Pictures from Payette

Here's a few more pix from our trip to Payette.

Whitney
Scotty

Rachel

Macee

Jacob was busy inside playing the "Sega"....an ancient video game that the kids are addicted too :)

Mark & Molly

Molly & Macee

Rachel & Stephanie

Rachel's good friend Stephanie was in Boise visiting friends so we went to visit them. We were next door neighbors when we lived in Payette. Now they live in Cali so we don't see them as much. We had a great time visiting with Stephanie and Cathy!! They have been best friends since they were 3 years old! WOW...now they are all grown up!

Ray & Steph Disney World -April 2001!

Ray & Steph April 2009!

Easter

We spent the Easter weekend with Mark's family in Payette. Saturday morning we went with Maurny to the egg hunt at the Fruitland HS. Macee was not into it all all! She cried and wouldn't even go get eggs. Zander had a great time! Whitney and Scotty were on the other side with Grace, and Maurny said they ran so fast she couldn't even get pictures!

Rachel was spending some time with her friend Judson who is leaving on a mission to Russia soon. She went to his church in Middleton Sunday morning so she isn't in the picture with the kids. She got sick that day anyway and wasn't feeling like pictures.

More NYC pics!

The BEST candy store ever!!

Trinity Church

Grand Central Station

Times Square

New York City!!!

My good friend Kathleen works for Jet Blue and she got buddy passes for me and Rachel to go to New York City! We had a great time exploring the city and JFK airport as well. We got to stay another day because we got bumped off the Sunday night flight. We weren't dissapointed at all though! We got to see more great sites that we missed in the past 3 days there. We all took lots of pictures but some are dark...it was overcast most of the time. I loved NY so much that Mark and I are going to go later this summer of fall! We can't wait! Brooklyn Bridge

Atop the Rockefeller Building with Empire State Building in background

Rockefeller Center

SLC airport

World Trade Center site

Happy 12th Birthday Whitney!

Whitney had a great 12th birthday....honestly, it is really hard to believe it has been 12 years! She was such a cute chubby cheeked baby! We had fun looking over her photo albums from past birthdays and fun times. Lots more to come!!!

Her birthday pancake

Whitney's surprise

lots of friends to have fun

Whitney loves Hello Kitty

SPRING!

Spring....please come now! I was at the Ogden Temple yesterday and saw 3 daffodils (my favorite flower)!!!

Crutches no more....

Ray is finally rid of the crutches. The doc said her foot is lookin good. She is still limping if ya ask me but I guess I would too after 2 foot surgeries in a year! Hopefully by summer she will be all back to normal!

finally an arch but lots of scars as well

she's a happy gal!

Missouri

Here's a pic of my parents on their misson in Missouri!
We love you MOM & DAD Williams!!!

Pinewood Derby Mania!

Last night was the Pinewood Derby for Scotty & his cub scout troop. It was a fun night! Scotty's car is the green one with the skull and flames. He named it the "Skull Killer" Overall...Scotty took 2nd place! He was very happy with that.

Missouri!

My parents arrived safely to their new home for the next 18 months...Missouri. They are on a mission for our church...The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Their first stay will be in Chillicothe (north and east a little of Kansas City).

Good luck MOM & DAD...we'll be thinking of you and praying for you!

Ice fishin at Pineview

Saturday Mark took Jacob and Scotty and went with the neighbors, the Allens, up to Pineview reservoir. Scotty has been talking about ice fishing for a long time! He was so excited to go. Well, no fish were caught but they had a blast on the 4 wheelers and sledding!

2008 slide show--Happy New Year! 2009!

Happy New Year!!!!!!

Sorry this is really long but if you have 10 minutes to spare take a look at our family pics through 2008. I've only made a few of these slide shows so I hope it turned out okay. Let me know what you think! AND also you will realize I grew up in the 80's with the songs that are playing during the show. :-) You might need to scroll down to the bottom of the page and "pause" the playlist music so you can hear the music playing with the slide show. Hope you all like it!

Rachel's 2nd Foot Surgery

Rachel had her left foot reconstructed on Friday Dec. 19th. ALSO the doc took the "hardware" out of the right foot which included 3 large screws. She is doing really well but I think she is getting bored on the couch! She gets around with crutches okay but not outside too much! We have too much snow and ice! For now she has a big cast/wrap around her foot. She will get the removable boot on in another week. Then hopefully she will be ready to go back to school. But she is suppose to have no weight on her left foot for 8 weeks! She will be slow going but hopefully it's a good reason for all the cute guys to help her and carry her books to class for her!

Tucker

Well, the kids have begged long enough Mark said. It was last April when our Shihtzu puppy died and the kids have been asking for another dog ever since. We weren't sure if we wanted to get another puppy and go through all the training again. SO we happend to find a dog on KSL website and he is a 4 year old Shihtzu. We went and met him and the kids loved him. So we brought him home. At first he would only go to Whitney but now he is friendly and likes us all. The kids are happy. I hope Mark and I can handle another dog.

He's a Shihtzu so some people think they are ugly but we think he's really cute! And Yes, he's a boy; his name is Tucker but Whitney insists on putting a bow in his hair!

Yellow belt!

Scotty has graduated in Karate to a yellow belt! He has been taking a Karate class since October and has really improved. He passed the test to receive a yellow belt. His instructor told us something interesting yesterday. He said that it's only been about 50 years since your skills were ranked by the color of your belt. Before that, there were 2 colors of belts...White and dirty! He said that people knew how good you were or how long you've been studying karate by how dirty your belt was! Congrats SCOTTY!

Lights at Temple Square

Mark's parents were in town for the weekend so we decided to go downtown SLC to see the Christmas lights and displays on Temple Square. What a nightmare! Well, the parking and crowds anyway...the lights and atmosphere were wonderful!

Mark's brother McKay and and his wife Andrea and their kids came along as well.