Sunday, December 21, 2008

Title Will Follow...maybe

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.
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!

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

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

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

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

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Pink is my favorite color...

Per Aunt Mindy's request...
We had a quick photoshoot this evening...baby acne and all!
Calliope 5 weeks