KP: Lots of Cousins

KP Writes:

Victoria amazes me with her spirit of adventure. There is never a dull moment among the cousins when she is around. You should also see how great she is with all the babies. She is a natural. And, photographer!! Maybe she can tell me, how did all those pictures of Sud and Trouble get on my camera?!?


Brothers!! (and cousins to Ashton and Mallory) Here you see the greatest oldest brother, AJ, with his baby brother, Archer. AJ, you are such a great example to both of your younger brothers. I am very proud of you. You are also such a help to your mom.



Here is another Williams cousin, Abram. He used to be the baby of the A. Williams family, now he is just plain CUTE!!!


This is a great picture of two of Ashton and Mallory's Williams cousins, Autumn and Gabriel. They were posing for the camera so that A & M could see how much they had grown up since they were last together this summer. Tuffy has done an awesome job keeping us updated with current pictures of all the cousins on his blog. Thank you very much. It bridges the distance gap!! He and Kelda have also made it easy for his 2 and my 2 girls to do 'quickie correspondence' by adding texting and email to their phones. Now when my girls go online in between school subjects they can see what their cousins are up to.

I didn't get a picture of the oldest cousin, Rebecca, on this trip. She wasn't able to come out to the dinner. Seems she took her car for a little spin, or should I say, roll. I am so sorry!! But I am soooo thankful that you were not hurt. I cannot wait to see you at Christmas.

Love,
Aunt Kristian (aka Aunt Christmas)

KP: 3 Short Months Changes Things

KP Writes:

Speaking of babies, while I was in GA I got to see baby Archer. (My next to the youngest brother Alan and his wife, Amy's 4th and youngest child.) Archer was born while we visited GA this summer. I had not seen him since that first day in the hospital. Needless to say, he has grown a bit! Three months at this stage of life is profoundly significant. I wonder what he will look like and what he will be doing in another 3 months when we visit at Christmas?!

Archer is such a happy baby, completely content with whatever. I guess that is the way to be when you are number four!!

Love,
Aunt Kristian

KP: Meet the Newest Family Member

KP Writes:

Most of you already know and many of you have already seen, the newest addition to our family. My 'baby' brother Trace (and his wife Kathryn) had their first baby in September, Trace Alexander Gabriel, Jr. He was born on my mom's birthday and I got to see him in person when I went back to GA earlier this month.

I love technology as we were kept posted of the progression of labor and delivery by phone and saw pictures of him by internet within minutes of his birth. Thank you, Dick for the pictures! But, nothing compares to the delight of holding a little one for the first time. I know there were probably better pictures of him, but I wanted to post one of he and his Aunt Kristian.

Ashton and Mallory, and Uncle Jeff too, cannot wait to hold he and his cousin Archer at Christmas!

Love ya,
Kristian

KP: Infamous HS Girlfriends

Well here is a picture of my infamous high school girl friends. This was taken on our fabulous trip to the beach last month. Only one evening did we venture out of the condo to go to dinner. And, here we are. (Two are not pictured: Denise who needed to stay home with her younger children and me, the photographer!)

Ladies, you gave me the best gift one could give, precious time with you all. I had the time of my life and I love you much!! See you at Christmas.

Love,
Kristian

JP: Blustery Days

When we bought our house here in Grandview, one of the positives (I thought) was that there wouldn't be many leaves to rake this fall. Sure, we had the 5 pear trees, but they didn't have that many leaves. What I failed to realize is that in Missouri/Kansas it doesn't matter how many leaves your trees have. You need to look at how many trees your neighbor has, his neighbor has, the subdivision next to yours has, the next county has, and how many Oklahoma and Nebraska have because all their leaves are coming your way!

The wind is so bad here that we have to tether Mallory to me whenever we go out or else we'll get a call from someone in Illinois or Indiana one day saying they found her plastered against their grain silo. Anyone know where I can get a pair of those boots that the astronauts wore on the moon to help weight her down?

I was attempting to leave the prayer room today and was bounced between the cars in the parking lot like a pinball. I finally made it to the safety of my truck. However, my battle was not over. With both feet firmly planted against the inside wall of of the floor board and seat belt tightly secured, I had to hold onto the door with both hands to keep it from being ripped off the hinges and discovering later that it had actually beat me home!

I later found out that we almost had to make a trip to the emergency room as both Ashton's legs were nearly amputated by the van door as she attempted to get out. Just another beautiful Autumn day in Missouri.

MP: Yikes!!!!!!!!!!

mp writes:

Hello all,
I am somewhat embarrassed of the pictures that were of Ashton and I in her last blog. But I guess they were kinda funny. Anyway I was really going to talk about was how much God loves us. God loves us so much that He would do absolutely anything for us. Also I sometimes marvel at how He love us even when do things that He would not have us do.
So on Saturday we went to Sasha (a friend from intro) b-day and it was a party. I wore a green dress.aaaaaaa is from Hawaii so all of the Skeels were there to celebrate too. Sasha turned thirty on Friday.
After this on Sunday I went to Paige and Cory's (Macy's parents) house for Paige's b-day party. This party was like a mascaraed party and I wore the same green dress as well as a mask that I have from when my mom used it to decorate her cabin one year at summer camp. Well it is late and I need some sleep!!! gtg. lol. (got to go. lots of love :0)
Love always,
Mallory

AP: Goofy sisters!!!

AP writes:

Well, one of my good friends and I used to take pictures together at about 2 am whenever she would spend the night and they were hilarious. So Mallory and I decided to take some funny pictures, not at 2 am, just because. They were so funny I thought I would share them with you!

Just plain crazy...

Look how weird my face looks!

We didn't know what the other one would do so

it was pretty funny we did almost the same thing....

She said, "Act like a dumb frog." So we did....

I said, "Eww...."

You know that we didn't have to think of these faces......

They came naturally...like, "Ready, 1, 2, 3!"

I think I saw something scary....

Maybe I should have looked next to me!

I put my own hand up to my throat and pretended to choke

myself.....she had no idea! Doesn't this look hilarious!

Then I just said, "Look mad!" And that is still my hand on

my throat.....pretty weird picture huh?

I think she was singing.....

But don't I look intelligent!

I smelled something horrible...

And then she smelled her own horrible smell that I was dying of before....

As Kahi Skeele would say, "I made fart!"

But really it wasn't me....but I won't name any names!

Hope you enjoyed the funny pictures!

Just cause these are on the internet, doesn't mean you can use them for black mail later, Uncle Tuffy!!!

Love ya!
Ashton