It's wedding time

After a long wait of almost 2 years, it was finally time for Molly & Joe's wedding. I don't know if the girls could have waited much longer for it so we were very ready for it to kick off

There are so many things to write about, but I am just gonna give a little bit. You can go to our facebook page and see the full albums if you would like. 

REHEARSAL

 WEDDING DAY

Let the primping begin. Quinn's 1st fancy hair-do

 Miss Rylee sitting so good for Missy. Such a big girl who was in love with every aspect of the weekend, from getting her hair and nails done to the dinner and dancing. 

 Just so damn cute

Doing pretty well thru all the pre-wedding pictures

Rylee getting the finishing touches before we all walked down the aisle. 

Our Family (baby bump and all)

Quinn and Kristine during the service

Rylee helping Quinn with her snowflake necklace during the service

 Enjoying the yummy dinner

Getting ready to dance their tights off

 A sweet moment with Daddy

Quinnie and the bride

 Ry used her $5 Grandpa W gave her for the dollar dance

The big brother and the bride

Ahh

You could not get this little one off the dance floor. She practiced for almost 2 years to get ready 

Cousin Bryce is such a good sport

Ah, a tender sister moment

Bustin a move

Grandma getting into it too. 

It was a great weekend, beautiful wedding and a lot of fun. I think it took all of us a few days to recover from all the fun and excitement

The Snow-Peal is gonna get me!!

Taking the girls fishing for the 1st time this winter in the ice shack. They had a blast but I think they likes playing with the minnows more then anything else. 

Miss Quinnie doing a little fishing

 Ah, sisterly love

Showing her little sister how to hold a minnow

Taking a turn for herself

We spent about 2 hours total on the ice. It got to be a little long for the girls and they were asleep before we even got off the ice. They had a great time though and it was a lot of fun to watch how excited they got over every fish and minnow. 

The 1st haircut

2 weeks for before the big wedding day, we decided it was time for Quinn's first haircut. She was not excited about it but reluctantly sat on my lap with a little help from a bag of M&M's.

For as unhappy as she was, Quinn sat super still during the whole thing and did really good (as long as the candy kept coming). She didn't say a peep and barely moved an inch the whole time

The expression on her face was just too cute to pass up posting

She wasn't quite sure what Missy was doing but did a great job sitting still

The final result was a super cute haircut and one little girl covered in chocolate. The ladies at Hair's the Thing in Milltown were so nice during the whole process. I didn't know until later that Quinn left her "mark" all over the shop with little chocolate covered fingerprints. 

A Christmas Story

So, I am pretty far behind on updating this blog, so I am throwing all things aside and getting a bunch of pictures up on it. 

A walk thru our Christmas 2010

Rylee decorating the tree

 Miss Quinnie decorating 

 A pretty cute little chick in the Sunday School program. Rylee worked really hard to learn all the group lines, songs, and her particular line of "we little chicks promise we won't make a peep"

Daddy digging in and helping decorate sugar cookies. The girls were covered head to toe in frosting and sprinkles but had a blast so it was worth the mess

Sliding at Doug and Annette's on Christmas Eve day. I couldn't believe how brave Quinnie was going down the hill by herself on her brand new inner tube. She wasn't afraid at all!

Rylee and Grandma heading down! What a good sport Grandma was

After a cold time sledding, the girls got to go "tubbin" in Grandpa and Grandma's new hot tub. Ry dove in and thought it was just like a swimming pool (but learned it isn't as big) but Quinne was a bit more reluctant. She did finally warm up enough to the idea and it was pretty hard to get her to finally get out. It is now one of their favorite's things to do!

Our family picture on Christmas Eve after Church 

 Opening presents at the Williamson Christmas Eve

 Coloring books were a super big hit with both girls

I love her expression

One of the things on her list to Santa was ear muffs and this was one happy little girl when she opened them up

Christmas morning at our house. Getting ready to open presents. Trying to tame some of the madness by having each girl take a turn. It worked pretty well, or as well as expected with a 5 and 2 year old. 

