Projects

I have been working on a couple of projects, they are almost done so I figured I would post them.

1. The first one I am going to mention is actually complete and that was the Piano/ Violin Recital that I have been planning for. All of the student's that played did a wonderful job and everything was really nice.

2. Quiet Book- Almost complete, I just have to sew a button on the front to use to keep the book closed. I have put up a couple of the pages. I was excited to use it at church to entertain Alden but he isn't quite old enough for it yet. He is getting there though.

Can you tell I made it from old things. I didn't spend one penny on the whole thing, everything was from something we already had.

3. This one has also changed a lot from how it is in this picture, there is no longer red on the left side, but this is my first oil painting. It was a lot of fun to do and fun to work with oils. Again, I didn't spend anything on this project either, we had everything I used on it even the canvas!

Christmas Cookies!

A couple of weeks ago we decided to make sugar cookies. We ended up making quite a few. Alden loved it, he enjoyed helping cut out some cookies. We were making Christmas Cookies but Alden wanted to make a fish cookie, so that is what he got to eat afterwords was his little fish cookie.


Alden loves eating in his high chair, he used to like to sit on our laps, but now he like to sit in his high chair and eat all by himself. His favorite thing right now is Corn Flakes, he would eat them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner if we let him. He likes other things as well, just the corn flakes are always on top of the fridge so he can point to them, which he does often.
This was taken on Micheal's Birthday, even though it was in the middle of finals, we were able to have a nice dinner and watch a show with cake and ice cream.

3 cubed!!!!!!!!!!

My absolutely amazingly wonderful husband is now 3^3 !!

I don't know if you realize how great this is so I will explain. You are only cubed 4 times in your whole life (unless you live to an incredibly old age of 125). You are cubed at the ages of 1, 8, 27 and 64. The only other thing that you will be 4 times in your life is a factorial. You are only a factorial at the ages of 1, 2, 6, and 24. Michael and I have both passed all of the factorial ages, unless we life to the ripe old age of 120. So now we only get to be cubed and sometimes squared.

Shutterfly

I got my Shutterfly cards in the mail and I love them. For some reason I was thinking they would be much smaller, but they are really nice and larger than expected and they came with all of the envelopes! I picked three different designs, so now the hard part is deciding which ones to send were. Thanks Shutterfly!!

Soccer

Ever since Thanksgiving when Alden saw all of his cousins playing soccer, he has been playing soccer all through the house. It is his favorite thing to do, he kicks this ball we have and chases it for long periods of time. Next time when the cousins get together maybe Alden will be ready to join in! :)

200,000

On Monday night we went out and celebrated our car hitting 200,000 miles. We drove so that we could watch it switch from 199999 to 200000. We went and bought Blue Bell Ice Cream to celebrate!

This day in History

2 years ago today Michael and I were married for time and all eternity! I am so grateful to have such a wonderful and handsome husband.
Last year on our 1 year anniversary we blessed our little Alden..

And this year we are just one happy family, grateful that we can all be together.

Christmas Cards from Shutterfly

Shutterfly is giving away 50 fee Christmas cards to bloggers! I have used Shutterfly for prints in the past and I have used them for a picture book. All of the products I have ever received from them have been perfect! The best thing is they send their pictures in good packages so my mail-man does not squish them into the mail box, like he has with other pictures I have received in the mail. Shutterfly offers a lot of different ideas of things to do with your pictures, from picture books, to calendars, to just about anything else you can think of. Here is a link to see the calendars. Here is another one to the greeting cards.
Here is an example of one of their greeting cards that I like.. They have a lot of different options for Christmas cards, I am excited to pick the one that I am going to use for our Christmas Cards. You will probably be having one of these cards coming your way this year for Christmas! When you get one in the mail you will know that it came from Shutterfly.

Busy Week.. and a couple more pics! :)

Here are some more pictures from the day our family went and got our pictures taken.

I love the little dance Alden is doing in this one!
(It is called the "I am going to escape dance", and he looks pretty happy about it!)

I thought this was a fun one of Michael and I.

Alden...
( I don't even need to explain why I like this one.)

Those are a few more of the pictures Savannah took for us. We are still trying to decide which ones we will be framing, there were a lot that we like...so we will see.

This week has been a little busy but Michael has been a good sport. He had one of his last tests before Thanksgiving Break!! He has also been watching Alden every night since Friday last week. I have been playing the violin for a play called Gepetto and Son, done by the kudzo playhouse. It has been fun but tiring...not really sure if I would do it again, but I am enjoying it while I am in it now!

Family Pictures

On Saturday last week Michael, Alden and I had our pictures taken. I really like how they turned out if you want to take a sneak peak at them before I put any up or before I send one your way you can to to.. http://savannahwilliamsonphotography.blogspot.com .

Happy Halloween

Here are a couple of pictures of Alden in his monkey suit. I thought we got some better ones but they must be on the video camera, but here are a couple we got of him.

Our walk to the Garbage

Yesterday I decided to take some pictures along the walk that Alden and I take every day to go to the garbage. It is really beautiful right now with all of the leaves changing colors and falling off the trees.
Alden's favorite part of the these walks are the ducks that always come up and say hi, the turtles that always jump off the log when you walk by, and the wonderful worker guys that always say hi to Alden and give him rides on their golf carts every now and again.

Wonderful Wicked Wenesday!

Yesterday was an exciting day here at our home. 1st... Alden got his violin!! Someone I teach had a size too small sent to them so I said I would buy it from her.
Alden tries playing it with the bow but when that becomes difficult he reduces to plucking. I am excited, because now everyone in our home has a violin!

Alden also got his Halloween costume yesterday but pictures will be forthcoming.

