Some things I missed posting in Oct

Some things I just didn't get to post about...



Our small group had a little birthday for JP before we started one Friday night.

We added a few finishing touches to Landon's room.  Thanks Linda B for thinking of Landon and giving him the gecko.  I painted it so the colors go a little better with his room.  He loves it.  He also loves his little art wall display.

We finally have chicken eggs!  We ate, with the help of our small group, 4 of the red roosters.  They were pretty tasty.  We had a big "down with the mean red roosters" cook out with some of our friends.  Thanks everyone who came early and helped Josh with the de-feathering.  I didn't take any pictures because although I really enjoy eating chicken and really disliked those mean red roosters, the whole killing and cleaning them just is not for me.  Michelle and I stood back and made sure one children hurt themselves and supervised far far away.  Now we have 2 white ones (which I might add are very sweet), plus a friend of ours just recently gave of 3 brown chickens which are called Easter egg chicken due to the fact that they lay blue eggs.  We also found out we have a female duck so we are also getting duck eggs.  We typically get 3-5 eggs a day.

A couple of pictures are just of Landon and Zach playing since I now watch Zach regularly.



This second group of pictures is from out field trip to UF's bird guy.  Our friend Michelle arranged a  private tour for her and her boys, Landon and I and our friends the Blaszczyks.  It was very interesting seeing all the eggs of thousands and thousands of birds.  The stuffed dead birds was cool and a little strange at the same time.  The kids really enjoyed it.  Thanks Michelle for putting the tour together for us!

 I love this smile!!!!

Silly Boy!

UF Butterfly Fest

We went to the Butterfly Fest at UF.  It was a free event put on by University of Florida Museum of Natural History.  They released butterflies and had lots of booths to look at, make crafts, and buy things.  Aunt Jamiie and Uncle Jeremiah were in town for the weekend so Sally and they joined us.

On our way
We had Grandpa Williams' van which was great

Landon loves the big windows



They had lots of cool things to look at...

Birds

Shark attack!

Landon loved the butterflies.

and touch...

Baby Gator

and make...

Watching how to make the butterfly

The ladies making the ears were very nice!

Decorating his butterfly

We had a great time!

Fall Festivals and Halloween

Our sweet pumpkin

This year was lots of fun because Landon was old enough to get excited about dressing up and going to all the parties. Landon was a fire man this year. We also had a elephant costume that a friend had handed down but it was a true Florida fall so the elephant costume was to warm to make the cut.  Depending on how Landon grows and how cold next year is, we might try it again. 

I am trying out the college feature on Picasa.  It is pretty neat what you can do with it.  I had fun :)

Pumpkin Baked Yummies

When the temperature starts to drop a little it put me in the mood for baking.  Landon loves cooking so he has been helping me out a lot.  He LOVES baking, especially when I let him hand mix the dry ingredients. 
 We made several pumpkin recipes but mostly pumpkin banana bread.  Landon's favorite!


Duck Pond Fall Festival

I heard about a local Fall Festival that had free food and game for the kids so I thought it would be fun to take Landon.  I watch Zach now during the week and Kayla on Wednesday afternoons so I thought they would enjoy coming with us.  The kids had fun getting to dress up.  I help Kayla with some Rock Star glitter. Zach was a dragon or dinosaur (he changed his mind a couple of times when I asked).  Josh got off work just in time to go with us.  We had free dinner which was just hot dogs, chips, homemade cookies (they also had meat loaf which Josh had but none of the kids were interested in that... big surprise!).  They had lots of games with prizes to win and a bounce house. Landon's favorite was the bounce house.  The kids all had a lot of fun and filled up on way too much sugar, in my opinion- they handed out cookies layered in frosting like it was water at a summer out door event! Zach, Kayla and Landon left with a hand full of little toys from the games and smiles.

Harvest Fall Festival

We went to our church's Fall Festival.  Josh cooked the food while Landon and I enjoyed food, game booths and line dancing.

We had a great Halloween/ Fall season celebrating all the fun you can have getting dressed up, spending time with friends and eating pumpkin baked goods!

Buddies

Lets go to the circus!

