Lemonade, Lemonade, get your Lemonade

It finally happened. The kids have been begging to do a lemonade stand and mom broke. This "little" lemonade stand took a lot of work.....FOR MOM! The kids were in charge of making posters, making the lemonade, selling and everything HOWEVER, mom was right behind them "helping" them with everything. They did this with their cousins and atleast they had fun because they made NO money.

Our first and almost ONLY customer. Mom and Aunt were among their best customers buying everything a few times over.

They told Jake to stand in front and look cute...he got a litte tired acting cute. The one time he was dancing around, a customer came and he started yelling, "I did it! I did it! I'm cute!".

These little boys are trouble makers. Don't let the cute smiles fool you. All in all, they had fun and made a few dollars each. Of course, we started with them paying for their supplies, however if I made them pay they would have still owed me money because they didn't turn a profit. Chalk it up to life experience!

Happy Belated Birthday Hannah

My Hannie turned 9 in May! She is such a sweet girl who is such a big helper to me. She reminds me of myself at times and not always the good times. I am so proud of this girl and who she is becoming. She is the first to do her chores and do them well. She really wants to start gymnastics but mom is a little slow in the get go and has to get her bum in gear. She just finished third grade and is such a nice friend to all her classmates. Hannah, I love you so much. Thank you for being a great daughter and sister.

Her cousins had a soccer game on her birthday which she wanted to go to. So, since it was her birthday and we had been promising her cousins we would go to ATLEAST one game we headed out for a double header. Hannah had a ball and she LOVES her cousins. Liece and Ash did so well and are little sport fiends.

This is my girl! Just like her momma!

Laying Down Roots

So in preparation for summer, we have been working on our backyard. When we bought the house is was all rock! We (as in my husband and his brother) built a sandbox for the kids, we layed sod, made a garden and put up a swing set. Yea...I have no pictures of this, except for proof that we are indeed putting in grass.

Ella can be found here all day long. She loves watching the other dogs in our neighbors yard. We are waiting for her to fall because IT WILL happen. The kids had so much fun this day and were quite helpful. Zach is our little hard worker who wants to be involved in every single project that Jon is doing. Our poor little Hannah had an accident and fell head first off the truck onto the cement but luckily only had a few bruises and a few scrapes and a BIG bump. As a Williamson she has her Daddy's head!

Happy Birthday Jake

Just because they are cute!







Here I find myself playing catch up again. Jake turned four in March. WOW! Four years old already and I look up at my calendar and find myself in July. This little boy loves anything to do with police. He is such a sweetheart. One thing I found out a few weeks ago is this boy is a fish! He loves to swim, he loves his sister and big brother. He is definetely my crazy little boy. He has the sweetest voice and I am serious when I say this little boy is a cuddler and kisser. Happy Birthday Jakey!

Beaner Vacation to Reno

Look who we just saw!
We just got back from Reno, NV to visit our friends the Beaners. Honestly, I love these people! They are my family, the sister I never had. We fight like sisters, we love like sisters, and our kids love each other so much. When we first left NM we landed in Las Vegas and our next flight was postponed due to weather in Reno. (This was after we had loaded onto the plane and sat for awhile and luckily they let us get off.) It was one of the worst snow storms they had had this year and we were afraid they were going to cancel the flight. Not that it is horrible to be stranded in Vegas, but that's one less day visiting with the Beans. A few hours later we boarded again and were on our way. As we were arriving to Reno the weather was horrible. Our plane was all over the place, and poor little Hannah suffered. I thought she was going to puke all over and of course I will be honest I was no better. As we were preparing to land the plane suddenly pulled up and hit the gas because the wind was throwing us and we were not able to land. We were pretty much going straight up and then we evened out which made us all airborne for a few seconds. Luckily the kids were strapped tight, me, not so much. We circled that airport for about 30 minutes and we were finally able to land. I have never been happier to get off that plane. The boys slept through everything and Hannah and I made it without losing our lunch.

Since we were late getting there we just went back to their house and hung out and got dinner. The next morning we went to the Children's Museum and had so much fun. I think the adults had more than the kids. Between the dance, dance, dance and rock climbing wall, and the skinny mirror we were in heaven.


horrible picture, but you gotta love dance, dance, dance.


After the museum we went out to lunch and then went back to Beaners house to get ready for our double date. We went bull riding (fake of course) and went bowling and out to dinner. I am such an early bird and I was asleep pretty much during dinner. We ate late, around 10ish and I was SOO tired.

The next day we sort of hung out in the morning and then we got up and ready to go sledding. Zach was a maniac I tell you! He went down the big hills and loved it! Jake was timid and Ella just wanted to get out of the snow after awhile. Hannah had a ton of fun too going down with Ashlyn. The adults, gosh, of course we all tried to outdo each other. Luckily nobody got hurt!

The next day we went snowmobiling which I had never done before. It was so much fun and the kids LOVED it. I went a little crazy and almost threw Jon off the back. In my defense I did tell him to hold on and he didn't. This was our last day and then we were off to NM on the next day. I miss these people so much and I am excited that we get to meet still. Now we are plannning our next trip, hopefully before next year. Although we still have a girls weekend for Breaking Dawn to plan in November! Thanks for letting us come Beans!

Welcome to our Family

Welcome Bryan Williamson to our family! We are finally a dog family. The kids have been begging for YEARS and good ole' mom finally broke down. He is pretty cute if I do say so. The first few days we were wondering why we got a dog because it was HORRIBLE! Poop and Pee EVERYWHERE! He is not fully potty trained yet but we are pretty much in love and is now part of the family.

We finally made it to the Natural Museum of History. I had been promising them for some time now, and when everyone was out of school we took the day to go. The kids loved it, especially the boys. Boys love their dinosaurs! The best part of the whole thing was the Volcano room. I remember as a child loving and being deathly afraid of it. Much to my dismay, the first time I saw it, it was not as cool as I remember. My kids however had the same reaction. They were so scared! It was great! It made me feel like a little kid again. We went through that part quite a few times!

Christmas Fun

We did have a lot of exciting and unexpected changes that have happened recently. No, I am not pregnant! But we did buy a house. We closed in mid December and were able to spend our first Christmas in our new house. Christmas back in NM was great! It was pretty low key and we spent time with family. Enjoy the pics below!



The kids (Han and Zach) are involved in this singing/dancing thing called Sunshine Generation. They had their first performance and were so cute! Zach had a little solo and he was so darn cute!



Grandma and Grandpa Martinez were out of town for Christmas, so they came over and we celebrated early. We built gingerbread sleighs and the kids had a ball.