Grandpa's 80th Birthday Party

This year was a special one in our family, our wonderful Grandpa turned 80 years old. His kids planned a party in celebration of him and his wonderful life and the poseterity that he has raised. It was so much fun to get together and to see family that I haven't seen for a long time. Grandpa has 10 kids and 9 of them were able to make it. Roseanne (Gus), Grant (Gwen), Serena (Paul), Marilyn (Val), Zina (Kyle), Sarah (Tim), Kyle (Katie), Krystel (Kevin), and Rebecca (Travis). Most of the grandkids were there as well. We were only missing Garrett (Arial), Chad (Ashlee), Carrie (Erick), Courtney (Paul), Lauren (Rhett), Lyndsay (Brenden), Mandy, Jacob, & Cody. We missed Loretta, who is living in Michigan and couldn't get away with it being the Holiday weekend. There were 91 people that attended and about 75 were from grandpa's line, the others were Sharon's kids. It was so fun to let the kids play and the adults visited and caught up with each other. I have great memories with all of my cousins and I feel like we have had great opportunities growing up to be able to spend time with our cousins and to get to know them and for them to become some of my greatest friends as well. I am glad that our family is so close and that we love to get together and spend time together. I seriously could spend weeks with all of these people and never tire of them. I love them all and I am so grateful to be a part of this truly wonderful family. I am also very grateful to call Richard Williams my grandpa!

Chris & Kerry

Matt and I had the wonderful opportunity to be with his Dad and Step-mom at the Idaho Falls temple while they were sealed together. Their special day finally came on the 11th of September, after being married 24 years, they still said "Yes!" We were so excited for them to finally be together forever and that we were able to be there to witness this great event. They are wonderful parents and great examples to  us and our kids and we love them so much. We are so happy for them and wish them many more wonderful years together here on earth and for eternity!!

July 4th Celebrations

On the July 4th the kids and I were kinda just on our own, since Matt was working. The Keller family was planning a get together for most of the day and we decided to join in on their breakfast part of the day. We had omlets, that you cook in a freezer bag and boil over the camp stove, pancakes, fruit, and sausage. It was delicious, as always!! We never go to a Keller function and leave still hungry or dis-satisfied with what was served. There is always something yummy to eat! We had a fun time visiting and hanging out with them for a few hours. After we left we came home and started packing for our Williams family reunion that was starting the next day. The kids played outside with the nesighbors kids and played in the pool. I honestly don't remember what we ended up doing for dinner that night, but we did watch fireworks with my parents and then watched the Blackfoot fireworks from our house. We had a good day, it was very very hot but we had a fun time just relaxing and spending time together.

July 2nd??

Matt drew the short straw and had to work a double on the 4th of July this year. Bummer! So we decided that we would do our little 4th of July celebration on the 2nd, when Matt was home. Parker was so excited to do fireworks this year, in fact I thought he was a little too excited about fire and the fireworks! I decided to wait and buy fireworks right before we were going to do them, so they wouldn't be a temptation to Parker, he could hardly stand waiting the few hours between when I bought them and when we were going to light them. I ended up spending about $50 and got a pretty good variety of fireworks for our little family. The kids loved the snaps and sparklers. Even Paxten was able to get the snaps to pop and he did do a few sparklers with the help of me and Matt. Parker's favorite are the little bombs that snap, crackle, and pop. I love the spinning flowers and the last one that we watched that was called a fish bowl. Anyways we waited as long as Parker would let us, about 9:00 before we started lighting them. It was still light outside. The kids had a great time and loved every second of watching the fireworks. They sure don't last as long as you think they will and $50 didn't seem to go that far once we were done, but I refuse to spend any more than that!!