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[Update] When we will get our new appliances?[Update] When we will get our new appliances? UPDATE: After twice inquiring as to when our appliances would be delivered and twice being pushed out another month; I decided to file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. I just felt that an estimated delivery date in mid March for appliance we purchased in November was unacceptable. Within...

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[Update] When we will get our new appliances? UPDATE: After twice inquiring as to when our appliances would be delivered and twice being pushed out another month; I decided to file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. I just felt that an estimated delivery date in mid March for appliance we purchased in November was unacceptable. Within...

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Thanksgiving / Christmas CardThanksgiving / Christmas Card Greetings to all friends and family! In late October a family friend took some great family photos for us. After looking at them I told Kerri that we should send out Thanksgiving cards this year. Kerri agreed and I created the card and started printing. We then decided that maybe we should include...

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Fall PicturesFall Pictures From Fall 2011 Wow, I really need to do a better job of updating this site. Everything these days usually just gets posted to Facebook, but as my Mother keeps reminding me: "Not everybody is on Facebook!" Back in October one of Kerri's good friends offered to take some updated family pictures of...

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Winter 2011Winter 2011   So it's been awhile since I updated this site. I knew it had been awhile, but I didn't realize just how long it had been until I saw that my last post was dated December 16th! So what has been going on over the last four months? Not much and a lot. It's been a long cold and snowy winter,...

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[Update] When we will get our new appliances?

Posted by Neal at 10:32 am on December 28 2011
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UPDATE: After twice inquiring as to when our appliances would be delivered and twice being pushed out another month; I decided to file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. I just felt that an estimated delivery date in mid March for appliance we purchased in November was unacceptable. Within days of filing the complaint we had our dishwasher and microwave. Now after informing the BBB that...

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Thanksgiving / Christmas Card

Posted by Neal at 1:04 am on December 02 2011
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Greetings to all friends and family! In late October a family friend took some great family photos for us. After looking at them I told Kerri that we should send out Thanksgiving cards this year. Kerri agreed and I created the card and started printing. We then decided that maybe we should include a letter letting some of our more distant friends and family how we are doing. Unfortunately, life set...

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Fall Pictures

Posted by Neal at 12:04 am on December 02 2011
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From Fall 2011 Wow, I really need to do a better job of updating this site. Everything these days usually just gets posted to Facebook, but as my Mother keeps reminding me: “Not everybody is on Facebook!” Back in October one of Kerri’s good friends offered to take some updated family pictures of us. She had probably been to our house and felt bad the we really didn’t...

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Winter 2011

Posted by Neal at 12:08 am on April 04 2011
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  So it’s been awhile since I updated this site. I knew it had been awhile, but I didn’t realize just how long it had been until I saw that my last post was dated December 16th! So what has been going on over the last four months? Not much and a lot. It’s been a long cold and snowy winter, so we spent a lot of time inside looking at Rylan. Rylan is the one thing that has changed...

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Merry Christmas 2010

Posted by Neal at 1:28 am on December 16 2010
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Merry Christmas to all of our friends and family!! This year we are distributing our Christmas card electronically. It saves on postage and maybe a few trees if people opt not to print it. Click on the image to see the card in full size or to print.

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Jadyn’s Birthday Part 1

Posted by Neal at 11:08 am on November 30 2010
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While home in Pipestone for Thanksgiving we celebrated Jadyn’s birthday so the Williamson family could be with her. My bother captured a great video of Jadyn opening her gift from my parents. Later, Neal

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Rylan Baptism

Posted by Neal at 12:04 am on November 01 2010
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On Sunday October 24th Rylan was baptized at our church. We had a nice time and enjoyed seeing family and friends. Once again having a sister-in-law who happens to be a great pro-photographer paid off again. You can check out the pics by clicking the picture. Later, Neal

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Family Update / Rylan Announcement

Posted by Neal at 1:11 am on October 17 2010
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For those of you who may have been wondering what happen to the updates on this page, it turns out that 3 kids take a little more work than 2. Rylan has been a good baby and Kiya and Jadyn have been very good big sisters. After seven weeks I think we are starting to get into a pretty good grove. We even managed to get the whole family dressed up for the ECFE (Early Childhood Family Education) Halloween...

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Pictures of Rylan

Posted by Neal at 11:19 pm on September 01 2010
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On August 28th at 7:12 AM, Rylan Cole Williamson arrived. He was 6 lbs. 12 oz. and 19″ in length. To see pictures of Rylan click here.

