O ChRisTmaS TrEe..O ChRiStMas TreE...

Here are our Christmas Trees this year...They aren't exactly what I want but they are good for now. I personally am not a big fan of real trees.. My husband on the other hand has to have them. It's a fun tradition to go out searching and then cut one..but the cons outway the pros. Ex. Sap, doesn't hold anything heavy, the mess, etc! So half of my decorations aren't on the tree because we had a fake one last year and it could hold them...the real one on the other hand, cannot. Whimp. I wanted to do one for Dav's play room. I didn't have time/money to get the decor I wanted, but I made some plastic balls and ribbon work. I made it look cute right when I got it done with the trucks but I know tomorrow, the balls will probably be off and he'll be hauling it away in his dump truck. Oh well, I had fun. We're getting excited for Christmas!!! I love this time of year!

DaV's MoVes

I was watching Good Things Utah yesterday and I just about fast forwarded through the 'RubberBand Band'(I think that was their name) when Dav busted out his moves. So I let it play and he danced nonstop the whole song. As soon as it was over, he yelled 'gain - danc' 'gain-danc'! It was so cute I couldn't resist it! Needless to say, we listened to this song over and over and over. He wouldn't dance to any other song I put on, he wanted that one! It was Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. I think he liked the guitars and banjo. He kept looking over at uncle Ry to make sure he was watching him instead of texting and if Ry was looking at his phone he would yell 'RY'. He always needs all the attention! Towards the end he starts shaking it instead of just bouncing..EnJoY! (Sorry it's so dark..It's from Brennen's phone)

Dear Santa.....

We took Dav to see Santa on Saturday for the first time this year. Let's just say he loved looking at him when his dad was holding but he wasn't a fan of Santa holding him! Pictures say it all! I have a picture of Brennen and one of me at this age and our faces are very similiar to his.



Dav is 18 months now...that just makes me siCk/sAd/HaPpY/STRESSED!! JK I definitely love all the cute stuff he does at this age. It's a good thing the good out weighs the bad because there is quite a bit of that too! So here are some memorable moments and some things he is doing at 18 months:
*He is talking tons and I loVe It! Here are some of his and my favorites:gosh, nite-nite, family names: Ry, Sky, Bos, Kenz, Jerz, Tockton(Stockton) pop(grandpa), bite (when he wants food), he pats your cheek and says 'nice', he points and tells you 'no no', quit,or don't, hott (when he sees the fire)...I hate how my mind goes blank when I'm sitting down to write all the stuff he says! He says so much stuff I'll have to start writting it down daily.
*The other night he was holding on to the bars of the treadmill and he stepped off the treadmill so he was swinging back and forth. Then he thought it was funny and was telling everyone to 'watch'.
*He has please and thanks figured out pretty well. He knows when to say please and is starting to get the hang of thanks.
*He is a horrible eater. He drinks from a sippee(spelling?). He really likes: cereal, chips, fruit, tater-tot casserole, chicken noodle soup. Weird, but he still loves baby food. I switched him to table and he wasn't eating alot so I gave him some baby food and he loved it. So he has some baby food here and there too.
*I had to spank him -softly- something I said I would NeveR Do! ha ha ha...Anyways, I spanked him and he turned and wrinkled his nose and said, "Owww, GoSh!" I seriously about died laughing!
*He still sleeps in our bed. It's true. However, we've come to the conclusion it's easier and whatever. We're going to get him a toddler bed soon. The other night I decided to let him cry, an approach I've tried several times, well about 5 minutes later, I hear a thump and here he comes walking into our room. Yea, he crawled over the bed, fell flat on his butt, and got up and came in our room. The bed is lowered way down, he pulled himself up. It's something I said I would NEVER do, but whatever. I don't care too much at this point and Brennen actually likes it, he says 'he knows he's safe'.
*The other night he woke up at 2:30a.m. and wanted to get in the BATH! He wouldn't quit crying for like 15 minutes and wanted the bath...so around 2:45 a.m. he is soaking in the bath and I'm trying not to doze off and let him drown! Needless to say, after he got out he went right to sleep.
*He loves to watch hunting movies. To heck with Baby Einstein - that's for babies.
*Still obsessed with horses - can't wait till Christmas:) He'll only look at the books on his bookshelf that has horses in them. He takes all the horse books off and sits on the floor and looks at them.
*He's still mean. It's making me crazy. I wanted him tuff and I created a bully.
*He had my toilet stuffed full of wash cloths trying to flush them. We are really good about keeping the bathroom door shut but that one time, he noticed the opportunity and got right on it.
*Every time he goes to day care I ask him if he wants to go play with the kids and he says 'BOS?' He loves to play with my nephew Boston at daycare. Bos has saved the day at daycare more than once!
*He lets the water out of the tub so I have to turn it back on because he likes to put his feet under the water when it's coming out of the tap.
*He is a little boy through and through and I loVe It! Him and his dad are best buds and it makes me happy:) Brenn and I laugh nonstop at the cute things he does. We love him to death and can't imagine what a boring life we would have without him.

