Happy Birthday Bette!

Bette,

I hope that you have had a a wonderful day! Because of all the excitement due to traveling, I had to wait until tonight to do this for you. We love you more than you will ever know and are so very thankful for you! You are such a wonderful, fun and beautiful person on the inside and out. I can't wait until you move here (in a little over two weeks! YAY!) and we can make even more fun memories together! I LOVE YOU!

Haley

Family get together

Today I got to have an informal reunion with some family members on my Dad's side. We had a wonderful time and really enjoyed each others company! Emmy especially had a great time playing with her cousins that she (and I) had never met. Now that some of them live about an hour away, we will get to see them a lot more! Here's a picture. It was a miracle that we got

everyone pleasantly looking at the camera!

Right now, I'm up waiting on some laundry to fold and pack for a little trip we're going on tomorrow. We're meeting my brother and sister-in-law in Virginia. I am so excited! I can't wait to post some pictures of my adorable niece and nephew! Please pray for safe travel, good weather and happy babies!

Thanks!

Haley

Oh the Festivities!

Wow! We have had a busy week!

Emmy's birthday party was all planned out for Saturday night. Friday night however, we were on our way to have her birthday pictures made and a fun night at Chuckie Cheese's and she started getting sick in her carseat! It was lovely...So, we turned the car around and headed back home. The poor baby got sick 6 times throughout the night. It was SO sad to see her like that! She woke up better, but then I got it Saturday. Anyway, we ended up postponing her party to Monday evening and ended up having a great time! Here are some pictures to see for yourself!

Sick Emmy. She only wanted her Daddy!

Her adorable princess cake!

Isn't she beautiful? I know, I know, I'm SUPPOSED to think that :-)

Our little family...(with a couple others in the background)

The picture explains it all!

Hannah with Addy partyin' hard. She's a wild one!

Wardrobe change!

This is a picture that I forgot to post from her party at school. She celebrated her birthday from Dec. 16- Dec. 21! She's a lucky girl, that one! (and just so you know, her cookie cake read "Happy Birthday Pincess Emmy")

OK...so now that I've gone on and on about Emmy's birthday, let me tell you about Christmas with my family!

We had a wonderful day of present opening, food devouring and family gathering! We started the morning with a wonderful breakfast that my Grandma (Mee-mee) on my Mom's side prepared. Every Christmas morning someone makes the breakfast casserole that my Mom used to make. It really brings back memories! After that, we opened presents, visited and made our way to my Dad's house. We then opened even MORE presents and had an awesome time enjoying each others company. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures from Mee-mee's house, but I do have some from my Dad's.

Hannah, Vickie aka Mickie (that's what Em calls her) aka my step-mom, Thomas aka my brother, Emmy, my Dad, Addy and Tim on Christmas. (I had a different one on here earlier, but Dad sent me a better one!)

Trish aka my brothers girlfriend that we already claim as family, Addy, Addy's bow and Addy's cheeks.

Even though these past few days have been hectic, I wouldn't trade it for the world. For some reason, this Christmas the Lord laid it on my heart to pray for those that don't have families to celebrate with. I am SO very thankful for my family and the fact that we have TOO many places to go and TOO many people to see. I really, really am even if it does wear me out!

If you made it to the end, Thank you for reading!

Haley

Tacky Christmas

So...my sister and her friends had their Tacky Christmas Party last night. Here are the results...

These are some crazy girls, but oh how I love them! I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did!

Haley

Christmas with the Williams' Family

I've got a busy night ahead, but I just wanted to stop for a minute and let y'all know about the wonderful evening we had last night.

We decided to celebrate Christmas a little earlier this year because Rick aka Poppy aka Tim's dad is going to be working Christmas Eve and Christmas. No fun, huh? (I'm sorry, Ricky! We will surely be thinking of you on Christmas :-].) Honestly, I thought it was great to celebrate it early. I really look forward to Christmas, so to get to do it a few days before was a special treat!

A wonderful evening was had by all. We started with a yummy dinner that Louise aka Tim's mom prepared (as usual!), read the Christmas story from the Bible, opened presents, and made our way to an enchanting place called Rock City. It's atop Lookout Mountain and during the Christmas season has "The Garden of Lights". It was absolutely freezing, but very beautiful. Emmy was awesome, which we can't always say these days. What can I say? She's 3! Addy wasn't having the whole baby stuffed in snowsuit stuffed in snuggly thing. Once we unwrapped her (or should I say found her?), she was fine and went to sleep! Zachary (my sweet nephew) was a sleepy boy who probably would have rather been in his bed. However, he looked as cute as a button in his little tobogan and big coat. So, who cares if he had fun, right? It's all about how cute you look! haha j/k! Needless to say, with Santa, hot cocoa and hot apple cider, gingerbread cookies, beautiful scenery and bundled up babies...well...that's one of the many reasons why I love Christmastime! Here are some pictures from our night.

First of all, I just had to show y'all a picture of me in my gingerbread shirt. I got it from Target and I love it...but I think Emmy loves it more. She thinks I'm super cool in it! haha

An attempt to get a picture of the girls in front of the Christmas tree.

Emmy opening her Belle dress. She was a happy little girl!

Tim was SO excited about his new laptop. He really needed one...

Emmy, Me, Tim, Addy and Hannah in front of the tree of lights at Rock City.

Faith (my sister in law), Zachary (couldn't you just eat him up?!?!), Addy, and me trying to warm up in the giftshop along the trail.

Rick and Louise swinging with Zach and Emmy. (It was a HUGE swing!)

Emmy creating her masterpiece of a gingerbread man.

