D.o I.t Y.ourself Projects

The favorit pass time for me and Matt is doing projects around the house. Lucky for me when I say to Matt how about we paint this wall this way, or when I say could you build me this, he usually says sure. In the last two weeks we finished 2 projects that we were working on. The first was this wonderful coat tree that Matt built me. With me watching kids at home right now, the kids come in and toss their coats and backpacks on the floor by the front door it was this big pile of mess in front of our front door. But now it is all in it's place in this fantastic piece of furniture!

This is what it looks like with the kids stuff all over it, but at least it is not my floor :)

The other project that we did was painting the play room, since it is right off of the living room I wanted to keep with the colors of the living room, but I wanted to give it a casual feel and something fun for the kids as well since we are using it as a playroom. I saw a picture of a grid pattern that someone used in a boys nursery and so we thought we would do it...We did ditch the grid and just put up the squares so that it looked like a random pattern of squares on the wall. Here is what it came out looking like.

BEFORE:

And AFTER:

Don't worry we kept the kid but got a new cover for the futon...

Pictures never do a good paint job justice but we like it!

Being parents to Ty & Lyla

We have been very busy in the Davis house! With me being back in the swing of school, Ty starting basketball, and Lyla turning six months. There has not been a dull moment here. Being parents to two certainly keeps you moving, so here is all the updates on all the crazy happenings of our house:

TY STARTS BASKETBALL

Ty is on the Clippers team for basketball, and he is having tons of fun. The first game was kinda rough because the other team was a lot bigger, but all of the boys had fun. He is apart of this program that is really wonderful and his games are at our church gym. (Yes, those are cheerleaders in the back! We would not have signed him up for a program that didn't have cheerleaders!)

One of my favorite things right now might be watching TY play sports! It is so much fun to watch him learn and have fun doing it. I will try and post video of his game next week, so that you can see it more in action. He is keeping his teacher on her toes as well. I spoke to her yesterday because his report card came home and he went from and Excellent in Science to a Satisfactory??? So I called apparently it was a computer glitch and all the kids in his class got a Satisfactory. But we have had to put the smack down on him for losing things such as homework, and his lunchbox. I am afraid he is going to be like my Aunt Irene! I love you Auntie, and you might be the most brilliant person I know, but lets face it you would lose your head if it wasn't attached, and you are the only person I know who could get lost in your own neighborhood! :)

LYLA TURNS 6 MONTHS

The Lyla bug turned 6 months old this last week! She is weighing in at 15lbs! She is right on for all of her developmental stages. Most of all she makes us smile all the time! Ty continues to be her favorite person. She enjoys rolling around the living room to get to items that she wants, watching the kids that I watch, peas, and carrots, and not sleeping for her daddy, while I am at school. She is going to be a mover! We still have to swaddle her to get her to go to sleep...she doesn't need to be rocked or have a bottle, just wrapped so tight that she can't move around and stay awake. Otherwise she keeps her body moving and would stay awake for 24 hours!
This is her new face she is making ALL the time! Doesn't she look so smart :)...I think the reason she is making it though means teeth are a coming!

She loves to be a part of the crowd! After school all of the kids run to the snack box in the pantry and grab a snack and Lyla loves it if I put her in her highchair and let her sit with the kids with a little snack.

They keep things interesting but being parents to Ty & Lyla might be the best thing in the world!

Check out those piggies!

Nothing like a cute outfit, and playing with your piggies to...

Make you smile...

and giggle...

Watermelon??

Watermelon Anyone?

When Lyla was born we were given a couple of bikini's for her, but she has grown so fast she grew right out of them. My friend Gina got her this watermelon one and we randomly thought to put her in it the other night before we put her in the bath. She makes us smile so much! !!

Lyla's New High Chair

For Christmas Lyla got a new high chair from Mike and Brenda. (THANKS GUYS!) It was delivered yesterday and it is soooo nice! I was so excited to get it out and put her in it! It came out of the box ready to go, she was all about it! It is great because when the girls all eat lunch she loves to watch them and this puts her where she can see them. It is great for me too, because I can put her in it to play while I make the girls lunch. It is really great it has all these great settings and ways you can move it, plus it's cute (I picked it out :)...Side Note: NEVER thought I would be so excited over a freakin' high chair!

Since we were now equipped with the right tools for solids, we got moving and she really like the rice cereal, and bitter biscuits that I gave her. She ate 2 servings of cereal!! She slept a little better, but still woke up once. :(

She really liked doing it herself, but we will have to work on it some more :)

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

It was a wonderful Christmas for our family! It was simple and sweet. My favorite part was Ty helping me to make some goodies in the kitchen! We had loads of fun! We put Christmas music on my iPod in the kitchen and Ty and I sang while we worked :) I love it when he wants to help me in the kitchen!

We started off by opening our presents on Christmas eve and having family and friends over to play games. Auntie Irene bought Ty Lego Rock Band for Christmas,...He had been DYING to get that game, so he was SO excited when he opened that present!!

Lyla was VERY interested in opening presents!! She probably just loved the paper but it was very fun to watch her so intently look at it and want to touch it. Her favorite present was a little toy purse that Jenny got her! THAT'S MY GIRL!! Getting her started on a love of accessories early :)

We have started a tradition in our house of giving jammies on Christmas eve so that we wear new jammies to bed. I tried to get pictures of Lyla in her new jammies this year, we got her some fun baby's first Christmas jammies. But let's say she didn't really want to take pictures in her new jammies. But this picture still makes me smile!

On Christmas Day I dressed her up in her first Christmas dress, it was lots of fun!! And lucky for me she was a little more interested in taking pictures in that outfit :)

Matt got a new toy for Christmas too...it was really for both of us, but we all know who REALLY wanted it!! But I do have to say it looks pretty cool hanging in our bedroom. He does pretty good work ;)

We had a lot of fun! Matt discovered that his vacation at work was use it or lose it, so he had to take off several days, which was a nice little treat to have Matt home and not be terrified about how the bills were going to get paid. The guy deserves a freakin' award because he has worked at Dillabough's since Aug of 08' and has only taken 2 days off work and one was the day after I had Lyla! Those are days by choice, he has had others because of not having any work to do :( But he has not even been sick in all of that time! I think that is AMAZING! I am married to a pretty great man!

Tomorrow we will begin gearing up to get back in the swing of things. Ty goes back to school on Monday and I will have to start back at school in a couple of weeks. We hope that everyone that we know and love had a wonderful Christmas and that you have an amazing 2010!