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Baby Rylan Arrives

Posted by Neal at 10:06 am on August 28 2010
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Baby Rylan arrived this morning at 7: 15. He weighs 6 lbs 12 oz and is 19 inches long. Mom and baby are doing fine. I’ll post more later

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Poll: When will Baby Rylan Arrive?

Posted by Neal at 4:13 pm on August 22 2010
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A rough and long pregnancy is starting to draw to an end. For the last 36 weeks we’ve been on a never ending roller coaster. We’ve endured worse than expected morning sickness, unexplained bleeding, a short cervix, strick bed rest, a cerclage, back to no bed rest, back to a shortening cervix, modified bed rest, negative pre-term labor tests, a positive pre-term labor test, falling blood...

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Child #3: Week 32

Posted by Neal at 11:39 pm on July 30 2010
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Until yesterday (7/29) things had been pretty quiet since my last post. However, at yesterday’s doctor’s appointment things seemed to go down hill fast. I won’t go into much detail, but Kerri’s cervix shorted again, her blood platelets dropped and she tested positive for being at a higher risk of pre-term labor. Not a great appointment.  Since that time we have seen a...

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Child #3: Update Week 29

Posted by Neal at 4:48 pm on July 06 2010
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If you remember the last time I posted anything about Child #3 (Officially Rylan) I said things were going very well and I wouldn’t be posting for awhile unless things changed. Do you remember that? Well, things have changed. At Kerri’s 27 week appointment her doctor felt like Kerri’s cervix might be thinning (preparing for labor), which is not good at week 27. An ultrasound later...

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11 Days in May: Results

Posted by Neal at 11:31 pm on June 10 2010
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Well the Miles for Megan race came and went a couple weekends ago. The race went pretty well. I my time wasn’t great (32 min & change), but at least they didn’t need a calendar to time me (sundial worked fine). There’s another 5k in town in mid-July that I’ll try and do a better job preparing for. Maybe I can turn in a more respectable time. Neal

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Child #3 Weeks 23, 24 & 25

Posted by Neal at 11:26 pm on June 10 2010
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I’ve fallen a little behind in updates so here is what has been going on. Not much. Given the excitement we had at the beginning of May, not much is a good thing. Kerri has had a couple of doctor’s appointments and another ultrasound and everything is looking very good. We are just in a waiting period right now. Kerri is fully into maternity clothes now, and the belly is growing nicely....

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RE: “Technology as Perpetuating the Buffered Self?”

Posted by Neal at 12:10 am on May 29 2010
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A friend of mine recently wrote a blog post called: “Technology as Perpetuating the Buffered Self“. The main idea of the piece (if I understood it) was basically that technology, specifically social media, allows us to disengage with the real world around us and instead live in our own sort of individual worlds. Those worlds are created in large part by what we think and who we believe...

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11 Days in May: Day 9

Posted by Neal at 9:28 pm on May 28 2010
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This morning I went for my final run, before Sunday’s race. It wasn’t good. I clearly needed more than 11 days to prepare. Oh well, I’ll make it though the 5k….eventually. My major problem this morning was that my calves kept tightening up to the point I thought I was going to pull them. This seems to be a reoccurring problem for me. Clearly, I need to do a better job stretching...

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Baby Name Results

Posted by Neal at 1:19 pm on May 28 2010
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After more than a week of voting on what we should name Baby Boy Williamson. Cole has a commanding lead. Rylan is sitting securely in second. Ryker and Zane are tied at the bottom. When Kerri and I first started thinking about names Cole was a the top of the list. However, after a few days of trying it out , it just doesn’t seem to work for us. We’re really not sure why, but for whatever...

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Swagger Wagon

Posted by Neal at 4:46 pm on May 27 2010
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This is for all the minivan driving parents out there that have had to deal with the weird looks they get from those who don’t understand the shear awesomeness of having a minivan when you have kids. Our “Swagger Wagon” might not be a Toyota Sienna, but it still rocks. Enjoy

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Welcome to the New WilliamsonWeb

Posted by Neal at 12:18 am on May 26 2010
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For the first time in well over a year the WilliamsonWeb page has underwent a major redesign. The new site design, based on a modified version of the RedTweet WordPress template, adds features that will make viewing and following the site easier. Site Features: Featured Posts Section: At the top of the home page you will see a section that highlights certain posts for easy viewing. The section will...

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