And the other exciting thing is that Michael and I went and saw "Wicked". I have wanted to see this play for a long time. I have listened, danced to, cleaned to Wicked songs since just after I started College 6 years ago. It was nice to have a date with my ever so handsome husband!

"Safe Journey" by Elder Pace

I recently finished reading "Safe Journey" by Elder Pace and I would have to say that I absolutely loved it! It opened my eyes to a whole new world.
My knowledge of history and ways of life (especially where the church is concerned) is pretty much centered on things that have or do happen here in the United States.
I have heard little pieces of things that are happening in Europe or in South America, but rarely and I would say almost never do I or have I heard about life in Africa. I was amazed to hear about so many strong and wonderful saints, and to hear of the very different and difficult life they lead.
These are some of the things that I have taken away from this book...

1. I am very blessed to have everything that I have here in the U.S.A. Some of those things being all of the modern conveniences and that I feel quite safe here. The biggest blessings though would have to be the knowledge and blessing of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to have so many temples so close.

2. This book has helped me see even more that this life is "but a small moment and if I endure it well it will be well with me in the mansions of my father". It really has helped me see life with the big picture.

3. It has brought me closer to the saints and people in general in Africa. It has helped me understand who they are, what they do, and what they live through. (I have sometimes thought that it would be fun to travel to other countries, but I would want to travel to come to know the people, not just to see the sites. You see the sights on pictures and usually they still look the same, but the people are what a place really is, they make the place what it is.) This let me visit Africa like I would want to visit it, getting to know the people.

4. Last but not least, it has helped me in my study of Isaiah. I did not think that it would help me as much as it has, but it has given Africa a place in my mind, and Isaiah has a number of prophecies on parts of Africa, mostly Egypt, it being so close to Israel. As I have studied Isaiah, I feel as though the more I learn about anything an mostly about what is happening in the world right now, helps me understand more of what Isaiah is saying. He truly was a very inspired prophet.

All in all it was a wonderful book, so I thought I'd share. I have just started reading "The History of Joseph Smith" by his mother Lucy Mack Smith. Which seems to be pretty good so far, so I will let you know how it is when I finish. (Just to let you know, that will be a ways in the future, I am not exactly what they call a fast reader. :) )

Parks!!

Our family has been loving the beautiful weather. Alden and I go to the playground at least once a day but usually multiple times a day. He loves the slides and playing in the rocks.

Alden is back to normal! Thank you for all of your prayers and kind words. It was comforting to hear from all of you. It ended up being a little over 24 hours. By Thursday evening Alden was pretty much himself again. On Friday he was running around smiling!
This is what he is up to now...

He has loved being outside in this beautiful weather!

Alden loves playing on the computer. I would say it is probably his favorite thing to do.
You can probably see how the chairs are pulled out from the computer, in hopes of stopping Alden from getting on it, but he will reach pretty far to play on the computer.

This is Alden in the morning at breakfast time! It is always fun to go pull my happy boy out of bed.

At home, sick

Yesterday at the end of one of my lessons, Alden was acting really sleepy and was a little warm. I rocked him, and he kept going in and out of sleep. I tried to take his temperature but that just made him really mad.
I had another lesson a couple hours later and took him to a friend next door so she could hold him while he went in and out of sleep for the 30 min lesson.
In the middle of the lesson she came running in with Alden, he was in the middle of a seizure. We took him to the emergency room where he was laying limp and lifeless in my arms. When I got to the desk he started vomiting. Anyways they rushed us straight back.
Today we are at home, sick. Alden has a fever but it doing better. I am hoping it is some 24 hour bug. That means only a few more hours... we will see.

Aldi's

When I moved out here to the south about a year ago, I was introduced to a new store, called Aldi. At first I didn't think much of it, but I have grown to absolutely love this store.. my reasons why..

1. Things are usually cheaper then at other stores.
2. It is a small store so I can get in and out fast (Which is really helpful now because I can't keep Alden in a shopping cart... anybody have any tips on this, he can even wiggle out of the seatbelt ones)
3. I would say about 85% of the time I see someone from my ward there and the other 15% of the time I inevitably meet someone new. (Last time I was there a nice little old lady in the line gave me a back massage, where can you go and get back massages while waiting in line... I guess this lady does this for people in the line at Aldi's most of the time when she comes in.)

Well those are my reasonings, but the back massage totally made Aldi's go off the charts as my favorite store.

Shirt or Shorts for your hat tonight?

Michael and I have been looking for a good way to help Alden go down to sleep, because every night and nap time have always been a little bit of a challenge for Alden. Well, we finally found it...

Some people have special blankets, some have stuffed animals, others have bed time routines, but Alden has parents that put his shorts or his shirts on their head.
It really works great, I get a pair of Alden's shorts or one of his shirts every time I want to put him down. Once the article of clothing is on my head, Alden gives me a big smile then settles down and puts his head down on my shoulder and is ready to go to bed!

Michael was the genius behind Alden's new bedtime routine, thank you Michael.

Marathon

Michael did great on his marathon. He finished in the time he wanted at 3:43:56. Not only did he do great on his marathon but he helped pack everything up and drive back to Mississippi on the same day.

St. Louis

On Friday Alden and I went to the Memphis zoo and then on Saturday we went with Michael to the St. Louis Zoo. Both times Alden really had something important to say to the elephants. We caught just a little bit of it on video. (Here he is a little bit tired so isn't being as voicetress as he was at other times) We all loved the St. Louis Zoo!

Missouri

Off to Missouri for Michael to run his Marathon!

Happy Birthday Alden

Last year at this time Alden was born and Michael was missing student orientation. It has been a wonderful year starting optometry school and having such a cute little one at our home.