My Kaylee is Famous!!

Kaylee told me yesterday that a man from the news was at her class at school and did some stuff about weather and that she would be on the 6:00 news.  I figured I would record then news tonight at 6:00 and we could save it.  Well at 7:15 this morning Kaylee comes down stairs and asks if it is 6:00 yet.  I said What!!  You mean you were going to be on the news at 6:00 AM?!?  Oh NO!  We turned on the news but they did not replay it.  Luckily my amazing Hubby was able to find the video clip online!  She is only on at the very beginning in the front, you will be able to spot her if you look for the cutest girl in the room!

Check it out HERE

My week....

Well with all this beautiful sunshine we have spent every day in the great outdoors, absorbing all the sunshine and just relaxing.......

Ok, Ok, I have just had one of those crazy weeks where I swear I have been SUPER busy, but looking back on the week I have not gotten much done (that happens more often than I care to admit)  I spent all day last Saturday painting Kaylee's bedroom, then took a break on Sunday and spent all day Monday (no school for MLK Day) painting Trevor's room.  You might think I am CRAZY for doing the painting while all my kids were home, but my oldest are getting old enough that they were able to watch over the youngest while my SIL Andrea and I locked ourselves in a paint fume filled room and went to town.  I LOVE the way their rooms turned out and I am excited to do Nathan and Ashton's room (I ran out of home improvement budget for the month, so I have to wait to do their rooms til next month)

All day Tuesday was spent still in Trevor and Kaylee's room putting beds, dressers, desks and a limited number of toys (hence the reason I did it while they were at school) back in their rooms.  They were quite excited to see the results and have kept their rooms really clean all week (Kaylee even makes her bed every day before she comes downstairs for breakfast!)  Needless to say the rest of my house suffered because of the 3 straight days in two rooms and it was getting hard to walk around.  I tried to straighten it up, but had other important obligations (aka card night) to attend to, so when Bryan came home from work I said "good luck!" and walked (or ran) out the door.  I came home having my fill of "girl talk", expecting to plan to clean all day Wednesday, when to my utter amazement.....my house was CLEAN!!  Bryan had recorded our favorite show (Biggest Loser of course) and convinced the kids to clean the house!!!  What a WONDERFUL surprise!

Wednesday, I lost my itouch, now when I say "I" lost my itouch what I really mean is someone (Trevor) set it down where Ashton or Nathan could reach it and that is the last anyone saw it :(  We looked and looked all day Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and most of Saturday when.....IT WAS FOUND!!!  Hooray!  

Saturday night we had a little "chat" with a member of the bishopric and found that I was being released as the primary chorister and being called as the second counselor in the Young Womens program (I am pretty sure the primary is not currently on speaking terms with the bishopric over this position change ;) and I am SUPER sad to leave primary, I really LOVED my calling there more than I have any other calling I have had, but I feel good about Young Womens and know it will be a good experience.

After our "chat" Bryan and I went on a double date with Barlow and Andrea (for the first time since they moved here!...I guess for the first time ever)  We had one Young Woman and a 10 year old girl come over to babysit both ours and Barlow's kids.  We went out to dinner and then PARTIED all night long, Ok, we went out to dinner, then went to Target, then to Winco, then rented the movie Ghost Town (we watched it filtered and it was really funny, but unfiltered it has strong language so be warned)

Wow, that does seem like a lot when I write it all down!  Maybe I should take next week off to recover!  

Denial

While I was on my way to pick up my kids from school today, I was pondering on what a beautiful spring type day it was . It wasn't until I was pulling out of my subdivision that I first started noticing the travesty. Someone had decided to play a wide scale prank! They had scattered white powder all over a field running down the side of our subdivision. "That's terrible!" I thought as I wondered who would spend their time ruining someones field. As I continued to drive, I soon realized that this abominable crime was more widespread than I originally thought. All the yards on the way to the school had also been sprinkled with this strange white powder. "Wow! I thought, "I sure hope this is just a simple joke and not something dangerous!" Normally on nice days like today I let my kids slowly get in the car as they say goodbye to their friends, but today, just to be on the safe side I told my kids, "HURRY up and get in the car and shut the door!" As I drove home I was happy to enter my home, safe from crazy "white powdered" grounds. I hope by tomorrow whomever played this joke has undone it and we can return to our regularly scheduled spring type days!

