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 :)

 

84 Years Beautiful...

 

For as long as I can remember I have always

 known that my Grandma is not the typical

sugary sweet grandmother that I've noticed

most people have.

She has always been just a tad too spicy :)

 

Not everyone can set a perfect example,

 or be sticky sweet

 at all times or please the masses.

 I am a lot like her in more ways

 then I'd probably ever admit. wink 

 

She is however, the only grandparent I have had

since a very early age, and no

 matter how dramatic

or wild things get with her

I will always love her and try to help her

any way that I can.

If you're a child of God and know

that in your heart, then age should

just be a number and you should allow

yourself to age gracefully.

Be giving to others and serve them

before you serve yourself. If you

have things that are not being used, let

others get the use and the good out

of them. Do not hoard them for yourself

for no other reason than selfishness.

Be kind to others, even when you think

they have done you wrong.

Be kind to people even if they are not your

favorite people. You will have loved ones

you are bias towards, that is only human,

but try to treat everyone equally as

not to hurt the feelings of those that

are not on your favorite list.

-- It takes examples of all kinds in life to learn

valuable lessons.--

The things I choose to love and think of my

Grandma for:

Overly generous to give her money to

Kellen, Jon, and I.

Always willing to give Kellen all the change out of her purse

Always giving him candy and toys.

Always trying to make sure kids have enough to eat.

Thinks Kellen is perfect and loves everything about him.

Used to ALWAYS let me win at Yahtzee no matter how many 

times I would have to roll the dice to get what I needed!

I remember her smiling and clapping and laughing

every time I'd get a Yahtzee.

Simplicity of life on her yard swing and singing songs.

and of course later in life as she's decided there isn't much

to do with her hair, her hats.

She has a hat like this in every color!

And she looks the most fabulous wearing them!

I told her lets put them on and take some pictures just for fun and

she said 'that looks good on you, you can have it if you want to.'

 

 

She reminds me to be the example that I want others to be.

Not everything about someone has to be negative.

Life is short and precious. Fill it with people to

love on and enjoy.

 

I love you Grandma Ida. 

Happy 84th birthday

May you live and be happy for

many more!

Pumpkin Perfection

Pumpkin Patch , oh Pumpkin Patch... What did parents ever do without you ??

ha

McGarrah's did it up right this year. We went early on a week day morning and practically had the place to ourselves. Pumpkin perfection if you ask me.

Hayride, mule cart (whatever this thing is called.), hay tunnel, pyramid, wooden tractor.. we had a blast. Leave it to Jon and I to find the bean bag toss and make it competitive. ha

Kudos to McGarrah's this year for a job well done!

 

 

The wooden tractor is genius for kids.

Whoever build this has some mad skills.

we climbed in the back of this thing and he pretended to drive

us all around. hoot.   

 

 

and then here he is being himself..

My adorably ornery little stinky monster pumpkin!

Until we meet again Patch.

Nemo the betta.. some hats and some pumpkins.

Our couch is blocking most of the sunlight that needs to be shining through Nemo's fish bowl in order to make this picture great... but I thought it was fun none the less.

This is our betta fish that Kellen named Nemo. We were cleaning out his bowl and I decided to snag the camera. fun fun

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Also fun was last weeks painting pumpkins with our cousins.

The plan was to take the five boys to the pumpkin patch. However,

we woke up to a rainy day and decided to paint some pumpkins in the garage instead.

Dana had her camera and got pictures and sent them to me. I'm just too lazy to go get them for this post. ha

 

I think Jaxson was calling this a zombie pumpkin.

I think its pretty good.

Nerf guns, paint messes, cousins... whats not to love.

good day

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We try to see after our great Grandma Ida as much as possible.

Anyone that knows her knows that she is a fire ball.

We took her to her doc appointment last week and afterwards she wanted to shop.

She was on a mission for more hats.. (she has one in about every color of the rainbow.)

So hat shopping we went! She was trying them on left and right, so Kellen decided

he couldn't let her have all the fun. This is the one he liked.

