This may look.....

like a cute little boy....

in a normal shirt, but...

the shirt has a big message.....Aiden's going to be a Big Brother!!!

And he is SOOOO excited!

First picture of the baby.

I am due May 20th so that makes me around 9 1/2 weeks now. I have been feeling great, just very tired. (That's my reason for lack of blogging.....at least that's what I'm telling myself). Please keep little baby C in your prayers.

P.S. The shirt Aiden is wearing was Jonathan's shirt he wore when his younger brother was born. Jonathan's mom gave it to me and I knew I wanted to save it for when we were pregnant. This is what Aiden wore when we told everyone we were pregnant. I love the shirt because not only does it have a special message, but Jonathan wore it as well when he was Aiden's age.

Such a big boy!

Our little man is not so little anymore. I wanted to put this picture up of Aiden that I took this morning before we left for Mother's Day Out. He is wearing one of his shirts that his Aunt Kristen (and Uncle Ben, Isabella and Brooks) got him for his birthday. Isn't it so cute.

(I've been horrible about putting pics on the blog lately. I need to put his two year pics up still that we had taken. I will soon, I promise!)

Happy 2nd Birthday Aiden!!!!

Our little man turned two on Friday so we had his birthday party this weekend. We just had it at our house this year with family and friends. It was a lot of fun.

Here's the family.

The sign I made.

My monkey cupcakes. We did an animal theme this year since Aiden LOVES animals.

This is his room after the kids got done playing. They pulled out just a few toys.

Some of the guest.....Audra and Aaden

This is what my sweet little nephew Bryce did the whole party! I guess he's not much of a party animal yet.

Getting ready to sing to Aiden.

Some more of the guests.

Aiden had to take a little break before going to open up gifts. Must be a rough life!

Holding up the Mickey 2 card! (Forgot to mention that I did color my hair. This is closer to my natural color, which is a dirty blonde. I just thought I'd do something different for the fall. And this will be easier to maintain.)

Holding Aiden while everyone sang to him. He's about to dive into that cupcake.

Licking the icing off the candles.

Reed showing him how to open gifts.

He was more interested in what was on the outside of the gift.

He got this really neat puzzle. Might be a little advanced for him now, but he loves looking at the picture.

Opening up one of the Razorback shirts my parents got him. Of course the boy has to have Razorback stuff for the football season coming up.

Madelyn and Aiden playing with another block puzzle he got.

Playing with a Cars book. BTW, his favorite movie right now is Cars so we did get him a lot of Cars things.

He got this really neat truck from Kristy and Paul. His buddy Carter is trying to figure it out.

He's loving tractors too so he got some John Deer tractors

His new bike from Mimi and Papa. He was so excited to ride it.

You can kind of see in this picture that Aiden's shirt has an elephant on it. He has been obsessed with elephants for a while now. They are definitely his favorite animal so it only seemed appropriate that he wore an elephant shirt for his birthday.

We had out this beautiful ark we got in Guatemala.

And his giraffe we got in Guatemala. His Gigi and Pops got him this. I'm going to have to do a separate post on all the cool toys we got in Guatemala. They were all so neat.

We had such a wonderful party, but even more it was fun to celebrate Aiden turning 2. It seriously seems like just yesterday we had his one year old party. Aiden has brought SO much joy to our lives. We feel so privileged that God chose us to be his parents. What an honor. I love being with him every day and just getting to see all that he is doing. He is talking like crazy now and is always doing something that makes us laugh. I seriously think just in the past week he has been doing things that make me laugh so hard I cry. I will be putting his 2 year pictures up next and I'll let you know all he's saying. It's so cute. We love you so much little man.

Last but not least, Part 3 of our trip to Guatemala

The next day was our next to last day there. We woke up and drove down to Antigua, (which is just about an hour away) to go shopping. Antigua is a beautiful town with cobblestone roads and it used to be the capital a long time ago. The day we went was a gorgeous day.

Here we are on the arch street.

Beautiful picture with the colorful buildings and the volcano in the background.

Another picture of the volcano.

Me and Jonathan

Aiden in the market checking out the monkey.

"Can I ride this thing?"

Jonathan and I at lunch. We ate at this place called The Crazy Monkey and they had these nachos that were out of this world, crazy good.

Margie, Aiden and I waiting on our awesome nachos. (Did I mention they were good???)

Jonathan and his dad.

While we were driving through Antigua Aiden got to sit up front with the guys because you're going like zero miles per hour (or at least it felt like that) since the roads are cobblestone. Aiden thought he was such a big boy sitting up there.

