First grade writing

A few pages out of the book of a first grader translated into a more reader friendly note.

First I get a cookie then i get candy corn then i get a hershey kiss then i get a red hot.

" I felt left out when somebody left me out. I was playing freeze tag. I felt sad."

How terrible huh? I dont know what he is talking about, since he always comes home happy. But the writing was so cute, that i felt happy to share!

scary faces

Bostons ugh face

Brody's aha(monster) face

Bostons aha (monster face)

I was making a picture calendar for my sister inlaw who is in the hospital. It was a day of silly/scary faces all designed to help brighten up her day. Hopefully they brightened up yours as well :)

Peace and love in the brotherhood


Brods sitting in a tonka truck... dont know why

More fall fun .... We had a great time out doors. I am not sure why brods is trying to stick his booty in the truck, but he is still a cutie

Bostons Fall Fun

BOSTON


Bostons future in modeling...




fall fun in the leaves

There is a group of pictures for fall (november) This bunch is soley Boston and is evidence of his enjoyment for being the center of attention. We were outside enjoying this 65 degree temps in november

lovely girls

Mooshoo


Moogoo



Moogoo and Mooshoo

New flowers

(on the phone with my mom) Just a quick look..........

So i finally got off my tail feathers and ripped up part of my front yard with my pal Janette. I wanted to plant some flowers on the side of the driveway so that eventually when we sell our house it has curb appeal :) Also makes it pretty while we are living in it.

Now it is not quite done, i need to add some edging and mulch, and the flowers need some time to grow into the soil.... i am sure in the spring it will be gorgeous, at least Ihope so :)

more halloween footage

Okay last dregs of halloween footage

first video (forgive me it gets all loopy) is the voekels. Linda is dressed up as a mexican (she says she is a pinata, i dont believe her! ) anna is a blue m&m, Janae is the snow princess (i think) and daila is uniqua.

the second video is of windom rd. that we trick or treat on. it is not good footage it doesnt do the street justice. But alas this is all i have.

lastly visit this link to see a super cute video http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/MntJDGMtGbMaHnk1

Halloween bonanza

So i dont mean to inudate ya'll with videos of us. But if i dont do it now, i wont do it later and you will never see us :) here is our videos from this halloween. They are all short :)

The first video is our annual carving pumpkin time. Taylor made a blue ranger pumpkin and a vampire pumpkin this year.....the boys helped gut the pumpkin and saved the seeds to be roasted.

the second video is of our friends the Kings who came to trick or treat with us :)

Source: http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/OVEnMYccvvB0mRVW

visit this link for another cute video

Trunk or treat 2

Here is a supe quick video intro to our trunk or treat at church. It is basically a hello!

Once it got dark, it got crazy with all the kids high on sugar and running around to the trunks as many times as they could before the sugar high crashed :)



Source: http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/V7dDbjGsC2yv7S5b
visit this link for a super funny video

Trunk or treat

Tay (football player) april (cat) brynden(robin) boston(vampire)

Boston

Last night was our church trunk or treat. Here are some photos of the fun event .

the original video link http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/evqhGIYvDLVcrjJp monster mash LDS pagedale branch style

Hello pups

Mooshoo and Moogoo are our new foster pups. they are 7 weeks old and adorable. They will be hanging out at my place till they find a forever home. More information?? go to www.strayrescue.org

Weeeeeeeeeeeee

Crime Fighters

Unmasked crime fighters.... this is what we are doing at 7 am. We had been up since 6am so after breakfast came the crime fighters from the batcave!

Introducing Brody Batman Williams Taylor Policeman Williams and Brynden Robin Williams. These crime fighters love naps and playing outside.

we got the the two costumes at a garage sale this last wednesday for 8.00 total!!! awesome find. Bryndens' has a cape and an eye mask but he doesnt like to wear them.

Taylors came curtesy of the STL county PD :) .... he is the only one who fights crime for real.

We're baccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkk

Thanks heavens, we are finally home! We left saturday morning around 10am from the great san antonio TEXAS and drove thru to Oklahoma city, we stopped at my daddy's house for a 2 hour break we started driving around 7pm and didnt stop (except to pee) until we got home at 2am!!! UGH. It was a super long drive, and the kids were crabby and taylor and i were crabby. And of course 2 out of 3 of my monkeys got up by 7am. I didnt go to bed till 3 and taylor went at 5.... I cannot WAIT for nap time.

I will post more later on the trip!

Bring in the pigs

Remember my post on my sickos? remember that taylor is a cop (Pig~not him , but some peeps call cops that :) ) anyway

Taylor was super sick right? He called in 2 days in a row to work. On the second day, Monday, I made him a doctors appt. He complained said he didnt want to go. He went and an hour and a half later came back with the results

SWINE FLU!!! Or H1N1 Flu ... I know crazy right?? any way not a whole lot can be done. I took the other 2 kids in today and they arent sick. Boston isnt sick and i am not sick. so what do you do right?

wish us well :)

