Story of Four Trees

On the 28 th of November we went and got Christmas trees.  The kids all wanted there own.  I'm not sure I agreed with them, but it made them happy.  Adele picked her tree out quick and pulled it to the pickup and loaded it.  She told me she was cold.

Tate made Cam carry him to look for a tree, so it may have been Dad that helped him find one pretty quick.

He then joined Adele, Colton and me in the pickup.

Tyler took much longer deciding on his perfect tree.  When he had

loaded his tree and hopped in the pickup I wondered it any one was going to help Cam find Our Family Tree.

Tyler reluctantly left the heated pickup to help Cam search. 

We did not decorate the trees until a week later.

I wanted to do something different then the same old ribbon I have used the last ten years, so I used some berries and assorted pine picks to decorate the branches.  Tyler was helping me and he said "the berries just make the tree Pop!"

He must have been hanging around his floral designer mom lately.

(Earlier that week I made a casket piece arrangement it our kitchen for a dear friend and neighbor)

The picture of Tate and Tyler;s trees Tyler was not dressed appropriately for a blog post.

Colton one week

I tried to post these pictures on Tuesday, but things happen when you have three kids and a week old baby! He is still a sleepy baby, the kids still love him to pieces, and I'm doing good other that my brain functioning very slow from a lack of sleep.
This afternoon I had to send the other three kids out side to play or what ever. To give my self a bit of quit!

He Is Here!

Colton Wayne Williams was born Tuesday November 17 at 12:04 A.M.
He weighed 7lbs 9oz. and is 20 1/2 in. long.
he just woke up this morning, and his eyes are looking every were!
The kids love him to pieces. Tyler said I just can't stop saying, "he is so cute!"
We are both doing great!

Trick or Treat

The kids had more fun Trick-or-Treating this year. Adele did not want to stop even after going to 4 or 5 houses with know one home (we had the adult session of stake conference that night)! Tate sat in the back of the van eating what ever he got at the most resent house. We like go to neighbors houses in the country who don't get to many Trick-or-Treaters. They are happy to see us and they give the kids a handful and we are not out as long before the kid deiced they have had enough.




Adele is the "Tooth Fairy" the other two are pretty easy to guess. The kids and I made teeth out of white clay, and then we baked them in the oven. Tate needed some help when the time was up and they were in the oven longer then they should have been. So the teeth looked like they needed a visit to the dentist. My sister suggested I spray paint them, and they soon returned to there original white selves.

Tate is wearing a bat costume my mother in law made for the youngest boy in there family. It surprised me the first time I saw it because my younger brother had the same costume with he was little. Our Mom's must have shopped the the same fabric stores twenty years ago (could twenty years really be right!!!!)
Tyler costume kept getting more added to it through the week with scouts, carnival and trick or treating. The insulated overalls were to hot for inside.

Project of the last 6 months

I wanted to share these projects with all of you for along time, but you probably notice my updates have not been to often lately. As I uploaded these pictures I realized that a lot of my ideas come for family and friends, so I wanted to pass on the ideas. Let me know if you make some of your own, or need more info. on how too.
Happy creating.

I have made two other laundry bags before this one and I decided to add a cute flower to the front. I learned how to make these flowers from my sister.



This was my forth attempt at a laundry bag. After looking a my cousins blog and she had made a diaper storage bag that had pieces on the side, I decided to try it. It required some thinking.



I made this balance for my bedroom/office with martial that matches my bedspread. I got this idea from a friend. Hers were 8" or 10" squares mine are 6" so I ended up making more. Also she put a tab in the middle instead of two on each square.



My sister helped me make this skirt from a "Pink Fig" pattern. It was supposed to have strips of material going down in the middle section, but with the big floral print I wanted it be able to see more of the flowers.


These topiarys I made for a "Bridal Tea Party" I used curly willow for the stems and spikes that I got from my mother in laws bush! The Brides mother gave me a picture similar to these for the idea.



This is an apron patter I adapted into curtains for Adele's room.


My friend bought these flowers and I arranged this one and three others for her.

These are some things I made 6 months ago and some I did recently. I'm trying to get some Christmas thing done before the baby is born, but I can't put any of them on the blog before Christmas.
Hope they get ideas going for you.

July update

Tyler and Adele both learned to swim this year! Adele learned the "Monkey, Airplane, Solider", and started the free style. She loved jumping of the diving board and floating to the side (her swimming teacher was in the water with her the whole time). Tyler learned to free style and swam the length of the pool, and became good at diving for things at the bottom of the pool. He went of the diving board once with a lot of begging from his teacher. He did jump in several time from the side. It was so great to have making progress this year!




This is at our ward party. Adele is wearing the bonnet we got in Chesterfield.



The kids wanted to go back to the Chesterfield town site. We went last year and I did not bring my camera, so this time I made sure I remembered. We went to houses we did not see last time or were newly restored.
(If you want to know more this is there website)

Tyler playing with the "Limber Jack?"


Stopping at the "Old Log Store" is the kids favorite stop. They only sell things that you could by 100 years ago.



This is a "Dug Out" That Cam's relative is helping build. Most of the buildings are original on the town site. But a few are starting to be moved from locations to the town site.




This is an old potty seat. Tate thought it was a great little chair.





My good friend Heidi came to visit us with her family. The kids had a great time playing in the tree house and going to the river. They "skipped rocks", and walked on the rail road bridge. Thanks for stopping by.

Summer 2009 on Fast Forward

For the Williams reunion we went camping to a place only twenty minuets from home! It is owned by some people in our ward. It had a zip line, teeter toter, and these swings that were like a fairies wheel on its side(?)that was motorized with a wheel line engine. We decorated "fireworks" shirts with stamps we made our of noodles. Did a treasure hunt with GPS's. That night we had a great family home evening about listening to your parents which involved blindfolds and gold covered chocolate bars. We also had family pictures taken. It was nice to be with all of Cam's family.




All the kids loved the Zip Line (even Tate)




This is Tate putting rocks down his shirt(????)Little Boys(?????)



We had a family reunion with my Dad's side of the family at Bear Lake. All of my siblings were there! It was great to see cousins that I had not seen since my Grandma's funeral. We are so close to Bear Lake, but rarely go there (it is strange how we will drive hundreds of miles to see something great and ignore the things around home).






Hail storm in June, Cam was in the shop and said the noise was unbearable. Tate and Adele had a good time eating the hail stones.