you hear that?

it's been VERY quiet at the williams home this week....too quiet. morgan has been visiting her dad all week. i miss her terribly, but i have called her every day. she usually is too busy to talk, but when she did want to talk to me she seemed to be happy. she will be home tomorrow, so i will try to get a LOT of stuff done around the house today. we've been working on stuff all week. we converted morgan's crib to a toddler bed (which she is SO excited about!) and bo started painting the kitchen.
the worst part about her being away is that her schedule gets all out of whack. so i don't plan to be putting her to bed by 8 pm sunday night - unless the excitement of the "big girl bed" will have her wanting to go to bed.

also, she is 2 years and 8 months old today! it's hard to believe that she is the same baby i brought home from the hospital in january 2006. that baby was kinda funny looking and did pretty much nothing but cry. i had such a hard time with her. i remember wanting to bring her back to the hospital and try to get a refund - seriously. i'm not kidding. i had a friend that, at the time, struggling with infertility. i remember feeling guilty that i didn't want my baby when she so desperately wanted one. i wanted to give my baby to her. but anyway, all that has changed now. i cannot imagine my life without my little sunshine! she still drives me crazy at times but THE highlight of my day is when i pick her up at school. she sees me and her face lights up. she starts running towards me saying "momma!" and gives me the best hug ever. she is the best little girl ever.

and, yesterday was 5 months of marriage for bo and i. last month, we decided to meet for lunch on each of our monthly anniversaries. with his job, he usually works through lunch, which is why we don't meet for lunch more often. so once a month, we get to eat a meal alone together. and tonight we're having our anniversary date, which will consist of driving to greenville to go to lowes, and eating at pasquales. i'm really excited!

another topic - the election - bo is more interested in it than i am, but i am 100% behind mccain/palin. this woman is a superwoman. it's all i can do everyday to raise one child and work 35 hours a week. she is managing to raise 5 kids and already has a pretty important job, and now wants an even more important job! i am amazed at how she and her husband do it all. now i think being a SAHM is an awesome thing. really just being a mom in general is awesome and difficult at the same time. but it's nice for me, as a working mom, to see a woman doing everything i do and a whole lot more. she inspires me to know that i can do it all! and i can have a big and important career one day if i choose to.

that's all for today. maybe i'll add some pics of mo's big girl bed later.

a week of firsts!!!

well, last week my baby girl finally got her first hair cut....it was getting kinda uneven in the back and looking messy. i got her a sucker so she would sit still while it was being cut, and it worked! she was SOOO good. bo videotaped it, while i took pictures, and of course we kept the all-important first curl.

our little fam, before the haircut...


during the haircut....



unfortunately, i didn't take one right after the haircut, b/c we still had to get home and eat and go to church - but the next day was another first...morgan's first day of 3k. now, she isn't 3 yet, so she will have to repeat 3k next year, but she'll learn a LOT more than she would have in her current daycare and it's only a little bit more money

here she is, ready for school...


and day 2 of 3k...


our little girl is getting bigger by the day. she's pretty much potty trained, except at night and i really couldn't be happier! i know some moms get sad b/c their babies aren't babies anymore, but that really hasn't bothered me yet. she is so much more fun now that she can talk and understand us. i'm sure i'll be a little sad one day, but for now i love the age she is -

all for now!

house update!

well, we have been working on the house for 2 months now. the carpet is gone (except for in the master - there isn't hardwood underneath, unfortunately) and every wall of the house has been painted, except for the kitchen - we're holding off for a little while before tackling that one!
bo and his dad are currently fixing the closets - they had this wire organizational thing which just didn't work for us. those are gone now and they have patched the walls and are repainting. bo is also painting the boards that will be shelves in the closets.
today, we are driving to jackson to go to miskelly's to hopefully buy a bedroom suit. we are both really excited, which is rare for bo to be excited about shopping - our master bedroom is huge ~ 20 x 15 i believe, which is nice, but is also a challenge to find the right furniture. so hopefully, we'll have a grown-up looking master bedroom soon, instead of the dorm room looking bedroom we have now.

just in case i haven't mentioned it, bo also changed out every electrical outlet and light switch in the house. they were all beige and some had been painted to match the wall colors. he wanted them all to match so we went with white. also he has bought, but not yet installed all new doorknobs for the outside doors, again, so they will all match. AND we're in the process of replacing all of the bathroom fixtures with oil rubbed bronze ones.

