Thankful...

Just a few of the many things I am grateful for. Happy Thanksgiving!

We survived Trimester Numero Uno~!

Sorry friends! Dropped off the face of the planet for a while. This baby is kicking my trash--I keep telling Mike it had better be a girl for all the nastiness I'm feeling!

What have we done the past 2 months you ask?  Mostly a whole lot of TV and sleep.  My to-do list for October included 10 items...only 7 of which got done! :)  But November finally showed it's beautiful fall head and we are out of the bed and on to bigger and better things!

A few things you may have missed...

Halloween:  It was a great success. We were a family of Angry birds (Joshy's idea) and it was fun!  The kids were the cutest, and I'm pretty happy with how the costumes turned out.  The ward trunk or treat was a hit, as always, then we celebrated with the Jenkins and Julianos for our second annual Halloween night fun.  Lots of candy--most of it was gone in two days--and still not enough for me!

We also made it to BYU Homecoming, which is a favorite yearly tradition.  I'll admit, the parade wasn't as stellar as in years past (I think because we were at the end) but we loved seeing Cosmo and all the schools of education still the same! Love us some BYU time!  We had a blue pancake breakfast with Ben and Marilyn and had such a great time!

Katelyn finally got to bring home Curious George from school.  It's the curse of a 'W' last name! She was so excited~!

Luke, Luke, Luke. This boy is crazy nuts!  Happy most the time now, which is a bonus from all the crying he did his first year of life, but man! He keeps me on my toes. Case-in-point...this month he 'exploded' his crib. His incessant rocking back and forth and moving around actually busted the bolts right in half.  The side rails came down, the whole crib tilted and when I found him he looked at me and said, 'Whoa!'  Crazy boy!

We got our first snow of the season--and our only picture of Joshy! The kids sure had fun and built a snowman ALL BY THEMSELVES!  Gotta get me some snow boots so I can go out and play too!

It was wacky hair day at school.  Thanks Aunt Jilli for the great idea! It was a hit--all the kids at school couldn't stop touching Katelyn's hair!

 We carved pumpkins and had a pizza night for FHE.  Good times.

And, Ky and I enjoyed the first egg nog milkshakes of the season!  Snow this weekend--you better believe Christmas music is coming on! :)

First Day of Preschool

Josh-man got to start school this year too! He was so excited!  He is in a little neighborhood Joyschool/Preschool one day a week.  He is loving having something that is just his (mom is loving 2 hours a week with only 1 kiddo!).  Such a sweetheart!

First Day of Kindergarten

Yesterday was a big day in our family--the start of school!!  For the next bazillion years we will have kids in one school or another...exciting!!

I was so worried about this day--fretting and worrying and yes, even tears. But the morning came and went and all was well.  No tears from me, no tears from Katelyn, and no tears from anybody else either.  We got a sitter for the boys and Mike took the morning off of work so we got to take her to school together.  She was so excited for school to start and said she loved it all. She is still loving it today.  Let's hope this sticks for the next 18 years! :)

She came home and said her first day was good. She learned to say her teachers name, she learned some other kids' names, she got breakfast.  They practiced letters and sang songs and played games.  She was only sad once when "somebody else colored better than me".  Today they painted and learned about computers.  I think we are going to like this school thing! :)  

Family Pictures...

I remembered I never posted our family pictures.  We took these back in July--before Trek.  It was a lovely day...until it wasn't anymore! We got a few good ones though...Thanks Chels!!

Katelyn's birthday!

Think back to July--remember?  Okay, good!  July is our crazy birthday month in the Williams Family. I have lost count of the amount of birthdays we have in a very small period--but I add two to that number! Katelyn and Mike have birthdays back to back--but we usually sort of celebrate them together.

Here is the run-down on Katelyn!

Katelyn wanted a princess day (big surprise!)  She helped me made a pinata and picked out the topping for her cake.  She wanted to have a swim party and then birthday party at Grandma's--so to Grandma's we went! We had a fun day!

We started out by going to the Treehouse Museum in Ogden. She had been asking to go there for weeks, so we thought it would be a good time. Her birthday fell on a Friday, so Mike got to be home and that always makes things better!  

Next we headed to Grandmas for a swim party. We invited Payton and Carson and the kids had a FABULOUS time! Yeah for summer birthdays!

After swimming we had a yummy dinner, a pinata, and presents! Successful start to a birthday weekend, I'd say! :)  

Now when I said the START of a birthday weekend...I wasn't kidding.  Katelyn was Friday.  Mike was Saturday and we had Ben and Marilyn--one of his best friends and his wife--up for a BBQ and dinner. (Didn't get a single picture...seriously!?!)

 Sunday we celebrated Aunt Ev, Becky, Mike, Katelyn, and Dad Williams.  It was a YUMMY dinner of deep fried turkey, presents, pie, cake, ice cream and basic frivolity!  Happy Weekend all!!

(okay, so I didn't get pictures of people...apparently the food was more important this day! :)