Fedora anyone ?

and for anyone keeping record, G-Ida has two more hats added to her collection.

:)

 

I have resorted to calling this little guy 'stinker' most of the time, and his favorite word is still poop. He is clearly an only child most of the time of his life because he thinks his mom and dad are his playmates and should just be able to play pirates and Nerf guns at all hours of the day and night. Speaking of Nerf guns, we now own tons of them and there is not a day that goes by that we don't have a Nerf gun war in our house. Bullets flying all over, room to room. I can no longer count how many times I've been hit in the face or the back of the head or any other part for that matter with a blue Nerf gun bullet! Jon and I do most of the shooting and somehow Kellen ends up just handing us both bullets to reload.

We are grown kids!

 

 

Prince the Horse and Moonshine the Chevy!

 We went to visit my friend Amy and take some pictures with her husbands old truck, and ended up making some new friends. This is Prince.

He loves apples.

 

 

 

The other horses walked off when they realized we were out of apples but Prince enjoyed our company. He was patient with us.

If I had told K we were going to load him up and take him home

he would have been ready to ride in the trailer on the way home!

we plan to go back and spend a day at the ranch. 

Let K ride some horses!  

We also met Moonshine, the classic Chevy. '57 Chevy I think?

He's a beaut!

 

He and Kellen did some solemn thinking.

Sometimes a fella just needs to reflect on his life...

 

Fun morning. I think this new friend of ours will look grand posing with us in some upcoming family portraits. Oh the simple family life we lead.

Sigh

 

Randomness is good for the soul.

Go Hogs Go!

Rain, rain, ponchos and rain!

Well losing aside, the Texas A&M game was a great game to be at.

One of my favorites in a LONG time from the hogs, loved every minute of it.

(especially watching Johnny payday get SACKED!) 

Thank you Elizabeth for the great seats!

Pops and the boys are ready to call some hogs.

I'll admit tailgating is fun, stadium atmosphere is fun, but personally my parents living room and flat screen TV is the best spot in town for watching some Razorback ball!

I think Kellen agrees :) 

Some phone goodies..

This fills this Mommas heart with joy. Just one of many afternoons spent loving on my sweet boy, sharing laughs and memories made.

sigh

The Davis crew loves us some bowling,

but on this one its not looking good for the K-man.

:)

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Let me apologize now for the horrible quality on some of these pictures.

It's probably safe to say that with a shattered back on my phone and the fact that it runs slower than Moses, I have probably dropped it a few too many times.. oops

None the less, there are moments when a crappy phone will just have to do. 

Our garden is small and on most days it only produced enough to carry in your hands. Well day after day Jon would go pick the tomatoes and he would use his shirt to hold them and bring them in the house. So one afternoon, Kellen was outside playing and I look out the window and that is what he is doing. He's over in the garden picking the maters and then walks across the yard with them in his shirt, identical to his dad.. brings them in and sets them up on the counter and then goes back out to play.

Love my boy!

 

Though we enjoyed our days home together and all that it entailed,

Summer is drawing to an end and we are welcoming Fall with

open arms.  

 

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And our princess Lily turned 6.. unbelievable!

She had a fabulous party.

My mom and Brittany got her dress up clothes

as gifts and so she had several outfit changes to model all

of her new dudds. I was bummed I opted not to bring

my camera for this one. snooze I lose, I guess.

We love you LG !

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Go Dogs Go!

We caught an SHS game a few weeks back.

It was AHwesome!

Ashton's boyfriend made a great catch, and then his little brother

made the winning touchdown to win the game at the very end.

Incredible game, lots of fun.

... and last but certainly not least.. I mentioned a few posts back that Brittany had Kellen write a letter to Lightning McQueen. 

We received a response! I was shocked and amazed that it actually worked!

Well, its a post card from the Mickey Mouse gang... not exactly

Lightning McQueen. ha but they did respond, and the best

part is that as soon as we told him what it was he was sooooo excited!

He fell asleep that night with the post card by his side.

and as if you even had to ask, I will absolutely be scrap booking this little goody!

:)