Dora Galore.~

Celia woke up this morning talking all about her Dora party. She is so lucky to have such a wonderful Rah Rah. What a special little party she gave Celia for her early birthday! Thanks~




Joseph got a real kick out of being blindfolded and spun before playing pin the tail on swiper!

We were all happy Tate could come and celebrate with us. Joseph and him were paling around a lot. I tried to get a picture of the two of them but Emmy walked in front. This was the second picture after Tate had been saying cheese for quite a while.:)


Celia is so cute about her birthdays. She talks about them a lot, but gets shy when its time to open presents and sing the song. She waited patiently while we sang and loved licking the frosting off the cupcakes. They were super yummy and she didn't want to share, but we were all very glad she did.:)She had asked for chocolate cake with pink frosting. These cupcakes were a dream come true!




Celia is all set up on her new cozy pink pillow watching Dora ever so closely. What a great celebration afternoon!

A Day in the Backyard.~

Celia is always moving and dancing around. Its cute when she has flowers in her hands too.

Celia dug in the dirt long after we were done prepping and planting our garden this year. I can picture her gardening when she is a mom too. She loved it out there, now if only I can get her to stop picking all the flowers!:)

The gardener said to not use the soil, but to add our own in areas where we plant only. Celia and I planted cantaloupe, zucchini squash, and tomatoes.

The first budding rose of the year. Its not even from our yellow rose bush, it was from our peach colored one!

Today was a easy going day. It was beautiful outside. I was able to get some reading done, Yes, I finished my book for book group this month hooray! I should since I was the one who referred it as one to read hehe. Celia, Spencer and I were buddies. Brian and Joseph went to clean the Church in the morning and then over to Rah Rah's and Emelie was able to go to Great America for a band field trip. She is in concert band. They play a little then ride the rides and enjoy the amusement park the rest of the day.~ She had a great time and got home after 9 pm! Its great to have everyone home together again. Celia took a nap and Brian and I played some cards too. That is always fun. It reminds me of what we did before kiddos. Weekends are nice to get some relaxation in.~

Joseph's birthday~

We went to the park and had some pizza and carrot cake( made by Spencer & I) with RahRah, Papa, Lance, Dawn & the cousins from Utah for Joseph's Birthday. Its great to just relax and do an easy birthday outdoors. It was a little windy, but we were happy to be with the family.:)

Emmy loves to tease Celia and hold her back. There is always a lot of teasing going on with the Davis family Uncle lance teased Joseph and included a Tinkerbell barbie in his present. Celia was so happy saying theres my present, as if it was hers all a long.~


I thought this was a cute picture of the redheaded Davis cousins; Trevor and Taylor.~




We had a great Easter Dinner then had Joseph's yummy Birthday Ice cream Cake for dessert. That blue frosting stained our skin a little bit though!

I can't believe Joseph is Nine. Time flies. He is a sweet gentleman Joe. He likes to make all sorts of faces these days, but he still is our giggly and smiley boy. Joseph couldn't be happier with his DSI. He listens to music on it, checks his email, snaps pictures of family then distorts them and of course plays games. He has a very special birthday and its fun to have it during the school year too. He was a happy guy.:)

April's Digital Scrapbooking Page

Dawn showed me all sorts of new tricks on PhotoShop Elements 8. She even helped me to enter a "Be Inspired" Digital Scrapbook Challenge on godigitalscrapbooking.com. Pretty fun.

What a Easter!

All the kiddos got watches and Emmy figured out how to set everyones.~




We did watch a little conference, dove into the Easter baskets, colors eggs, and when we were ready for the hunt, we felt an earthquake. Tanya mentioned we were having an eathquake then we noticed the highly swaying chandelier and the pool seems to have rings in it. They were growing larger too. Then the pool acted like Tsunami. The water receded then went over the side by the diving board then came up way over the side onto he other end of pool. We saw a few news briefs after the quake and our pool was most impressive we decided hehe. I rescued Spencer from the back yard. he was swinging and we waded thru about four inches of water and came in the house with me before the water reached the door. We're all fine, but my Dad said that they will remember this Easter for years to come.
Bri got Celia this pretty little Dress that is reversible. We love it and it matches the flowers behind her hehe.

