Eye Candy for your Home

Go ahead, go crazy. Decorate your house from head to toe! Here are some more wonderful ideas.

Above entery inside master bedroom.
Welcome guests with a pleasant greeting on your front door
"All because two people fell in love"

Above master bed, "Choose the one you love, love the one you choose"
On foot board of bed.
Close up of wall above master bed.


Customized blocks

Birth announcements


Above closet

On the wall in your daughter's room

Laundry room

On Mirrors
On picture frames

Seasonal
Hallways:
On wall in the office.
Another picture frame

Customized blocks
Message board in the kitchen

The New Zealand All Blacks

This is the one of the reasons we love the Haka which will explain the following videos. Especially for those of you who don't know what the Haka is. For those other Poly's and friends from Hawaii it's gotta make you say sheeeee hoooooooo!

Davis Haka

This is the girls doing a Haka along with the ALL BLACKS prior to a match in this past year's Rugby World Cup in France. These two girls love the Haka and their Polynesian heritage and so does their daddy and uncles.

gingerbread haka

This is our favorite video as of lately, because we love our Polynesians.

New Bowling Technique

How many things can you do before your ball hits the pins?

Self Defense Tool Proves Effective

So I've been a little disappointed that I haven't had anything to write about that was interesting lately. But my good ol' Brother Ryan's birthday party tonight provided me with just the right ammunition.


So Firstly, Happy Birthday Ryan! I can't believe he is 17 years old! He is my baby brother (we are 12 years apart, just like he and Cambria) and I have always loved him. When he was a little baby and couldn't talk I used to spend so much time telling him all my High school drama problems because I knew he couldn't ever tell anyone. Now he's all grown up, colleges from ALL over are trying to recruit him because he is a genius, and He is a dang good athlete as well (with really big muscles that he is proud of). I may not get all the details right,but you'll get the general idea. Now, let the story begin:

It was a family dinner not unlike any other. My mom, dad, three brothers, grandma, cousin Candi and the Migdat clan were all in attendance. Oh, yeah, and my brother Sean brought a date along for the evenings festivities. The traditional Happy birthday song had been sung and the candles were blown out leaving a lot more smoke than seemed usual. My Grandmother began to cough. Kind of a lot. Then my Aunt Wendy, who was sitting next to her, began to cough too. They way they coughed began to make my Mom and Dad nervous. My Dad went to check the BBQ and realized he'd left it on and thought that was the source of the problem. He turned it off and returned to the dinner table. Shortly After my Dad began to cough. Kind of a lot. Then my Mom and I guess the cough worked its way around the table hitting everyone. They thought maybe they'd poisoned the air with their cooking. The bouts of coughing ended, but every once in awhile, they'd start up again. My Brother Chis had been playing with Sean's date's key chain sporadically through out the evening. Later on as the Migdat's were getting into their car and about to leave, Sean's date said "that was so weird, it was like someone was spraying my pepper spray." as she delicately touched her key chain. A sheepish grin spread Chris's face as he said, "Oh, was that what it was?" He has seen her key chain, and not knowing what the pepper spray was, sprayed it out every once in awhile.

This is him. Whoops. I don't know if he looks innocent, but he does know htat Pepper Spray works.

In other stories, I've reread the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer again, and I have been thinking a lot about Edward. It would be nice to have him stay up all night with my kids when they wouldn't or couldn't sleep. You know, if he didn't wan to drink their blood or anything like that. And What if somebody could hear my thoughts. What would they think of me? I wonder what kind of person I sound like on the inside where all my secret feelings are free to safely bounce around. I think I am very glad that my thoughts can't be heard.

Looks like Mom!

MyHeritage: Celebrity Collage - Black and white photographs

Looks like Dad!

MyHeritage: Celebrity Collage - Antique photographs

Looks like mom!

MyHeritage: Celebrity Collage - Roots

Say It Sweetly!

My sweet little brother, Christopher is in the process of making a web page for our new vinyl business, Lasting Impressions Made Simple. It still needs some work and I was getting anxious to display some of my work and some other things made by friends. So feel free to drop by and check it out. I have a link from my list of blogger friends or you can go to sayitsweetly.blogspot.com

Sweet Baby Boy!

I love this little guy so much. He is already four months old. It seems to have gone by in such a blur. He is always so happy and pleasant. God knew I needed a good natured baby! He smiles all the time and makes little goo-ing sounds (and the girls always say "he said his first word!") My favorite thing lately is that he laughs every time we take his shirts off over his head. It must tickle him under his arms.

I do fear for my little man though. I am sure this is just the beginning of what life will be like with two older sisters. They thought he would look great in this Hannah Montana wig.

Happy (Busy) Holidays

This is our Holiday in pictures. We started celebrating on the 21st of December at The Davis's House. It was a three day event that the kids loved. We made sugar cookies, played with cousins, did a Christmas play and had a gift exchange.
This is Kai with the only brother, Mike, who has the same coloring as he does. Mike is the baby of the family, can you tell?
Cambria and Kiera had SOOO much fun with the sugar cookies and the chef hat!



These are ALL of the Davis boys.

This is our big happy family.

