Memorial day weekend

I know this is very overdue, but I wanted to put a million different pictures here and I knew it would take me some time, but here we go! (I would totally understand if everyone just skipped over all of this, because it is alot of pic's!) Memorial day weekend is when we ALWAYS have the Davis family campout! It's a great chance to get together with all of the family-all 500 or so of them! They have a fun carnival for the kids on saturday! We we are in charge of face painting and had fun doing that, maybe we even got a little carried away! The guys all go golfing just down the street at the hobble creek golf course, Brian was very sad to have to sit out this year because of his broken elbow. He did go Saturday, just to ride along in the cart!

You could say Hugh gets walked all over!I brought watercolor paints and the kids enjoyed painting rocks and trees!
We made macaroni necklaces!

It got pretty cold and OF COURSE we had rain, so once again we left early!

We made s'mores and in order to keep Porter out of the fire we sat his chair way back and gave him a short little stick and marshmellow-and it worked great! he doesn't care if it is cooked he just likes marshmellows!

This is getting ridiculous!!!

Brian's arm is finally getting better, about a week and a half ago he had some more x-rays done and the bone had moved more. But, after consulting with the doctor they think he is still fine without surgery. He has just been given strict instructions not to push, pull or lift with that arm. And overall he is pretty good about not using it, but he still does more with it than I think he should. After doing a lot of yardwork Saturday it was pretty sore and his range of motion was limited, but after taking it easy on Sunday and a couple hot showers it seems to have loosened up some.

And to top it off i stubbed my little toe on the corner of the door the other day and hurt it pretty good. It swelled up and turned pretty colors. I was so mad, I have been running to get ready for some upcoming races I would like to run in, and even just bought some new running shoes! I couldn't even stand to put the shoes on it hurt so bad-I even had Brian take some x-rays and it was not broken, but it still was pretty sore. I went running Monday night and it was tolerable, but as soon as I was done running it was throbbing pretty good! We are falling apart-it sucks to get old!!

Don't worry, Kristin and Melinda, I am still going to kick your bums on the 4th of July!!!!

Did any of that make it into your mouth??

Porter is not exactly the cleanest eater and apparently fruity pebbles are harder to eat than other cereal, because this is how Porter looked after eating breakfast!

No reason to move back to Salt Lake now!!!

IT'S HERE!!!!!!

Brian was so excited he was going to camp out in the parking lot the night before so we could be first in line, but I talked him out of it! Not really, but he was really excited we went opening day and it was wonderful!!!! Now if we can only get some of those awesome movie theaters they have in Salt Lake we will be set!! We will have no reason to move back to SL ----except for you of course mom!!!! :)

Asparagus!!

One of our favorite things about living here in the spring is picking Asparagus! It grows wild everywhere, all along back roads and ditches. We take the kids and everyone gets out and walks along the road. They have fun being outside and exploring everything. Asparagus grows like 4-5 inches a day so we go back every couple of days and pick. Then what we don't eat I blanch and freeze for later! Yummy!

Out like a Light!!

The other night Brian and I were watching TV and Porter was sitting with us and I could tell he was tired, but he would not sit still and fall asleep. He climbed off my lap and next thing we knew he was sound asleep, on the floor. So cute!!

I got out of the shower and found Brian and Porter snoring away!! I just love my boys!!

Brian's Elbow

Last Friday night Brian was playing in a regional church basket ball game, and was tripped/pushed/fell, he caught himself and immediately thought he broke his wrist. He just shook it off and kept playing. By the time the game was over he was feeling dizzy and in some pain in his elbow. He was hoping to go golfing early Saturday morning, but when he woke up he couldn't straighten his arm, he couldn't grip anything and to put any pressure on it was very sore. He thought it was his muscle and that he had jammed it like you would your finger, or maybe pulled the muscle or torn something. By Sunday, after surviving the weekend on ibuprofen, I talked him into going and getting x-rays. And sure enough it was broken, very obviously broken!! And WOW he was mad :) He has a lot of things planned that this will interfere with. Monday he met with the orthopedic surgeon, and he said that he doesn't think that he needs surgery right now, if it was his right arm he would have done surgery, but for now it has a half cast on, and is in a sling. He goes in next Monday to have it re-evaluated, the doctor said if the bone has moved at all then they will have to do surgery. The only benefit to surgery is that he would be back to normal sooner, which is appealing for Brian. He was told it will take 12 weeks to fully heal. And maybe in 8 weeks he will be able to swing a golf club!! So, that means no golfing, no four-wheeling, no wake boarding and he can't ride his motorcycle!! Yep, he is pretty bummed!! Monday night he came home and mowed the lawn and took the sling off, because it was driving him crazy already---this should be a fun 8 to 12 weeks!!! Yesterday at work he had taken the sling off again, and the surgeon saw him and said "do you WANT to have surgery"-of course Brian said no- He said "then get that back on!!!" Brian is going to have to learn to slow down and relax---yeah right!!! Brian had golf games planned with his brothers and dad over memorial day weekend, and now those are out and he is so disappointed. We are trying to decide what to do about the pioneer trek Brian won't be much help one armed!!

I love these moments!!

It's moments like this that make it all worth it! Aspen was at preschool and Brylee and Poter sat down together and colored. It was so cute!! They were all focused I don't think they even noticed me taking pictures!!!

A little family time!

The girls have been begging to play their Elefun game, and after some new batteries we had a little family competition. Brian kept winning!!! These are the fun things in life, we just need to remember to slow down and take advantage of them more often!!!