The Nolden Family

Here are a few other things that have happened this summer: Above: Cody has been home from his mission to Korea for 2 years now! Wow…time flies. He had a mission reunion this month. President Cho and his wife (pictured with Cody above) were recently released after serving for 3 years and traveled to Utah [...]

I feel compelled, for some reason, to quickly share my feelings about adoption and what a great option it is. It’s a little bit removed from our typical “Blog Fodder” (a coin termed by me, feel free to use it …but my hope is that perhaps it will help someone out there that is contemplating [...]

Donovan turned 9 in July. My baby is growing up!! Above: Donovan with his awesome birthday cake made by Megan. Above: It’s supposed to be a boat…can you tell? We didn’t have blue icing for the water. Above: Cousin Hannah over for the party. Above: Donovan, “Give me those presents.” Above: Cards from Grandparents. Above: [...]

Donovan wanted to go to Stone Mountain for his birthday…but he didn’t want to stay long…he wanted to make sure we back in plenty of time to open presents and eat cake and ice cream. We have gone to SM a couple of different times, but the line is always stinking long for the “Sky [...]

We had a great Ward (church) Pioneer Party the other night out behind the chapel. Below are some of the highlights. FYI for those of you that don’t know…our church, and the whole state of Utah, celebrate “The 24th of July” every year…which is the day the LDS pioneers, led at that time by the [...]

We got to spend the 4th of July with Frank’s family in Brunswick, GA, this year. It was a lot of fun. We only had 5 kids, which was weird. Cody was at BYU and Liz was still in Vegas visiting friends. Above: We went to a beach on St. Simons Island on July 3rd. [...]

Mikayla has soooo much hair with tons of curl…and she doesn’t like it for some reason. But her hair is REALLY beautiful. Today I took her in to my stylist for a cut and style…she looked amazing! Above: The BEFORE shot…. That’s Amy Steinberg, our stylist…she is awesome!! She owns GrassRoots Salon in old town [...]

Frank had to work this time…and Liz is in Vegas…but the rest of us went to Six Flags this week with Larry, Sandi (Frank’s sister), Seth & Hannah. It was WAY hotter and more humid than last time…but we still had a lot of fun. This time we checked out “Skull Island,” which is a [...]