Dear Elder and Family

This has been a great week. First we met you at the airport with Clay and Sabrina. It was fun to see you. It was really important for Clay and Sabrina. After the airport, we took the whole family including Clay and Sabrina, to Dennys for breakfast. The service was a little slow, but we had a great time.

The following are pictures of the elders and a young couple from Sabrina's ward that set in on the various lessons. I like the elders and the young couple. On Sunday we went to Sabrina's Ward for the confirmation. I thought it was all exciting. There was a neat feeling in Sacrament meeting. She has a neat Bishop and Stake President. I thought the day was perfect except that Josh is being a little possive and that is very hard on Sabrina.

The next is a picture of Sabrina and me just before she was baptized. It was a great experience. I think Sabrina will be a great member of the church. I hope they assign her to the young women.


This evening we had the family over for supper except for those out of town. We have decided to do an annual Thompson day at the Temple. We will plan it when most can come.

McCormack, your mission is blessing us all. Thank you for the sacrifice. I can't tell you how much love we all felt for the missionaries that taught Sabrina. I think there will be an eternal conncetion.

We had Jazz tickets, but after the Baptism, Kathy and I were too tired to go. So McSean and Kara went. The Jazz were not very good and Koby was sensational. Even so they had a great time.

We love and miss you. Love the Lord. We are all blessed here. I am going to figure out how to better use the blog. But for now, this must do.

Love Dad

Other Miscellaneous Pictures

Recipe From Marisa

Hey Everyone,

Here are two recipes that we used this week that I really like. These enchiladas are soooo good. And I dream about this sauce for a vanilla cake.  Enjoy! Thanks for all the phone calls about Clyde too. We have a really nice family. Love you lots, Marisa

YUMMY GREEN CHICKEN ENCHILADAS

1 lb. Chicken

¼ cup Sour Cream

1 Onion Chopped

4-5 Green Chilies Roasted

1 Big can Las Palmas Green Enchilada Sauce

Flour Tortillas

1 can Cream of Chicken Soup

Colby Jack Cheese

  Cook Chicken and shred. Put back in the pan and add cream of chicken soup, and a little milk if too thick.  Add onions and chilies.

Simmer 20 minutes. Place green enchilada sauce on pan – roll tortillas with chicken mix and add cheese inside. Cover with enchilada sauce and cheese.

 Bake at 350° covered for 30 minutes.

HOT LEMON SAUCE FOR CAKES

2 cups Water

1 cup Sugar

2 ½ Tbsp Corn Starch

2 Dashes of Salt

2 Tbsp Butter

3 Tbsp Lemon Juice

Grated Lemon Rind

Mix all of these ingredients in a heavy saucepan.  Stir constantly over medium heat with a wire whisk. When it comes to a light boil, it is ready. Spoon the mixture over a yellow or vanilla cake. The cake does not have to be home made, a Betty Crocker cake mix is just fine!

 

 

CLYDE, EL CLYDO, CLYDIE, CLYDE DOG, CLIPPITY

Hey Everybody!

Our cute Clyde dog died this morning. He was sick around 2 a.m., and I could tell he was not going to make it long. After I took him out at 2, he never could make it back upstairs. He was still very sick at 6 a.m. with really labored breathing. He had enough energy to go outside, but never came back in. Thank heavens the kids were around. We brought out his bed, a bowl of water, and Cora gave him the coat off her back. He got up 3 different times, to find the perfect place to die. He found it at our gate. When he died at 7:15 this morning, he was laying in the only spot in the yard, where there was sun. It was really beautiful and super sad. There have been a lot of tears in our house and in Minnesota (Rick is there for business). 

I had to do something that I have never wanted to do, and that is take care of a dead dog. But, since it was Clyde, it felt more like a privilege than a burden. We had a nice memorial for him and sent him off with lots of love.

Clyde was such a part of our family that we really wanted to share our loss with all of you.

Lots of love, and thanks for your phone calls. It has helped tremendously. Marisa, Rick, Cora, Lincoln, Brigham and Lydia

My Dear Family

Well I decided to blog but it did not work out so well. I spent most of the evening just figuring out how to get on the blog and then the rest of the time trying to upload pictures. It was unpleasant. And I never did figure out how to do it.

