School's Out for Summer...

I am done with school and have been now for one week! It is wonderful I love being able to stay home and play with Shalece everyday...also get some stuff done around the house that I have put off for way too long!

Summer has just begun but we have already had a full schedule. Yesterday Travis' work had their work party at Lagoon, "it's what fun is"! Travis got four tickets so we took Chad, Travis' little bro, and Melissa, my older sis, and then us. Shalece she is still too little to really go on many of the rides so she just had fun going on the merry-go-round and watching all of the lights and rides and walking around when she could I think the highlight of her night was when we went to eat dinner and she got to chase the seagulls it was pretty funny to watch her! My brother Todd works for the same company so his family was there as well and they took Ashley, my little sis, it was a family affair besides the work party. I will have to post pictures when I get them I took them with Ashley's camera.

Today is my birthday I am the big 25! Let me tell you now that I am a quarter of a century old I think it is all catching up to me. I can't eat as much as I want without it changing my body some how and I can't run as fast as I used to and I can't lift as much as I used to and the list could go on and on but I won't bore you with the changes of my life as time catches up to me!!!! Just teasing, kind of, about all this time talk and me being old! Sure I am a quarter of a century but life is good and I am doing great!

My sisters and my mom took me to Good Things Utah today. It was a lot of fun to go and see how it is taped and what they do during live TV. I do have to admit that I laughed a little and wanted to make some pretty sarcastic remarks during the show because it was and always is a little cheesy but I loved it and it was cool because yep that's right I was a star today...they announced my birthday and showed me on the camera!

No but it was really fun to go and be with my sisters and mom. After we went to lunch if anyone has never heard of Paradise Bakery you have to try it out! It was delicious!

So when I got home Travis had decorated the house and wrapped some presents for me he is very thoughtful and does so much for me I am so lucky to have a husband like him! (I just want everyone to take a look at the wrapping paper though I thought it was hilarious because this was the only paper he could find today! I wonder how hard he looked for the other!)

Tonight we went and got ice cream at the best place of all......Leatherby's.....and when we got home some of my basketball girls had come to decorate as well. They put the signs up and left some cards on the door it was so cute and very thoughtful!

I might not get paid much for coaching but things like this make it all worth it!

Don't hate just because I don't blog everyday.....

Okay sorry it has been a while since my last blog! I have been getting crap from my family like, "told you!" and "Hum...it's been awhile since you last blogged!" Well I have been a little busy. I am so excited though life is slowing down a little bit and I soon get a long needed break from work. The official summer count down is at 8 days and I am only going to be at school for 7 of those days! Yahooooooo! I am lucky to have this job who else gets 3 months out of the year off? Travis always tells me to not complain because I do get those three months off but you know after nine months it is nice to not have to deal with all of the "extra details" that come with being a teacher. A lot of people think that you just go at 7:30 every day teach a lesson and then get to go home as soon as the bell rings but there is so much more than just giving an assignment telling them to read this or watch that. Don't get me wrong I love teaching and I love the students but sometimes I just don't want to be there I would rather be with my little girl!!! At least I have my little sister and little brother-in-law there at Kearns with me. My brother-in-law, chad, he is so cute but he is so shy he never talks to me at school but I have two more years to get him to the point where he will not be shy and just talk to me. Ashley, my little sister, she is a senior so I only have a couple more days with her...I really don't know what I am going to do without her there. I am going to go off for a minute because I am so proud of her. Can I just say that she is an amazing person and she is going to do so much with her life. She is beautiful, smart and talented in so many different things. Here is a little list of what she can do: she sings in the choir, she is a student body officer, she is on the dance company and she is an officer in dance company, she played soccer for four years, ran track two years, basketball for four years, she plays the piano and violin, she has an amazing sense of humor, she took AP, honors, and con-current classes as well. She just amazes me and I love her so much.

Okay last part to embarrass her I was the senior class advisor this year and last Saturday it was senior ball. I want to tell you I am so glad that it all worked out I was a little nervous...they decided to do a dinner/dance and just a couple days before we had only sold about 15 tickets but by the day before we had sold enough to at least break even and it all worked out well. But anyway Ashley looked so beautiful here take a look!

she went with her friend Bryce Parkinson and she had a lot of fun. But I just have to comment that I was so glad that not only was she beautiful but her dress was nice and modest...oh man Travis and I were amazed with some of the girls dresses to say the least some of them almost should have been standing somewhere else...yes I mean the street corner.... instead of at a high school dance. But there were many girls who were dressed in beautiful dresses and they were all very modest. It was fun and we had a blast making fun of some of the kids dancing with the other faculty and staff at the dance.

I scream, you scream...

We all scream for Ice Cream.