My attempt at taking Dav's pictures....failure.

So I had a bright idea that I would take some pics of Dav to put on a Christmas card. My idea wasn't so bright after all. He wouldn't cooperate at all....As you will see there is one pic of him looking at the camera that is cute and him smiling. ONE out of like 30 or more. I guess we'll be trying again sometime. I still think some are cute even though he isn't looking.

Halloween-Smilebox Creation

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

MonKey'N ArOunD-HallOweEn 2009!!

This year Halloween was a blast! I loved getting Dav ready and showing him off :) His official costume title was a snow monkey but he got called a lion a time or two. When I first put it on, he threw a fight! I though ohh great this is going to be fun! But once he got out and noticed all the other kids looked crazy too, he was totally cool with it. We started off at the trunk-or-treat at the stake center. My mom and I made some popcorn balls and sugar cookies to hand out. We were expecting a ton of people so we just gave the little kids candy but we probably should have been handing out the cookies to everyone. We had quite a bit left over, which suprised me becuase there were a ton of people there! Anyways, we went over to my mom and dad's after to try and get some pics of Dav in the back yard. He wasn't havin it..of course. However, we managed to get some really cute ones. Brennen and I were going to dress up as zoo keepers but I didn't get on the ball soon enough. I was sooo mad. Oh well, maybe next year:) We hope everyone had a great Halloween!

Uhh I am so mad I can't get this pic to flip on here and it is the cutest one!

Mr. Dav

Ok fellow bloggers, I have a question - where do you make these fun collages? I mean ones where you can put alot of pictures in different sizes and all. I made some on picnik but they don't have a variety like I've seen on some blogs. Anways, if you know, please inform me :) Thanks! Here are some pics of Dav lately. This kid is full of it! I love every minute of it (minus the biting and pulling hair - still). I've said this like the last few posts but I cannot believe how fun they are and the cute things they do! Dav's vocab just kills me..some new words are: biiig buck(hunting season), bull, gosh, pop (that's what he calls grandpa, it's so cute) thup (cup- so funny), na na no, jerz, kenz, naks(thanks)..ect.

Dav crawled in a corner of my mom's entertainment center and was playing peek-a-boo! He thought he was pretty neat.




Dav loves to pretend to talk on the phone. He still puts it behind his head and is usually calling 'dad' or 'pop' (grandpa) He can carry on a conversation like there is no tomorrow. It is soo cute!

little secretary


My mom has a movie called Old McDonald's Farm that has a section all about horses...Dav is sooo obsessed. We go to my mom's house, he grabs the remote, and says 'Mom, hoyse, hoyse'. It is so funny! He would sit and watch this all day. It's funny because it just shows horses running and rodeoing. It's not a cartoon and a little girl talks the whole time about horses. CrazY but He loVeS iT!

