Davis Family Reunion 2011

It seems I only used my camera on either one day or maybe two. So here are the pics I have from our reunion that was just held in Idaho in June. On this day I remember the water was quite chilly, so we life jacketed up and set out for a gorgeous scenic ride. Some of the kiddos took turns sitting on the back of the boat with Grandmother. I, however, did not do that...I had no desire whatsoever to have any of that freezing beautiful water touch even one of my toes. Here's Eva a Grandmother...
I love the wind blowing their hair...here's Boo, Grandmother, and Eva.

Crazy Malia.

I love this picture...Eli and Lo.

Grandmother and Line...

Grandfather giving Boo driving lessons...

Cutie Nathan, my sister Connie's son...

Paige, Connie's daughter, and Kaci, Kami's daughter...

Umm...Malia, how come you never stop making crazy faces every time I try to take your picture? :)

Elenoa Lose...

Sammy, my sister Candy's son...

Some serious driving was goin' on...

Grandfather was kind enough to give me his sweatshirt, and as a result he froze a bit while letting me try to stay warm.

Tori, Candy's daughter, Evaloni cutie pie, and Sammy, Candy's son...

Malia and Grandmother...

I love this picture of Eva. Makes me just want to snuggle her.

Kaci, Kami's daughter, painting Eli's nails while Line watches. Uncle Russell is in the background prepping the sand to bury some girlies.

Three giddy girls...Addie, Katie's daughter, Lose, and Malia...

Uncle Russell, starting the burying.

That's little Sammy, helping.

Paige jumped in as the burying was happening...

Malia, sporting her new sand leggings...

Halle, Jackie's daughter...

Ane Boo, showing me her mouth full of gummy bears...

Abby, Cassie's daughter, and Abby, lovin this sweetie. Have you ever seen anything cuter? She would willingly go into my arms any time I'd ask because she thought that I was a look-a-like of Auntie Ginny that lives with her. I was even called Auntie Ginny on more than one occasion accompanied by her running to me with open arms. Ask me if I care that she had no idea who I was...at least I got to hold and give loves to her.

Line, soaking up all the Halle time she could get.

Addie and Malia, mid dance move. They had a good time choreographing their own little dance.

Now, my Mom just might kill me for 1)taking this picture and 2)posting this picture. And Mom, I'll remove it if you want me to. But I'm so proud of having a mom in her 60s who can still strut her stuff in a bathing suit like my mom can. Just one more way that she sets the bar high for me. Woo-Hoo Grandmother!

Eli really could not get enough of her Uncle Russell. Here they are playing Book of Mormon Go Fish.

Sheldon, Kami's son, and Jacob, Connie's son, loving a game of football. There always seemed to be a game going with someone....

Paige, Kaci, and Line playing some volleyball.

Some more pics of Abby...

Lose and her long lost buddy, Li'l Russell...

Lose, Russell, and Nathan...

Malia, Addie, and Tori...

These little guys just crack me up. And make no mistake, they made these faces because they wanted to have their picture taken like that. I kept saying, 'okay guys, smile!' and every time I got some version of this. Starting at the bottom left, Harley, Lizzie's daughter, Emma, Katie's daughter, Blythe in the highchair, Cassie's daughter, Cooper, Cassie's son, and Abby, Cassie's daughter.

Ohmagosh...Eva was in HEAVEN with this goober. It was so funny to see her towering over Annie, but other than that they were equals in every way...adorable, clever, goofy, sweet, etc.

Malia, Kaci, and Eli...this was right before our family pic. Can't wait to see what that looks like.

Can't wait to see what everyone else's pics look like, since I didn't take nearly enough! Dad, Aunt Debbie, this is my official request for a copy somehow of all those magnificent pics you were always taking. Scottie, you too. Happy 2011 Fam Reunion.

