November 02, 2008

been awhile...

Okay, so it's been awhile since I posted.  My excuses are many and varied.  I promise a nice long one soon.  Meanwhile here are some recent events:

emma's 10th birthday party: we celebrated a bit early so we could go to the premiere of High School Musical 3, which, if you have any girls aged 3 through 15, you know is a very big deal.  especially here in salt lake, due to the fact that we've
 all suffered through the filming in our neighborhoods.  emma took three of her best friends and allowed lily and mom to each bring one, and we had HSM shirts, treats, etc.  it was pretty awesome.

halloween: lily posing as the cutest witch ever.  
kathryn, meanwhile, had to go with the High School Musical theme for the candy distribution.  she found this wig buried in the attic dress-up stash and made all the trick-or-treaters say "East High Forever!" before they could get the special HSM candy she found.  As mentioned above, we go a little crazy for HSM around here because it was filmed at my high school.  That kind of overcomes the plot deficits.


las vegas trip: a couple of weeks ago my generous parents took the girls and me to las vegas for the weekend.  we swam for hours and hours, we visited some friends, and saw donny & marie which was entertaining for everyone.  we also went to the siegfried & roy "secret garden" dolphin and white tiger habitat.  here are the girls on the back of one of the tiger statues (they couldn't actually pet the real ones, much to their dismay).


we also thought the 6-week old baby dolphin was a pretty big treat.




other than that, we've been hanging out in the beautiful fall weather (except today, which is gray and rainy), riding bikes, raking leaves, and generally being happy!

4 comments:

lacy said...

Yay! The Williams girls are back! We've missed you. Also, I wanted to make all your pictures bigger by clicking on them, but I was rebuffed. Any idea how to do that? Love you three girls!

madelyn said...

Yay! A new post! I love it. That dolphin is tiny and the girls are adorable... Lily DOES make the cutest witch ever! Glad to see you're back.

frances said...

so glad you are back on the blogging circuit. and i am really sad that i missed HSM3. i haven't seen any of them, actually, but it sounds like i need to get cracking. (also, i totally didn't realize at first that your mom was wearing a wig, and i wondered how in the WORLD she got her hair to do that! i feel much better now that i know the truth.)

em said...

I know I told you this... Lilly made a very cute little witch, but I'm also so very proud of Emma. I really enjoyed our chat that day in the car while you guys went into all for a buck. I hope you'll tell her.