The Williams

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Valentines Day Blog

If you haven't noticed... I have officially changed my ENTIRE blog for Valentines day!

Love songs: CHECK

Heart Background: CHECK

Cute Header Picture: CHECK

Valentines Day Countdown: CHECK

Anniversary Countdown: CHECK

The next thing on my to do list is:

-get a cute picture of Derek and uploaded for Valentines Day and our Anniversary.

-post pictures of Derek's Heavy Metal Quilt

-make taco's for dinner

Hope you all are having a wonderful week so far. If not, just remember tomorrow is the halfway point.

Monday, January 17, 2011

I got a new swim suit!

Now I need to start getting in shape so I look good in it...

Thanks to my friend and fellow blogger Leslie I found a new swim suit for this summer!

I have been a little self conscious about my "after baby butt" so I have been looking for a new swim suit.

Let me know what you think.

I got it here.

I got the black bottoms and the green top

Thanks again Leslie for the recommendation!

I also updated my 101 in 1001 check it out!

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Wow...I miss my husband and blogging.

Derek has been gone since last Tuesday and it has been a LONG week without him. This is the longest we have ever been apart from each other (and the longest he has been away from Stratton). I know all those military wives out there are probably scoffing as they're reading this...but I'm not a military wife.

Since he's been gone I've been trying to stay busy.

I started a t-shirt quilt for Derek two weeks ago and I FINALLY finished it.

Here is the first picture I took of it.

It doesn't have the back on it and the border hasn't been added in this picture.

I don't want to post any new pictures until Derek gets home tomorrow.

I want him to be able to see it in person before he sees it online.

I've also been doing A LOT of laundry trying to get it all caught up for when Derek gets home.

Stratton has been helping me with laundry. He is such a big help.

Stratton has also been my little snuggle buddy at night since Derek's side of the bed has been empty.
I know this will probably come back to bite me in the butt when Derek gets back home and he still wants to sleep in bed with me. How can you not want to wake up to THIS every morning...

I forgot my mom gave us a gingerbread house for the Christmas holiday.
Well I found it and Stratton wanted to decorate the "cake" so we decorated it.
It was such a mess but it was SO much fun!
I think we ate more of the candy then we actually put on the "cake".
Here is how it turned out.

Here he is eating the candy that was supposed to be going on the gingerbread house.

Here is the final product! The left side is Stratton's and the right side is mine.
I love it...even if it was made a month later than it was supposed to be made.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Danny and Annie

Danny & Annie from StoryCorps on Vimeo.

I found this on the internet today and it really touched my heart. This is the story of Danny Perasa and his wife, Annie, and how they went to StoryCorps to recount their twenty-seven-year romance. As they remember their life together from their first date to Danny’s final days with terminal cancer, these remarkable Brooklynites personify the eloquence, grace, and poetry that can be found in the voices of everyday people when we take the time to listen.

geocaching

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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

December...Better Late than Never

First Snow of the year!

It wasn't much but it's was SNOW! Jackson school district was out of school that day for this!

Lucky school teachers.

Stratton was watching tv like this and I couldn't help but take a picture of him.

He sits just like his daddy.

I was trying to teach Stratton how to wink. This is the result. Haha.

This too.

Stratton was having fun with the magnets at Aunt Casey's house.

We apparently had too much fun at Aunt Casey's. Notice the orange STILL in hand as he was sleeping.

This was for my mom's birthday. Stratton helped her blow out the candles.

Stratton helped take out the candles and licked the bottoms of them. Not sure where he got that from.

I took a half day a few weeks ago and decided to make a trip down to the SEMO River Campus to get a peek at Nathan Sawaya's lego sculptures. They're pretty amazing. If you get the chance (and they're still down there) you should go take a look at them.

This was the first of our family get together's for Christmas

This was over at Derek's Step-mom's sister's house.

This was the present that Derek and I brought for the rob your neighbor.

It was awesome!

This was our cute little tree. Most of the presents under there were for Stratton.

This was at Derek's Dad's house on Christmas Eve. We had too much fun watching all the little kids opening the MOUND of presents. I think the parents had more fun playing with the toys once they were actually open though.

This is Stratton not wanting his pictures taken any more.

Christmas Ever we went to the Light Show at Cape County Park with Stratton. The pictures aren't that great but we had an amazing time watching Stratton.

Countdown to Christmas 1 hour 27 min 20 seconds

We were making snowmen in the driveway.

Grandpa Calvin made him a snow man. It was so cute...until he swatted it off onto the ground.

Christmas morning at our house was really short because we had to make our way over to my Grandma Marge's house.

I love going to Grandma Marge's house on Christmas morning because she makes the BEST breakfast casserole I've ever tasted. We opened up a bunch of presents here too. Yay... just what we needed.
Marcus got JUST what he wanted...from Victoria's Secret. Just kidding, he got a iBlox from our work.