Summer

Man. It's been forever since I sat down at my computer. These days summer is keeping us busy with it's crazy fun flexibility. We're busy from the minute we wake until the minute our heads hit our pillows, which is far too late for my taste. We need to get to bed earlier or I'll never survive the next two and a half months! I think for me, finally not working at the school is providing me with the hours I always wished I'd had access to for so many necessary projects and fun activities, that I'm on overdrive mode. Hopefully it'll settle down. But even if it doesn't, the fun memories are worth the exhaustion. So instead of spending down time on the internet, these days we hop on the internet real quick to see what the weather is going to be for the day, and then don't touch it again until the next morning. I am sooo behind on the internet to-do list. Emails I have yet to answer, research that I need to do, college classes to register for, blogs to read, blog posts to journal, etc etc. But I thought I'd throw a couple of quick pics on of what we did today. We started the day by taking the first step into our healthier future. Last night some of my girlfriends and I went out shopping for green smoothie/drink produce and came back to our house for a one on one drink-making course. It was fantastic. This morning I decided it was time to start a new morning drink ritual. I know it'll take some getting used to for some of the girls. But I am so excited for the health benefits and the energy for all of us that I know will come as a result of getting all those healthy greens into our systems. Ane is so funny with it...she says "nummy, yummy" the whole time she's drinking it, and asks for seconds. Some of the girls just gulped it all down and didn't love it, but didn't mind it either. And then we had one little girlie, who just struggled with even trying it. I'm not worried because she does that with EVERYTHING. We'll all be so blessed, I'm convinced, as we try so hard to take care of these precious bodies that God has blessed us with.



We then scooted over to a baptism of one of our precious buddies, and the girls sang a duet as a group. Good grief, are those girlies amazing. I was so proud of them. I never get nervous playing the piano, but as I sat down to play for them my back was to them and couldn't see all six of them up there singing, my hands started to shake and I realized that I was nervous FOR them. But it was completely unwarranted. They sang like little angels. And yes, I'm a little biased, but they still sounded like angels! We jetted from there to catch the second half of Eli's tball game, dropping Lose off at a birthday party on the way, and then rushed back over to the baptism luncheon. From there we came home for naps and laundry (for me, anyway!). The four big girlies took that time to decorate their bikes. Auntie Katie had told the girls that her kiddos were going to ride in the bike ride before the parade for Orem Summerfest, and asked the girls if they wanted to decorate their bikes and ride with them. Good grief. You should have seen these girls. They took one day to map out their plan, complete with sketches and write ups. Then they took one day to start tracing stencils, cutting out, and decorating the stencils. The final day was today, finishing of the prep work and finally breaking out the duct tape to make sure it all didn't blow off as their bikes rode in the back of Uncle Matt's truck. Several of them were convinced that they also needed to decorate themselves, and had full costumes prepared. We were able to compromise and some decided to go with colorful socks instead. Line was bummed because she couldn't find a match to the one funky sock she could find, but was thrilled when she realized Addie didn't wear funky socks either.










Although I was in the worst of moods at the beginning of the festivities (I hate parades and all that it involves...parking, crowds, finding seats, and the panic associated with all three of those things, not to mention dirty feet and sticky hands. I have issues people, I already know that) it turned out to be the best night. These three stinkers are so funny...


And as the parade progressed these two didn't want to sit in chairs. No, of course not. I just hauled the chairs along with me for the heck of it. Instead, one wanted to sit in front of me in my chair, and one wanted to sit in back of me, in the same chair. It was...lovely. Although I was a bit oversensitized between the two of them, their sweet young selves smelled delicious and scrumptious. I was close enough to know. And their little chubby fingers and cheeks were right within my reach.

It was a great night. Thanks Brousseaus for telling us about the sweet seats. :) And thanks to the other Brousseaus for providing the seats AND the parking, completely eliminating two of my parade pet peeves. Gooooo, Summer!

Turning Brown...

At therapy this week Eva asked to work with some paints. She took a paper plate and put all the paint colors together on it. Instead of using those colors to paint onto the paper, she instead chose to mix all those colors together on the plate itself. Her therapist told me that Eva explained it to her that all the colors mixed together made her favorite color, brown..."Brown, which is the color of my daddy, and it's the color I'm turning into!"