It has been a while . . .

I have no excuse for not posting other than I just haven't done it. Needless to say this post will be a large post of what we have been doing for the past four months, ouch! I can't believe it has been that long. In November we did the normal November activities Mike turned 27 and we celebrated Thanksgiving with my family in Idaho Falls.

December was a fun month as always we decided to go cut our Christmas tree down in the forest. It was so much fun Carter loves being outside it doesn't matter what we are doing so long as he is outside, making winter a bit longer than usual. We borrowed Dad Williams fourwheeler to search for that perefect tree. Here we are with our Christmas jammies on Christmas Eve in front of our forest grown Christmas Tree. 

 Ready to go look at lights with Grandpa Williams

 

Some of you may know that Mike loves to do home projects. He is always finding ways to better our home and making it so beautiful. This is great because we moved into an old house with old grey shag carpet, purple carpet, green carpet, pink walls, pink appliances (which we still have) and seventies looking cabients. We have been so blessed to re-carpet thanks to Mike's brother, Steve. We also have been able to use countless tools thanks to Dad Williams. Mike works so hard and loves to do these project and I love to work along side of him and make this house our own personal home. But lately due to a bouncy baby boy and Mike returning to school and the fact that these project take money our home improvment has slowed down quite a bit.

But come Christmas break Mike got the bug again and decided he wanted to redo our cabients in the hallway. I was over the moon I dislike these cabients and couldn't wait to see how they would turn out. Mike did his research as always and we got to work here is the result!

Sorry I should know how to rotate a picture, but once it is downloaded onto the blog I have no idea. But you can still see the transformation. It is so nice I love them! January and Feburary have been busy and have gone super fast. Mike is working so hard in school (and doing very well) and working full time. He is a busy man, but is still an awesome husband and father. Carter loves when he gets home.

We found out last week we are going to have a girl and we are so excited to have another special spirit in our home. I sometimes lay awake and think about our new baby that will soon join our family, and I get giddy like a child on Christmas Eve. I know the challenges that comes with a newborn, but with those challenges comes sweet and unforgetable memories. She is due on July 13th.

 Baby Girl!!

First picture. She was very calm and didn't move hardly at all. When we had Carter's Ultrasound he was crazy and the tech had a hard time taking pictures, becasue he would not hold still. It is always so fun to see how far the baby grows in just a few short months. 

 Haircut time! If our little girl's hair grows like Carter's she will have long hair. We have giving Carter probably five or six haircuts. Mike does the cutting and I do the entertaining. We are getting really good at it. This is the only picture I could find post haircut. He likes to wear my hair bands on his head he finds them and puts them on all by himself. I promise I am not putting pink headbands on my boy.

I love this picture. This pretty much sums up our last two months. So much fun but tiring indeed!(this picture is pre-haircut as you can tell it gets long and crazy)

Happy Halloween

We had a great Halloween. First was our carving pumpkins. Mike is so busy he started his but then had no time to finish it,. even if he did Carter climbed on the table and ruined it, so we don't have a picture of Mike's Pumpkin. Carter's pumpkin is the one that is full of the guts. We tried teaching him how to clean it out, but his favorite was picking up what we had taken out of ours and putting them in his so his is super full.  On Halloween we went to our Stake 'Trunk or Treat' it was so much fun and Carter loved going and holding his bucket up for more candy. A couple of days before Halloween I still had no idea what Carter was going to be, Then I had a great idea we would be a Mario family. Then for the next few days it was sewing and trying to get everything ready. I think they turned out great, take a look.

Mike sewed his own costume.
He is pretty amazing

Hope you had a 'SUPER' Halloween

 

It was a great Halloween and we enjoyed being together as a family!!

 

Carter

I have the hardest time thinking of blog titles. Things are going good in the Williams house hold. . . really good actually. For the biggest news, Mike got a job at the hospital working as a histology tech and is working so hard. He works all morning and comes home for about 30 seconds to grab his backpack and leaves me the car (thats right we only have one car, its always an adventure). Then he rides his bike to school, which is really close so thats nice. After school he comes home and eats and hits the books. He is working so hard all the time and I feel so blessed that we are married. I am still working as a gymnastic coach, but only one class. I go every day for about two hours and work in the office answering the phone, and keeping up on the books. It is great because I can bring Carter and he loves to play around and get in to everything. He is really brave and loves to try new things which terrifies me. It really is a great job, not too many hours where I can still be a stay at home mom, and I stay connected to the gym.
  Carter is still his bubbly and happy self. I love him so much he makes me laugh all the time. His new word is "shoe" he will bring me his shoes then sit down and put his feet up and say 'shoe'. He loves to go outside so he knows if he has his shoes on then he will get to go outside. But now I will put his shoes on while I am getting ready, but we wouldn't go outside because I wasn't ready to go yet. So now he will bring me his shoes I will put them on him and then if I don't have my shoes he will go back into my closet and pick two shoes (sometimes they match but most the time they don't) and he puts them in front of me and says 'shoes' I just laugh. He is such a boy trying to speed my process of getting out the door. He is a sweetheart.

 

ENJOY these picures of our Little Man

 

Waiting to say the Prayer before his cupcake!

Yep!! It only took 17 months to get front teeth

Starting to TP people at a young age!

this face says 'Mom I'm sorry but I had a lot of fun doing it'

He found this premie onesie and loves to wear it as a hat

how can I say no. . .

. . when he gets this excited about veggie puffs.



'I can't see'

Yoga is a great way to relieve stress.

Downward dog.

Now all we need is snow . .. and the other boot.

 

One day I could hear Carter talking but I couldn't find him when I looked in his closet
this is what I found.

when  I say 'Show me your muscles'



Summer Overview

 

 Well, It has been a while since I posted, so this will be an overload of pictures and info. We have had a busy and crazy summer as always! For memorial day we visited Mike's mom then went to a picnic at Dad Williams house. That week we got to spend time with the Chad and Tosha family, which is always so much fun.

Three generations of Williams

 

Carter loves Grandpa! He loves going to his house and when we pull up he says 'gmpa'

Saying hello to Poco

Riding the fourwheelers with Carter and Pratt

Chad and Porter!

Amiee and Porter riding Poco!

Classic Tosh!

 

High Chair Party! Carter and Pratt

 

Dear Tosha, If you are reading our blog and you see the pictures I promised to send you, I am sorry I have not done so. I was looking through my pictures and I noticed I had them so I will send these and the rest of them to you shortly. :)

 

Moab was our next adventure we had so much fun we went with my sisters families. We stayed at a really fun condo with a pool which the kidos loved. We went down because Mike, my bro-in-law Trevor did the Moab xterra triathalon. My sis Melissa did the Olympic triathalon.

 

The Delicate Arch from a point of view that not many people get, because Nicole and I took a round about way and ended up coming up on the side of the arch, instead of on top of it. We almost died!

 

The whole group at Balancing Rock!

 

our little fam

Nicole and I finally found our way to the correct trail. We are not quite sure how we got so off
but we weren't the only ones. Thats what happens when two girls go hiking at the crack of dawn by themselves.

Now some random Pictures. There are some major gaps but I was bad and didn't take pictures so lots of camping,swimming and hangin with friends and family.

All summer I tried to keep Carter's hat on and he always took it off.
when we would be inside he would put it on all the time.

 

Hope you had a Great Summer!