What? She is 8 months old?????

-ABIGAIL LYNN WILLIAMS 8 MONTHS OLD-




Yep, our sweet little Abigail Lynn turned 8 months old on Wednesday! I just can't believe how quickly time is flying on by. As is our monthly tradition, we took a picture of Abigail with the #8 behind her. This number 8 was conveniently found on my Mom's house :) Here are a few things about our sweet little girl:

Abigail loves to snuggle! She'll wrap her arms around your neck and bury her face in your shoulder.

Abigail has ONE TOOTH!!! It popped in last Friday (while my Mom and I were at Target!)

Abigail LOVES Alabama (our dog)!!! She just can't get enough of her. It is sooo much fun to watch the two of them play together!!

Abigail has beautiful big blue eyes!!!!!!

Abigail is SUPER ticklish!

Abigail has the most darling, melt-your-heart smile!!!

Abigail loves to read books together . . . she even points to the "words" with you AND turns the page for you.

Abigail is such a talker, favorite words being: "dada" "mama" "nana" "dah-ee" (doggie)!

Abigail is crawling!! Sometimes her crawling looks a little more like an army crawl than a "normal" crawl!

Abigail loves to play with her toys on the ground!

Abigail gets soo excited (jumping and squeeling) when Daddy walks in the door!

Abigail sleeps from 8:30pm to 7:30am . . .good little sleeper! :)

Abigail loves jumping in her jump-a-roo :) especially if Mommie and Daddy are watching!

Abigail loves looking at pictures of family and friends (right now she loves looking at pictures of Mommie and Daddy).

Abigail's nickname(s) are "Baby Cakes" or "Cakes" or "Cakies"!

Abigail loves to "bark" when Ala barks "bah . . . bah . . .bah" She thinks it's great! (Mommie thinks it's cute, until she is sick of Ala barking)

Abigail loves taking her bath! She would splash around in there all day if we would let her!

Abigail loves her after-bath-tradition with Daddy . . . tightly wrapped up in a towel and being laid on her tummy across Daddy's knees so he can do a drum roll on her back!

Abigail loves to point at things! When she is looking at something she loves to point at it, as if to let me know what she is looking at. I call it her "ET phone home".

Abigail loves being super-girl with Daddy! She will laugh and laugh and laugh flying around our apartment!

These are just a few little fun things about our sweet little Abigail. Jake and I are soo blessed to have such a beautiful little baby! She is such a bundle of fun and joy! WE LOVE YOU ABIGAIL!!!

Valentine Fun!!

Well, Valentines' Day came a week early in the Williams home!!! Our ward was having ward temple night last Saturday, so we decided to make it our Valentines' date. So, we left Abigail with my Mom and off we went to dinner and the temple to do sealings! It was wonderful to be reminded of the covenants we made on our wedding day! :) Very romantic!

When we got back to my Mom's to pick up Abigail, my AMAZING husband surprised me with THIS FABULOUS VALENTINE GIFT!!!!!




For those of you wondering what in the world this wonderful piece of furniture is . . . it is a TEA CART!!!! For anyone who knows me . . . I love tea . . .more importantly I love tea parties!!! For our wedding, Jake and I received a ton of china (Royal Albert), but sadly, we have left it at my Mom's house for safe keeping.
. . .GOOD NEWS . . .we are going to be moving into our home in just 2 short weeks and I plan to bring all of our fabulous china over to the house and put it in my fabulous new china cabinet (Thank you Jake . . . best Christmas present ever!) and NOW . . . I have the cutest tea cart ever to make me and Abigail's tea parties all the more exciting!!!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE MY WONDERFUL HUSBAND!! THANKS BABE!!!


. . . speaking of carts . . . I will leave you with this bit of Walmart fun . . . .(Auntie Kate . . .do you recognize the hat???)



HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYONE!!!!

Once upon a time . . .

Hello All!!! Remember us??? My apologies, we have been absent from the "blog-scene" for some time now!! Have you ever neglected to write in your journal for a long (long) time, and then when you sit down and open up your journal to "update" you find yourself completely overwhelmed because SOOO MUCH has happened and you don't know where to start . . . and you only have a few minutes to jot a few things down before the baby wakes up??? Well, that is me right now! So, I have decided that I will just begin with today and not worry about the last 2 month absence!

I would first like to introduce you to my very own fairy tale castle (complete with my very own Prince) . . .






Our HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you believe it???? It went from a bunch of weeds to this!?!?!? Well, we are super excited about it! Our scheduled closing date is Feb 26th!! yippee!!!

Before I let you go . . . this most wonderful part of our life . . .






Our beautiful Abigail Lynn is 7 months old TODAY!!!!!! She is such a doll!! Abigail continues to be quite advanced in her verbal abilities!!!! She says "Dadada", "Mamama", "Nanana" and "dah-ee" ("doggy"--for Alabama)!!! She loves to play on her tummy or sitting up on the floor (especially with Ala), snuggle with Jake and I, jump in her jump-a-roo, read books, go visit Grammie, go on walks, BE OUTSIDE-- (even in the cold-- she loves it!!), and laugh!!!! Abigail is such a sweet little joy!!! With each stage she has had I've said, "This is the best stage" . . . but really... this is the best stage!!

