Asperino is 7!!!

In June we celebrated Aspen's 7th birthday!  She wanted a craft party, so we made a trip to Michaels and set out invites! She had a lot of friends come over and I am pretty sure they all had a great time!!

The birthday cake--Aunt Kristin helped the kids decorate it!

The kids all painted their own goody bags--messy!

I can't get this pic to turn-ugg- but this Aspen painting her bag.

Then we all made dog tags, they all had their name on them and they decorated them with stickers and beads.

We played a little birthday bingo--I think we lost the boys during this part-they just couldn't sit still anymore!!

Of course the best part---PRESENTS!!!

Make a wish!!!

I can't believe Aspen is already 7.  She is growing up way too fast. She loves painting, coloring and doing any kind of crafts.  She is a great reader, and loves chapter books.  She can't wait to start 2nd grade, and is excited to show Brylee the ropes of elementary school!  Her favorite thing these days is to turn on her music (she has about 10 different Disney CD's)  and she will act out the songs for us--she calls them her plays.  She loves singing and is actually very good at it.  I think she may be our drama girl (the musical-play kind of drama, all though she is good at the Drama Queen kind also) It's so fun to see the areas that are going to be her strengths coming out in her.   We love our Asperino!!!

I was just wondering...

Does washing down your vitamins with Dr. Pepper, take away any and all nutritional value they had? ....Just wonderin'

Technical Difficulties!!

So, my blog and I are not quite seeing eye to eye these days!  I have updated and changed fonts-backgrounds and other fun stuff on my blog-it looked so good---And then..... it all dissappeared and turned into the HUGE thing that it is now!!   I didn't want you to worry that there was something wrong with my vision and I purposely chose to make my text and pictures about five times too big, I can see just fine.  I will try to fix it again soon, but right now I am too frustrated with it (and a whole bunch of other stuff too, but that is a story for another time!)  So, for now I hope you enjoy having my children's faces take up your WHOLE computer screen!!!

What does the full moon look like in the summertime?

THIS!!

Yes, I am a crappy mom!  Porter was playing in the water in the backyard and I noticed his swim suit was falling down and you could see his crack.  Instead of fixing it, Kristin and I had a good laugh then went on with our day.  Later that night Porter said "My bum hurts"  and this is what we found!!  It was a pretty bad sunburn, it later blistered a little and peeled.  So one day when he gets skin cancer on his bum--I will be the one to blame!!!

Ok Now I have your attention....

Yes, I am know it has been just under a million years since my last post, but I am still going to try and get y'all updated--and I have a feeling once you see everything we have been up to you might just forgive us!!

Hold on tight here we go!!! (And I give up at trying to get these all in the correct chronicological order so, deal with it!)

We had friends over to our house for a Easter egg hunt and BBQ.  Brian and I had almost 300 eggs to hide-good thing we have a big yard!


Just some of the kids "patiently" waiting!



Let us out!

Brian got a little creative with his hiding places and some of the older girls had to help each other get the eggs out of our irrigation pipes!

We hid a few "special"eggs with money in them.  So, the kids were begging Brian to give them hints about where he hid them!

Porter's Dino eggs--he took all of his eggs and slept with them in his room that night!

The Easter Bunny made it to our house once again!!

In May we made our yearly trip to the Knolls for fourwheeling, camping, cave exploring, geocaching, birdwatching, airplane flying/crashing, BIG hole digging and so much more FUN!!  

Our caravan!



The BIG hole--kept the kids entertained for hours!!



Brian and Porter hiking up to the cave!

Pre flight picture!

Post crash picture!

My kids wore themselves out, and fell asleep on Grandma and Grandpa's laps most nights!

 Until next year!!!


 

May Madness!!

Brylee graduated preschool! On to Kindergarten!

Aspen finished 1st grade as a star reader!!  She loves reading--I can't keep up with her reading habits, we are constantly having to get her new books--Thank goodness for the library and friends who lets us borrow books!

We had our annual Davis Family Campout and guess what???? It rained!!!  Surprise-Surprise!!! (it rains EVERY year, and this year we left early and it actually snowed the next day!)  But, we still had fun, as always!!


Don't be fooled this is not normal!!!

