New year, new blog problem

I made several New Year's resolutions for 2011.  I don't share the thought that they set people up for failure; goals, in my opinion, are never bad, whether they're made on January 1 or any of the other 364 days in the year. One resolution was to blog at least four times a week.  I'm fairly good at keeping up the blog, but I wanted to challenge myself to really be diligent as this will ultimately be the baby book for each of my children.
However, my resolution is already at a stand-still thanks to Google.  It seems that Google bloggers have a limited amount of space.  Who knew?  And if you take up tons of space because you don't resize your digital pictures before you post them, you eat up the space faster. 
I have had this blog for over three years now.  This is my 406th post.
I now have to either go through and resize pictures so that I can fit more content (which would take forever) or I have to do what I should have been doing all along and putting my blog into a hard copy book form.  I choose the latter, and as I create books, I will delete postings so that I can have the space again to post more antics of our children. 
So keep checking back.  I'm hoping to be back in a few days!

Life is Fun

Bowling?

Dear Mum-Mum and Pup-Pup,
Today we got the boxes of Christmas things that didn't fit into our suitcases.  Thank you so much for shipping them!  Liam in particular would like to thank you once more for the bowling set.  He has rediscovered his love for the sport.  And found a new way to do it.

Catching Up - Part IV

A big impetus for going to Pittsburgh this Christmas (which was technically our "Florida year") was to help throw a baby shower for Deci, my brother's wife.  They're expecting a

in April and we're so super-excited for them!  (By the way, that is, of course, a Bethel Bakery cake. In my family, there's no other kind of cake. It's a Pittsburgh thing.)
The room in the restaurant was beautifully decorated for Christmas.

A table display we did.  It's a mini-diaper cake with pictures of Ryan and Deci when they were babies.

Here's another one.

For this one, I scanned the two school pictures in to my computer, uploaded them to this fun website, and created a picture of what their baby may look like.  They're calling him "Fu", which is short for a former Steelers player who complete name I can't even guess at spelling correctly.  So here's baby "Fu" with his parents.  They'll have to pull this picture out in a couple of years and see how close it actually is to what he really looks like.

The mother-to-be opening up her presents.

Wouldn't be a Pittsburgh baby shower without some Steelers wear for the baby!

Even their dogs received bones to munch on and distract them from the attention the baby will get.

Aunt Heidi found a particularly appropriate frame to give to the new baby.

Deci with her mom and step-grandmother.

Deci with Ryan's family - Heidi, me, and our mom.

I think Baby Fu is pretty set.  Congratulations, Ryan and Deci!

Catching Up - Part III

We didn't get much fresh snow while we were there, just some flurries.  But Pittsburgh had a white Christmas, and we got a couple of days to play around a little bit before it melted.  Here's Liam, in his adult-sized Steelers hat and his too-small-for-my-gut Cars jacket, complete with adorable attached mittens.  Loving that he can't put down the toothpaste!  (See previous post.)

Since we don't have boots for Liam (who needs them in FL?), Pop-Pop carried him around the yard and showed him snowy things.

This is the "birdie" that Liam is obsessed with.  It's in my parents' next door neighbors' yard.  He wants to go out and see it several times a day.

Micah had fun running in the snow.

Micah didn't have any real snow boots either.  The solution?  Why, his fireman boots from his Halloween costume, of course!  Made completely of rubber, fit great, and he loves to wear them.  Perfect for snow!

Catching Up - Part II

Santa visited us in Florida and Pennsylvania.  How lucky are we??
Liam, with his big, squishy diapered butt, opening a gift.

A Leapster Explorer!!  Micah's very own computer!!

Skippy the Dog!!  Liam's very own fake dog!!

A Christmas ornament.   Not that much fun to a 3 year old, but I know how much he'll treasure that later in his life.  I know that Tim and I treasure the childhood ornaments we received.

Just a dose of Christmas cuteness.

These recorders were great fun for five minutes.  Then they broke.

Ahhh...our boys are included in the Williams family Christmas tradition: toothbrushes and toothpaste in your stocking!

Catching Up - Part I

Being away for a week means lots of catching up to do in lots of ways.  Now that the laundry is done and we have enough groceries to get us through tomorrow (thanks, Tim!), I can update the blog.  I'm doing it in installments so that there isn't some ginormous post that anyone feels like they have to spend hours reading.
Micah emerges from his room on Christmas morning.

It's love at first sight.  All he really asked Santa for were trains.  Daddy and Santa put them together so that Micah could see everything all set up on Christmas morning.

Learning to use the remote control for the train.

Liam was pretty hooked too...

...until he saw his own fun train!

Blocks!  Well, they will be when Mommy finishes putting them together in 2013.  Thanks, Aunt Laraine and Uncle Bill! :)

Liam with some loot - not all of it his.

Snuggling with mommy and a new snowglobe.

Daddy's big surprise this year was a guitar!  Many people helped make this possible and add to the funds that I had hidden away - Tim's parents, Derek and Rebekah, Gerard and Peggie - and it was so much fun to see him open it.  Especially after he realized it wasn't just a case!

Maybe we'll get some video soon of him playing it!  Isn't it pretty?  And it sounds beautiful too!

Until we get that video, you'll have to settle for this one of Liam.  Dancing.  With a chihuahua that sings "Feliz Navidad." Really. It was one of Liam's favorite things to open that morning.