The Easter bunny packed a lot of souvenirs from South America in his baskets.:)



Easter was a pretty busy day. The whole group of kids were very excited to check out their baskets. Emmy led the troops down the stairs to find the baskets lined up on the table. I was impressed that Emmy made me a little Easter gift! She burned a CD of her music she has recently bought on Itunes. I'm glad she keeps me in the know of what she listens to lol. It was a great time, so busy and crazy, but memorable.

Addison's Big Birthday Celebration~

Birthday parties "Tanya Style" are always a big bash! We went to a laser tag place. We had a nice room on the third floor. Tanya made the yummiest Artichoke dip. I loved the chips and Salsa too. She always makes such a great effort to have yummy food and super fun activities and treats for the kids. Celia didn't play laser tag, but loved the arcade games in between and kept saying I won! Emmy was on both teams that won in laser tag. They had a great time!


Aww.. Happy Spencer and Grandpa.


Grandma and Celia dancing. Tanya had a wonderful play list of music for Addison's Party. We had a nice area with a bench and a screen to be with the grandparents, me and Spencer. It was where the party was. I danced with Spencer a lot and my mom too. We made it through the party!


The girls at Addison's Party~



Tanya got a new car! Its a great time to get one, she was able to get everything she wanted including leather seats, a sunroof, and built in blue tooth at a great price! She was able to request a specific color, one she had on her last car, and they even delivered the vehicle to her house! Gotta love it.


The cute Ten year old Addison enjoying blowing out the candles on his super fancy homemade red velvet cupcakes! I loved Happy Birthday song that played while Addison was up there, you know the one from Sixteen Candles the movie hehe.

Cousin Time.

These Kids love playing together~! Whether its computer playing, making sandcastles, shooting videos of themselves, or swordfighting, they have a blast! Addison and kieran got to spend two night straight at Grandmas with our trrop. It was busy, but fun filled!

Lil Joe~

When you're on vacation i've found I actually have a little time to just hang out with each kiddo. This day was Joseph's turn~

Joseph started the vacation as a real helper and sweetheart. He loves time alone with mom. We discovered there were wild rasperries growing behind the porch swing in the back yard. Joseph liked taking pictures and making faces for the camera.~

Visiting the folks~

Cruising in my Dad's Land cruiser. He loves that he can seat eight and drive everyone around. Its like a roller coaster ride hehe, an adventure!



Emmy in her super cute purple hat from Ecuador and Celia hugging her new Dora doll the size of herself!

My Folks came home from South America a day early. Since the kids had already been out of school a week and a half and weather was coming our way, we decided to travel to my parents house a day early too.:) We sure enjoy hanging out at my folks house, enjoying the weather, the cousins, the pool /hot tub, and especially the spoiling from my folks. I love how my Dad cook the meals and mom mom makes everything so beautiful and special. We appreciate all they do to help us have a resort like vacation when we visit them.:)

Exploring Nearby.

Even though it was overcast today, we packed some food (Turkey Sandwiches on buttermilk bread and Capri suns )and went for a quick errand and a picnic. You don't have to go far away to find neat things that don't cost anything, Its great. We found ourselves near Rover park in Roseville. There was barely anyone around which was nice because Spencer didn't know if he liked going to this place to picnic. We had swings, slide, bridge etc.. to ourselves and a cute little table with wooden benches. We had lunch then noticed the little path into was seemed like woods behind the park. We explored a little. The boys were nervous so we sent them back for about two minutes to be on their swings while us girls went a little further. We found a lot of purple flowers, a stream, and a broken house as Celia calls it. I've never seen Spencer so excited to see me when we came back in view after only a couple mins. They swung and played around and Joseph enjoyed sleeving his Magic the Gathering Cards and telling me all about the monsters in that game. Pretty ironic as I couldn't get him to go on a small hike in the city hehe.

After that we went to Auburn and got some drinks drove around seeing neat houses and scenery. Celia said it was beautiful and loved the pink flowers and circles which she called the curvy roads. We ended up at the American River Overlook. It was beautiful and we need to go back there when we have time and can hike around. It so close by and felt like we were in the middle of nowhere, I love it.:)

Celia looked like a little vampire ready to pounce ;)

Emmy was swinging so high, Spencer was looking at her and laughing.

I would have more pictures, but my batteries ran out right after I took these few at the park!

Celia Bear~