The reason my marriage is on the rocks every Dec

 

So I think Josh actually doesn't mind the chocolates, he is pretty supportive, and hardly says anything when I neglect to make dinner for 2 weeks.  But when I am done with the chocolates and start on the cookies for all the neighbors, the tension starts to get a little high.  That doesn't count the carmels and pretzels and all the other holiday treats I feel I need around to make it feel like the holidays.  Haha, crazy girl, the thing is, all my sisters do it.  We go crazy right around the holiday time and slam in every thing we possible can right up until the last minute.  Where do you think we get it Mom?

Greece

OK you guys, bring on the candy.  It's time to redeem yourselves.  Almost all of you peops said you were going to come visit me and then noth.  Well, it's time to start planning a new trip.  I think Greece would be a great place to visit, don't you? 

Another Day in the Life of Jav

I dropped Javie off at dance at 4:00 and came back to pick him up at 6:00.  When I picked him up he seemed a little sad.  I asked him what was wrong, and this is how his story went:  I'm sad because at 5:00 I switched classes and in between the switch I ran upstairs to the bending machine and wanted to get this awesome big pack of donuts for $1.50.  But I already spent all of my money but a $1.25.  So I laid on the floor to see if there was any money under the machines and I saw something big and silver  (there are 2 receptionists right there facing the vending machines) I couldn't reach it, so I ran outside and climbed up a tree.  (Just so you know, these are the little landscaping trees about 12 feet tall in front of the building).  I broke off a limb and stuck it under my shirt so that they wouldn't see me, and came back in.  So I got the money with the stick, but it was only a nickel, the 2nd to worst one I could get.  Then I only had $1.30, and it wasn't even enough to get anything good, cuz I already bought the powerade." 
Then I asked him where he was getting all this money to spend on junk food anyway.  He said, "oh ya know how you gave me, and Sydney, and Ellie all a dollar, well they gave it back to me and said, we can't take your mom's money."

Halloween Half (and all its torture)

 Okay, I know I have been posting tons lately, sorry peeps.  But you just gotta love this.  Here was my Halloween Costume - Robyn.  So the first 4 miles of this race was starting in Sundance, and it was pretty steep downhill.  (It killed my knee) But the greatest part, I peed my pants, which I always do if I run for very far.  On this one, I just happened to pee my pants in the first mile.  Then there were cameras everywhere, snapping shots of you while you run. 

So the first pic you can't tell as much, but here is a good one of it on this pic.  Turns out I wore a few layers and they were all right there, just waiting to get my skirt wet.  So for the next 12 miles, I ran with a big wet skirt in the front, just showing off all my glory front and center. 

Daiz's Halloween - For Better or For Worse

 Cute little Daiz as a Princess Pirate.  She wore the hat all day.  She played in the trunk while we passed out candy.

 This is after we raced home for ice to the head and a bath.  She took a dive right out of the Lincoln.

 Here is a sweet side shot of her unicorn growing bigger.

Here is about a half hour later, a little calmer, and showing off a little bit of a hamburger look.

Halloween Davis Style

                                                    Dax was a hippie.

 

                                                  Toj, after no thought whatsoever, put on this mask.

                                          Jav had Josh draw a skeleton on his clothes, but at the last
                                          minute opted out of face paint.  Who is he?  It's Halloween.     
                                                                                                                               Mag was my favorite costume.  We went to 6 stores and he didn't want                                                    a costume from any of them.  He said lets just find something at home.
                                                    I found 3 costumes for him to choose from and this is the one he
                                                    picked.  He didn't care that is was CRAZY SMALL.  Haha, I
                                                    laughed my head off the entire time and he was one happy camper.

                                          Front view.

Need a nap?

 

Have you ever been so tired, you just fall asleep anywhere?  In any position?  Haha, this was the middle of the day during lunch, he was like that for about 25 minutes, until his phone rang and woke him up.  

Jav had a substitue teacher

We made caramel apples, and let the kids take one to their teacher.  Javie came home and told me Mrs. Galt had a substitute today.  I asked him if he left it on her desk for her.  He said, Mom, I just couldn't resist, I just took one bite.  I thought he was teasing.  Then he pulls it out of his backpack.  Then he says, Mom, it was just too good, I couldn't stop at just one bite.  The he walks off like, well that's how it went down, you would have done it too Mom. 

Mag's Prayer

So Mag asked Candi (she's the primary secretary) when he was going to get one of those paper thingies.  He wanted to be asked to do something in primary.  Well what do you know?  Sydney Taylor was gone and couldn't give the opening prayer.  Candi asked Mag if he wanted to say the prayer.  Yep, he walked straight up to the pulpit without batting an eye, waited for everyone to be quiet, and started in on his 5 minute prayer.  I kid you not.  I wasn't sure if I should go up or not, I knew he didn't need any help, but possibly a little direction (mabes like when to stop or something like that), but he gave no possible time for that.  He said the funniest things, the entire primary was stifling their laughter.  I was shaking I was laughing so hard.  He thanked Heavenly Father for all the colors on the earth because I love colors.  He thanked him for the colors of all the United States.  (he has a map of the US that he likes to do, and all of the states are colored, of course no one else knew his first part referred to the globe and he thinks it is all blue and brown, and the 2nd part referred to about 5 colors that all of the states are)  He thanked Heavenly Father that the Devil could learn to choose the right and make good choices and turn good.  He thanked him that if anyone wants to go to Paris and they think they will like the Eiffel Tower then they can go across the ocean and go see the Eiffel Tower.  He then blessed that the devil could turn good and quit making bad choices.  Then he thanked him again that the Devil could turn into a good person and just be good.  He blessed that we can make wise choices not foolish choices like the man that built his house upon the sand.  He blessed that the bad guys can quit smoking and turn into good guys.  He probably got out about 30 sentences.  I could only understand about the last half of it, I was too sidetracked trying to figure out if I should have gone up or not.  I knew some of what was going to come.  He always blesses the devil and for bad guys to turn good.  I kept looking up trying to decide what to do, and every adult in the place was laughing.  The bishop's wife was totally turned around in her seat and full on staring at me, laughing so hard.  Everybody else was trying to cover it up, or just peeking out at me throughout the prayer.  I had tears running down my face by the end.  He sat down so darn proud of himself.  Meanwhile 5 of us women were trying to fix our makeup because we had tears running down our face.  Every adult in the entire room but 2 came up and had to talk to me about how funny it was.  (Plus our jr and sr primary's are combined) There were alot of peeps in there.  Then at dinner I asked Jav if he heard Mag's prayer and he said, yeah, I laughed my head off.  Mag looked right at him in all his confidence and just said, I don't care if you laugh, I don't care at all. 

