Birthday Hoopla With a Little Modern Combat!

So I had heard of Modern Mission a few times, but had

not been until our nephew Caden had his birthday party there this past weekend.

To be honest, I think the adults had as much if not MORE fun than then kids did.

We had a BLAST. 

I did bring my camera but opted to leave it in the car so

I could play a little combat instead of take the pictures :)

Thank you to Misty for taking a few phone pics to capture the event.

This is a picture of her hubby David and there I am, dressed up for warfare!

lol 

and once my baby got geared up with his head

band and gun in hand I was a bit sad that

I didn't have my camera. but thank you

Misty for getting this for us.

He is armed and ready to rock! 

...and so is cousin Brody. The birthday party kids decided they wanted it to be

the adults versus the kids.

So Brody and Kellen came along with us adults.

There were 5 adults against 10 kids.

We of course had to whoop up on them

and show them who was boss. lol

It got so bad that the workers were actually carrying guns

and trying to help them out.

at one point Jaxson was up in a fort and Jon had shot him out of it

and as Jax was getting down to go back to base

he was like 'dad help me down'

and Jon was like ' nope, youre on your own' and

kept going.. 

Ruthless on the battlefield!!

LOL 

Dana was the 'genera' for one of the rounds and we had to protect her so we had her hidden up behind a hill. We were all

risking our lives and getting shot at and shooting lasers at kids and stuff and

she was back there facebooking and texting. haha

Kudos to the creators of Modern Mission.

We will for sure come back for more!

 

 

 

 

 

My Heart in a Field in the Fall

 

I'm guessing it is due to the added rain we have

had this year, but I have found more great picture spots this year than any other year passed.

Found this fun spot a few weeks back

and have had some great luck here with many clients as well.

I pretty much scope out a spot, and then typically take my husband

and son there to try it out. For one, this is a good

way to test lighting and angles, and two, it's my excuse

to get them to do pictures so that I can

continue taking hundreds of my family.

shhhhh.. don't tell on me. 

 

The next one is one of my favorites of all time.

These two have always photographed well

together. I have an abundance of pictures

of them together and feel blessed for that.

but there is something extra wonderful about

this one. I think it will make the gallery wrap

wall I'm putting together.. oh yes yes

 

There is quite the personality in this child of mine.

This is one of his many smiles I get often.

 

and childhood is a beautiful thing and anytime you can

get a snapshot a little one running and playing and enjoying

life you should. Don't miss the opportunity to

capture real joy of childhood.

 

 

He tells everyone he is 3 and a half, and he holds up his 3 fingers. He is counting well into the 20's and slowly but surely we are learning to read and write all the abc's. This summer we took a good break from 'schooling' just to play and enjoy the pool and the summer, but

now we are back to lots of writing and preschool activity books.

He is a quick learner and I have no worries on his ability to jump into preschool

and kindergarten head first and excel.

 

 

 

Hide n seek is a major fave right now. and Nerf guns.

The boys bought me my very own pink Nerf gun for my

birthday this year. I love it!

We have Nerf gun wars on a weekly if not nightly basis

around our house, and play chase and hide n seek

every single day.

'Momma you're a good hidin spotter.' - KPD

Baseball is still his number one sport.

We practice catching and throwing and hitting every

week if not day. He is loving Mission Friends

at our church, and starting to really remember

kids names and making friends and building

relationships.

It is fun to watch him interact with his

friends.

At our Sunday school outing a few weeks back they had gotten the inflatables for kids

and one of them was 'jousting'.. Most of the kids playing were 5 and up. The other 3 year old cuties were over jumping in the bouncy house thing, but not my big boy..

He was with all the big kids thinking he needed a turn at this jousting thing.

Ashlyn was sweet enough to dual him and be easy about it :)

He could barely see out of the helmet, could barely hold up the jousting stick thing and could barely balance on the stool, but he gave it everything he had.

I loved the determination to get it done. ha

he was stinkin cute giving it a go.

love my sweet boy.  

As sweet as he is, and its pretty sweet, the age of 3 has brought

with it some rotten as well.

The word poop is still his favorite and gets overused.

ha

His expressions are still adorable but he

has added a loooot more attitude to the mix.

He still pronounces the priceless words though..

Recently I've noticed these:

fratend - pretend

inja = ninja

Abc's are still 'h-i-j-j kella mento p'

When we sing ring around the rosie' he says

'pocka pulla posey'.  makes my heart smile

with delight!  

It's not really a secret that we've been trying for quite

a while now to have another baby.. The idea of K having a sibling

that he is close with and that he can share a loving bond with

and understand how close that relationship can be is what I

want for him. I also just feel like one more would complete our

little family circle. The clock is ticking on it though, and I am

starting to accept that it just might not be God's plan for us.

Jon tries to make me feel better about it and is like

'well we got it right the first time with K'.. 

and he is right, we are pretty pleased. ha

God knows his plan for our lives. I lack patience and understanding

of that great plan, most of the time.

