The Girls

I tried to take some pictures of just the girls while Eric was a Priesthood Session and Colt was sleeping. They had a great time running around in the grass behing our house. It was a little bright to start with!

Rachel loves to call me Jessica now. It was non stop but seems to be fading and not as frequent. She even started calling me Jess and Jessie too!

She is starting to say prayers without our help any more. I put dinner on the table the other night and went to get Livy and when I came back Rachel was saying her prayer all by herself. I didn't hear all of it but I heard at one point "Please bless Jesus." So cute and so touching to see her like this.

When it is Livy's turn to say the prayer she always says, "I don't remember the story." So we help her with her prayer but it's funny that she calls it that!

New official name is Livia. That is what she says and what Rachel calls her too. No "O", just Livia.

Couldn't decide which one of these I liked best of her. I loved them all!

Tried to get some with Colt when he woke up but the girls were done by then. Maybe next time!

Easter

A little late with the Easter post but here we go! We dyed some eggs and the girls just loved it. They would shriek with delight everytime they put an egg in the dye and would see what I wrote on the egg in crayon. Could you imagine screaming in delight over something now? I know I don't. I think I'll have to try it more often and experience their kind of joy!

Colt slept through most of the egg dying but made it in time for a few pictures.

This is a tree in our backyard that I just love looking at. I think it's beautiful and it is sad that it only stays like this for a short while. The rest of the year it is green or bear but for now we have a beautiful sight out the back window.

Easter 2010 with the Williams clan. Colt was napping so he missed the group shot. Many thanks to Greg for acting like a dog or some other animal that the kids found hysterical. Great smiles because of it!

Egg hunt at Grandma and Grandpas. We had one at home that morning too but I used the video camera and forgot to get pictures. They loved doing the egg hung this year. Livy is a fast dilligent egg hunter while Rachel likes to go slower and enjoy the magic of finding each one!

It couldn't have been a more perfect Easter weekend. We all had a great time together and got to enjoy General Confrence the whole weekend. I really loved this session and felt like I could use every one of the talks. I love the inspired and renewed feeling I have after each conference and I am so grateful for a living Prophet and his Apostles. I know that our Father in Heaven leads this church through our Prophet Thomas S. Monson. I am so grateful to have General Conference twice a year and to hear the counsel directly from the Lord's annointed to guide me through the next six months. What a terrific way to concentrate on the Savior this Easter season. I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and I am truly grateful for his sacrafice on my behalf. I loved teaching the girls about the Ressurrection of Jesus and watching their faces light up as they learned. By the end of the week they were able to tell me a short version of the story which was so adorable and sweet to hear. I hope you all had a wonderful Easter as well!

Lake House Pictures

I've had some requests for photos of the Lake house so here they are. I will try to explain them as best I can. There are two houses on the property. This first picture is from the lower house (house closer to the water) looking up at the upper house which is closer to the road. The upper house is under construction at the moment so I don't have any other pictures of it. Can't wait to see it all done. It has 3 bedrooms and two bathrooms, a kitchen and living room.

This is a picture of the lower house. I am taking the picture from where the water is. It is really the back of the house but we use it as the front door. It has two bedrooms, two baths, a kitchen and living room. This is the one that they guys have fixed up on the inside.

This is from on the dock looking up to the house and yard. They added this concrete wall and steps as well as the pathway up to the house.

Swings recently added by Kevin and Grandpa.

Pictures from the little porch on the lower house. This is the view looking down to the lake and the boat dock.

The rest of these pictures are from the inside of the lower house. There is more stuff in there now since these pictures are from the first time I went there a few weeks ago.

Big fire place in the living room.

Living room pretty much connected to the kitchen, on the left of Eric.

View down to the lake from inside.

Kitchen pictures. There is a table now in that spot.

Picture of the living room. Please don't mind the toy mess! The doors on the left go to one bedroom and bath and them in the picture below the door in front of Eric goes to the other bedroom and the bathroom is up there on the right.

Everything is concrete in this house. Floors, countertops, everything. It is in the flood zone so that will help protect it if it does flood.

Left bedroom. Has a set of bunkbeds in it now and a furniture set. It looks very nice.

Second bathroom.

Bedroom on the right. Also had a set of bunkbeds and a rug in it now.

View of the lower house from the upper house. A "casita" as they call it. That is probably spelled wrong. They guys did a lot of work painting and cleaning and repairing stuff. It looks great! Thanks everyone for all of your work. Alan has been there everyweekend for the past two months and Eric only missed one of those! Jeff, Kevin and James all put in some time too! Thanks everyone for doing all this work and making a great place for the family to gather. And a huge Thank you to Brenda and Alan for getting this place. It's a great place to get away to. We have fallen in love with it very quickly and have had a great time hanging out with you guys there!