Big things have happened...

Ugh...I promised I wouldn't get all in a tizzy with myself for not posting.  Too late. I feel the guilt. I have missed posting the memories. And now I have memory constipation. That's right...you read it right.  Too many things I want to say and not enough space or time.  That's the definition. Look it up for yourself.
So for the sake of my brain, I might just have to start doing short and quick.  I can clear the brain and post the memories.  Like a New Years cleanse.
Okay, let's stop with the analogies.
Mostly, I want to remind myself that I began this blog for our family.  I have been terrible about baby books, scrap books, photo albums, you name it.  I haven't recorded the Millions of things I have wanted to remember.  Thus the blog.  Last year it was one of my New Year's goals to begin writing down the things that are so precious to my heart.  I want to keep those things in a tangible way so that someday I can look back when I realize I have forgotten...or to share with my kids when they are grown all the ways their mother took PERFECT (insert sarcasm here) care of them.
So, here we are another year later and I have limped to the finish.  But it's okay.  the point is that I am trying.  Before I wasn't even attempting.  Now at least I have a point to jump from. So, instead of saying this year I will post more, or I will DO better (because we all know I wont)-I will just continue to try.  I will stay focussed on the root of the issue...preserving the memory.  I hope THIS will be what stimulates writing (also, insert spiritual lesson here: The reason for my own LIFE- Jesus is our REDEEMER!  THAT is the point.  That is the reason I live...not to DO or PLEASE or BE COMFORTABLE or in CONTROL or ACCOMPLISH X number of "good things"...but to let all I do bring glory to GOD because he has saved me from myself, something I could never do in the first place). PHEW.
SO, with all of that said....let's cleanse.

We've had some big things happen in our life the past couple of months.
My life has LITerally changed when my parents and sweet husband found our family a dishwasher.  (When I say FOUND, that's what I mean...as in FREE on craigslist.  You laugh, but when the budget is as tight as ours, you just keep handwashing those dang dishes hoping a miracle happens...like the free section on craigslist).  So, my dad and a sweet friend of the family as well as Kory knocked out our precious cabinets and drawers for the sake of something better....

       

The next big event was selling my little Jetta...we closed a chapter in our book as I waved goodbye to my beloved little car.  It could have been the pregnancy hormones, or the realization that I would soon be crossing into "mom" territory with a minivan, but I might have almost shed a little tear as it drove down the street with it's new owner.  

The man who bought it was giving it to his 16 year old daughter for her birthday.  He was literally driving it from our house to his daughters birthday party.  I might have given him a big red bow for the car and a birthday card for his daughter. 

And lastly, but most importantly, we welcomed one last big thing in our life on November 27th.  Dale Cooper Williams finally made his entrance into the world!  Weighing in at 8lbs 7oz, he definitely was a big thing. Everything went so smoothly, and it's funny how life just kept on moving right along.  

We enjoyed peace and quiet in the hospital for two days and then jumped right back into life at home, getting ready for Christmas, and taking care of the other two kiddos.  

McLean was smitten from the beginning and Hazel just a smile of oblivion.   

He is named after Kory's grandfather Dale Cooper, who we pray that our own Dale takes after.  

Kory's grandpa is a generous, humble, hard-working, caring man that raised 4 kids of his own who tell amazingly hilarious, fun, and crazy stories of their upbringing.  I hope our own little Dale will be so kind to us when he is grown.  Welcome to the chaos, little man.