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HI!!!!

So, of course its been a few weeks since I posted anything new. What can I say, schools out, and we are busy. We have had a great couple weeks though. Lets see, Cori turned 12!! Can you believe it??!! I can't. I am still in shock. She is a beautiful girl and I love watching her mature and turn into a young lady. We also took a trip up north, to visit Kim and Joe and meet Zachary. He is a cutie. Want to check out some pics of him and the family visit Kim and Joe @ josephandkim.blogspot.com We had a great time up there. and the only pictures I took the whole

time were these...

Gage was a tired boy!! But he loves his bottle!!

anyway, on to the important stuff.

Last night I weighed in at weight watchers. And I am down another 2 pounds. I was so excited. Because, Jared was rubbing it in my face in the morning that he had lost 2 pounds and he was going to win the days competition. Sorry buddy, I lost two pounds too. HA. I am determined to win. If nothing else. hahahaha. I am really motivated to lose the weight. I know it isn't going to be easy. I thought for sure this week wasn't going to show in my favor, no exercise, and not eating the greatest because we weren't at home, and then we were traveling. I never eat good when I travel. But it turned out okay. That just means that next week will be even better.

WOOHOO for me.

Thanks for listening to me celebrate.

Hope you have a most wonderful, beautiful happy day.

10 pounds!!

At the end of March I went and joined weight watchers. I decided I was ready to commit myself to better eating habits and more exercise. It has been 7 full weeks, I am starting week 8. I am down a total of 10 pounds!!!! WOOHOO. I am enjoying my food, and looking for ways to get more movement into my crazy days. We are all benefiting from me being on weight watchers. I am trying to have healthier food in the house, skipping the junky isles and buying some food that is fat free. I think it is starving Jared, but otherwise we are doing well. We are in a competition- who can lose 20 pounds first. I think I am winning as of last night. We'll see how it goes!! We'll keep you posted.

Happy Mothers Day. Love you lots. Hope you had a wonderful day. I know I was really spoiled. I got to sleep in, Jared made me an omlette for breakfast-that was a special treat. I got to open my presents. And my kids each made me cards at church. I took a little nap this afternoon, and Jared made dinner. The kids cleaned up. Pretty nice day.

Dancing with the Stars

Last week was our school's rendition of Dancing with the Stars. The kids have been practicing at school for months. The theme was "The Beat of Happy Feet". The Kindergarten did the march of the penquins. Tanner has a great tshirt with a mom and baby penguin on it. He also made a big penguin that they used to march around the football field. Sydney's grade did a Virginia Reel Dance. They had a great time. Each girl was across from a boy, and danced with that boy. Except for my daughter, who for some reason was dancing with her best friend, instead. Someday they will like boys!! :) Kathryn's grade did the Cha Cha Slide. Out of all the dances theirs was the most "hip". It was so Kathryn too. She is into being cool, and looking cute, and liking boys. This dance was hip, and cool and she was dancing like she loved it. And she is good at it too. I have some pictures, but our camera doesn't do long distance close ups well. So I will try and point out each of the kids. Then later I will add individuals of each of the kids. They were all so excited to be part of this. I am glad they stuck with it and had fun.

I took some pictures, but you can't really tell which one is my kid. So I will try and give you some clues.

• This is Tanner and the Kindergarten getting ready. He is in the back row of kids that are sitting down, second from the end.
  

• This next one is what the penguins looked like on their march.
  
  
  
  
  
• Sydney is in the pink shirt with the visor, black shorts at the front of the line.
  
  
  
  

• Time for the ribbons.
  

• Kathryn is in the row on the right, second from the front. One kids is way in front but kinda to the right, and then she to the left of the kid.
  
  

• Kathryn giving us a back view of her Cha Cha Slide #4 shirt. and helping pick up the hats that flew away. It got so windy during their dance I don't think one 4th grader kept their hat on.

it was really a great and fun night.

Gage

Wow! It seems like forever since I last posted anything on the blog. And I don't have a good reason either. I started a post devoted to my little man Gage-which hopefully I will finish soon, but I can't find the disk with some pictures that I was wanting to use. Then my MSN server has been down and I wasn't accessing the internet, now I am using Internet Explorer, trying to wait patiently for the server to work again.

We captured some cute pictures of Gage enjoying his first tastes of sugar. It was whipped topping and he really enjoyed it. I couldn't really get a good smile out of him because everytime the flash went off he would frown. But we still got a couple cute ones.

I am sure Gage likes what dad feeds him a whole lot more than what mom is trying to shove down him.