i am so proud of my hubby! he works so hard to make our house looks nice, and he understands that sometimes you have to spend a little bit of money in order to do so.

so anyway, just a little update. we are no where near done, but we're making progress!

i hurt for them

i have a friend (it's really not me!) who is going thru a situation similar to what i went through a year and a half ago. her husband wants a divorce. i belive he is having an affair, although he hasn't admitted it, and she says it doesn't matter either way, he wants out, and she's letting him out.
i just do not understand why anyone would cheat on their spouse. everyone hurts. the wayward spouse, the betrayed spouse, the children (there aren't any in this case), and the parents and siblings of the spouses. i would imagine that the other woman hurts too, although i find it tough to feel sorry for someone who goes into a relationship with someone who they know is married. i also don't feel too sorry for anyone who is married who starts a relationship outside of their marriage.

i only wish that there was something i could do to prevent anyone from having to suffer the pain that i, and so many others, have suffered. i do everything i can to ensure that my current marriage stays on track. whenever a friend discusses their marital issues with me i offer any advice that seems relavant.

the most important issue (in my opinion) is what God says about marriage and adultery. and the only place to find that is in His Word, the Bible. i will try to come back with scripture references at some point - but - i think we all know that "thou shalt not commit adultery" is one of the 10 commandments. but that's old testament law, which we (members of Christ's church) are not bound to. however, the new testament reaffirms this as a truth. adultery is a sin.
but what is the punishment for adultery? i used to think (and a lot of people probably agree) that adultery is a sin, it's bad, but God will forgive those who commit it, if they ask for forgiveness. this is true, but there is a catch.
somewhere in the new testament (i will find this scripture) it is said (i think by Jesus) that God hates divorce, but will allow it. If you choose to divorce your spouse, and then later remarry you are committing adultery. UNLESS, you are the innocent party, betrayed by a spouse who commits sexual immorality. the betrayed spouse is released from the marriage contract and free to remarry.

moral to the blog: DONT CHEAT!!! REMEMBER YOUR VOWS!!! communicate with your spouse, work thru problems before you feel that you marriage is so far gone that you are tempted to cheat -

anyway, this is, was and always will be a painful topic for me. so i write what i think about.
read at your own risk ;-)

still going...

well, i've gotten up in the am a few more times and walked/jogged/run and it's going well. sometimes i do it at night, sometimes the afternoon, but usually the morning.

and my baby girl is leaving tomorrow to spend a week with her dad. so hopefully i'll be able to work out every day!

all for now. gotta go snuggle with bo :-)

i didn't want to do it, but i did it anyway, and it SUCKED!!!

so, i got up and went "running" at 430 this morning. it sucked. way too dark. couldn't get my heart rate up where i like to get it.

you may ask yourself, why do you have to get up 4 hours before you have to be at work so you can run for 30 minutes? well, my husband has to be at work at 6 (he's usually earlier) so i have to be home before he leaves -
but i think i can probably swing leaving at 450 or so and still get back in plenty of time.

so yes, it sucked but i supposed i'm glad i did it. next time it won't be as early, and hopefully it will be better.

all for now.

and so it begins...

well, this weekend, i finally have started back exercising. saturday morning, i got up at 9 and ran for 30 minutes - when i say run, i really mean walk and jog with an occasional sprint -
and yesterday bo got my spin bike out of storage. so i rode it for 30 minutes last night before bed.
i have less than 3 months until my 10 year high school reunion, so i need to get my butt in gear. plus, my sister's wedding is in about a year.


as far as the house goes, work continues. we (or i should say bo and his dad) have painted all 3 bedrooms and the living room. next is the bathrooms and kitchen. and we are in the process of replacing every electrical outlet and light switch in the house. it's not hard, but is time consuming.

as for the fam, morgan is 29 months old now. she loves to swim, still loves pink, and also loves her new kitten. her name is tessa, but morgan insists on calling her "kitty cat" and occasionally "dora"

bo and i have been married 2 months. so far it's been pretty good. we just work all day and then work on the house, but we still try to spend time alone together every day.

ok, that's all for now!