Halloween

After seeing all the comments posted I realized that this is more than just fun. People actually care about what is going on with our little family. So I need to quit being selfish and share!!!!!

After being "released" from work in Portland early, I got to spend some time with Andy and the daycare at the local pumpkin patch. It was so fun being able to spend some time with my little man. I cannot believe how fast he has grown up. He has a strong personality and a great sense of humor (you have to, to be a Williams :D)


We got Andy a little pumpkin and drew this face on it. If you didn't know better you would think it was his best friend. I wanna bath with it, I wanna sleep with it, I wanna eat with it. I didn't think you could "love" vegetables. HA HA

We got a pumpkin to carve too and we enjoy'd carving it as a family. We tried to get Andy to clean it out, but it was "ka ka poo'y" so Mom had to clean it. I had cut the top hole too small and I couldn't get my hand into it.
We got all dressed up to Trunk or Treat at the church. They loved it and Andy ran around and was so polite. He would walk up to someone and say Trick or Treat, then look what was put in his bucket, and then would say thank you without even prompting him, I was so proud of him.
I was a rough Trick or Treating outing, we were done by 6:30pm. The kids were done at 6:31pm. We let them sleep on the way home, but we still had to do baths and get them ready for bed. It was tough waking them up but they fell asleep way too early and it was only for a few minutes from the church....so then it was bath time!!!!

End result: We should have let them sleep and just put them to bed. I love my kids too much, I love night night time!!!!!

Love you all.

I have to share

Tami and I flew to Montana for Tami to see the area and give a thumbs up on moving here. I had to make sure that she was on board 150%.

Guys, we all know that "if Mommy's not happy, NO ONE IS HAPPY".

We left the kids for the first time together. Tami had a really hard time with that (she cried the whole drive to the airport). When we got here she gave the thumbs up and the journey began.

Her mom watched the kids for saturday, but the had to leave early Sunday. Our favorite neighbors and best friends in Portland stepped up for us and watched the kids for a the day on Conference Sunday. With the Hales, we KNEW that they were having more fun than they would with us and it lightened our hearts.

We got back and the kids were happy to have mom and dad home, but we're not nearly as much fun as Lindsey and Colby are.

They posed the kids for picture time and we got sent the most precious pricture and I had to share it.

We are so sad that we had to leave this wonderful family behind, having neighbors that are so wonderful is so hard to come by. I know that we have friends forever.

I SUCK!!!!!!

I would love to say that I'm on top of life, but I think that I got ran over by it.

For all that don't know, I accepted a new job in Helena Montana and we moved the family here. What an experience!!!!!

First things first...once the trailer was loaded up, it was WAY too heavy. Instead of leaving things in Portland, I decided that we would buy bigger better tires and give it a shot. We stopped half way (ha) at Tami's Mom's in Pasco Washington. Tami left at 9:00 am and had both kids and Jake, and the cat in her car. She called me at 2:00 pm that afternoon and I had just barely gotten on the road from the tire store. (geez!!!!).

The truck was overloaded and so I decided that better safe than sorry and I would only go 50 MPH through the gorge and even on the flat's it was just too squirly so only 55 MPH period.

It took forever to get there. I rolled in about 8:00 pm and Tami was fit to be tied.

The cat was giving the "in heat" meow the whole time in the car. Tami told me that if she had passed a humane society, we wouldn't have a cat.

So everyone got a good nights sleep and we hit the road on saturday morning at 8:00 am.

Mapquest said that the trip would take 6:32 minutes from there...Cake walk.

Well....that number is driving the speed limit or more (ha ha)....so after stopping for potty breaks and snack and lunch and snack and dinner and more potty....we finally got here at 9:00 PM saturday night.

The kids were beat, Tami was frusterated and exhausted, I was anxious and stressed out.

There is a huge pass right before town that is a winding road 6% grade, and it's raining, and dark, and the suggested truck speed is 25mph (if that explains anything). I was so scared not to burn up the brakes, I tried to keep it slow, but the trailer and the truck were so heavy that it would try to run on me. I thought I was a pretty good driver, but it was all i could do to get it down that mountain safely. It was the last obstacle to our new life and we tackled it head on...successfully....together as a family.

We called the Bishop of our new ward here in Helena and even though it was late when we got here, there were members waiting here to help us get uploaded. What took me 2 weeks to load, they unloaded in less than an hour. I am so grateful for that, it would have killed me to do it alone. It is just another sign to us that this is where we are supposed to be.

I started work on Monday and Tami started her new life as a stay at home Mommy. I feel so blessed to atleast give her the opportunity to be home with the kids. (it is tough, I will recognize that). She has been a trooper through this whole transition. I have flipped her life upside down and she keeps on coming back for more. (I love my wife so much).

Week one was fairly relaxed, alot of meetings to get ramped up on the new project. I think that we will be successful here as a family.

We took some pics of the House that we are staying in and will take some of the new house as it is being built.

We love you all.