Shalece hadn't been feeling well and therefore had not been eating or sleeping very well either. We all know what that means that mom and dad...oh wait just mom doesn't sleep either. So we took her to the doctor and he said get anything in her ice cream, fruit, cookies, vegetable, alcohol, oh wait I mean uh.... Tylenol lots of Tylenol because then she would sleep better! Anyway just teasing about the alcohol part...he said to try ice cream so we followed doctors orders and Shalece being the very independent 17 month old loved the idea that she got to eat ice cream she just thought though that the doctor meant she could do it herself. She is going through this phase where she has to do it and she will not let you help her or she will throw herself on the ground and let out the wild beast inside. (She isn't even two and we are already dealing with the terrible's! Oh joy let me tell you, I can't wait to see what two will bring and we won't even start talking about the dreaded teenage years!)

Although it was very messy I have to say we were laughing the entire time just watching her mouth open to new heights to allow the ice cream to slide in her mouth, down her face, all over the high chair, on the ground, ....the list keeps going so for a matter of your time sake I will just stop at that point.

Shalece is so funny Travis and I are entertained every night just to see what she will try next. She is already a master climber, master mess maker and also a master bath taker. She loves taking baths, until she has to wash her hair then again that wild beast from before comes out and she gets mad that you would even think about making her get her hair wet and stop playing with her cool foam letters.

If we are down stairs and we ask her if she wants to take a bath she gets this look of delight on her face and she runs as fast as her little legs can carry her, with a few falls might I add, traveling up the stairs at a pace I wish I could travel them, then ending up in the bathroom yelling at the tub because she just cannot wait until the water is in, the diaper comes off and she gets to pee in the water and then blow bubbles in it later. Yes, thinking about your child drinking their own urine is disgusting but she loves it more than anything and these are all the joys of being a mother. But, what a wonderful blessing it is! I love every minute and I wouldn't trade my family for anything in the world. Even though it may be hard trying to raise a strong willed, independent, stubborn, feisty little creature I sure am glad she is mine and I love her with everything I have!

I hate snow!

I thought it was March...am I wrong? I just want spring to come I can't stand the snow anymore! I just looked out the window and it is snowing again. Just the other day I was getting excited because our snow on the grass was getting lower from melting. I think at one point this past winter it was about 5 feet high in some piles , no joke! I have been jealous because I think we are the only family that still has snow in our yard, we live on the wrong side of the street so the sun doesn't hit our yard in front. So now we are getting more oh joy it is. At least it isn't cold enough to really stick.

Here Shalece wants to write a little:

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She loves the computer, she will climb up on the chair and start to pretend to type. She is such a big girl in her head! I do have to say she has been so funny lately. The past couple of weeks she will walk around the house singing and dancing. She opens her mouth, gets her tongue ready then she moves it from the roof of her mouth down and she goes, "La, La, La" with her hands in the air, shaking her head and wigles her little bum it is really funny I need to take a video of it and put it on here!

Well not really exciting but I will write more later!

I will prove them all wrong!!!

Okay so I am writing my second blog and I am a little offended by some of my critics. I have already been told that I will not keep doing this blog. Well here I am, Emily Williams, whoa I almost typed Hillam, I am here to stay and WILL keep blogging because I feel this is my mission in life!

Alright I am done with the soap box and if you couldn't read sarcasm I am just teasing about the whole mission in life being a blogger I know that I am going to be a little sporadic at this but I do think it is fun and a great way to keep in touch with some of my friends and family that live farther away.

My life has slowed down a little since basketball is over. This was my second year as head coach of the Kearns High School Girls Basketball team. I do have to say it is so much work and stressful but I love it. I Love my job and the chance to get to work with wonderful kids. I am still helping with track but it is nice because I usually have Shalece with me and she gets to play outside the whole time, she hates when we have to go inside! I love her and Travis so much I will have to write about all the silly things she does. It is so wonderful to be able to be a mother. I love her personality and everything she is starting to do. She is 16 months and changing so fast. She has started giving really good hugs. She wraps her arms around your neck and hold really tight I love getting them from her! She is so funny and loves her dad more than I could ever say. Travis is still in school but he is getting closer to the end. He is still working for a company called Nelson Labs and really enjoys what he does. For some of you that didn't know we bought a house last August, it is a town home and we live just a few streets over from Missy, my sister. It is so nice to have a place of our own. We love the area and have a good ward. It is nice because we live really close to so many different things, it is just two minutes away from Jordan Landing! Well sorry this is so long. We will write more later!

First Time Bloggers

Well my sisters decided we had to get up to speed with all this technology stuff! So here we are Travis, Shalece, and Myself. I know that because Shalece isn't old enough to post she won't be typing and I know that Travis probably won't be typing so it looks like it is up to me! I guess time will tell to see how well I do at this!