Our Family's Journey

 I honestly don't even know where to start.  In fact, it's taken me an hour to just write these first few sentences. We're just so thankful. The past few months have been truly the most amazing months of our lives.  Yes, they've been challenging. We could list all of the complications, scares, and discomforts of this pregnancy that we've experienced so far, but none of them even remotely compare to the feelings of complete joy and thankfulness that we feel.  I still can't believe it.  After five years of asking God for children, words don't even describe how excited we are to welcome these blessings into our family.

While there is no way to document every step of our journey, we'd love to share just a few pictures. 

In the beginning, there were a LOT of shots!!!  And this was just the first shipment.;)  

 After daily doctor appointments, shots, and all sorts of other fun, we finally got to see our babies for the first time.  I love this picture...our first family of four picture.;)

This picture just makes me laugh.  I went into severe hyperstimulation and gained over 15 pounds in less than 12 hours. It wasn't my favorite thing I've ever done, but some bed rest and extra IV fluids seemed to do the trick and I was good to go in no time.  We joke that this is my 2 week pregnancy belly. 

 While I was on bed rest, we were blessed with a lot of sweet visitors.  I don't have pictures of all of them, but I thought I'd share a few.  Karson snapped this picture when he came home from work to find Haylee and I eating dinner in bed.:)

 And then sweet Ranger and his daddy brought over deviled eggs to celebrate my eggs.  You can't go wrong with a cute kid, creative idea, and yummy food.:)

 And then a little over a week later, on March 6,  I went to the doctor for blood work.  I wasn't supposed to go until the 7th, but it worked out that I could go in a day early.  We surprised Daddy with a little message when he got home from work.   It didn't go quite as planned because Karson knew our test was on the 7th and he thought I was just being silly. Once I FINALLY convinced Karson that it was for real, he was, of course, ecstatic. 

On the 23rd, we had our first sono and saw that we were expecting TWO precious little ones.:)

 And we all three have been growing ever since...:)

 6 weeks

 8 weeks

The 10 week sono was obviously a little overwhelming to Baby A...:)

 10 weeks

 12 weeks

Twin B

Twin A

Baby B was tired of all the attention!!!

 14 weeks

Thank you so much for reading this very long post!  We love all of you! 

xoxo, Sharon

Is it too late for a Thanksgiving post?:)

We spent Thanksgiving in Kansas at Karson's grandparents' ranch. We had so much fun. As always, Karson took several thousand photographs, so it took me a while to go through them.:) Here is everybody who was there. :)

Karson and his dad had lots of fun taking photos.:)

This is Karson's cousin Kally and her husband Ryan.:)

Karson's brother Korbin and his wife Amy...

The whole Williams' crew...

Kerry and Marilyn, Karson's mom and dad

And, of course, Karson had fun finding things to photograph around the ranch.:)

Happy Holidays to you all! xoxo

Summer Fun

I feel like I need to start this post with a bit of a disclaimer. :) I did a horrible job of taking pictures this summer! We really had such a wonderful summer and I think we were enjoying it so much that I didn't want to stop and take pictures.:) If this were a summary that one of my students wrote, they would not get a very good grade.:) Our summer started with a quick trip to Cali. My dad became an elder at our church in June, so I flew home to surprise him and be there to support him and my mom.

Karson and I then met up in Taos at his parents' cabin for a week of relaxation. We had such a fun trip. Kerry and Marilyn are the best hosts and we did a whole lot of nothing, which was perfect! I don't have any pictures (probably due to the fact that we/I sported the pajama and no makeup look for most of the trip), but Karson thinks he has some somewhere, so maybe that will be a later post!:)

We then went to Cali together to spend time with my family. It was such a wonderful trip.

My parents took us out to a fun little Cuban restaurant for my birthday. Fun times! I love this picture of my mom!

Karson and my mom love to cook together. They made homemade pizza one night. It was delicious!

We also went to Laguna Beach for the Pageant of the Masters. It was so much fun. I highly recommend going to see this sometime if you are ever in Cali in the summer. The only picture I have is of the trolley ride to get the the theatre. :)

Later in July, Karson took me to the coast for a little romantic getaway. We had so much fun spending a little time together, just the two of us.:)

On the way home from the coast, we met up with Elena, one of my high school besties, and her sweet daughter Isabel. We hadn't seen each other in several years since we live so far away, so it was such a special treat. We also got to see another very sweet friend of mine, Kimberly, who also lives on the Cali coast, but I forgot to take a picture! Kimberly, it was so good to see you too!:)

When we got home, Haylee and Eleanor had planned a little German themed birthday celebration for me. Karson and I were in Germany last summer with Matt and Eleanor on my birthday, so she decided to bring Germany to us this summer. Isn't that the sweetest thing ever? And Haylee made the cake...she is so talented! Love these girls so much!

Lane, who has been like a sister to me since First Grade, came into town to visit. We had so much fun! I love this girl!

I know I left so much out, but we really felt so blessed to have such a great summer with family and friends! Here's to a new school year!:)

Lately

I haven't been very good about blogging lately (as you may have noticed:)) SO...here is a hodge-podge of pictures of what he have been doing lately...

Karson's dad, Kerry, came into town and they went to a photography class for the weekend. They had a great weekend and we really enjoyed Kerry's visit! Marilyn, we missed you!

We enjoyed a very fun evening with the Wilks at the Kenny Chesney/Zac Brown concert.

We picked our first asparagus from our garden (told you this was a hodge-podge:)). We planted it two years ago, so having our 2 first stalks was a big event in the Williams' household.:)

My parents came into town from Cali to celebrate Easter with us and it was wonderful as always. The Goodes and Blair joined us for Easter dinner.

Blair entertained us on the piano with his talent as always.

Probably one of the most fun things that we did was eat all of our meals on the patio that my dad and Karson built last Spring. I'm so proud of my two favorite men for working so hard to build us such a beautiful back porch!

A year ago our backyard looked like this...

A little paint...

Lots of working during the crazy snow storm that we had last March ( do you remember that?)

And now we finally get to enjoy it!:)

Hunter and his parents came over and I think Hunter and my Dad had some good bonding time on the patio.:)

Karson also did newborn shots for the first time. Hunter is SUCH an adorable baby...thank you Matt and Eleanor for letting Karson practice his photography skills on sweet Hunter!:) Here are some of my favorites...

See...I told you this post was really random.:)

Thanks for reading!:)

XOXO