The one thing Aiden STILL talks about from our trip is riding the "Tuk Tuk". Him and Ron rode this while we were in Antigua and almost every day Aiden reminds me that he rode the tuk tuk with Pops. "I ride tuk tuk with Pops".......(hey at least he's making full sentences now.)

Aiden and Pops waiting on us while we shop.

Aiden playing the marimba.

How many marimba's can I play?

Picking out a bus.

Pops and Aiden walking through the market. He's carrying his new tracker.

Getting sleepy

Asleep on dadda

My turn to carry him

Mom and Aiden's favorite thing to do....sleep

When we got back home it was time to play with the bubbles.

The bubbles also had a whistle on one end. Multifunctional toys are the best!

The next morning (Friday) was our last day. Aiden didn't want to stop giving Heidi LOTS of hugs...

and more hugs.....

and MORE hugs! I guess he wanted to make sure she knew how much he loved her.

Then he couldn't decide if him and Heidi should color.....

throw the ball.......

"Here you go Heidi".....

laugh really hard.......

or just hug!

That morning we went to another local market to shop some more.

Gigi and Aiden at the fountain.

Aiden playing with his new train.

Snack time.

Then it was time to go home :(

On our trip from Guatemala to Dallas we got really lucky because no one sat in between us so Aiden got his own seat. It was so nice. He just sat there and watched his DVD for most of the trip.

Then he discovered Jonathan's cool head phones. (Jonathan looks thrilled that he got stuck with the cheap head phones.....ha, ha!)

Then we had a pretty long lay over in Dallas so we did a lot to keep Aiden entertained. We rode the air tram for a VERY long time. Can't you see the excitement on Jonathan's face.

Then we were right by this play area so we spent a lot of time there as well.

Did lots of climbing.

And driving.......

And then he fell asleep right when we got on the plane and slept the entire way home from Dallas to Nashville.

What a great trip! Sorry there are so many pictures but I wanted to remember every day of this trip and everything we did and this was the best way for me to do it. I'm so thankful that we got to take this trip. Thank you Ron and Margie for a wonderful time. We love and miss you guys.

Guatemala take 2.......

Continuing on with our vacation to Guatemala, on Monday we headed to the beach for three days. It was about a 2 hour drive, not too bad. We stayed at this nice resort and even got a bungalow. When we got there they packed our bags in this extended golf cart and drove us to our room. Aiden thought that was so cool and the guy was nice enough to keep driving Margie and Aiden around the resort.

Here's Aiden all smiles

Our room was right by the pool. You can't tell by this picture, but on the right side is the kiddie pool that Aiden could stand up in and walk around and on the other side was the big pool. These blocks separated the two. Aiden had so much fun climbing on these blocks.

The beaches here are totally different than the Florida beaches I'm used to. The sand here is black. Something to do with the volcano ashes.....i think.....

After the pool we wanted to take Aiden down to see the beach.

He didn't really want much to do with it. He has a very tight grip on Pops.

Another picture of the beach.

Jonathan trying to put Aiden down in the sand.

Aiden not having anything to do with it!

The next morning we just hung around till it was time to go to breakfast.

Margie, Aiden and I went outside the room to wait on Ron and Jonathan to go to breakfast. Aiden was obsessed with all the rocks and was pointing out the "big rocks" to Gigi.

"Yay!!! There's my dadda."

Aiden eating his black beans. He loves black beans and I think he ate those for every meal. Black beans, cereal and yogurt.......isn't that what everyone has for breakfast.

Pops and Aiden walking back to the room after breakfast.

The family

Aiden pointing out the "fishies"

Trying on Pops' reading glasses.

Of course we had to have a popsicle while we were there.

Or as Aiden likes to say, "pop-ta-sicle"

Heading to the pool after breakfast. I love how Aiden is cheesing it in this picture.

Aiden was obsessed with finding bugs in the drains. And if anyone knows me knows that I just LOVE bugs. But Margie told me I have to get used to that with a boy. Not sure if I can ever get excited about seeing a bug.

I let them go "searching" without me.

After Aiden's nap we thought it would be fun to go ride 4 wheelers on the beach.

Pops and Gigi's turn to take Aiden.

Then pack to the pool.

Or as Aiden like to say it, "the Poooool". He liked to drag out the "o".

Hiding under the towel with Pops.

"How do these things work?"

"Oh yeah, I remember!"

