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....