Williams - Snow Day & Ashley's B-day

We woke up to a blanket of snow on Thursday and do you know what that means, especially in Oregon, No School. It doesn't matter how much snow, they always cancel school. The kids wanted to go out right away at about 7am. I said lets wait a little while maybe around 10am. But then I decided that it didn't matter what time they went out it was going to be cold either way why not let them have their fun so they went out early. Good thing too, because it was practically melted by 10am.

It was Herb's sister Ashley's Birthday today (Feb 27th). We had a family birthday dinner at our house and Sage made the cake pretty much by herself. I helped her prepare it to bake it and then she iced it and even did the beautiful flowers on top. She is amazing and I love teaching her how to cook at such a young age. Isn't it beautiful?

Williams - Close Call!!!

This is how close our house was to burning down this last week. But unfortunately, if it continued to burn, the smoke alarm would have been useless since that is where the fire began. The power went out one morning in two rooms and I couldn't figure out why so I tried flipping a breaker and nothing worked. Herb came home at lunch at checked it out and we couldn't figure it out. Then our friend Brett (electrician) came over and looked around and took apart every outlet. It was quite hilarious, I was feeding the missionaries that night and our house was trashed since furniture was moved around to get to outlets. Brett and Herb still couldn't find the problem so they called it a night and we went another day. The next evening Brett came over again and found that the smoke alarm had caught on fire and proceeded to tell us how extremely lucky we are. We are blessed!

Williams - Sewing Spree

I have been on a sewing spree lately. I have made 6 car seat covers, 4 skirts, and working on 2 tablecloths. I love to sew. It is even more exciting when the item you work on turns out as cute as the matching skirts that I made for Nora and Sage. My next sewing project will be a long white skirt for myself because I am in need of a new Temple dress, the one I have now is not my style or personality. Herb's mom gave me her old serger and it works like a champ. Love it.