It's a Girl!!!

So today we found out what little baby we will bring in this world and yes it is another girl. We are really excited. Keely will have a little sister and it will be much easier because I already have everything, so it will be more simple. It is so funny; in Shawn's family there are 5 kids and the first 4 have had 2 girls first. So it was pretty inevitable that we woudl have a girl. Shawn's younger brother's wife is pregnant as well and of course she is having a girl too. As far as names go, we are thinking of the name Lydia, so we will see if that one sticks.

The Zipper Dress...

A while ago I said I was going to make Keely a Christmas dress with some fabric my mom gave me, and it turned out pretty well. I don't know what it was with this dress, but I felt like I took it apart a hundred times, to get it right. Also it was my first zipper dress... I don't know why I picked to do this dress, because I have never done a zipper. So a big thanks to my mother in law I was able to do it! Thanks again Jennifer. Now I just have to remember the steps for the next zipper I do. But lets all clap for Sharla because I think she did a great job:)

Here is Keely with her big "cheese" smile.

Happy Birthday!!

Today is my sweet Keely's birthday! December 17th. We celebrated on Monday because Shawn had night class on Tuesday and Wednesday night. Today Grandma Nelson took Keely out to lunch and McDonalds to get a happy meal, which Keely I am sure had fun just being with her Grandma. When we ask her how old she is, she holds up all her fingers and says "toot".

I am so thankful to have such a sweet special girl in our family. Where ever she goes she brightens everyone's day with her smile and personality. She seems to always have a little sparkle in her eye, and I sure hope she knows how much her mom and dad love her. Happy Birthday Keely!

Grandma and Papa got Keely a kitchen for her birthday and she absolutly loves it.

Here is the cake I made for her. It is supposed to be Cuirous George. She liked it so that's all that mattered.

Here comes Number Two!! :)

So Shawn and I have some news.... we are expecting another baby! Yahoo!! I am 14 weeks along and my due date is June 3rd. I have been waiting to tell people till after I went and saw the doctor and to hear a heartbeat, and I just saw her yesterday, and everything is great! We did an ultra sound and it was sucking it's thumb, it was so cute. I am on the fence post to be able to distinguish the sex but it was covering itself up so she couldn't tell us. But we find out what we are having Dec 30th. Shawn and I are so excited to see what the Lord has in store for us next. I have a hard time picturing anything but a Keely, so it is going to be fun seeing what child we will welcome into our family.
It seems that there are so many people pregnant. My sister in law is May 27th, my cousin is May 9th, my brother Ben's wife is due early July, I am due June 3rd, and my friend is due June 17th. So I know of five within a month or so apart. Crazy huh?

Thanksgiving and Getting Ready

So it has been about a month since I last posted. I just haven't really had anything to talk or post about. So I am going to do better trying to find something to post about from now on.

Anyway, we got to go up to Heber for Thanksgiving this year. It was so good to see my family. It was a little different this year because only four of us 8 kids were able to be there for the meal. Us, Ginger, Sam, and Ernie. We all sat at one table to eat instead of 2 or 3. It was kinda weird not having a huge houseful of people. Of course my mom made a great meal and of course too much food to feed only 8 adults; left overs are always good though. I am so thankful for my mother and the hard work she puts into showing her love for her children. I am so thankful for a wonderful husband and little girl that I have been blessed with. Especially in these hard time I am grateful for a roof over my head and food to put on the table.

Kelly loved being up there. She is talking so much more and she loves to say "Papa" and "Abby" (Ben's little girl Keely's age). They had so much fun together.

Friday we helped my mom put up her Christmas lights, because that is the only way it will get done, and it didn't take us long at all. I was suprised with how quickly we worked. I should have taken a picture of the final product but I forgot. Keely loved being outside helping us get all the lights out. Here is a picture of her....

On Saturday we went like we do every year to "Greg's tree farm" and got our Christmas tree. I call it Gregs tree farm becuase he took us to this place on the rim where nobody goes and there are just tons of Christmas trees. It is so much fun finding a tree and cutting it down ourselves. And $15 is a whole lot better than $40 if we bought it at a store or something. It was really cold this year on the rim though. There was snow and Keely loved playing in it, and trying to throw "snowballs" at us.

