CRAZY DAVIS!

So I think my days of having a sweet laid back baby are long gone. Davie is CRAZY. every time I turn around he's into something. My days are spent chasing him from room to room and trying to keep his out of things. He loves pulling the lids off of EVERYTHING and trying to eat them. I am truly EXHAUSTED!!!
so his latest game is something I like to call What can I stick up my nose (or in my ears) every time I turn around I see him shoving things in his nose. here are just a few I've pulled out
3 beads
play dough
and last a piece of a Styrofoam cup. this last lucky item had to be pulled out by the doctor this morning. it was so traumatic for poor little Davie. The sad thing is I think he's to young to have figured out a lesson from all of the trauma. and I'm sure later today I'll catching him trying to do it again.
and for a side note I want you to know I tried everything and anything I could think of to get that stupid Styrofoam out of his nose. here is a list of what I did
-tried to get out with tweezers
-tried to tickle his nose with grass to make him sneeze
-tried pluck an eyebrow to make his sneeze (I know that sounds so mean but it makes me sneeze)
- tried putting my mouth over his nose and sucking it out (GAGGGGGG)
- using a nose sucker to make him sneeze
-putting a little bit of pepper up his nose to see if he would sneeze

so there are all the nose prizes. seriously we need help.

Splash Park.

Today Lindsay and I took the kids to a splash pad water park. Between the 2 of us there were 9 kids, (LIndsay was babysitting) it was a little crazy but they were all being very good. here's a few pics of the day.


these are my favorite pictures, it's Austin and Ashly taking turns getting drinks. a little white trash but oh well they were entertained. and we had 7 other kids to watch so we didn't bother to stop them. ( I found time to take a picture)


Look at all these little Buddies



this is just a random shot of a rainbow that we saw the other day.

Tyson't birthday recap....

This year for Tyson's birthday we decided to do a family party. the initial plan was to surprise the kids and take them to Cowabungaa Bay. We all ended up having a nasty cold so it didn't really work out. I was so bummed because it would have 1/2 price if we could have gone on Friday.
Things still turned out fun. I was planning on taking the kids out to lunch in the morning to calibrate, luckily my sis-in-law Jordan called and told me that if we dressed up like a cow Chick-fil-a would give us a free meal. So thanks you Chick-fil-a for the free meal, and Thank you Jordan. it worked out great. I need to remember that next year.
I ended up taking Bailee and Davis to the Doctors, they both had an ear infection. since they both weren't feeling well Ryan and Tyson decided to do something fun for his special day. They went miniature golfing, then Tyson got to go to wallmart and pick out a present. I think he had a good time.


Tyson was so cute Sunday morning at about 6:00 Tyson came into my room, woke me up and in a very serious voice said "mom, wake up I'm 5 now!!!"
I told him he could have anything he wanted to eat for breakfast for birthday. He told me he wanted a bowel of whipping cream. so that's what he got. I added strawberries to try and make it some what healthy but he just ate the cream.

Tyson is the big 5

Happy birthday to my special little guy. We sure love our Tyson and are so glad he is in our family.
Tyson is my sensitive little guy with a big heart. He is always looking out for Bailee and will stick up for her if someone is teasing her. He doesn't like it if someone is sad. the other day we were watching a movie where the girl in it was sad. I looked over at Tyson and he had his head in the pillow, I asked him what was wrong and he started crying and told me he felt sad. (so sweet)
He's my overly cautious, likes to stay on the safe side little buddy. You can just look at the last swimming post for proof of that. He likes to follow the rules and is pretty obedient. I always joke that if Tyson was my only child, then I would think I was a perfect parent. (or at least think I was good at discipline)
Tyson is such an important part of our family and I'm so grateful for him. Happy birthday little Buddy!!!!

temple and camp out.

A few weeks ago Ryan was gone running the Wasatch Back race. so I decided to take the kids to the Oquirrh Mountain temple (Ryan had already been on a night I couldn't make it)
I love that temple. and I love how high it is on the hill so you can see it everywhere.
after that we had a camp out in my mom's back yard. I can't believe I made it out there the whole night.

Happy 4th of July!!!!

I love the 4th of July. It the summer version of Christmas. We had such a good time. we went down to Prove to My uncle Dales house, had a big BBQ and let the kids run around and swim. It reminded me of the good old days when I was little and we would always go to prove where my grandparents lived and go to the parade. I haven't been to that parade in years. I wish it wasn't so crowded, I really miss that part. I think we will have to make it to a parade for the 24th.
I think the kids get just excited that they get to stay up late and watch fire works as they do to open presents on Christmas morning. They are even willing to take a nap in the middle of the day so I will let them stay up late. I don't know if they actually slept but they stayed in their rooms and were quiet for an hour which was good enough for me.