Bubba's first little Chistmas. He got a swing, a play mat, and some new clothes, oh yeah, a hat, too. Love that double chin.

Cambria was really concerned that Papa was bad this year. In case you can't tell, he is holding a whole bag of coal. Cambria kept saying "poor Papa."

This is the Christmas Fairy, Ryan.
Kai and Chris got a surfboard bag.
Went bowling with some of our family. It was so funny. If I ever learn how to put a video on here I will show you some hilarious footage of Cambria gently drop kicking her bowling ball and then doing lots of great dance moves in the minute and a half it took her ball to knock over the pins. What is really funny is that she usually got spares.

Cambria was teaching Kiera how to drop kick the ball.



This is how we spent out new year's eve. Kai was in Hawaii with my brother Chris. So we threw snap caps at 7:30 at night and yelled happy new year over and over. It is the first new year that I have slept through in a long time.

This is the girl's saying hi to there dad while he was away. It was really cute to hear them talk to him.
This is Kiera during our hide-and-seek game. She thought she was totally hidden. She is such a funny girl.

We had a happy holiday and loved being with so many members of our family. We hope all of your holidays were lovely too.

Baby, Baby

My Little boy is three months old! Where does the time go, and for that matter, why has my belly not disappeared with the time?! Usually I am back to normal by now, but alas, I still have a way to go. But this is not about me, this is about my boy. I just love him so much. I was so scared to have boy because I don' t know, the fear was irrational, but it was there nonetheless. But I am completely in love with this sweet little boy. He is calm and sweet and happy and a true blessing to our lives. The girls are great with him and it is so sweet to watch them interact. He still has a hundred different names: Bubba, Dada (don't know why), brother, Kai, Malachi, etc. He'll either answer to everything or nothing.
In other news, we only get to have our little tiny tree this Christmas. Kai seems to think this is funny. Personally, I think he planned it to work out this way, us being treeless I mean. He wasn't really excited about getting a tree so he kept putting it off every time we had plans to go. Well, I finally decided that I might have to take matters into my own hands so, I packed the kids into the car Monday morning and headed on down to the local Walmart. There were no trees left. None. Zip. Zilch. Zero. I knew we were late but I thought we would at least be able to find a Charlie Brown tree. You know, ugly, sparse, wilted, something. But the only thing left were holiday wreaths. You guessed it, no other place to go in this small town. I could drive 76 miles to Vegas to look. or 36 to St. George, but quite frankly it was hard enough to pack the kids in the car to go to Walmart. I told Kai when he came home tonight that Cambria was really sad that we didn't have a real tree (me too)and he laughed. This was a confirmation of his designing this plot. No tree (or rather, a small tree) for Christmas. I guess I should embrace the Holiday Spirit and be grateful.

Still in other news, we had a security system installed tonight. It was an LDS couple who had spent some time in Hawaii that sold it to us. Cambria fell in love with the young girl and kept inviting her to dinner and asking her to come play in her room. I kept trying to explain to her that they weren't really friends, just salesmen. The funniest part though was when the couple left and the installation crew came to the door. I let them in and they were carrying power drills and other equipment. As the were entering our house Cambria took note and said to me quite non chalantly, "hmmmm, I hope they don't kill us." Ahhh, to live in her mind just for a short while . . .

Tiny Dancers and Planters

It scares me to think that next year I will be on a schedule. That I will actually have to get somewhere everyday at a time that someone besides myself has scheduled. I am talking about kindergarten. Maybe I can chalk my crazy antics up to sleep deprivation, but how long can I use that excuse. My girl's had a dance recital at 6pm on Friday. Or so I thought. I had them ready by 4:30 and gave myself the rest of the time to nurse my baby and get myself ready. I thought I would have plenty of time and show up early, maybe help the teacher get things in place, Get my girls used to the stage, etc. Well I get a phone call from my friend at 5:07. She says, " Where are you? How come you aren't at the recital." I instantly go into a panic as she tells me that it started at 5pm not 6pm. CRAP! "Get your shoes on, get in the car NOW!" Luckily we live two minutes away from the rec center where the recital was being held. But I had to call all the people we invited to tell them about the change. It really sucked and luckily everyone made it except one of our family members. WE were so sad that Amanda missed it.

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We love watching our little ones dance! I think Cambria also picked her nose while she was up there. I didn't get very many pictures of the actual dance because I was too busy cam cording. Kai was meeting me there and I don't know where he ended up sitting. I am sad to say I didn't get any pictures of Kiera, only video and I had to crawl half way across the floor to get the shot because someone stood in front of me at the last second and cut off the only good angle I had. Cambria had a great time and Kiera did so good for her first dance! after their teacher gave them candy canes being climbed by gummy elves.

After the recital, Maama and Papa took us out to eat at Los Lupes, one of the tasty little Mexican food places by our house. Koko and Kim ( Kai's brother and his wife,who did make it to the recital) are visiting from Kansas. They got to come to the recital last year too. We really miss these guys.
That is our baby, not theirs:) Finally to the planting. This is one thing that I love doing with my kids that hasn't been done for along time. They love to help me in the garden. We always plant a little ornamental cabbage for some color during the winter. I think it makes them feel grown up. Its not exciting, but it creates memories.