Family Pictures

We had my mother-in-law take some pictures on Friday. Let's just say my husband was NOT in the mood becuase it was the day before the deer hunt and we were trying to get ready to go..but I still think they turned out pretty good. I did a little editing on picnik.com-LoVe that sitE! However, I tend to get editing happy:) I'm so not a fan of pictures so this is like the second time we have taken pictures with our lil family of three.

CowBoY!

I am slacking at posting - once again - so I thought I would post a quick update. Things are going great for us.. just livin' life in the fast lane! Dav is at such a fun age I want to push freeze and not let him grow anymore! There are some things I wouldn't particularly like to freeze like the biting, hair pulling, hitting, throwing a temper tantrum stuff but other than that he is doing alot of super cute things:) He can say quite a few words and makes us laugh all the time! Some of his favorite words right now are: wash(everytime he sees the sink), bas(bath) Horse(still..and I don't think it will leave his vocab anytime soon), buck and bull, kas(the dogs name) when you ask him his name he immediately says mom and if you ask him more than three times he points to his chest and says "mom mom mom!" it is hilarious!, but when he looks at a picture of his self he will say 'dain' so he can say his name he is just a little confused, he can tell you how old he is (he says one and holds up his finger), everything is "Want" so we have to say "what do you say?" and he says 'peaz'. I am trying to write down all the stuff he says but I'm not keeping up with him very good! He is still in love with horses and animals in general I guess. The second we get to either grandparents houses he yells hoyse hoyse because he wants to see the horse! I bought these cute little cowboy boots at wal-mart (yes cute and walmart are in the same sentence) and he wouldn't wear them for awhile but now he loves them and I think he looks so cute and grown up in them! As for other updates, the hunt starts next week so we'll be camping for a few days and Brennen will probably be missing for a few weeks! He has a rifle tag and then my brother and nephew have poncegont(have no idea how to spell!) tags so he's going to go with them for a few days. We are loving our house and haven't had anyone walk through it lately(knock on wood) so hopefully we can stay there for awhile. We hope everyone is doing great and we're looking forward to the holidays to see all the family!
**These are just some pics we took of Dav in his boots and he had on Boston's cowboy hat.

Feeding the grove bucks...

If you live in Beaver, chances are you have seen and fed 'the grove bucks'. Well, last night Brennen and I decided to go up there to see if they were out. We pulled up to them and they started to come to us but we didn't have any food so they were a little hesitant and wouldn't come 'right' to us. So we decided to get some apples and go back up tonight with Travis and Steph. There was a guy out feeding them in his yard so we stopped and asked if we could come and feed them some apples and let Davin see them. Dav is JUST LIKE his dad when it comes to deer. He can't get enough of them. He was yelling bull bull (He has always said buck but Brennen has taught him what the bull says so now he calls bucks bulls.) He wasn't scared at all and was trying to touch their noses and horns. There were quite a few deer and some really nice bucks!
Dav is trying to call them to him - he was a little excited!




Most of the deer eating grain and apples


Dav and Garrett


Dav and Steph feeding one of the 'bigger' bucks

Iron County Fair 2009

Brennen's family is from Parowan so Labor Day weekend is a pretty big thing for them. We have a family reunion and go to the fair. I was pretty excited because Dav could actually ride the rides this year and he loved it! The slide was by far his favorite. It was pretty big so I was a little nervous sending him down it. He went down it like 6 times - Brennen took him the first few times then Brennen's cousin and little brother took him a few more. It was so funny he laughed the whole way down and threw a lovely little fit when he was at the end. He liked the car, the boat, the slide, and the carousel but he wasn't a big fan of the ferris wheel. Here are some fun pictures that I got a little 'editing happy' with. Some of the originals probably look better than the edited ones but it was fun.





























These are just some cute pics I got of Dav with Brennen's hat. Everytime we put a hat on his head he has it off in a matter of seconds. The other day, he decided to wear it around the house so I had to get some pictures.