  As part of the campout activities, they have a dance (ok, so having a dance with 500 of your cousins sounds a little questionable, but that's how the Davis' roll)   The kids love it, and they go crazy!

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My kids love hanging out with their cousins!






This year we sold our trailer--the week or so before the campout, and didn't buy a new one for a couple of weeks later.  SO, we tented it this year.  The kids actually thought it was fun--I missed my trailer!



Sleep-under

There are two reasons I am posting these pic's. First, Brylee insists on sleeping with about 6 princess stuffed dolls, and 5 pillows, two of them pillow pets. She can barley fit on her bed! Doesn't look comfortable to me, but with Brylee it usually does not matter what I think!! Then again, maybe sleeping with princesses keeps you young and beautiful--it works for her! One night I went to check on the kids and make sure they were all tucked in and asleep. Porter, his blanket and pillow were missing from his bed. I went in the girls room and this is what I found! And he slept there all night long! Again, doesn't look comfortable to me, but maybe it is because I am getting old! Silly kids, they keep us laughing all the time!!!

GO UTES!!!

Some of you may know, we are University of Utah fans. No, we haven't went over to the blue side and become BSU fans--no way!! Anyways, that has nothing to do with my story--We have some friends who are huge BYU fans and we get together with them a lot to watch football games. He is also the Bishop of our ward and a lot of people know who his fav team is he is very vocal about it! And we always kind of have a little back and forth banter with them about who is best! And we all know exactly how that question gets answered--THE BYU vs UTAH GAME!!! So, of course Brian and I decided it would be funny to decorate the entrance to their house. So, Brian and I spent the whole evening before the game blowing up red and white balloons, and making posters and making a huge U. We had crepe paper and all sorts of ribbon. Our friends are huge Jazz fans also and it just so happened that there was a very exciting Jazz game on that night and we knew they would be glued to the TV watching it so we packed up all of our kids and the decorations and went out at about 10 pm. They live on a semi busy road so we were a little nervous about getting caught by someone driving by or one of their teenage kids would come home in the middle of it. We backed the car up to the entrance-open the back and started decorating like crazy-the kids were so good and quiet. When we were done we drove by two times to get some pics-these are not the greatest pictures because we were driving by as I took them.

Our hope was that they wouldn't notice them for most of the day Saturday and lots of people would see them as they drove by--because most people know which team they support. But, Brian went by on his way out Coyote hunting early that morning and they already had taken them down :( Not, too long later I got a call from our friends, they knew right away who it had been. Their son had left early that morning for basketball practice and saw everything so they took it down right away--party poopers--the youth were meeting at their house later that day to go do baptisms for the dead and it would have been awesome to have them all see the Bishop's house decorated in Utes stuff!! I was so bummed-but we still thought we were pretty funny.-----Later that morning I got a call from the Bishop's wife because we were planning on going over there to watch THE GAME and we were deciding what food to bring and such and then she just kept talking and talking--I was thinking "Diane must be bored she never talks to me this much"--just then my kids go "Mom, how come the Bishop is in our front yard?" I look out the window and the Bishop and two of his kids are spray painting my front yard--in the middle of the day--and his wife was trying to keep me occupied while the Bishop tagged my yard!! They sure thought they were funny!!

They put this sign on our fence that is right on the main road we live on so everyone who drove by could see!! Needless to say we got quite a lot of phone calls that day harassing us about the Cougars!! BUT, later that day it started to snow, it just shows you who side the Lord is on, he was trying to cover up all of that ugly blue in our yard!!! (it didn't snow much in fact not enough to cover all of the blue--so Brian went out later with some red paint and tried to cross out some of the stuff, but instead it just looked like someone threw up a snow cone in our yard) And, as if we needed anymore proof, the Utes won the game that evening!!!! And because of a little wager between the Bishop and Brian, our bishop was sporting a pretty red tie with a big U on it the next morning as he conducted sacrement meeting!!!!!

A couple of days and a lot more snow later the kids and I made a Snow Dad. We used some spray paint to decorate him, and I think he turned out pretty dang cute!

GO UTES!!!

Now we need to come up with something better for next year--something they can't take down so easily!!