Just Trying....

In an attempt to be young and hip I am changing the look of my blog. I am not sure that I like it and I am still searching for just the right background for me, but in the mean time (this project has sucked up WAY to much time already) I will leave it like this. PLEASE let me know what you think, should I go back to the "old" blog? Hmmm.......

**This is a work in progress...those that left comments Wednesday night saw a different background. Sorry, the longer it was up the more I didn't like it. Not sure if this one is better. Let me know what you think still**

8 Things Tag

So there are a few things I dont understand about this tag, such as, why do you have to post the rules? And why are there only 6 questions instead of 8, wouldn't it make more sense to have 8? Anyway, here goes:


8 Favorite Shows:

1. Biggest Loser (the ONLY show that we work our schedules around)
2. The Office (although we sometimes have to turn it off mid episode)
3. Numbers (I guess the math nerd inside me lives on)
4. The Amazing Race (which they moved to Sundays so I haven't seen the last 2 seasons)
5. Eli Stone (I hear this one might get the ax though)
6. Ellen (I actually NEVER watch this show because I NEVER watch TV in the middle of the day, but the few times I have seen it, it was pretty funny)
7. PBS specials (we dont have cable or I am sure I would be a discovery channel junkie, so PBS specials will have to do for now)
8. The Bachelor (NOT!! We were watching Sleepless in Seattle which was on TV and near the end they played a long sneak peak at the new season of the Bachelor, who happened to be a single dad...just like in Sleepless in Seattle! We were appalled when we realized that the only reason the movie was on was to pimp the new bachelor. That show really makes me ill.)


8 Things I did yesterday:

1. Made German pancakes for breakfast for the entire family (for those of you who know me well know that this is a MAJOR accomplishment, not the cooking part, although that is pretty major too, but the getting up before Bryan leaves and making breakfast part)
2. Cleaned my ENTIRE house AND my Van (that being said, and realizing that it took the whole day the rest of this list will be quite boring)
3. Got Dressed (no comment)
4. Got my kids dressed
5. Downloaded some podcasts (I have not had an ipod for very long but I am hooked on podcasts, they are GREAT!)
6. Made dinner AND did the dishes afterwards (isn't January great, I get so much more done in this month with all my new goals than any other month of the year)
7. Had FHE (it was fun, Trevor gave the lesson out of the new nursery manual which is SO worth getting to have in the home, he didn't need any help at all it was great)
8. Put my kids to bed on time so that I could go to bed on time so that I could get up again in the morning and make breakfast for the whole family, but ended up staying up late to watch True Beauty which was REALLY lame, therefore I slept in this morning and everyone, except Bryan, had oatmeal (grits for Ashton) for breakfast before running out the door)


8 Things I look forward to:

1. Bryan's days off
2. The rest of my family moving here (or at least their visits)
3. Bryan's days off
4. Painting my house
5. Bryan's days off
6. Speaking in Church....Just kidding
7. Did I mention Bryan's days off?
8. Family Road Trips


8 Favorite Restaurants (this one will be REALLY hard because we dont go out often and these are NOT in any order)

1. Sizzler (we dont have one here)
2. Golden Corral (we dont have one here)
3. Olive Garden (only for the lunch special)
4. Most any Chinese place (we dont have much here to choose from)
5. Applebees (I can use my Discover card cash back here)
6. IHOP (kids eat free after 4)
7. (now we are pushing it....) Mexican places (so long as they have fresh made tortilla chips and salsa it will do)
8. Um......would at a friends house count??


