacie and Dad...AWWW.

Our friend Devon who stayed with us awhile. It was lots of fun.

Tayla will be home for two weeks at Christmas. We are so excited. Someone just gave us a 10 ft tall noble. We are so blessed. Christmas can start now.

I love you all.

This is a video the kids are working on with friends...the rest of the story is on youtube.




I recently entered Sam in a Johnson and Johnson baby bath , maybe not a great idea...and not a very good video..but she is cute so I am including it.

Nicholas Family Update

Christmas 2008, our nativity....Tayla is the angel, Micah, Carder and Hyrum are Wise men, Ben and Tacie as Mary and Jospeph and Sam is the Shepherd

Finally got a 2008 Family Foto

Tacie and Sam at a friends Carder and Micah Twins...

This month Tayla and Carder were in the Musical "Little Shop of Horrors". They did such a great job! I am so proud of them. There are more pictures and videos at http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii199/debbittybears/

Carder on SKID ROW Ronnette, Chiffon, Crystal

Carder as Mr. Bernsten SKID ROW

Carder passed out as a Psycho...he started each act with is own "bit" as a crazy person.

Here is a little series of pictures I have entitled "Look at ME Tacie!"

When I was trying to take the pictures it went something like this...

"Look at me Tacie!"

"Tacie, please look at me!"

"Tacie, nice smile, now please look at me?"

"GOOD! Now smile!"

"That was pretty good, can you smile again?"

Great smile, now hold it!

"OK, look at ME again, OK?"

Much Better!

PERFECT!!!!

I Love and Miss YOU ALL....-deBBie

Our trip to the zoo.

Photobucket Album

Halloween 08

Click on Hyrum

to go the Nicholas nut farm halloween album

war of the worlds album

Click on Carl to go to the War of the Worlds photo album.

I recently took a trip to Chicago to attend workshops and meet friends from my internet yahoo group. I posted about my trip at http://www.threadanimals.blogspot.com/. I posted additional photos at http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii199/debbittybears/Chicago/.

there are also pictures of Ben's recent trip to cub scout campt at this link.

http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii199/debbittybears/Scout%20Camp%20Ben/.

We recently did sharing time on eternal families and temples. To help with the lesson my father sent me pictures of his parents, Lola and H.

I wish I had the opportunity to meet "H" in this life. Oh well the maybe the next. His parents sure did a good job raising their kids.

Here is my parents wedding photo and a more recent photo.

A dear friend Vale (short for Faavale) pronounced "Volleigh". Taking good care of my kids.

The three oldest kids recently participated in a Trek.

I sent a camera with each child, spent about 9 dollars each camera for developing and honestly, this is the only decent pic. This is Tayla with "her" wagon.

We recently attended a meeting celebrating the TREK and watching the DVD. I cried through the DVD. It was so beautiful to see the children experience what it was like for the pioneers.

The most beautiful moment was after they "enlisted" all the men and took them away from the men. The women were left on their own to drag their handcarts up a steep hill while the boys and men were forced to do nothing but watch. As they watched they began to sing hymns....and some cried. When those women and girls reached the top of the ridge they were swarmed by willing eager men who were desperate to help. It was very meaningful for everyone.

Tayla wrote a beautiful testimony about the TREK which I will post in our testimony blog a http://www.myldstestimony.blogspot.com/.

The picture at the top is one we took last year traveling back from Utah...which shows our family all together...where we want to be.

Please let me know you were here.

-deBBie