Merry Christmas

Well gearing up for the X-mas travel season, as always it is very busy around the old homestead. Work schedule will be normal this week, working all the way through Friday night. The fun begins on Saturday with getting the kids up and car ride north. Our plan is to be out of the house by 8 or so, grab a quick breakfast and be on the road by late morning. That would put us at our hotel in Portage, IN early afternoon and would allow for a few stops along the way. I know the boys would be excited to go for a quick swim in the hotel pool when we arrive so we may try and squeeze that in before heading to visit family in Hobart, IN. Sunday (Christmas Eve) will be spent at Pam and Ron's for the Jursic family Christmas and the boys can play with their cousins. Monday morning the plan is to be up and out by about 7-8am-ish and headed home. We hope to be back in Bloomington for the Williamson Family Christmas by 12 noon at Mom and Dad's (err Grandma and Grandpa's) house and afterwards will proceed to our own house to see if/what Santa brought for the the boys!
Not sure if time will permit me to post anything else before Christmas. If not, everyone please have a safe and happy holiday!

~Aaron

Williamson Christmas

Hi everyone! I added some new photographs over the weekend that include Halloween, Fall, and Christmas related ones. I particularly like the "Ian with Gingerbread House". Ian and I worked on building that gingerbread house on Saturday. It could have had some more decorations but Ian ate most of the spiced gummies before we could decorate with them :-) . We got the idea for a gingerbread house from the 'Other Features' on one of his favorite DVD movies - "Hansel and Gretel". Which is a really cute movie for kids, that stars Howie Mandel, Gerald McRaney, Delta Burke, and Lynn Redgrave. In the "Special Features" section they have a chef demonstrating the creation of the Gingerbread Houses and Ian wanted to make one. What a fun time we had. After Ian and Mommy decorated our Christmas Tree, Ian and I started working on our Gingerbread House. It was a battle keeping Sean and Ian from eating it all before we were finished. We partially succeeded, Ian ate most of the spiced gummies and the kit we used included some cookie ornaments we could decorate and hang on the tree which Sean ate all of them before we could decorate. The house turned out surprisingly well though and as you can see from the photo, Ian was very proud!
Well hopefully we will get a "Southern" Williamson input here, as Cousin Scott down in Tennessee has agreed to author some news letters about life with his family in Tennessee. Scott was a great contributor to our old newsletter before it went kaput, so we look forward to his family updates when he has time to send them in! If anyone else wants to participate or has any ideas to add, please feel free to let me know. This is for us all, so all ideas are welcome and appreciated. Well thats all for now so be safe and take care.

Aaron

First Greeting

Hi everyone from frigid Bloomington. Ok, so its only mid 30's and its December so we can't really consider it 'frigid', but given that it's been in the mid 50's and 60's all winter it really does spoil you a bit. It's been quite a while since I have had any sort of "news letter" available. Since my ISP decided to 'upgrad' my service I have lost many of the features I used before. I could reclaim them if I wanted to use one of their silly little templates but I chose to go with a custom site instead so I hope this blog can serve as a news letter for transmitting information.
The boys are growing like weeds! Ian is almost 1/2 as tall as mommy, and Sean is catching him. Nothing really new to report at the moment on the boys, but they are really getting in to Christmas (at least Ian is) this year. They love the lights, decorations and can't wait until we get time to put our X-mas tree up. Sean is fascinated with the Moon and loves to point it out and tell us what it is. He also is 'pa-paws' side kick and can't wait until grandpa get in the door before trying to climb him. Ian right now is more interested in cars, including the movie "Cars". He also loves watching "Harry Potter", "Monster House" and "Ice Age 2 - The Meltdown".

Well hope every ones Thanksgiving was a good. Thanks for stopping by.

Regards,
Aaron