The Williams Family

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Eating or wearing our lunch?

Okay, so I'm having a terrible time keeping a bib on Carly. She's EXTREMELY strong willed, and refuses to keep her bib on. She loves to rip it off, and give the most defiant face and look at us as she tosses it overboard. I tell her no, I praise her when she keeps it on, I keep my hand on it to try to keep her from taking it off-I don't know what else to do!! I tried using the hard plastic bibs that she can't get off, but then she just sits and yanks and yanks on it till she's hurting her neck!! You'd think that'd stop her, but nO! By the last leg of meal times, I've given up and let her just make a mess because it just takes too much energy and time to keep putting it on! HElp me! I can't get out all the stains on her clothes! Such a mess! I'll take any and all suggestions!>....

So much work, but who can't love those baby blues?!?...saves her every time!!

Pack'n Play!

We have this wonderful Pack'nplay that isn't the typical pack'nplay. It's by graco, and it's call the Tot Block. I love it because it's square and a lot bigger than the standard pack'nplay! Carly lasts so much longer in it because she has room to move around! I love it! I also love that I got it practically brand new (used once at a grandmas house) off of Craigslist for $35 bucks!! That's $65 dollars less than in stores!! Yahoooo!!! Gotta love a steal!
P.S. I swear Carly doesn't always "sport" such nastified clothes!! She's practically wearing her lunch!! Good grief! Don't worry, I changed her....eventually!! LOL

Ms. "One-Eyed Jo" saying goodbye!

Ryan's mom flew out Sunday night, but his dad and Carsen stayed till Monday morning to see San Fran on the drive home. SO here's pics of Carly's goodbyes!
I don't know what's up with Carly's smile these days! She loves to scrunch up her nose and half close her left eye!!(Maybe we should get that checked?hehe) It's not the most attractive thing ever, but it's pretty funny. I call her "One-Eyed Jo." She looks like she's trying to make some kind of pirate face!! ARRRRRRR!!! I just wish I could get a normal picture every once in a while!! Silly baby!
She'll probably grow out of it before Kindergarten school pictures, right?!

Carly and Carsen...

Carly has so much fun with her Uncle Carsen!! I was a little worried that Carly might not take to everyone soon enough before they had to go(she's a HARDcore Mommy's girl, and doesn't do so well with other people), but luckily she did just great with everyone! We think that maybe having my sister Annie here (2 days prior to the weekend) for 8 days broke her in a little!!! It was nice to have someone else hold her for a change!(Not that I don't love holding my baby!)

Carly taking a moment to herself to reflect upon the day...

Happy Birthday Ryan!

We celebrated Ryan's 30th birthday last Sunday!We had a great weekend-Ryan's parents and his little brother Carsen came up from Utah and surprised Ryan when he got home from work on Friday(and I mean REALLY surprised him!It was pretty funny to see his shocked reaction). We played, laughed, swam, ate lots, and most of all, just enjoyed eachothers company. It was a fabulous weekend! Thanks so much Mom, Dad, and Carsen for coming to visit!! We love you!

Yummy cake!! Strawberry Boston Cream!!....and no, I didn't make it! Sad to say, it's store bought, but soooooooooooo worth it!!

Go easy there old man!!

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Fun with Auntie Annie!

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Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Happy Anniversary!!!

Ryan and I celebrated our 3rd Anniversary yesterday! We were married 8/06/04!
3 years ago and still going strong!
Thanks to our "built-in babysitter for the week," (my little sister Annie), we were able to go out for a really nice dinner, and finally to the movies!(First time since Carly's been born!!) We saw Harry Potter, and it was awesome!!! We are old-timers though because we were exhausted being out past 10:30!!! Hehe~ LOL~ I guess that's what being parents will do to ya! Anyhow, we had such a wonderful evening of celebration.
I can honestly say that as much as I love Ryan, I continue to love him more and more each day. He is such an amazing example to me of unconditional love(a useful quality to have being married to me!!), and he is the cutest/sweetest Daddy ever! I can't imagine my life or myself without him.
We have been so blessed with the love, support, and wisdom of close friends and family through these years. We are so grateful to have been married and sealed in the temple for time and all eternity, and for that solid foundation of our home and family.

Our little prodigy...

Carly loves jammin' on her piano!!! She can even sing at the same time!!!

Baby Blue Eyes

I've been cleaning out Carly's closet this week, and I found this cute coat that she hasn't worn yet, so I was trying it on, and it looked so cute that of course, we had to snap a shot!

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

We have a hair clip!!

Carly's hair has definitely been long enough to do this for quite some time now, and for some reason, I've just never gotten around to trying it out!! So yesterday after her nap, I sat with her in her room and played with her hair!! Oh, the fun times ahead of us!! So we put her 1st hair clip in, and it was a success!! And yes, I know-to all you family members who are saying that "it looks like she has a little bit of red in her hair," just like you always do- as much as we love all of you red-heads out there, Carly is all dirty blonde-more of a golden honey~LOL~ Just so we've cleared that up for those of you who were lost in confusion-there ya go!! HEHE~

Gotta have the classic Carly face!!.....v

Sooooooooooooo Big~!

So I accidentally uploaded the wrong clip of this, but being that it took me FOREVER to get just this up, I'm afraid the "little" SOOOO BiG is going to have to do for now. Maybe when I find the patience to find out what happened to the clip where she does it over and over, I'll post it up!....But in the meantime..........

Thursday, July 05, 2007

Happy 4th of July!!!

Here is my little patriotic arrangement for the 4th of July!Yea!!!....(I had a cute little flag to stick in the middle of this, and totally forgot to even use it till now!!Hehe-oh well!)

Here's our little lounging floater!! Carly had her first official time in the pool yesterday!! She freaked out at first to our surprise(she LOVES bath time), but we think it was due to the freezing water which actually felt quite nice with the 90+degree weather, once you got use to it. I tried to calm her down and endured the screaming for the next minute or so, and luckily she gave in. In fact, she was motionless-She didn't even move a muscle until I got her out. You can see how "excited" she was to be in the pool by the look on her face in these pics. We'd like to think that she wasn't so much frozen with fear, but just relaxing and enjoying the experience! Hopefully with some more practice with the pool, she'll be doing cannon balls into the water in no time!!!

We want to also mention that Carly's uncle, and our little brother Carsen turned 11 on the 3rd of July!! So grown up Carsen!! I'm sure it's crazy to think that next month, 19 YEARS ago, Ryan was turning 11!! Hehe-LOL! Carsen, you keep us all young!! You are such a breath of fresh air to us all. Carly loves you so much, and always lights up when you're around. Thanks for always being so much fun, a joy to be in the family with, and such a great brother and uncle. We miss you and love you so much!!!....we REALLY do. Come see us soon!! You and me have got some yummy shakes to make!!.....or a LONG road-trip to SONIC! Yipeee!!
Happy 11th!!