Since Dad and I are empty nesters we decided to go through Yellowstone Park and drive to some of the places we always skip.  Just an over-nighter, but it was pretty fun.  We turned the car around to go back and see some white tail deer on the mountain and just as we got there a bear walked across the road in front of us.  Couldn't get my camera out in time.  And of course the other one we missed was a bull elk with a huge rack running through a stream.  By the time we got stopped he was in the trees.  So no  picture again.

Anyway, these are a few of the shots we took.

Let's Go

Hey ya peops,

Does anyone want to go on a trip with us to Italy?  We're going on October 24th, just for 6 days.  It's going to be super-duper fun AND you can hang out with our cool fam AND you'll be sorry if you don't come.  We're going to be spending a lot of our time in Cinque Terre.  If you want to go ahead and google that you can see some sweet pics that will make you want to come all the more.  We'll eat gelato and other deliciousness.  So come.

Guess where I'm going?

Yo Peeps,

 I know this is kind of crazy but I actually really do love my job.  eBay is the goods! I spend 8 hours a day reading other people's listings,then immidately laughing, crying,or  gagging,and then delete their listings, and suspending and restricting accounts, or answering their emails why I deleted their listings with a polite but firm, "This item cannot be sold on eBay. Do not re-list."  All the while, my i-touch is running my netflix with movies, tv shows, and music.  I seriously have the best job ever!~

           Anyhoodle, I will have been with eBay for FIVE years next year, and do you know what that means? It means it's time for my eBay sabbatical (next year)!! It means that eBay gives me an entire 4 weeks off paid, plus my 21 days off a year that I get normally. The four weeks have to be taken together, they truly want you to not come in for an entire month. (Note to self: Look at longest months of year.) They will allow you to use 2 weeks of your normal paid time off in conjunction with the sabbatical, so you can take a total of six weeks off altogether.  Sounds pretty awesome huh? Well, Ive decided that what Im going to do with my time, is what I LOVE to do!~ I'm gonna travel!~  I'm going on the trip, that I've been dying to do for about 5 years!


                              VIENNA/BUDAPEST/PRAGUE!!!

So sadly for you guys, you'll be hearing a lot of how much overtime I'm working to save up for this. I'll be taking a guided tour, and HOL if and when you decide Greece as your place to live,I'll finish my trip there, UNLESS Dust & Alissa end up in London afterall, then, then I'll be spending a week in each place!! 

YAY!~ I'm so excited!!

PS. My schedule changes July 2nd to 6am to 430pm Mon, Tues, Fri, Sat.  Work two days,have two days off,work two days, have a day off.  I LIKE :-)

Baby Shower for Case and Audrey

 All these pictures of the cute food table turned out the craps because my flash wouldn't go off, so sorry. Plus Audrey already posted most of these on her blog, but I thought I would throw mine on here too. Turns out I didn't take to many, these are all of them.

 These marshmallow pops that Case and Mom did turned out way cute and the kids loved them. I don't know if any adults ate one, and I didn't hear if they were good, but I know the kids loved them and ate most all of them.

 Ern got these cute bags of popcorn and made popcorn to put in them and Ang made these awesome cupcakes. All my pics turned out super crappy of them, so you get a little shot of them in this one, but they were dang good. I think we all ate about 3 too many of them and all were a little sick by the end of the night, but then when we woke up in the morning we were ready for another of course.

 Linz made this dang cute banner.

 Drez and Brientz got to come too and hang out with all the girls. I didn't get a pic of Brientz because she was in and out playing with the kids, but she was there helping me make a frog baby :)

 Ang was smiling for this picture but really she was telling us all to get the show on the road. She was starving and we were hanging out, you know the ways. Haha.

 Thanks to Case and Audrey for getting preggers so we had a reason to get together. 

 Thanks to Ern for putting it altogether.

 "Sissy's"

Case and Audrey with all their goods, and they got a lot, considering that there were only 7 peeps givng them gifts :) (like Ang said at the shower, things have changed a little bit since her and Alissa had their first kids. Bird by the time you have a kid (once you get married of course) you are going to rake in the gifts)  :)  

I loved every second of this weekend (although part of it could have been because I didn't have Casha to watch destroy things constantly). Seriously though I really did love it. I had tons of fun and laughed lots and lots. There is just nothing quite like being with each other, I have way more fun with all of you than I ever do with friends. I wished we all lived a little closer so we could get together more often.  Love all ya peeps, bring on FULLER FEST. I can't wait. I remind Saylor about it almost every other day.