Picture Update..

New Year Resolution #4 - keep the blog updated (since it is the only scrapbook I am currently keeping...) Humm....can you see how well I do with New Year Resolutions? Well, January has been crazy! Where did it go..seriously? I started student teaching this semester and it is great! I am super busy and lots of preperation goes into teaching. I am in second grade and with the a fabulous mentor teacher! I have 3 more weeks of second grade and then off to Kindergarten I go.. Brennen-staying busy as always.. Dav- super super busy. He is starting to talk like crazy and putting things together..love it! I have been trying to write down some funny things he is doing and saying but I'm having a hard time! He has quite the personality! I have so many things I want to write about but I need to do some lesson plans so I'll have to wait:) So I am doing a quick picture update..
Dav's first burn from our wood stove..he has been so careful to not get around it and he says 'hott owee' but his ball went under it and he tried to get it.

We finally converted Dav's bed to a toddler bed! He will actually crawl in it and go to sleep! MiRaClE! However, he can't be too miraculous so he doesn't stay there all night. About 3 hours then he comes in our room..one pillow over his shoulder and his blanket over the other.

Playing hide-n-seek. His dad helped him hide under the chair. I was yelling where's Davin and he replied, "I dunno". Quite funny!

Hide space #2- the horse box, left from Christmas. He likes it as much as some of the other toys..unfortunately it took up a little too much room and had to go.


Dav loves to get in the bath on one condition - leave the tap running! He seriously would freak out everytime I turned it off until....I invested in some bubble bath. Is that sad I just barely bought some, is he deprived??



It snowed here today, quite a bit if you can't tell. I decided to let Dav play in it so we bundled him up and gave him his shovel, that is supposed to be used for the beach, and away he went. He had a blast shoveling and eating the snow.

Christmas 2009

Christmas was great this year! We definately got spoiled...all of us! We started by having dinner at Mark and Robins. We have done it every year and we love it! Robin makes a great dinner and we just sit around and visit while the kids play. Christmas morning we went out to Brennen's parents. We left Santa a note and asked him to deliver Davin's presents out there so he could open them with his uncles:) So we went out there around 6:30a.m. At first, Dav was thinking 'This is way to early' but once he noticed his horse, he was ready to ride! Santa brought him a horse on springs that makes noise. I think if it wouldn't have been on springs, they would have went to Cedar and back that day! He was going crazy on it, he had it coming off the ground he was going so hard. Then he would push the ear and bounce to the beat of some of the songs it sings. It was great fun! He didn't really care to open his presents, which suprised me. He sat on his horse and had me hand them to him on his horse. He finally got off and dad helped him a little. He got a horse, a basketball hoop, clothes, books and puzzles from santa. Grandma and Grandpa Orton gave him a little tykes car and some clothes. (ThaNks) Brennen got a spotting scope this year! It's been on his list for 3 years but I kept telling him we just didn't have money for one, he would have to wait for a few years. I don't think he really expected it so it was fun. Brennen is just like a kid on Christmas, he loves it! His parents gave him a camera to take hunting and camo which was super nice. He is spoiled. I got a cricut expression and a maurices gift card from brennen. Then his parents gave me a nice indoor grill and photoshop! Not spoiled-well loved:) After we opened presents there, we went up to my parents. All of us kids went up there and had a FaBuLous breakfast! Thanks mom, it was great! Then all the grandkids opened their presents from my mom and dad. Dav got an outfit, a super cute pair of DC's, and a big horse to sit on and hang out! He thought it was pretty awesome! He got a stick horse and a see n' say from his cousin Lindsey and a tee ball set from my brother Cody and his kids. Then later Christmas day, Brennen's grandparents and aunt came over from Parowan so we went out to his parents and had dinner and visited with them.. We definately had a great Christmas. It was alot of fun with Dav and we're grateful we get to be around both families during the holidays!

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.

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