Sick Sundays

It was a rainy sunday today. Normally I love days like this: dark outside, rainy, soothing, that rain smell in the air. Alas todays rain did not send me to my cocoon state. Originally i was woken up at 1am by Brody. He got sick last night. Fever, pink cheeks, a cough. He had peed his bed, and woken up flaming hot. Of course he had to lay on me, with his pee clothes on! Got him up changed and medicated and back to bed. Then I was woken up by my naughty, monkey climbing 18month old baby. At 5am, with SHRILL screaming from his crib. Of course I screamed back from my room to his, GO TO SLEEP. He continued to scream at me for the next hour till i got out of bed to go get him. I guess i am lucky he didnt throw poop:) He, incidentally is sick too. As is Taylor, and Boston (who is just getting over the sickness) So with a house full of sickos, I have resigned myself to one of THOSE days.
You know, those days where no one gets along, everyone cries, whines, or whimpers :) I think what makes it harder is that Taylor is sick too. He showed up around 630am. He had a rough feverish night working overnights. Today was short change over meaning he got home this morning, and they wanted him back at work by 2pm this afternoon. Needless to say, he called in. which is a huge admission to how crappy he is feeling because they are already down some cars. And its afternoons which means a super busy schedule.
anyway, wish me luck with all my sickos.Pray that i dont get it too :)

New goals for new names

Okay so i have a new goal for some new names. When we go out of town to visit my dad, i am going to visit the Oklahoma City temple and get some work done and maybe a session. When I go to visit my mom i am going to attend the San Antonio Temple and do another session and some sealings. And then maybe if i am really lucky on my way back home to stl i can visit the dallas temple!!!!



I am so excited. i want to visit as many temples as possible. and its twice as exciting to be able to do them in san antonio and oklahoma since they are where family lives and i would be doing family names. I want to get a temple "passport" and keep track of where i have been.



Wish me luck on my goalS!

Four years

1460 days that Taylor and I have been married. We tied the knot back in 2005, and have been loving every minute since. Our anniversary was Wednesday and we weren't able to go all out and celebrate but it was nice to remember back when ;) We have been together since 2003 so really its been 2190 days. I gotta go find some pics to post of us way back when.....

I have been thanking my lucky stars and my heavenly father for bringing Taylor into my life and setting me on a different much better path. Thanks to him for being a member of the church and being essential to me converting. Love my husband, love my friends and family, love my LIFE!!!

Here's to another 4 years or 6 years, wait we got sealed... so here is to forever and after that as well.

time at the zoo take 2

The boys and i went to the zoo on saturday to get out of Taylor's hair. It was a beautiful hot day. They had a childrens game where you had to go all around the zoo to different stations and answer questions. They gave you stickers and at the last station they gave out slap on animal bracelets. It was super fun for the kiddos, gave us some focus instead of just wandering around the zoo.


Thanks to my momma, the boys had money fun at the zoo. I call it money fun because you dont need money to visit our zoo. Its a gorgeous zoo, you can find free parking, pack a lunch. You can show up for the first hour and ride the carousel, enter the childrens zoo or pet the stingrays for free. All the rest of the exhibits are free, some specialized ones cost, but nothing necessary to see.


BUUUT because of my momma, we went to the sea lion show (cost 3.00 per person under 2 is free) Got face painted (3.75 ea) cotton candy (3.00) soda (1.00 cheap cause we have special zoo cups) and last but not least some happy donalds for lunch. It was a blast! thanks again momma!

New names

This Thursday i had the opportunity to get some family names done in the temple. It was exciting and peaceful and wonderful and i am grateful that i am able to do these things for my family members who are no longer alive. I can only hope that my remaining family will join the church (haha less work for me :) ) anyway it was a tough getting that information. Wish me luck as i go farther back!

Dress up take 2

Brody as a secret dangerous Ninja



Brody as Buzz lightyear


Ninja Brody and Daddy and Cowboy Brynden

Pirate Brynden investigating the trash

Three outa four of my boys

This is what happens when you bring up all the old halloween costumes and allow for a freefor all!!!

dress up day

all in one day

Brynden and his hat

Brynden dancing

Here is a video of brynden dancing with head phones on

goings on lately

A huge mess of things have been going on lately,

My sister in law has cancer.... and the news doesnt sound good in the long run, she has a baby(7mon) at home and she is stuck in the hospital for 30-60 days. In the short run, we are staying positive and realistic(hard mix), praying daily.

My mother inlaw just remarried...the week before we found out my sister inlaw had cancer, my mominlaw got married to her beau. We are grateful that she has someone in her life to take care of her the way she takes care of us.

my son finally came home....Came home with my brother after being gone for approx 2 months. Its nice having the family back together again.

my brother came to visit.... He brought Boston back home and stayed for a few days, we didnt go do anything in saint louis, but it was nice having him here just the same :)

my YW presidency is still changing...... Peeps keep leaving or getting released, and called and going out of town and having babies!

Visit to the arch, take 2

the arch
me

mark and sarah

the picturesque pond by the arch

two little specks in the middle are Brody and Daila under the arch

Visit to the arch, take 1

Brynden, Brody, Daila at a pond by the arch

Not sure, city hall maybe?

park by the arch

mark and sarah under the arch

the arch from afar

we had friends in town, so we went to visit the arch for the first time, since i lived here about 3.5 years ago.... it is awesome. It was a beautiful day and the arch and everything in that area was just perfect and pretty and green and blue and just awesome. Made me proud to show it off to my friends and to have STL has my current home.

Uncle Brocks visit

Mark Taylor Brock


Such good looking brothers

Bro and sis in law

Uncle Brock and Brody

Some pics of us and Uncle Brock

time at the zoo

Brynden with a watering hole on his head.. mary behind him

Brynden listening to sounds









Iris in her tunnel

Brynden in his tunnel


Daila looking through binnoculars

Dress up time at the zoo. Daila as a lovely lady bug

Brynden as a busy bee

daila as a rhino

Brody

another fun way to beat the heat during the summer... its a room at the zoo called imagination movers???