Time to go back home. We headed back to the city on Wednesday afternoon. Aiden was just excited to ride in the golf cart again. This is him waiting while they loaded all our stuff.

Aiden loves elephants and sleeps with this one every night. He saw it in the back as they were packing the golf cart and thought it should stay with him up front.

And of course we had to stop for ice cream on the way home.

And that made someone VERY happy.

Stay tuned for "the last but not least" part 3 of our trip.

Interrupting our vacation pictures.....

to introduce (drum roll please)

Bryce Thomas Williams

Born at 12:57 pm

6 lbs 7 oz

20 in.

My twin sister had her little boy today and we couldn't be more excited. Her water actually broke this morning (which I hardly ever hear of anyones doing these days) at 2 am. She had a great delivery and is doing awesome. Her and the baby are both healthy and we're praising God for that. Bryce is just beautiful (it's okay if you say that about boys right now).

He was a very alert baby.

Look at those feet!

Aiden pointing to Bryce

Bryce and his favorite Aunt (just kidding Jill)

Aiden, Jonathan and Bryce

My dad, me and Bryce

Guatemala July '09 Part 1

Are you ready to look at a LOT of pictures from our trip to Guatemala??? Well I'm breaking it up into 3 parts. Between Margie and I we took about 400 pictures so I'll try to narrow it down to my favorites, but it'll be hard. We had such a wonderful trip down to Guatemala to see Jonathan's parents. This was Aiden's first time to Guatemala. It was his 3rd time on a plane though, but his first two were last summer so it was a little bit easier then. Although he did do a great time on the plane each trip. We brought his DVD player so that helped and he slept on some of the plane rides. I'll start with day one, which was a Friday.......

Waiting at the airport was a breeze. Aiden loved looking at all the airplanes and trucks out on the runway. That kept him entertained the whole time.

I told Aiden to make sure all our bags got on the plane so he's watching real hard so he didn't miss our bags.

Arriving in Guatemala....

Everyone arrived safely and had no problems. I wish I could say the same about Jonathan's bag. Poor thing busted on this trip. The airlines did give us a new bag at no cost. Wasn't that nice of them since it looked like someone drove over our bag.

Saturday morning we woke up and Aiden was already obsessed with their dog Heidi. He would say "Hi-D" and he kept throwing her ball for her. Heidi loved it just as much.

He also loved opening and shutting the door by himself. He wanted him and Heidi to go out by themselves so he's shutting the door behind him.

That morning was pretty relaxing. Ron had a meeting he had to go to so we went to it to take some refreshments then we went by one of the guys favorite restaurants, Pollo Campero. Here's Aiden taking his kids meal home from Pollo Campero. He's one happy guy after he eats.....kind of like his momma.

When Ron got home him and Aiden planted some seeds.

Today was also Ron's birthday! So that was real neat that we got to be there to celebrate his special day with him. Aiden thought he needed help opening gifts.

Aiden playing with Ron's new phone......and Heidi

For dinner that night we went to this really nice steak house........that had a playground INSIDE! It was awesome. Our table was right by the playground so that was perfect.

Gigi and Aiden having fun.

Dada and Aiden

Family pic

Gigi, Pops, Aiden, Jonathan and me after dinner

After we ate Jonathan was trying to tighten up Aiden's carseat and looked who hopped up front to drive!!! I think you're a little too short there buddy.

On Sunday we went to Ron and Margie's church and got to meet their church family, which was fun. I guess too much fun because not soon after we got there Aiden passed out, gone! There was music playing, people talking loud and everything but he slept through the whole thing, which was about 2 hours. And to think I try to tip toe around my house while he's napping.

It was a good thing Aiden took his nap while at church because it gave us all afternoon to go to the zoo.

Aiden, Jonathan and Pops watching the animals.

They have the most amazing zoo. I was very impressed by it. They had so many animals to look at. A lot more than our zoo does. Aren't these lions beautiful? I wanted to go again while we were there but didn't have enough time.

I think I was most amazed by the hippo! I had never seen one in person and they are HUGE....and stinky!

Aiden LOVES the animals, but he was obsessed with wanting the ride the "Whoo, Whoo"....the trains! So Gigi and Pops took him for a ride.

Waiting for his second ride....

...with mom and dad!

Here we are brining up the rear!

After the zoo we went by and got ice cream.

Someone was loving his ice cream and ice cream cone.

Afterwards we came home and Aiden crashed on dadda....

........and then moved over to Pops.

I will post more pictures of the trip. Stay tuned for the next fews days when we go to the beach.