We go to see Corm in the morning. He leaves at 7:00. I hear they discourage seeing the missionaries off, but it is hard to imagine that he will be at the airport and that we would not go to see him.

Sabrina is going to be baptized on Saturday. She is pretty excited. I figured out how to print photos today, so that part was good. I have a photo of Sabrina at the temple which I printed.

Somehow I just found a way to upload a picture. It is Lydia when she was 16 years old. I love this picture. Lydia was a wonderful person. She was so loving and full of fun. I really miss her.



This is a picture of Kathy and I and John Vogel at dinner in New York. We ate at the Bulls and Bears Steakhouse in the Waldorf Astoria. John is doing well and said hi to everyone. We had last years photo album and went over every picture with him. He knows you all by name and asked lots of questions. He looks good, but sort of struggles a little bit with life. It was fun to see him again.
This is a picture of Uncle Lee and Sally. Lee looks quite different and he has a hard time talking. But his eyes were alert and still full of fun.





This is a picture of my cousin Dick. He is Marion's son. My dad's older brother. He lives in Bountiful, Utah. I think he has 4 children; all girls; but my memory may be wrong. Thanks to Marisa we are making contacts with the Thompson family. We are hoping to have a family reunion in late August of early September. Is there a date that works better for you?




I tried to upload some of the other images, but for some reason the computer says it is a DO file and it will not let me upload. I will get better. Maybe Savanna can help. I intend to blog every week.

Love, Dad

Alecia is blogging...just not here...

Hi everyone! How fun that Kara continues to keep us posted on her life. Thanks for always contributing Kara. At least you can feel comfort in knowing that your lonely posts are always read. Given that I never contribute to this blog, it may come as a shock that I have started a new blog. It is not a Williams family blog...baby steps for me.

I have decided to start a blog with tips for keeping your house clean and orderly. I would never say that I have this completely figured out, but I do enjoy cleaning, so figured that if I have something to say, I should just say it. So, I started a blog. It is called "real cleaning for real women." Here is the link: http://realcleaningforrealwomen.blogspot.com

We'll see how it goes. Check it out and please let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions...or even criticisms. Let me know!!!

Lots of love!
Alecia

Pics

Family,

I am thinking of changing the name of this blog to "Kara's Blog". I'm not sure if anyone reads these other than me -although I'll give a shout out to Joy Millet because I think she reads these too.

Life is really good here. The rain has stopped for the most part and the summer fog has not rolled in yet. The days are clear and sunny but the wind is crazy cold. Still, I'll take cold, windy and sunny over rainy or foggy.

A couple of weeks ago I took Matt to "law prom". It was fun, but typical -lots of drinking, loud music, stuffy room. It was at a club and it was Matt's first visit to a club. We had a good time but it was definitely time to leave after an hour. The picture above is from law prom.

A couple of Sundays ago Matt, his roommate Chris (who is so crazy similar to our brother Christian that it freaks me out sometimes), and I went down to Baker Beach and walked around. It was a beautiful day. We saw a few dead jelly fish washed ashore, skipped rocks and Matt and Chris tried to lift very large rocks over their heads. I took pictures, but haven't taken the time to put them on my computer and I am feeling too lazy to do that right now.

Easter Sunday was really nice. My friend Caleb, from school, attended church with me and then stayed with us for the afternoon/evening for Easter dinner and hanging out. It was a nice day. We had a bunch of people from the ward over to Matt's house along with one of his co-workers and Caleb. Matt cooked a ham and scalloped potatoes and I made a huge salad and fruit salad. I was supposed to make homemade rolls, but my roommate was hogging the mixer Sunday morning so I scrapped that plan and used some Pillsbury rolls I had on had instead. I still want to try the roll recipe since I bought all the ingredients. Maybe after finals I'll give it a whirl.

That's about all I have to report. Matt's probably driving back to SLC with me Memorial Day weekend and then will fly back to San Francisco. I could fly, but I think the drive will be fun for us -and it will cost only about $100 more to drive than to fly and ship all my stuff home. And I get Matt for a couple more days -well worth the extra money I think.

I love you all!

Kara