We Have A HOUSE!

We Closed on our new house Christmas Eve. We are so excited. We still have a lot of work to do on it, but we are one step closer and that is a great relief. Our goal is to finish fixing the house and moving in mid-January so that we have a couple weeks before Eli is born. We have been so blessed. This house has come just at the right time and at the right price. Heavenly Father has heard our prayers and answere them. Thank you everyone for constant support and love. We appreciate all your prayer, services rendered to use and well wishes. We hope that everyone has a very happy new year!

Christmas

Our Christmas was great. We were at Tamara's parents house for Christmas Eve and Christmas and spent lots of time with family that were visiting from Utah and her grandparents from Switzerland. Lana and Koen both had lots of fun playing with their new toys and with their uncles and aunts. We really enjoyed going to see the Temple lights and watching Luke II Christmas Eve. We then spent the rest of the evening singing Christmas songs while watching the candles on the Christmas tree burn down to nothing (a swiss tradition). We hope that you all felt the Christmas spirit. We have a wonderful time feeling of our Saviors love and the spirit that this Christmas season brings.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was a blast! Thanks to Ted and Sue we were up at the finished Family cabin in Show Low Arizona with most of the Williams Family. It snowed Thanksgiving day which was super fun. It was Koens first time in the snow and Lana's first time experiencing the snow falling. We had a great time playing in the snow and eating snow flakes. After some cold weather we went inside to feast on some great pit BBQ'd and oven roasted turckeys and lots and lots of other yummy foods. It was fan-flipp'n-tastick!

It was a very fun and memoriable time at the cabin. We are so grateful for our many many blessings. We are especially grateful for this up coming time and season that is dedicated to the remembering of our savior Jesus Christ and the wonderful joy of knowing he is the savior of the world. We hope everyone has a great Christmas and had a great Thanksgiving.

One happy boy.

"Oh man, I missed!"

This is our first blog attempt. We posted some pictures to bring everyone up to speed as to where we are now. We sold our first home this past July and finally found a house that we will hopefully close on in December. Which means we should be in our new house by Christmas or New Years.

This is cutting it close because as many of you know we are expecting our second boy around January 31st. We are going to name him Eli however we are still working on his middle name. We had our first ultra sound done in September and found out that Eli has a deformity called Anencephaly. Due to this deformity he will pass away shortly after birth. This has been a very bitter sweet time for us as we prepare for his short visit. Knowing of Eli's diagnosis has given us the chance to treasure our time with him during this pregnancy. We are so grateful for the knowledge that our family is eternal and honored to have him in it.

We are so grateful for so many of you who have supported and prayed for us during this time. We will try to keep up on this blog, and would love to hear from family and friends and how you are doing.

Koen officially turned two

Koen and his cousin Dallas have proven to us that they are in their adventurous and dangerous twos by sneaking off and filling a bathtub with water and themselves.

Halloween

Lana and Koen had a very fun Halloween. Koen loves superman right now to the point where if he has a superman shirt on he will not let you take it off for days. Lana chose to be Cinderella and loves to dress up whenever she can.

Family Adventures

Good times!

It was a perfect day to fly our kite. We had a blast!

Hold your hand? No way Jose.

Hello Ladies, welcome to my blogspot.

"This is how it's really done dad."



Koen and Elliott went fishing on their way home from father and sons campout.

Supergirl!!!

Sorry no Superboy, he just gave himself a concussion by tripping on his cape.

I'm teaching Lana how to ride her bike while doggy fills in as Schoggi's crash dummy. (Schoggi is our real dog)

Two of my favorite boys

Our Family