We are loving life here in Washington!!! Love to you all!!

Dragons, Bumblebees, and Ladybugs . . .

What an exciting week we had!!!! We went over to my Mom's house and carved pumpkins--even Abigail helped!! Here are the fabulous pumpkins---can you tell which one is Jake's????

Yep, Jake and Abigail are the artists in the family!

Mine is on the right, my Mom's is on the left

Where is Abigail's, you ask???

Look closely and you will see Abigail's art work . . .

Can you say . . . prodigy?

On Halloween (during the day) we went to DISNEY ON ICE!!!! It was TOO MUCH FUN!!!! Abigail, Paige, and Donnie loved all the colors "floating" around the ice!

This is getting Abigail and Donnie ready for their first trip to Disneyland--we leave in just 7 DAYS!!! yahoo!!!!

Happy Halloween!!!!!

Abigail is the cutest ladybug in the world!!! Donnie is the cutest dragon... ever.

Captain Jake . . . I mean Jack Sparrow

Have you ever put three infants on a couch for a photo shoot??

Well . . . we have (Donnie the Dragon, Paige the BumbleBee, and Abigail the LadyBug) . . . the first 3.5 seconds were OK, and then they realized what was going on . . .

Donnie and Paige were busy poking each others eyes out and pushing each other over . . . while Abigail sat there saying "Mom . . . are you serious?? Did you really put me next to these two???"

Abigail loves to roll over on her changing table. I think that she does it just to hear me in my high pitched baby voice say, "What are you doing . . . you're not supposed to roll over... you are soo silly" It doesn't matter how many times I say it-- she starts cracking up!!!

Well all, I hope you are having fun eating all of your Halloween candy :)

Have a great week!!!

Long time no see . . .

Yep, it's definitely been a while!!!! HOLY COW-- over a month!

Well folks, having a baby = busy, busy, busy! :) Just to quickly catch you all up--Abigail is now 4 months old! She is growing like a weed (at her 4 month appointment she was 13 lbs. 10.5 oz. and 24 inches long-- just a little above the 50th percentile!), she is rolling over like crazy, she laughs ALL THE TIME, and MAN! she is quite vocal!!! We love it! She is always chatting away about an exciting story that we have yet to decipher. Jake and I are doing great! Loving our little munchkin and watching our home being built (rather, waiting for the builders to break ground!!) Here is a picture montage of the last month--

The Roll-Over Girl!!!!

Hangin' out with Daddy in her Bumbo. . .

.... 15 minutes later!

We love to cuddle!!

Nana and Papa Came to visit!!!! We had such a great time!!!!

Donnie's new hat!!

One last time looking at Abigail's tree at Grammie's! Now the tree is bare :(

Poor Abigail-- what is she going to stare at when we are in Grammie's backyard??

What a happy little girl!! It's starting to get cold outside-- we have to bundle her up!!

The fam at Cheese's wedding!

We love Saturdays with Daddy!!

We went rock climbing with Cami, Curtis, & Paige!!!

Jake wanted to take Abigail up . . .but IT WAS FREEZING!!!!!! The wind was ice cold and to say the least it was interesting seeing Abigail outside in the cold-- she is a summer baby through and through!!

Abigail loves the outdoors :) (so does Paige!! (lower left))

After our rock climbing adventure . . . with wind burned cheeks.

Jake thinks that she is going to become an excellent rock climber--some day!

Both Abigail and Ala love this fabulous play mat!

Abigail loves this super warm hat!

Aunt Kate made it for Abigail!! Thank you Auntie Kate!!

. . . just waking up :)

Abigail's 1st HOCKEY GAME!!!!!!!

We had such a great time!!

Grandpa Jim, Grammie, Faith, and Daddy (Mommie is taking the picture)

Grammie and Abigail cuddled pretty much the entire game!

#1 Hockey Fans!!

Her new sleeping position--- no matter how hard we try to keep her on her back-- she always ends up on her tummy-- Uncle Todd suggests that we use velcro to keep her on her back--- humm... I don't know???

.....candy....candy.....candy......candy.....

(I am picturing Garfield saying this . . . )

"Please Mom... just one piece . . . .plllleeease!!"

After 15 minutes of vigorous effort ...

success . . .

"I didn't take anything Mom---I promise!" HA!

(don't worry folks-- we are not feeding Abigail any candy)

Nightly tradition: "Super Abigail"!! When Jake comes home from work Abigail is 'Super Abigail' for at least 10 minutes!!! What a great Daddy!!

weeeeeee......

Abigail is a "New Yorker Baby"-- Thanks to Auntie Elisabeth and Uncle Ty :)

(I would have to say that she is the cutest New Yorker Baby... ever. What do you two think??)

. . . phew . . . now you are all caught up on our lives! Until next week--- :) Love to all!!