Things I love about Williams

I LOVE WILLIAMS! No, William is not my new crush, it's a quaint little town in Northern Arizona that has the charm of a story book. Just outside of Williams you'll find Deer Farm road which is home to an actual deer farm! And just down the road from that you'll find the quirkiest little ugly cabin you ever saw, right in the middle of tons of trees!

If you've hung out with me or Mel at all you've for sure heard of the cabin. In fact, if you've hung out with us long enough you've probably been invited to use it or come up with us for a weekend or something like that.

I dream of fixing up the ugly little cabin. I think we all do. But time and demands on our lives permit us from being able to do many fixes... Today as I was day dreaming I dreamt of building a big beautiful house next door to the cabin and have the cabin become a bunk house! That would be amazing!!! But it's just a day dream!

Some of the things I love most about Williams is...

1. The beauty all around. Today there were clouds covering the sky and it caused the green in the trees to just pop out! The little red dirt roads that form the square of houses that surround us add dimension to the area. I think if it was just brown dirt it would be cute, but the red is cool! The pines that grow all around are just beautiful. I love them most in the winter when they are covered with snow and the wind blows through them and the snow falls off and makes you think it's snowing again.

2. The atmosphere of relaxation. I want to sleep a lot when I'm here. It might be due to the higher altitude... or it just may be that I am totally relaxed! I take a nap if I want, go for a walk if I want, cook if I want... or don't! I can just do whatever, and I love that!

3. The kids love it! There are cool funky big rocks just above the house and the kids make forts and "stores" and all sorts of pretend things. The teenage boys have been known to sleep out in the rock forts before. Tents have been set up all over when the boy scouts come here. We put the trampoline up and nothing is cooler than to jump on the tramp with the trees around and the cool breeze blowing! Oh to be a kid again!!!

4. The new things we see every time we come. We have been to canyons, been crossed by a huge elk, had lots of cows come to graze in our yard, been shut out by tons of snow, built snow caves and sucked on icicles. Had lots of heat or freezing cold. Yesterday my niece Shelbie said, "lets take a walk to the obsidian rocks." I couldn't think of what she was meaning by that. She told me they were just totally black rocks. I was picturing big black rock like the big rocks that scatter our property and I though that sounded pretty cool so we began to walk... About a half mile later we came to where the dirt road turns to gravel road and Shelbie announces "this is it!" The black rocks were mixed with the white gravel road! I laughed and the kids filled their pockets with "obsidian"!

5. I'm coming to love the town of Williams itself. I have become very fond of Williams. Safeway and I are good friends now... But the other things it has to offer are pretty cool. The Grand Canyon train, the Lord and Lady shop my son loves, the antique shops and the whole atmosphere around that that I love. It's just fun to go spend time there. I am finding I think trains are pretty cool. Someday we are going to take the train to the Grand Canyon, something we have yet to do! We've been to church there many times and even attended Catholic Mass on Easter once. It's a great place!

Well, that seems like a lot of things to love, but as I sit here I know there are so many more little reasons to love it! If you ever need to get away and want peace and quiet, leave your kids home... and come up to the cabin! (or bring them and watch them love it too!)

P.S. The ice caves near Flagstaff... awesome! Flagstaff area has tons of awesome stuff, that's a story for later!!

This is an impromptu talent show! Skits and lots of tricks on the trampoline!
This is Brodric's one handed cartwheel.

The kids had a little skit about a toilet... the bowl is the toilet! Goofy kids!


Baillie is always tons of fun and kinda crazy!

Cousins!


Our trip this year to the ice/lava caves between Williams and Flagstaff. The cave is about 3/4 mile long and at points you have to get nearly to your knees to get through. It was a lot of fun.



Outside the caves there are lots of little rock tunnels the kids found with actual ice in them. They climbed around in them like you would climb around in the tubes at McDonalds play place. This was a better play place than McDonalds!!

Kendahl got her legs stuck in some rocks underneath. Scott helped her get them out.

They loved climbing around these rocks outside the caves.