Keely and Macey


Now I am so ready for Christmas to get here! Well not specifically Christmas day but just the wonderful season of it. I think most of us feel that way. This year is going to be really fun with Keely older. Everytime she sees Santa or anything Christmas like, she says "Ho Ho Ho. " It's so cute. I hope everyone had a good and safe Thanksgiving!
We tried to get a family picture but Keely wouldn't have that. She would rather be playing in the snow, so this is what we got. :)

Halloween Fun and Other

We did a pumpkin this year, well Keely and I did a pumpkin, Shawn just watched. I decided to do something fun, so Keely could appreciate the pumpkin more, so I did Elmo. I was a little nervous, but it turned out really good I think. I was proud of myself. I was hoping she would say "Elmo"and recognize him, but all she could concentrate on is how "hot" it was. That's all right.

Don't you think it turned out good? I am so proud.
It was fun having Keely being older this year for Halloween. She understood a little and even tried to say "Trick or Treat." We only took her to Shawn's parents house and hung out. Well she went to their neighbors as well and got scared by other trick or treaters that were there. She is so funny. I borrowed a costume that my sister Kelli made for her little girl a couple years ago. I didn't feel like paying money for one, or making one so she was Strawberry Shortcake and she was so dang cute....


Here is Keely with Shawn and his motorcycle. She calls it a "horse" I think she knows the difference between the two, but motorcycle is such a hard word that it just comes out as horse. She's so funny, everywhere we go and there is motorcycle she gets so excited and yells out "dad" and points. Anyway, Shawn is sad. We have to sell the motorcycle. He has to move out to Ahwatukee to go to work now, and it is just too long of a drive everyday to be on a motorcycle, and kind of dangerous to be on the road like that for long periods of time. The chance of him getting in an accident goes way up. So we are selling it to get another car. He is sad now, but he will have the opportunity to get another someday.

Bye Bye Cast

Today, we got Keely's cast off. I am so happy to get that thing off even though it was really cute. Bath time is so much easier, she is taking a bath right now acutally. I ask her where her cast has gone and she waves "bye bye" at her arm. The doctor was impressed by her mobility that she already has in her wrist. I don't think she will have any problems getting her strength back.

This past conference weekend, my sister Ginger and I got to visit my parents. Shawn wanted to ride his motorcycle up, so he came up the next day. Boy did he pick a bad weekend to endevor the trip. He froze on the way up and froze plus got hailed on the way home. I felt so bad for him, but I thought he knew it was going to be bad weather. He said he had no idea that the weather was going to be bad, guess I should have made sure he knew. I have yet to put a picture of him on his bike with Keely. I will do that soon. He has just been so busy working full time and going to school full time. He has been a busy guy, but we know it will be worth the sacrafices.

It was great to spend time in Heber. I of course ate more than I should. Everytime I go up, my Maumau makes us cookies. This time there were cookies and pie! My mom dug out some fabric from my Senior year prom dress that I am going to make Keely a Christmas dress out of. Here is a picture of my dress. I think she will look pretty in the color blue..... I will put a picture on here when I'm done with it.

Welp she did it...

As I was saying that Keely wanted the cast off - welp she got it off. I will be back at the doctor tomorrow for another miserable tramatic day. I don't know how she did it. I went into her room because she was crying and I felt both arms and nope nothing was there. Haha goofy, stubborn girl. Anyway wish me luck tomorrow.

What a Small Cast...

So on Sunday evening we were at Shawn's parents house visiting as usual and Keely had wandered off into the back yard while Shawn and I were still at the table eating. Hailey, Keely's cousin came running in yelling "Keely fell and hurt herself really bad!" So I jump up and run to the backyard and Keely was on her way getting up crying. She had fallen off the jungle gym they have about 41/2 feet or so. She seemed like she was fine, just shaken up, then later that night I noticed her arm was looking weird. I took her to the doctor the next day, and sure enough she broke her arm. Poor little thing. They didn't want to cast it until 3 days after the injury. She didn't seem in too much pain except when she put pressure on it. The doctors called it a distal radius frature of the right arm. Once she got it on, she has been trying to pull it off and get her little fingers underneath to try to take it off. She just looks at me and say's "mom, mom" while pointing at it.

