Aiden's 1yr photo shoot.

Aiden turned one on July 16th. We have had an amazing year with him. He has taught Steph and I so many life lessons. It is such a blessing being a parent. We thank God daily for this little bundle of joy. Aiden is the happiest baby I have ever known, many people would agree. He is always smiling and laughing. He spends his days running around, yes, I said running. He loves playing with Jake our chocolate lab, as well as making Mommy chase him around. Please enjoy these pictures that Becca Rich took for us. WE LOVE YOU AIDEN!!

I will post some pictures of his 1st birthday on the next Blog. I hope you enjoyed these, if you are luck enough to know Aiden you would know the joy he brings to everyone!

Here are some videos that make me Laugh Out Loud.

I know everyone has seen this, but, it is very funny!!


I love my fellow Koreans!!


Same dude different song!


Paul Lekakis sure knows how to woo the ladies...Or guys.


This is the Obama I can dig!


All I can say is RIP MJ & GOLIMAR!!!!!


Ghetto Italian Food?? You decide!


Chris Rock describes it so beautifully
(*WARNING*VERY GRAPHIC MATERIAL)


WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?OK!


I love this show, this is only a portion of my favorite episode


Love me some Arj


I love Bollywood!!


Alright, now that I have wasted your time. I hope you enjoyed a little bit of what makes me laugh. There are plenty more to come, I just didn't want to overload you with giggles!!

LOST Finale

It had to be the most excited I have ever been for a TV show. Finally a show that made you really think. A show that integrated fantasy and real life situations so well. Yes, I am talking about LOST. Many years ago I was a total Anti-LOST person. While in college there was a group that met every week to watch the show and than discuss its deeper meanings, due to this strange following I was automatically turned off. Normally when that many people are into something it isn't something that I like. I mean seriously, this seemed like one of the pathetic Twilight or Harry Potter followings..<>WARNING TANGENT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN<> Okay.... Twilight & Harry Potter is for kids. If you have your license than you should not be reading this crap, and if you are an adult and don't have a license or live in your parents basement than I guess it is OK for you to read it. I apologize for that tangent and I also apologize to any friends of mine that I offended, but don't worry I am confident that you will rise above young adult readings :)

Back to LOST. So leading up to the season finale I felt very bitter and very sweet. Bitter due to the fact that my lustful relationship with LOST was ending, more so LOST was breaking up with me and no amount of love notes or flowers was going to stop it. Sweet because I also felt like a prisoner to its clever writing and attention to detail. I also felt like a prisoner because it consumed so much of my thoughts, I mean is it wrong that I wanted to name Aiden after a character of LOST? I think the only reason I didn't was because I was too afraid that in the end that character may have been the bad guy the whole time :)

So I along with my wife Stephanie, Chris & Ellie Carr set out to make this finale a hit. With easily over $600.00 invested in the party we decorated each room of my house to a LOST theme. I bought all the Wild Boar I could find. We had a Dharma training room with training videos and binders, a Dharma kitchen and even replicated the caves where we watched it, not to mention killer invites. What was on the menu you ask?

The LOST Menu

>Wild Boar sausage style with a caramelized onion and an Island style glaze.

>Caribbean style meat balls

>Breaded shrimp with a lemon white wine reduction sauce

>Fried Rice (thank-you Rich's)

>Jerk style slow roasted pork ribs(thank-you Evarts)

>Island Ceviche(thank-you Carrs)

>Homemade Guacamole(thank-you Clarks)

>Amazing exotic fruit spread

>Various side dishes

All of this you can see on my Facebook page. We were set, with about 14 people in attendance, oh we had rules for watching the finale:

Rule 1. No talking during LOST
Rule 2. No bathroom during LOST

Rule 3. Absolutely no talking during LOST

We all sat there in anticipation. What were we going to find out? I had so many questions. It was like in a relationship when the other person tells you we need to have a "talk" Was it going to be good? Was it going to be bad? Well LOST, I was prepared for anything. Just give it to me. For 180 minutes it just kinda gave it to me. It was unclear if we were over. I needed more, I needed specifics. It felt like it was a completely different storyline after all these years.