Maybe it is all to teach me that things are not

in my control.

We are beyond blessed for the two boys that we have and

to have found each other. Life is wonderful

with or without another baby.

Oh but wouldn't a blond headed quirky little girl be so

stinkin cute ???!!

:)  

 

The Davis 5th Annual Halloween Party !

 

Kind of cool to realize

we have had this tradition

for FIVE years now. This was our 5th annual

Davis Halloween Party. We celebrated by

making the invite list a little bigger than

usual.

We certainly hope we didn't hurt any one's

feelings by leaving anyone out... if our house

was enormous we would invite everyone

we know.. but for now, our home is small

and max capacity is not too large.

So we invited a handful of friends to join

in on the fun, and we hope they all had

as much fun as we did!

We were heroes in a half shell this year.

The Davis crew brought the TURTLE POWER!

 

And this is kind of fun... Above is a picture we took from our very FIRST Davis party 5 years ago, and the next one is from this years festivities.

 This group of girls are besties.

I think they enjoyed themselves at our partaaay.

 

 

The Roughley's are awesome. Crissy is one of the

sweetest caring people I have met in a long time :)  

Then there was princess Lily Grace, who chose to be

the Little Mermaid this year. She rocked her some bright red

locks!

 

We gave it a pretty comfortable approach to crime fighting

with our forest green sweats and tan tape!

They are a couple sizes to big as we had to order

them online from Wally due to the fact

this color is not in high demand anymore!

:)  

I went with a 'go big or go home' theme for the kids

treat table this year. There were lots of spooky treats.

I loved watching their expressions when they would walk

up to the table. Eyes would light up in amazement

of all the ghoulish goodies. Made it all

worth it for me!  

Pops made a great Phil this year. He and Mimi were

Phil and Mrs. Kay. They rocked it!

And happy birthday to mom. Thanks for spending your birthday this

year serving up frightful treats at our party.

You never fail to be amazing and wonderful.

She actually was in crazy pain from a massive

kidney stone she didn't know she had at the time,

and yet she smiled and served and enjoyed

herself the entire night.

She is truly an amazing woman that

I love and admire more than she

will ever know.

The Paul fam was the ghoulish crew this year.

Vampire, witch, skeletons, and the cutest bat I've

ever seen.

They always do a great job with the family theme for this

fun party. love it

And then there is Gramma and Papaw.. Or in this case,

Salt - n - Pepper!

As I've said before, the fact that Gramma gets him to dress up

each year in these funny get-ups is so

impressive.

fun fun fun

 

The Gayduseks brought a handsome red

ninja and Snow White to the shin dig this year.

Hopefully next year Shelly and Warren can

dress up and join the pics!

(they better!!)  

The Mathis family is awesome as always.

Brooke is not short on the boys in her

household.. ha

but they are cute sweet boys which

are the BEST

 

The biker gang showed up late in typical

biker fashion. Check out Zander's mustache...

Don't MESS with the muscle!

 

Ingraham... party of 5.. Ingraham party of 5!

ha.. Another sweet lady that has

her hands FULL with allll boys.

and these guys are alllll boy!

ha

 

Oh Reecer, Reecer.. His dad put a 'spider' on his

shoulder that didn't phase him one bit.. He is

shoving in a piece of candy and enjoying every

second of it.. In fact, knowing Reece he probably

packed away LOTS of candy while

no one was looking.. he loves his sweets!  

My boys were in kid heaven with all of these friends and cousins

at their house. They each had a blast. So much

fun in fact that the pictures are few and far between because

they couldn't be bothered too much with the camera.

That's OK. Fun is what its all about.

The back porch dance party got started a little early this

year.. It was a hoot as always. Lily and Kellen had

to share the dance floor this year with some

friends but they didn't seem to mind.

 

 

We chose not to let the kids have all the laughs..

We girls always manage to enjoy the camera as well.

These ladies are awesome.

Each of them are genuine and have big hearts

and care about their friends and I love

them dearly for that :)

 

Brooke and Colt sharing a moment.

Oh Brooke how beautiful you are.. and oh

Colt you are so funny with your serious expressions

for the camera :) luv

 

 

A couple of witches!

fun fun fun

 

Loved all the treats, loved all the fun.

Thanks to our family members who worked so hard to help

us bring all of this together.

Papaw about broke his back starting a fire

with wet pallet wood, Pops successfully drove everyone

around safely for the hayride, Mimi and Aunt Barb made

some wonderful goodies that took preparation and then

served them while here, and Gramma made some

great treats and brought some great props all on

no sleep from having to be with Grandma Evelyn

who is in the hospital with heart complications.

Thanks for everything all of you do for us

it does not go unnoticed.. and to our friends,

we do plan on this being an annual tradition

that grows bigger and better with each year to come!

Until the next one, have a spookilicious Halloween!

and remember God loves you and this is all for family memories and fun!

Love the Davis crew :)