8 Things on my wish list

1. A Grand Piano (with a grand piano room in my house to put it in, otherwise a nice electric keyboard that is weighted like a piano would do)
2. A new minivan with the fold down seats
3. A self cleaning garage (and car, and house, and kids for that matter)
4. An enclosed porch with a hot tub (and a nice enough body to go get in it!)
5. A personal interior decorator who supplies all the need decor items
6. A new computer that will record TV for me
7. A personal jet that runs on water
8. A bag of caramel chocolates (or any chocolate for that matter)

8 People I Tag
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8. Um... (guess I am not good at tagging, plus everyone one I know has pretty much done this already)

So there you go 6 questions with 8 answers each. Have a GREAT day!

Happy Birthday NATHAN

Here are some facts about my sweet little Nathan:

He was born in Florida, and became so used to the sun, that he has NEVER in his life had a sunburn. His skin is just as pale as the rest of ours, but he does not burn.

He HATES sprinklers. You would think that with his first year of life being spent at swimming pools and the beach 3 or more times a week he would LOVE the water but no. He could actually swim when he was 18 months old. He would go between Bryan and I, but now he will not get off the steps of a swimming pool, and HATES getting wet by sprinklers.

He is AMAZING on the computer and other electronic devices. At the age of 2 he could not only navigate simple websites like PBS for hours without help, but he could also pull down the past URLs and find different websites to visit, not just random ones, but he would say, I want Nickjr.com and he would pull down the options and pick Nickjr!

He is a medicine junkie. Once he drank an ENTIRE bottle of children's Tylenol. I called my doctor who said I had to take him to the ER. I did, where they asked his weight, called poison control, told me he would be fine, then charged me over $300. ERGH! So the next time when he drank an entire bottle of ibuprofen, I saved myself the $300 and called poison control myself and had them tell me he would be fine. (I swear I keep my medicine out of reach, he is just VERY smart and can open child proof lids!)

He is SUPER observant. Nathan will not only notice when I buy a new shirt, shoes etc, but will comment on how nice it looks on me when I wear it. He will also notice if I change my make up and ask if it is Sunday. Not only that!...but he notices when other people like his Aunt Andrea has on new clothes too. When we go shopping together Nathan will tell me "Oh MOM!! You HAVE to buy that shirt it looks SO good on you!"

(this was what the men (and bunny ear addict) did during the party)

This is a video of his favorite present, no joke. He actually did not get any toys for his birthday, (other than webkinz) He really does not play much with toys, I spent a long time walking around Toys R Us and found NOTHING that I thought he would like, so he got other things, like Cars sheets, a singing Mario toothbrush and his own toothpaste and of course a Wii game.

I LOVE my Nathan and could not imagine life with out his funny comments and his sweet smiles..HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Christmas at the Davis'

(in case your wondering...yes it is spelled Davis' not Davis's or Davises, it is also easy to just say the Davis family, which is what I do most often)

I had a WONDERFUL Christmas. I think it was possibly the most stressful Christmas season for me, but turned out to be a wonderful Christmas day. Bryan worked a lot but was able to get Christmas day and the day after Christmas off. I think it was one of the first times that we just stayed home and didn't do anything. It was peaceful and fun. I usually take some pictures, but was not feeling it so we didn't end up with much, but here is what we have:


On Christmas Eve everyone opens one gift (PJ's of course) The kids finally caught on this year and knew what it was before they opened it (it is about time, we have been doing this for 10 years now) Here is how they turned out:
On Christmas morning the kids woke us up around 6:45 (not to bad, although it is getting earlier every year) They get to break through a paper wall that blocks off the room with the presents (a Davis family tradition that my kids LOVE)

At the last minute we decided to go ahead and wake up Ashton so that he could join in the present opening....he was not to happy about it:

This is the only picture I took during the present opening....at least it was a cute one right?

Here are a few of the themed presents that we got. They got matching pillow animals, hand made from Grandma and Grandpa Tucker:And Matching aprons, hand made from Charlotte and Peter Later. (and yes, that is my awesome vacuum in the back, I figured it was in the blog enough to be in one of our family photos right?)Here is a little video of the breaking through of the wall. When Bryan was growing up they used newspaper for the wall. We don't get the paper though and have a large roll of butcher paper so that is what we use. It works ok.


Hope you all had a GREAT Christmas and have a very happy new year!