The excitement is building

 Quinn loved her stocking and thought it was the coolest thing

A little girl in Heaven with her 1st boy doll! It's Flynn from Tangled and she thought he was super cool. Now her new Barbies had a man in their lives

A puppy petshop! One of the only things that Quinnie wanted

 Ry loves to color so she was pretty happy to get this paint by number set

 Quinn loves Rylee's fur hat and Daddy's so we thought this little one needed her own. She was pretty excited and wore it for much of the morning. 

Christmas with the Chivers' family

Grandma Bonnie got each of the grandkids a hat that lights up and the kids enjoyed them a ton!

 Super excited about the Polly Pocket set!

The singer of Grandma's band

Playing the new Wii with Uncle Bill. Who knew Quinnie was such a good boxer!

Playing with her new dress up clothes and having a ball doing it. 

Hoping everyone had a wonderful Christmas and best wishes for a wonderful 2011!!!

Tippy-Tap

Rylee's 1st dance recital of the year was on December 3rd at the Chisago Performing Arts Center

For some reason, the tall girls were in the front row so no matter where we sat we could barely see Rylee if at all. Thankfully I was able to get a few during rehearsal so we have some. 

 There's our girl in the middle with cousin Lucy on the right at dress rehearsal

The actual recital- thankfully Kristin got a few pictures for us that we could add to her scrapbook. These aren't quite the quality we were hoping for. 

The big finale- getting to dance next to the "Big girls"

 Mama with the cutest dancer in the show! Daddy had to take Quinn home after the 1st show and we didn't get a picture of him with Ry so I had to make sure we got one picture of her after the 2nd show. 

She was so excited to get her flowers. She was worried that we forgot (which we kinda did but thankfully they were selling them there for only a 500% mark-up. What a deal!!)

There's A Pickle In My Tummy

For the few that may not know, our family will be one member larger this summer. We are expecting again with baby #3 due on June 24, which is just in time for Chris' birthday along with Doug and Annette's 34th wedding anniversary. 

We found out around the girls' birthdays but decided to keep it a secret until Thanksgiving when we shared it with our families.  On Thanksgiving morning, we sat the girls down and told them that Mommy has a tiny baby in her tummy and that they both will get to be big sisters. 

Ry of course knew exactly what that meant as she was an active part of my pregnancy with Quinn so Ry's eyes got to be as big as saucers and she immediately touched my stomach. 

Quinn on the other hand, didn't really understand that the baby was in my tummy. She lifted up my shirt and had a puzzled look on her face, like "I don't see a baby".   She never the less was excited as she saw how Rylee was responding to it. 

Lots of hugs and kisses all around and our new secret.  We decided that we would have the girls give Grandpa GG a card that shared our news and that would be the way we told the Williamson side of the family.  

Not long after arriving at Grandpa GG's, Quinn walked up and gave GG the card and he read it out loud, but I don't think he actually read what the card said.  He read our names but didn't see or realize that there was an extra name at the end. Once he did, he was very excited and surprised to hear that there would be another Baby Williamson on the way. Everyone else was pretty surprised and excited too.

After enjoying the day with the W side, we loaded up the van and headed to The Shack for my family's dinner.  We did the same thing with the card but Quinn gave it to my Mom.  She was not so quiet and shrieked when she read the card which of course made everyone turn and look and ask what was going on.

Just the night before at The Shack for dinner my Auntie Kris mentioned how she thought it was time for us to have another and we just had to play it off until we could really tell them the next day. I think Auntie Kris screamed just as loud. My Dad was pretty excited too!

With all of the wonderful response to our blessed news, I couldn't help but be a tiny bit sad that Grandma Unita and Grandma GG couldn't be with us to share in the news.  They both would have been so excited to hear that a baby was on the way. I know that they shared in the news with us that day, but it would have been great to share the hugs and kisses with them.

Here's to 2011 being a wonderful and blessed year!!