I was very unsatisfied! They answered very little about a lot of things. Here is what I gathered, I believe that there was a Purgatory. Not the island like many of us thought, but the flash sideways or the alternate lives was the purgatory. See the crash did happen, they did survive, some did return and went back to the island. They died on the island and went on to live in the spiritual world or purgatory type world, which we thought was the alternate reality. In this purgatory they could not move on until they had "let go" Notice how Locke told Jack that he hopes that someone can do for him what he did for Locke? He did not mean the surgery, he meant the fact that he was able to let go. Also, when Jack said he had to go and see his son Locke reminded him that he didn't have a son. Also Jack did end up with Kate. Sawyer ended up with Juliet. Sayid ended up with Shannon. Charlie ended up with Claire, etc. You get the point.

Once everyone was ready and was able to "let go" they were able to move onto the church area where they could all meet. Jack's dad did tell Jack that this place wasn't real it was created by you guys. Jack's dad also stated there "here there is no now" because "this place" does not really exist. You than find out they are all dead. They had to get their closure, they had to let go before they could move on. We also have to let go of "time" We do not really know what the time gap was between each one was that made it to the church. For example. Hurley and Ben were the ones to take over the island when Jack died. We saw nothing of them taking care of the island, what we did see was Hurley telling Ben he was always a great number 2 and Ben tells Hurley he was always a great number one. This insinuates that they did there job for some time and now Hurley was done and he moved on. Everyone died at different times and at different times everyone "let go" Notice how Michael wasn't at the church? He was a bad man!

Here is my biggest issue. What the crap about the island? They never really answered anything about it. What was the real purpose of the island? What was REALLY behind the Dharma initiative? Why was Walt so special?? I mean the list goes on.

I really feel like this was an easy route for them. I would have been OK with the inaccurate meaning of life and death if they would have answered some questions about everything else, but they just left too much out. After all this time spent on the island, Dharma, Jacob, etc. one would think they would give some real closure. One of my biggest complaints was the sad reality of what people believe is life after death and how to achieve it. I wont go into it but LOST was displaying a poor explanation of this. Really Christian Shepherd? This is the guy who brought the finale all together? This poor excuse for a man and father who is a raging alcoholic which ended up being his killer. The play on words with his name is just pathetic to me.

They should have had one more episode to answer all island questions than the finale, I am not too sure why they didn't. Also instead of almost having an hour of commercials they could have answered some stuff.

I do not believe any "REAL" LOST fan can be really satisfied with the ending. If you are a real fan and you say you are satisfied I would just like to tell you it is OK to admit you were a little duped and you can LET GO and mourn with us who are honest with ourselves. All that being said I am still a fan, I am still in love with you LOST, I just did not like how you ended it with me. We do not have closure. There will always be a place in my heart for you. I know I sound very obsessed and very single, but I am not. I am just overly analytical. I will say with the pre-party we had it was the time of my life. Great friends having a good time.

Aiden Update!!

Ok, so man, oh man is he growing up. He is sooo cute and so much fun. He is crawling and baby talkin like crazy. He is now moved to eating food including; oatmeal, fuits, & veggies. We make our own baby food using organic ingredients which is way good for him and really economical. He is now 6 1/2 months.

He has 2 teeth that have grown in the bottom and 1 tooth coming through on the top. He is such a happy baby. He gets to stay home with Mommy and play and learn all day long. He is such a blessing to Stephanie and I. We are so greatful for all the things that God has done for us. Aiden has put such a new perspective on life. Every second I am away from Stephanie and Aiden is so painful. I need to win the World Series of Poker so I can just stay home and be with my family.

LOL.. Wasn't buying beer, same
aisle as the cheese.

