Congratulations Daddy!

This weekend BIB - Daddy's Bonsai club had their Anniversary show! And one of Daddy's Trees won an award. We are very proud of him.

The winning tree (and daddy made the stand too)




A big cheese ~ Look at my 2 boys all dressed up

Nonno and Uncle Pete turn the big "60"~

Today we celebrated Nonno and Unlce Pete's 60th Birthdays! We had the party at Nanna's house so she could be there with us. As are all parties at Nanna and Auntie Rita's house ~ we celebrate in the garage! (same place I had my baby shower). It was good food and fun times, especially for the little ones. Unfortunately.. Jen,Jeff,Brennan and Meredith could not make it because Brennan got sick (we hope you feel better). The kids had a great time though. They played, and ran, and played and ran the whole time... seriously almost 4 hours straight. And the fun part, most of it was without toys. They just chased, giggled and giggled some more. We went to the park and played some more! They had a great time playing. It was fun for Mateo to be able to play with Tyler and do boy stuff and Katie was the perfect big sister, little mommy. She took such good care of him. I pretty much didn't have to worry! Hope you enjoy the pictures.. as you can see, they are all of the kids!




One of the things that keeps them entertained at Nanna's~ all the airplanes flying over. Some of them are HUGE and so close!







Winding down watching Sponge Bob after a long day!

Welcome Baby Alyssa!

One of my co-workers, Diane, had her baby on Saturday. A beautiful baby girl named Alyssa! The best part, I got to be her labor nurse for the first 12 hours...then came home to sleep for a bit and back to the hospital for the delivery! I must say, there are definitely perks of delivering where you work! I took pictures of everything all along the way, including in the operating room. Pictures of the baby delivering via c-section and all. Way too cool! Here are a few pictures of her baby girl. I had to share being that I have been on stand by waiting for a phone call for the past month!! Congrats Diane on a beautiful baby girl!!





every baby needs bunny ears.. leave it to the nurses

A pic of mama with Liz... one of our sweetest nurses!!

Photo Contest ~ Please vote!

Our little Mateo is in a photo contest. The photographer who did our family photo shoot last June is having a photo contest and Mateo is one of them! We would love it if you would give us your vote. He is number 8! Thanks so much, it would be fun if our little guy won!

www.vandjphotography.blogspot.com

So Cute!

Tonight Jeff gave Mateo a late bath, primarily due to the fact of him having a horrible diaper. Well when he was "clean" and dressed for bed he ran downstairs into my arms and said "mommy smell", he wanted me to smell his hair to smell how clean he was, then he looked at me with the cutest face and biggest smile and said "brushed teeth too" and showed me his pearly whites!! It was too darn cute!

Happy New Year 2009! & Nonno's Birthday

The Williams Family ~ 2009 ~ Happy New Year!






This year "Nonno", my dad turned the big 60! So for his birthday (New Years Day) all he wanted was a yummy prime rib dinner at home with the fam. We had a nice dinner, followed by yummy ice cream cake and Mateo had a blast. He loved wearing the hats and blowing out the candles.. he wanted to do it "again" and "again" .. but try explaining to a 2 year old that you only blow out birthday candles once!! He was a trooper and stayed up til after 11! Happy Birthday Nonno!!