Andrew (Tim's little brother), Tim and Emmy posing on the swing!

As you can see, I'm very blessed to have such wonderul in-laws to spend Christmas and all year with. I hope you enjoyed having a little taste of it!

May you have a blessed Christmas as well!

Haley

Merry Christmas!

I have so many things to be thankful for this Christmas season. A wonderful husband, two healthy little girls, a pantry that always has food in it, friends who would do anything for me, yet I am constantly asking and wanting more. Why is that? Why is it that nothing ever seems to be good enough? I guess it's just human nature, even though that's not an excuse when you have Jesus in your heart. This Christmas I am challenging myself to appreciate the fact that I have everything I need and am also blessed with MANY things that I want. I have a family that loves me and a Savior who forgives me. I hope that you will do the same!


Now...here is an extra special Christmas treat! (She is holding a glass baby Jesus in a manger from our nativity scene. That's the only way I could get her to sit and do this! LOL She also randomly says "his mudder" in the video. She was so bothered by not getting to hold Mary too!)

"But the angel said to them, "Don't be afraid, for look, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people: today a Savior, who is Messiah the Lord, was born for you in the city of David." Luke 2:10-11"

Love,

Haley (&Emmy)

Emmy is 3!

It's hard to believe that 3 years ago at this time, I was laying in bed anxious, excited, scared, and almost 41 weeks pregnant with our precious little Emmy. Everyone told me that time would go by fast, but I never really knew how fast it would go by. Another thing that was told by many was that I would never know how much I could love someone until I had a child. They were absolutely right! I thought I would take a little time tonight to write out all of the things that I love so much about her. I hope that one day she can look back at this and understand the joy that she has brought to me.

*I love your outgoing personality.

*I love that when we go out or you have friends over, you are so friendly and welcoming. (You get that from your Daddy. I joke and say he would talk to a tree stump if it would talk back!)

*I love that you're always doing goofy things to make people laugh. Where in the world did you get your sense of humor?!?! Ahem...

*I love how you really seem to care about people. I remember when Granny had been so sick a couple of months ago, one of the first things you said to her was "are you feeling better, Gwanny?"

*I love that after me or Daddy reads to you at night you always say "Mommy, pwease wub me for a minute and give me a hug and a kiss." You then proceed to give me a big hug and say "MmmmmmM!" and "I lub you, Mommy!"

*I love how you always start to say "God is great..." before we eat.

*I love how you've welcomed your baby sister into our family. You never ONCE have acted jealous towards her. You've loved her from day one and I think it is so precious!

*I love how when I ask you where God is you say "He's in Heaven wif Gramma Kaffy and Gwanny." You don't know how much that means to me.

*I also love how you already say that Jesus lives in your heart.

*I love how in the morning after you've been in your highchair for a while watching PBS kids I come out of my room and you almost never fail to say "Goodmorning Mommy!"

*I love how when I leave you with anyone or at Mother's Day Out you get sad if I don't give you a hug and kiss before I leave.

*I love how you light up when you see your Daddy.

*I love how you memorize books and then tell me you will "read" them when it's bedtime.

*I love that you're independent. (Even when it's frustrating to me!)

*I love that when you go to the corner crying you calm down and say "Mommy, I'm weady to apowigize."

*I love how you still rub your hair when you're sleepy. You've done that since you were a baby.

*I love that when we watch a movie and you like it, we watch it every day for several weeks...well, I don't know that I LOVE it, but I think it's pretty funny :-).

*I love how you remember people, even if you only see them once or twice a year.

*I love that the first time I held you, you immediately stopped crying when you heard my voice.

*I love that since you were born you've made me want to be a better person. I believe that even though you weren't "planned", the Lord used our situation for good, and gave our family an 8lb 13oz gift on what would have been one of the hardest Christmas's in my life. The Lord has taught me how to be more patient, loving, and giving through you.

Emmy,

This list could go on and on and on! I hope that you will always know how much your Mommy and Daddy love you! You have been such a blessing to our family. I thank God for giving me a little girl like you. My prayer is that you will always know how special God made you. I hope that you will grow to love Jesus and grow in Him each day. Remember that you are His child and His masterpiece. You are beautifully and wonderfully made.

I love you sweet baby girl! Happy Birthday!


Mommy

I'm very happy to announce that...

I MADE A BLOG! Well, my friend Vanessa (go to the first post so that you can view her website!) "made" it, but I will be blogging! YEAH! My plan is to try to write about something fun that's happened with our family about once a week and maybe little tid-bits through out the week. I have really enjoyed learning about people through their blogs and I hope that everyone who reads this will enjoy it as much as I do! Here are some recent pictures so you guys can know what's going on in the Williams household!





This is Emmy and Addy mid-November. Emmy was so cute holding her baby sister. She kept saying "Addy don't fall! Addy don't fall!". When Addy started leaning to the side, Emmy would grab her and say "I got her!" It was the first time we really felt like Em was comfortable holding her! And by the way, Addy smiles ALL the time, but I don't think we could get her to smile even once during this shoot!

Addy all dressed up for my Dad's retirement party! She was such a good baby (as usual). This was taken 12/10/08.

Me and Emmy goofing around! Get used to seeing that cheesy smile! That's all she'll do when she sees a camera!

Me and Tim acting like we love each other! Haha! It was actually kind of fun getting a picture taken with him. That doesn't happen very often any more!

My baby sister, Hannah, getting her senior pictures done. I LOVE this picture! She's a beautiful, silly girl who I just love so much!!!

That's all for now!





Blessings!



*Haley*

Blog Number One

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