I won 5 tickets for the circus.  It was super small and way out in the middle of no where.  We actually got lost looking for it but we did get there.  It was in Hawthorne off some small country road.  It was kinda funny because on the road there were more signs for the local church's fall festival than the circus.  We brought along Landon's friends Joshua and Nate.  It was fun and we stopped at a local burger place and had some of the best burger ever!

Josh wanted to ride the ponies so all the boys joined him.

Landon loved it.  He still to this day (almost 2 months now- I really need to stop being so behind on posting things) talks about riding a black pony, NOT a horse.  He will also tell you, Hold tight to horn.  Which is what I told him ONCE right before he got on.  This kid has an amazing memory!

Main enterance

The boys and me- sitting on the second row from the bottom

Ready for the show

The ring master

Hanging out with Daddy

It was very intense for Landon- he loved watching the girl with the hulu hoops

Hulu hoop girl

This little boy had some juggling skills

This was his older brother

The older brother did a Michael Jackson skit while juggling flaming pins

The lady with her ponys

The clown picked out a few "Strong Men" to help- turns out he just wanted to make them look silly

A table of men- they held it there for a while

Landon loved watching Daddy preform!

STRONG!

Flying "Strong" men- Josh is just a good sport!

Watching the little girl with Daddy

This little girl was pretty amazing!

Dad juggling his daughter while she did the hulu hoops

 

Last show was the ladies on her horse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was a fun free night with the boys even if it was the tiniest circus I have ever seen. 

A quick visit

Just wanted to share our wonderful visit from our college roommates.  Ashley and Grant Hurst were Josh and my roommates in college before we all got married.  Josh and Grant have been friends since Josh was about 10 years old.  Ashley, Grant and I have been friends since my first year in college.  They are actually the reason Josh and I met.  So not only are they great friends they have a special place in our hearts. 

Now we are all "grown up" and are married and have children.  It was really awesome to catch up with them.  I have seen Ashley a couple of times when I have gone back home to visit my parents because her parents don't live far.  Ashley, Grant and their little boy Ryan are currently living in New York.  They had some event to go to Friday night near by so they were going to stop in for the day and ended up staying the weekend.  Ryan stayed at with his grandparents in Niceville so Landon didn't get to play with him but we all still had fun. 

Here is the only picture we took the whole weekend, I completely forgot until they were walking out the door to leave.  Oh well, maybe next time!

Thanks for visiting us!!!

Meet Baby Williams

I had my ultrasound October 5th.  Josh and I were both very exciting about getting a glimpse of what our second little baby.
It was really neat to see how different and simliar our children our and this one is not even born.  I remember Landon's ultrasound so clearly.  He was a little bit of a show off.  He already was photogenic, looking at the "camera" so much it almost seemed as if he was posing.  This little one was very shy.  Every time we tried to look at his/her face it would put its hands/arm in the way.  It also was very stubborn and would not move in certain positions so that the ultra sounds tech could measure body parts and take pictures. One difference that is a blessing is that this baby has a normal umbilical cord.  Landon had a single artery umbilical cord and he and I were labeled as a "risk" pregnancy.  Not anything to serious with him since blood flow and all body parts and organs looked normal but a concern.  I had to have a stress test every week starting my 30th week just to make sure Landon was healthy. 
My two children are alike in they both seem to love to cross their legs when they sleep at the ankles.  I think that is the coolest thing.  Also both are exactly on for all the measurements that the doctor takes.  It will be interesting to see once Baby Williams #2 is born how similar and different they are.

Hello precious baby

I wonder what this little face will look like.

Love those baby feet!

21 weeks pregnant

For those of you who are wondering, Josh and I decided again NOT to find out the sex of our baby.  It was so much fun with Landon.  We are a little old fashion too when it comes to do with a lot of family things so I guess we are just keeping up with that.  Plus after all that work in labor I like to have a surprise!  We do have names picked out for a girl and boy but this time we are just going to let you know what his or her name is when we he or she is born.  We have had names picked out for 2 girls and 2 boys since shortly after getting married and we hope to one day have 4 children, ideally 2 boys and 2 girls.  We would be happy with whatever God gives us.  Children are a blessing and that is all that matters to either of us.  We are and always have thought of adopting so MAYBE that will be our next adventure in parenting!