Update

Just thought I would update people on how things are going. And so..

Things are great. The house is coming along. I had a long road to try and get the yard in better shape, it looked like the Sahara before. After some lawn treatment it is coming along. Check out the before and after.

Aiden is doing so great. Growing so fast and interacting so much with us more and more eachday. We love him to death!! He is the best thing to happen to us, It is such a joy to have such a wonderful family. I cannot wait to get home to see my wonderful wife and amazing boy! He is such a happy baby, always laughing, always smiling. Check out some of his more recent pics. I love his Halloween costume!

So that is life so far, when I have more time I will have more info and more pics for you. Stay tuned.....

My Family.

I met my wife 6 years ago at college in Portland, Oregon. We started dating on Halloween, my favorite holiday :)


(Us 6 years ago)


On February 17 2007 I proposed to Stephanie at the same location I asked her out. I had a couple of my friends hide and take pictures of the proposal like a couple of paparazzi. It was classic and even more so having it secretly photographed by my friends.



(That is the exact spot 3 years earlier where I asked her to be my girlfriend)



October 19th 2007 we were married in Seattle. Had and amazingly beautiful wedding. It was so great to have our family and friends join us for such a wonderful occasion. My bride was the most beautiful of all brides in the world.






We went on the most amazing honeymoon ever. We stayed at a 5 star hotel on Waikiki called The Halekulani. It had a private beach. This place was over the top amazing. Obama would stay here when vacationing. I am assuming he will be staying somewhere else from now on.


(One of the pools we had) (Fresh fruit for breakfast plus a guest)

Did a lot of cool sight seeing and went on some crazy adventures which include taking a wrong turn on our mopeds and ending up on the freeway. Also, ran into one of our favorite UFC fighters at a little breakfast joint, pretty random but awesome.

Our honeymoon was a blast. 

Our first christmas we made an addition to our family! We got a chocolate lab!!

 
 

About a year and a half goes by and I get a call from Steph and work, she asks me if there is any way I can come home for a lunch break. She tells me it is because she just found out we are pregnant.

Words could not explain the joy I felt when we found out. We were so excited for this big news. We both really wanted to be parents. We were specifically trying at that moment in time for children but we felt so blessed that we did.

I made sure of it that I went to every appointment she had. The Ultrasounds were amazing. God is so good and wonderful about the creation of life.

So big things were happening. Of course we went into freak mode a couple of times about being new parents. One thing we knew for sure is we wanted to be in a house before HE arrived. Had about 9 months thought it would be easy. Not so much.

We looked for months, even made offers and a few houses. Finally a month and a half before his due date we made and offer on a beautiful home and they accepted. We filled out paper work and they said it was just a matter of processing the paperwork. A week goes by, still processing. 2 weeks go by still processing. 2 more weeks go by and one week till the baby and no house.

(About 6 months)                              (About 6 days away from birth)

Finally, the day we have been waiting for for 9 months. July 16 2009 Aiden Anthony Willams was born. 7 pounds 6 ounces, 2o inches long.

Our little guy did have some respiratory issues which kept us and him in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

Thank the Lord for technology and amazing staff, after a week our little guy pulled through and was perfectly fine. We were in there for 7 days which felt like a million years. Only once did we step outside. We stayed in the hospital and visited him every 2 hours for about an hour and a half.

We just kept waiting for the day they let us go home. Everyday he was getting better and better. The nurse comes in one morning and says how would you like to take him home?! We were so excited. We got to take our tough guy home after a week.

We are sitting at our place with some family around so glad to be out of the hospital when our agent calls and says.... Guess what?! I have the keys to your new house!! Holy cow we were excited. Aiden lived approximately 2hrs at our old place before we started moving into our beautiful home.

Things have been great. Aiden is about 3 weeks old now and as cute as can be. Steph & I are doing great, staying busy with the new house and new baby. God is good.