This was the break before the cast (She's not in pain, she's just stubborn)

Keely doesn't like doctors as it is. Once we walk in the room, she freaks out. So this experience wasn't so good. I had to wrestle her down so she would hold still so the doctor could put the cast on. Now we have to look forward to baths and making sure it doesn't get wet. I can't imagine her keeping a plastic bag over it. She doesn't even like keeping a hat on. I feel so bad for her, but she looks so cute with that teeny cast on her arm....

I think purple suits her don't you?

A LoT tO CaTcH uP oN.......

So I have been a little blog slackin lately. I just havne't been in the mood to post anything, even though we have had things going on. So I will begin with our family Reunion...

Williams Family Reunion
Every year my family goes camping for our reunion. It is always so much fun to get together while the kids just run around a have a good time. This year Keely was old enough to run right along with the other kids. Well not really, it was more like trying to keep up and falling down every few feet on the uneven ground, but she had so much fun. We went the weekend of July 24-26th. We camped up by legacy ranch and the ground was so green from all the rain they have been getting, it even rained every day when we were up there making the weather so cool and enjoyable. We ate so good that it wasn't even like we should have been camping. My brother Ben's family and Kim's family made us BBQ sandwiches pit style and we had french toast and yummy food the whole weekend. Anyway here are some pitures of the trip....

Playing with cousins at the card table.

Keely loves her cousins.

Hanging out with Dad.Haning out by the campfire.

Wakeboarding

A couple weekends ago Shawn, Keely and I went to the lake with Shawn's parents. It was the first time that Keely had been to the lake and on a boat. She wasn't too sure about it at first but she warmed up to it. We even got her to go on the tube. It was really fun to be wakeboarding again. I hadn't gone in a while. Shawn's parents are so kind to take us to the lake once in a while, since we don't have a boat or even a truck to pull one with, or what am I saying we don't even have a place to put a boat haha. Anyway here are a couple pictures from the day....

Also the other week, I watched my brother Ben's kids while they went to buy a truck. They have 3 boys and a little girl Keely's age. Let me just tell ya, it was a houseful. I just have some funny pictures to share that I thought were really cute.....

Anniversary....What?

Haha well I feel so bad, but I know I would feel worse if Shawn didn't make the mistake as well. Yesterday the 9th was our anniversary, and both of us completely forgot. I know! How sad and unromantic are we? We kind of went to bed mad the night before, and so the next morning we woke up not even thinking of what day it was. I was the first to remember, but that's only becuase my sister Ginger called to with us happy anniversary and see if she could babysit for us for a night out. Haha how sad is that. Ginger remembered before I did.

So Shawn and I just went to see a movie and eat some yumo Taco Bell. Nothing real special but it was nice to get out of the house. Thanks agian Ginger!

I sure do love Shawn though and am grateful that he didn't get upset at me because I forgot our anniversary. He does so much for me, even when I am so grumpy and don't deserve it. He really doese help me keep my head on straight when I am worrying all the time. Anyway here are some of my favorite pictures....

Fourth of July

We had a really good 4th of July weekend. I got to go up to HeberWednesday night with my sister Kelli and Shawn later drove up on Friday afternoon. It was really great being able to stay at my mom's and enjoy the beautiful cloudy weather all weekend. On Thursday we picked my sister Kim up from Taylor and brought her home with us, so we could make paper dolls for our girls. She has a cricut, which is the coolest scrapbooking machine I have ever seen, and that is how we were able to make the paper dolls. You just tell it what you want, and what size and it cuts it out perfectly for you. So cool. Anyway, we had a lot of fun doing that, maybe more than the girls did when playing with them.

Keely had so much fun playing with all her cousins that came to my mom's house. . Here are some pictures of our weekend. I did take a lot of pitures and so many of them came out cute, so sorry if there are alot.

Abigal came to my mom's wearing the same exact shirt, it was funny, they are only a month apart and they looked like twins.

Waiting for the parade to start....I don't know why, but Keely was throwing some major tantrum, and this was one of them. She wanted to go outside, so she curled up next to the door. I hope this stage passes soon.

Keely and I waiting for the fireworks.Family picture.
This picture turned out really cool. I don't know how I did it, but she was swinging those glow sticks and the camera captured it....

