Mickelle's Minute

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Christmas 2008!

Here are a bunch of the photos that I thought friends and family might enjoy. We just put all of our Christmas stuff away last week, so to me this post isn't really that late!

Time to decorate the tree and living room for Mardi Gras!

Mac drinking his Coca Cola! The breakfast of my Champion! He will need his strength to play the Wii! Six years without a gaming system, he will need his strength!

Jack's Stuff

The Morning...Marley's stash.

Happy (i.e. recently fed and full) even without that many gifts! Too bad that will probably the last time she isn't concerned with "what she got" for Christmas.

Lightning McQueen...enough said. Well maybe we could sqeel our tires and say "Kapow Katchow"

Marley straight away changed into some of her new sparkly clothes! Thanks Grandma, Grandpa, & Aunt Mindy for giving her a wardrobe that spans across the country! She looked "fierce"!

Jack and his big truck!

Hopefully Calliope will continue to love ALL thinks sparkly and shiny as much as she did on this day!

How I looked after opening gifts and trying to figure out where I was going to put all this stuff!

Just Chillin in my cute new Christmas Outfit...sitting in my Bumbo...

The end of the day. All tuckered out. Tired enough to sleep on hardwood floors. (We got a tent, so this is where the sleeping bags come in)

Another great Christmas...kids quiet and dreaming of cars, clothes, Nintendo DS, Wii, family and fun!

P.S. Cousin challenge...Marley wants to play some Mario Kart against you cross country sometime!

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

South Carolina All-Health Team

In December Marley participated in a video for the South Carolina All-Health Team. Her picture is below and their is a link to the video here!

Sunday, December 21, 2008

So I haven't posted in quite awhile because every time I sit down to write a blog or detail any information on my blog someone cries! Seriously it is like Murphy's law. I made Mac start this post about some of the things we have done in the last month and he only got a few pictures posted and then we were sidetracked by something, pick one, they seem to happen at least once a day:

A. Marley tripping and spilling something she is carrying

B. Jack is climbing on a chair to reach an ornament he shouldn't be touching on the tree

C. Calliope is hungry, ever the benevolent dictator!

Seems I am always nursing something....

A. Bruised shin from tripping on the stairs

B. Broken ornament from the tree..."Elmo broken...Elmo broken"

C. The wee babe trying to sleep in her pack n' play manger.

Wow, I guess this could have been our Christmas card this year or at least our Ground Hog Day card theme since I do each of these things over and over and over each day.

Wow...no one has cried since I started to update this post. Maybe later I will add some more pictures. Below are a few of our outtakes from our Christmas photo shoot. The video is of Marley doing "HipHop" at her Winter showcase. If you watch it long enough to see the end you will notice they all just kind of stop because the routine is unfinished. The showcase was really for the older girls!

Happy Holidays...if I didn't get a card out to you (i.e. Jessica, Kari...etc) Mac took over the mailing this year" it was just a picture card, so these pictures are pretty close to the real thing.

Probably a better snapshot of reality!

Happy Holidays!

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

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

Thursday, November 13, 2008

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.