Brandon turns 17

Happy Birthday Brandon!!

Today my littlest brother turned 17- He is the brother that is most like me. He is a great uncle and a great brother and we love him so much. Here is some pictures of our last visit with him. Happy Birthday Brandon we miss you!

Christmas Pictures

So... I have been informed that I have not blogged in the month of December yet. Well I have been doing lots of things like buying presents, presidency meetings, hosting fun school, making gifts, taking the kids to the dentist, and the list goes on and on. Anyways... I have been trying to take some pics of the kids for the past few days. What I do is set up a makeshift backround in my playroom and get the kids to pose one by one. The upside is you can take however long you want and the kids aren't scared. Downside is they are your kids and with that comes with it's own set of challenges. Anyways here are a few of the pics that I took.

New nephew

Ryder Carl Riebli
November 28, 2008 4:02 p.m.
7 pounds 1 ounce

Here is my little nephew Ryder! He came 3 weeks early but is doing great! My brother C.J. is in Iraq and was not able to be there for the birth but was on the phone during the delivery. I can't wait to meet him- he is so cute!

Family Birthdays

So with all the craziness that has been going on the past month I didn't get to post these. In October a lot of the family came from various places to celebrate Jazlynn, Kyler and Caden's birthday. We hung out and watched football and then went to the park to have cupcakes. The kids always have a lot of fun when they get together.

The three Davis Kiddos.

Megan and Chris are big kids.

Janae and Gracie are starting to look like each other.




Kyler loved his cupcake. In fact he ate three. He is such a cutie.




Big Aunt Janae and little Jazzy.







Caden is hard to get a picture of but I got him to stop for a second to get one.

My boys.

7 crazy cousins.

Jazzy's New Haircut

I have been debating whether or not to cut Jazlynn's hair for some time now.
She has really healthy hair but it is pretty straight and fine so i wanted to give her a cute style. So today I finally decided it was the day!

Here is her before picture!

Here is her during picture with a lollipop in her mouth and in her hand. We went to cool cuts for kids and they are fantastic- they even let them sit in little cars and watch movies!

Here is her after picture! I think she looks cute but definitely older. Post some comments and tell me what you think!!

Happy Halloween!

Well-This is how our Halloween started. Jaydon had crazy hair day at school and begged us to give him a blue mohawk. We had a hard time deciding yet we told told him we would do it if he never did it again. It is all good clean fun and it will grow back... eventually.

It does make him look like a punk!

He is still our silly Jaydon though.

We carved pumpkins on Halloween- because of all the craziness we didn't get to it sooner. Here are my cute girls! They have gotten so good at posing!

They each had a pumpkin based on their size.

Jaydon did his himself while the girls watched me. Jared had to work so I ended up doing the girls myself so I didn't have many pics.

The Bontragers came over for dinner and trick or treating. Here is Brooklyn and Janae.

And Jazzy and Jack

Here are the kids with dad all dressed up.

Here is our skeleton- thanks to my mom (sue) I didn't have to buy any costumes. The kids had specific requests and because she works at the goodwill she found them and sent them to us. Jaydon wanted to keep his hair through the night- so we called him a punk skeleton.

Janae wanted to be a mermaid- So she was thrilled when she got her Ariel costume! It suited her as she is such a girlie girl!

This costume has been worn by all of our kids. I let Jaz pick between a kangaroo, a cow or a pumpkin and this is what she chose. She LOVES to dress up and didn't want to take off her costume!

Here are all of our crazy kids! It was a great Halloween.

Crowe's Nest Farm

On Wednesday we went with our playgroup to Crowe's Nest Farm. It was about 45 minutes away. The kids had a great time running around looking at the animals!

Jazlynn by the tractor tire.

The girls were very excited about the ostriches.

Everyone listening and watching as the cow gets milked.

It is so great to have such good friends.

Janae in front of the tire.

Janae and Evka

Janae, Sadie and Evka on the tractor ride.

Lucy and Jazlynn

For your information this cow is NOT a Holstein like the sign says.

Everyone waiting for the tour to start!

Trip to Salt Lake

So we left on Monday night at 1:00 a.m. and drove 20 hours straight until we got to Salt Lake. The kids did so well- we were so proud of them! Jared had the opportunity to speak at his Grandpa's funeral as well as be a pall bearer and I know he was honored to do both of these things. We stayed there for a week and then hit the road again. It was such a blessing to be with all of the family and especially Grandma through a tough time.

Jared with his brothers Ben and Mark. Mark flew in from Germany and we hadn't seen him in a year so it was great to see him. Ben is moving to Austin in November!!

Jared says, "Where is Jazzy?" and she says, "Here I am Daddy!" This was taken at a farm we went to after the funeral with some of the family.

Uncle Ben and Nana with the girls.


Auntie Megan and Auntie Janae

Tanner and Jazlynn... soooo cute!

Mimi with Gracie and Janae

Nana with Janae

Megan with Jaz

All 7 of the Davis kids!!

Jared's family

Our family