A lot to catch up on.......

First up - the move.....

We have been so busy lately that I haven't had time to really sit down and post anything. First of all, at the end of May, we moved into a larger condo for the same price we were paying, until we plunge in to buy a house. We are now living in north Mesa, and we are liking it. I must say though, that I was a little bad tempered about moving, and I am sure Shawn wanted to strangle my neck. I just hate moving so very much, and I loved our old place and our old ward. We will miss the Lindsay Villas, well, I will at least. It was hard for Keely to get used to sleeping in a new place, but by the end of the first week, she was just fine.

At our new place.

Taking a break when moving.

Still Working.....

I have taken on new responsibilites at work. Since I had Keely, my friend and I split my full time job up in half so we both could work part time from home, but she recently had a new baby boy, and it was a lot for her to handle. So I took back the other half of my job. So basicaly I am working a full time job, in 3 hours a day. It was a little overwhelming at first, but now that I got myself organized, it is much better, and things are running smoothly. So now instead of working half of Keely's naptime, I am working the full 3-4 hours, so it doesn't seem like I ever have any down time. Let's just hope I don't burn myself out. I keep telling myself I will do this until Shawn is done with school, because it is really nice to have the extra money. So we will see how it goes.

Birthday....

My birthday was May 26th and I am now 22. Doesn't even really feel different. It is weird that I have been graduated for 4 years. Time just really seems to fly. It makes me feel old when I hear that Celeste Reidhead is engaged!

Swim Lessons....

I put Keely in swim lessons the first 2 weeks of June. I thought it would be nice to get out in the sun everday, and for her to be with other kids. My friend Courtney did it with us, or I should say, I did it with her. Keely did okay, but I learned that she is really defiante of me. She will do things asked of her for others, but when I ask her to do something, look out tantrum. I have no idea what I am doing with being a mom, but I sure hope I figure it out soon, because we just went to Target today, and we had yet a major break down.

Goodbye car....

Since gas prices have gone up considerably, Shawn has really been thinking about getting a motorcycle, and I finally gave it, but I told him first we had to sell our Lincoln LS. Well it sold Saturday, and I was kind of sad. It was a really nice car, but we can't afford to have both the Lincoln and motorcyle. It also took Premium gas so we were paying up the wazoo to drive it. So ya, I guess you can say that Shawn is pretty excited about getting his motorcycle. He needs to remember what a wonderful wife he has :) I will post a picture of him when he gets it. For some reason I have a hard time picturing him on one, does anyone else, or is it just me?

Here are some of my favorite pictures of the past month of Keely.... She is so funny.

Miss fix - it. After watching us, she thinks everything needs fixing.

I love these two pictures of her with her sunglasses.

Well it was Shawn's birthday on the 9th. He is 26 now; he is closer to 30 than he is to 20 now. He's getting old! Just kidding. I love you honey; happy birthday! We just had Jason and Courtney over for pizza and to visit, since we hadn't seen them in forever. It was great to catch up and watch Jaxon and Keely interact.
We haven't been up to much. Shawn is done with school for the semester, and he ended up getting good grades, which he was so happy about. Shawn was really bummed when the Suns dissapointed once again, so there hasn't been basketball on, but now the DBacks are. I have to admit, I enjoy watching the DBack games. They are a fun team. I hope we get to go to a game this year.
We are moving to a new condo at the end of May. We will be saving money for a lot bigger place; almost 400 square foot bigger for less. So it is exciting. We have all month to move, so last weekend we moved all our storage stuff and the stuff that we don't use. So it will be a nice easy move and transition. I have given up on reading for the time being. I think I wore my eyes out, and there really hasn't been time with packing things up and such.
I went to my friend Amber Crandell's bridal shower last Saturday. I seriously have been looking forward to it for about a month. I love baby showers, and it was so good to see my friends from High School that I haven't seen in a while. I was hoping I could get to see more, but it was still great! I haven't really posted any pictures of Keely lately, so these are my favorite from the past month in a half.

Keely and I getting ready to move boxes.Keely is into putting her shirts on and off.

Giving her baby a kiss.

Eating on the couch like a big girl.She has her camping chair in the living room. She sits on it to watch TV. Goofy girl.