Calliope's Blessing Day

Calliope Marisol Williams was blessed on Sunday, October 19th 2008 at our home in Hartsville. We blessed her in our backyard because it was Stake Conference for our stake. We had a good number of family in attendence and a lot of good friends. Some travelled across the country and others across regions of the South to attend. We ate Fall goodies (pumpkin cookies, banana bread, Halloween decorated cookies, miniture cupcakes) and drank Lemonade. Calliope can be seen wearing a vintage 2002 dress, also worn by her older sister Marley Xiomara on her blessing day.

We blessed, we ate, we talked, and we laughed. Just the way it should be.

Below are some pictures of the event, it was certainly a memorable event!

Mac holding Calliope

Uncle Tim and Calliope

(Thanks again, if you hadn't gone home a day early last Thanksgiving none of this would be possible...haha!)

Fonnesbeck Clan

(Aunt Mindy, Kayden, Grandpa Dusty, Calliope, Marley, Mickelle, Devil Span, Mac, & Grandma Jackie)

"Papa" & Calliope

Great Grandfather

Jack and his best friend Owen during the prayer!

Grandma LaLa

(How she got this picture I am not sure since she was taking all the pictures!)

Mac explaining what a "Baby Blessing" was in our Church, since most of our friends are not members of the Church.

Grandma Jackie holding Calliope as all the guest arrived

Mac & Tim in the front yard

The Girls

(Mickelle, Calliope, Marley, Mindy, & Mom)

Mac, Jack, & Tim being normal...I mean silly after the blessing!

Dito minus Jack

John McLarty Williams & John McLarty Williams III

Halloween 2008 Daddy-O

The kids had a great time with Halloween this year. They were able to trick-or-treat in the neighborhood and then we attended the church party. After lots of sugar and staying up past their bedtime they were all . . . CRUISIN' FOR A BRUISIN' and we were ready to CUT OUT of the party!

THE HIP CAT

What's Buzzin Cuzzin?

LET'S SEE WHAT I CAN EYEBALL

LOOK AT THIS DOLL

ALMOST FLIPPING OUT

A COUPLE OF WAZOOS

HALLOWEEN IS A BLAST!

Straight Up Now Tell Me...

Ok... I am way behind on the blogposts, but I am slowly working on it. Here is a quick one.

LaLa bought a fancy hairdryer while she was here. It straightens hair really fast, due to ionizing or something. Marley came in while I was using it and asked if I would straighten her hair. My mind quickly went back to the hair straightening incident of 2006 when we started to straighten her hair and when she saw the first group of hair straight she immediately burst into tears because she thought it would never go back curly. Needless to say the fun ended there. Once she assured me she would let me finish all of her hair, that she wouldn't cry and that she would hold her head still (impossible BTW) I told her I would. Thanks to the space age device it didn't take long and this was the result. . .

One very happy girl who thought she was a model for about a half hour. At that point the humidity made her hair start to curl again and she was not happy! She suddenly became very interested in the weather and when it was going to or not going to rain so she could do it again.

Just a little lagniappe for the grandparents and extended family.

Calliope saying "look no hands"

&

Jack contemplating his next ninja move with his giant baboo stick (stick not pictured, but soon to be blogged about)

Gotta run, Jack just came up to me with six opened and licked tootsie pops yelling "Happy Birthday Mommy...balloons!

Priceless...

Quiet baby during sacrament meeting ...

$5

Green shirt I can finally wear again ...

$20

(not actual shirt, very close though)

Baby throwing up across said shirt moments before I had

to give the closing prayer in Sacrament Meeting ...

PRICELESS!

*There are no pictures of Calliope on this

computer, so you get a freaky owl

Tagged by Annie

Costa Rica -- 1998

10 years ago I:

1. Was a "newlywed" living in Provo
2. Graduate Student, commuting from Provo to Logan
3. Addicted to 7-11 Slurpees
4. Had blonde hair (very blonde)
5. Living in Pleasantville (i.e. Union Square)

5 things on today's "to do" list:

1. Dishes
2. Laundry
3. Write Thank You notes
4. Pay Bills
5. Meet all the needs of the little ones in the house

5 things I would do if I were a millionaire:

1. Travel
2. Invest
3. Buy another car
4. Remodel house
5. Pay off debt

5 places I have lived:

1. St. George, UT
2. Northern Utah (Logan & Provo)
3. New Orleans, LA
4. Acworth, GA
5. Hartsville, SC

5 jobs I have had:

1. Cleaning my Dad's office
2. Charlie's (I miss the days where you had to eat your ice cream mistakes!)
3. Southern Belles (Answering Service)
4. Work Study in Special Collections at USU's library
5. Project Manager -- PGM Inc.

I tag Erin, Amanda, Susanna, and Mac

Pink is my favorite color...

Per Aunt Mindy's request...

We had a quick photoshoot this evening...baby acne and all!

Calliope 5 weeks

Nick for my little Noggin

*Jack watching TV from the kissing chair *

I came across a few pictures that LaLa had taken of Jack watching TV. Yes, my kids watch TV. While I was really good about keeping the television shows age appropriate for Marley, Jack on the other hand views the shows on his level if he watches during the earlier part of the day, but once Marley gets home is thrilled to see shows like icarly, Spongebob Squarepants, and Drake & Josh. It is just the nature of the beast. Marley is much too grown up for Jack's current favorite show "Max & Ruby". While I find these particular series to be fairly boring and particularly odd that there are never any parents around, Jack well simply could watch it over and over and over again. Needless to say we have two episodes recorded at all times on our DVR as a parenting strategy.

On another note, while Marley never watches the Hannah Montana show, she does have some notebooks, a doll, and clothes with Hannah Montana on them. The other day Jack was holding a folder and I told him it was "Hannah Montana". He then repeated her name. I figured it was pretty much in one ear and out the other. I was wrong. While watching Sesame Street the other day Heidi Klum was in sketch with Elmo. He started yelling "tanna...tanna". He thought that she was Hannah Montana because of the haircut (I assume). I bet that doesn't happen to her very often. I thought is was quite perceptive for a 2 year old.