Davis was so darling. he had a really late nap so I even let him stay up and watch the fire work show. he had so much fun. the first few he was a little scared, but he warmed up quickly. I just thought he was so cute he just snuggled up next to the kids and quietly watched the show.

busy busy fun

So I feel like we've been pretty busy around here. We've been trying to get our new house ready to move into . I'm getting so excited. and in between all of the cleaning/painting we've been doing all kinds of summer fun. it's kind of nice slowly working on the house, rather than having to do it all in one day. we are getting carpet next week so I'm thinking we'll be able to move in soon after that. Last week I went over and painted just one wall in my room brown. I decided to let Bailee and Tyson help. I need to put an after picture up so you don't think I"m a total moron. Ryan doesn't know I did this so he might have a flip out when he sees the pictures.
They actually did a pretty good job at just getting it on the wall. If I would have ended our project after painting the room then it would have been a great day. but smart Katie decided that they did so well with that maybe they could do another project with me. I went outside and started painting the molding that would go on the walls. I gave them a cup of pink paint and a box to paint. about 2 seconds their paint spilled and was all over their clothes. (WHY WOULD I LET THEM PAINT IN GOOD CLOTHES!!!) sometimes I get good ideas but I just dont' think them through. anyways I took off their pants and washed them out then hung to dry. so they were runnin around the house in their underwear . While they were running around (in complete chaos) I decided it would be a good time to come inside and finish painting the molding(bad idea number 6) The kids reached the beyod hyper point and Bailee grabbed her pants and threw them into an open can of paint. so I compleatly lost it (in a ver loud way) after I lost it I walked outside and see two of my new neighbors right by our house visiting. I'm sure they totally heard me. I wanted to cry of embarrassment. at that point I decided it was a good time to be done for the day. So I took the kids to my moms and she was nice enough to watch them for the rest of the night while Ryan and I went up and got more work done.
I guess you could say it wasn't one of my better parenting days.

the other day I was doing hair and the kids made this awesome fort. I was so proud of them for not just sitting and watching TV I love when the get creative (in a non destroying way) and when they were done they even cleaned it all up.

Ryan has some fun neighbors that always let us go swimming in their pool. the kids love it. This was Davis's first time.

I was a little worried Tyson might dround!!!! look at this picture. he was so funny, he did that all on his own. I was playing with Davis and I look up and see Tyson. here is a list of all he was wearing, Life jacked, arm floaties, and 2 lifesavers. it reminded me of that comersial. I guess you can never be to safe.


I'll end with a couple cute Tyson and Bailee stories
the other day I was going for a bike ride with him and he stopped and picked up a dandy lion and blew it to make a wish, I hear him wisper his wish "when I grow up I hope I become a lawyer." I thought it was so cute. he of corse doesn't know what a lawyer is but he just knows his dad is one.

Tyson Question " mom when I don't look at you do you turn into a zombie?"

and her is a conversation between me and Bailee
(background) I was going to clean the house and so I was dressed very sloppy, and I was taking to kids to Arctic circle to get some lunch
Bailee: mom are you just going to go to the store looking like that
me: ya, why are you embarrassed?
Bailee: well no but I think you should be.

The Drunken Sailor

Here are some videos of Davis walking. I know, I know we have seriously advanced child. Almost 20 months and just thinking about walking. He is getting better everyday. We think he walks like a drunken sailor, but boy is he cute.

June Happenings

Well I better start with our exciting news! We are possibly going to be home owners as of June 26th!!!! I'm so excited we found a house that we like, put an offer on it and the bank accepted it. So, if all goes well we will close in a couple of weeks. yea!!!! I"m so excited and so excited to start decorating. it will kind-of be a lot of work with repainting, and carpeting and stuff, but not too terrible.

Last night was so fun. We love to hang out with Ryan's cousin Kyle and his wife Jill. So last night they came up to visit. Ryan's parents were out of town. There were so many extra rooms that they decided to spend the night. Bailee and Tyson were so excited. The kids stayed up and watched a movie and we stayed up until about midnight visiting. (which in my world that feels like 3 in the morning) I love doing that kind of stuff. just spur of the moment fun. it seems like now that we have kids, we arent't very spontaneous. so thanks Kyle and Jill for having a 30 year old's sleep over with us.




I just wanted to write a few cute things the kids have been doing lately.
I'll start with Davis....
he's getting soooo close to walking. he's been walking down the hall and back from couch to couch, he's been much more daring.
He can say a few words like mom, dad, outside (out siii) and his newest is whitty (wee wee) He LOVES his aunt whitney and Uncle Chris. they are staying at the bullocks with us and they are so cute with my kids. they both just play so cute with them and my kids adore them. It is so cute to watch davis say Wee Wee he scrunched up his nose and you can tell he's trying so hard to say it.

Lastly with Daivs. He has turned into a little terrorizor. He is in to EVERYTHING!!!! better yet he eats everything. I have to watch him so closely. here is a list of a few things I have found him eating. lip stick, chap stick, markers, crayons, anything he finds in the garbage, or my purse, ants, rocks, grass, whatever. He always tries to eat my hand sanitizer, and he's a pro at getting lids off of things. (I wonder why he's delayed???) today Ryan and I found him in the laundry room with scoops of detergent everywhere, all down his shirt, in his hair and all over the floor.
I do have to say, he is honestly the cutest little boy. no offense to my other kids but I think he's the cutest toddler I've ever had, so it makes is easier to not get upset at his big messes.



Tyson. He was so excited the other day. he came running in "mom I can say 2 new words."
Breakfast (he used to say breakrist) and Thirsty ( used to be firsty) it's so cute to watch him try to say the th sound, he's concentrating so hard.

Yesterday I walked into Tyson's room and he was jumping naked on his bed. here is our conversation.
me: ummmm what are you doing
Tyson: oh sorry mom I forgot your not supposed to jump naked on your bed.
so FYI if any of you come to our house please don't forget it's a rule that you can not jump naked on the beds. and you may need to remind Tyson.

Bailee.
I just thought this sounded funny. here is the conversation
me: will you go and get your shoes on
Bailee: C.K.
me: what does c k mean
Bailee: it means ok but I want you to know I'm spelling the word and if I say the letters ok it just sounds like I'm saying it. (it made me laugh)