How the years fly by...

I can hardly believe it, my Gracie is now 3 years old!!!
She just makes me smile! Love you Grace!!

She wanted a tree cake...mom and nonne did a pretty good job!

New Tricycle!

Underpants on the head...
wonder where she learned that one?





Even Nonne and Pop Pop helped out...





Birthday snowman!!


And the little sis... 4 months old!!
She still has that dark hair like her mamma,
and from the looks of it her eyebrows too...lucky girl!

Sleepy baby.

She's all smiles.

LOVE this one!!

Another year past, and another begun...

Wow, it's been sooooooo long...I am officially fired from blogging. I made it through the holidays and before I knew it the calendar said March! It has been a pretty good start to 2011. I decided to TA for an introductory biology class this semester and what I have realized is that I am getting old...it has been almost 8 years since I had my first college bio class, yikes! So this has proven to be a very good refresher course and I am getting some teaching experience at the same time. I am continuing to look for potential programs to go back to school for my masters of education. Maybe one day I can inspire some kids to become scientists! Until then, life has just been plugging along.

At the beginning of February the whole family took a trip south to Tucson for a visit to my brother-in-laws family and for me to visit the HUGE annual gem, mineral and bead show. Although the weather wasn't as warm as I was hoping and half the family got sick, it was still a great escape to the desert. And I came home with a couple hundred dollars in beads! :)








Damn, there are A LOT of cactus in the desert!





Teddy bear cactus...DO NOT HUG!









My favorite cactus pic of the trip
and believe me, I have lots of them.
Check out those nasty hooks...ouch!

Hummingbird

On a colder note, it has been a pretty epic winter here in Utah and we were on the ice early this year. Here are some great pics of my friends dog Daisy...her first time on the ice so she was a little nervous. And of course, a few pics from our annual fish lake trip.

Six weeks old...

Already!! Our little Aoife is growing so fast and I can't believe she is already over a month old. But even more so, I can't believe my little Gracie bean will be 3 in only a few months...yikes! Here are a few photos from the last weeks.

Christmas sisters!

I couldn't resist this outfit!! :)




Chillin' with aunt Lindsey... Love it.

What?


Gracie... so proud of her snowman!


Here's what my dad has spent much of his recent
retirement doing...as he promised.
The cats are REALLY enjoying this retirement thing!

No boys around here...

After much anticipation I have become an auntie once again to another beautiful baby girl!! Apparently we are just a girl makin' family. :) Both mama and baby are doing very well. I am such a happy auntie. And my Gracie Bean is taking it all in stride...a little out of sorts with the new addition but seems to be handling things okay for now. All along she told us that her new little sister would be coming on Halloween and she was right!

Aoife Ivy Williams
(pronounced Eefa, its Irish)
born Oct. 31, 2010
7 lbs. 3 oz.
20"