Here's a cute picture, just because it makes me smile.

kids funnies

The kids are always doing funny things. But this one made me chuckle and I thought i would share a side of Tanner that we don't see everyday...

Yesterday at school he was sitting next to this girl Amelia and the room helper (who happens to be our Bishops wife, she volunteers at the school to help the kids that are a little behind) so anyway, she is helping Amelia, and Tanner and Amelia start talking about how her dad brushes her teeth. Tanner looks at her very sternly and says, "Your dad isn't supposed to brush your teeth, you are supposed to brush your teeth." Sister Daniels said Tanner got this look on his face and continued to look at her with a indignant look and was so shocked that she didn't brush her own teeth. Ya gotta love boys.

Then onto the terrific and troublesome two year old. Austin is a cutie. And when he smiles at me, I melt a bit inside. But last night at dinner he was a busy boy. Logan comes running over and says, "DAD. Austin is on the table and is dumping the salt, Like this," showing him how he is shaking the salt shaker, all over the table!! Jared gets up and runs over to the other table and gets Austin down. As soon as he is free he gets up to the nearby table and starts dumping the salt there too. Then Jared gets him down and passes him to me. I hold him for a bit and then let him go, and he goes straight for another salt shaker!! The people that were sitting on the same side of the restaurant were shaking there heads at us, like- don't people control there kids anymore these days. all we could do was laugh, and Jared carried Austin out piggy back.
I guess that shows he's coming out of the cute stage and onto the wonderful stage of destruction. Yay for me. :)

we're home

We all made it home. and in one piece. It was very busy, but we had a GREAT time. We found a great hotel that offers a family suite, and it is located across the street from Disneyland. I really liked it and it was worth the money.
Hopefully I will get some pictures posted soon. -hopefully-

Spring Break

Imagine this..
Getting told you were heading to Disneyland for a week for Spring Break. And then your parents tell you that plans had changed, That you weren't going after all , and that you were going to stay home and work. Tears, that is what we got. It made me tear up, they were all so sad. We told the kids we had to change our plans. We had to make a decision, working a home show, or continuing with our plans for vacation. We decided to stick with our plans and go on vacation, but not before we played with the kids emotions for a bit. We made the right decision. They are all excited and so are we. But now...


Searching, shopping, bowling, partying, and hopefully sleeping...
Then... vacation!! I am so excited. We will stop in Oxnard on the way too. I look forward to a bit of home.
But first I get to search the garage for summer clothes, it's supposed to be hot in CA, then shopping for food to take with us, a trip to the bowling alley with Kathryn and 5 of her friends, and a sleepover and a bit of partying in the morning. Finally having her birthday party-only 3 weeks late.
We plan to pack the car Friday, then maybe we might actually sleep. But not before we make a brief appearance at a wedding reception and a stop at a book store. I am sure there are a million things i will do before I actually sleep Friday night. but it is all worth it.
Vacation!! We're off to the "Happiest Place on Earth" Watch out Mickey, here come the Davis'.

mom's

Mom's are supposed to be mean-this says it all.

I had the meanest Mother in the world. While other
kids had candy for breakfast, I had to eat cereal,
eggs and toast. While other kids had cakes and candy
for lunch, I had a sandwich. As you can guess, my
dinner was different from other kids' dinners, too.
My mother insisted on knowing where we were at all
times. You'd think we were on a chain gang or
something. She had to know who our friends were and
what we were doing.
I am ashamed to admit it, but she actually had the
nerve to break the child labor law. She made us work.
We had to wash dishes, make the beds and learn how to
cook. That woman must have stayed awake nights
thinking up things for us kids to do. And she
insisted that we tell the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth.
By the time we were teenagers, she was much wiser and
our life became more unbearable. None of this tooting
the car horn for us to come running; she embarrassed
us to no end by insisting that friends come to the
door to get us.
I forgot to mention that most of our friends were
allowed to date at the mature age of 12 or 13, but our
old fashioned Mother refused to let us date until we
were 16. She really raised a bunch of squares. None
of us was ever arrested for shoplifting or busted for
dope. And who do we have to thank for this? You're
right, our mean mother.
I am trying to raise my children to stand a little
straighter and taller and I am secretly tickled to
pieces when my children call me mean. I thank God for
giving me the meanest Mother in the world. Our
country doesn't need a good five cent cigar. It needs
more mean Mothers like mine.
Blessings on that wonderful woman.

I am glad that I had a mean mom. I love her. She made me into the woman I am today. And I know someday my kids will appreciate all I make them do and the things I don't let them do!!