I thought I would share this cute picture of our Festively Fun Fall Porch! Complete with out newly built pumpkins!! I do love to decorate!
Living Proof you don’t need money to decorate! Sorry the pic is dark, I took it with my phone at like 11:30 last night! I should have been in BED! I think the new paint makes my SF paintings pop a little more! :)
Hi Everyone…and Amber :)
We have had some crazy weeks!! The Center is keeping me very busy! I am trying to do a little more marketing to get some more business, we are doing good without new business, but it would be nice to have sign ups pick up a bit. We hosted a table at our church ministry fair and that got us out there a little more. It was great but it was a lot of work for me for those of you who know me, you know I don’t just throw things on a table. I of course had to set up a HUGE display…and then I got to clean it up :) I forgot to take a picture of it but instead here is a picture of our new banner that is on the outside of the building. I think it is pretty cool, but I did design the lay out for it :)
only I lifted the price tag to see that they wanted WAY too much for them. But the more I looked at them the more I though Matt could build those and I could paint them!! So I snapped a picture with my phone and away I went. I was able to convince Matt to do a project today and we got to work building them, and made them twice as big as the ones that they had at the store! Here are the ones that we built before the paint job….
By building our own out of scrap wood that Matt had in the garage, I got 2 of them for $14!!!!!! Now we are talking!!!! It was a fun project for me and Matt to do too!!
Here is the big one after I painted it … (it is 2.5 feet tall!)
We are going to light them and put them on the porch! I am so excited about them!!!!
Well I know you all would rather know about the smaller Davis’ so let’s get on with the kid update huh….
TY DAVIS
Ty is doing…better!! As most of you know he was recently stripped of all luxury items and sent to exile island! LOL He has since earned his things back and besides being to rough with his sister and the occasional not listening and the all too often back talking he is doing better…. He has become a pumpkin farmer :) We put a pumpkin patch out along the creek and we have 6 really good sized pumpkins! It is going to be VERY fun to have our own pumpkins from our patch to carve! A couple of them are HUGE!! Here he is with one of them….
LYLA DAVIS
Lyla is doing good I think she MAY have gotten over the screaming thing but I am not totally sure yet!! She is one Spicy little girl! She is getting big and her hair is growing so much we have had to venture into pigtails…just to keep it out of her face! She loves her daddy, her brother, suckers, and driving her mom crazy! Here are some pictures…..
PIGTAILS
I put pigtails in her hair and a clip in her bangs so that it is all pinned back…but she pulls the clip out and tries to eat it, lucky for us for the most part the pigtails do the trick…And she has not swallowed any clips….YET! Our Children’s Pastor John calls her BOO with her pigtails in…:) BOO is the little girl from the movie Monsters Inc.
Her dad introduced her to suckers and good luck taking one away!!!!!!!!!!!!
So that is the current happenings of the Davis family. We are looking forward to Halloween and having some family visit! Lyla will be dedicated at church on Halloween and we are so blessed that Juan will be the pastor dedicating her! If you are in the neighborhood of College Church on Halloween please join us!!
This update is for my friend Amber who keeps asking me to update my blog!
HI AMBER!!
Ty came home with this little project that I guess they did in 1st grade. I thought it was AWESOME and needed to be shared. For those of you that don’t know the funny part is the Job…This child FREAKS if a small dog even looks at him! So I asked him about it and he said he just would not take care of dogs! Crazy KID! And I guess he is sticking to it..and he will Mary Kaylee Becker.
Well I have good news and good news, the good news is I am updating the blog for the first time since Lyla’s birthday almost a month ago!
But I have a good excuse I have been a busy director! KIDZone Learning Center is up and running and it is growing day by day! We now have 14 children enrolled and it has become a good ministry. God has blessed us with the most amazing families! So far we are able to serve 3 single moms who are all working and going to school!! 2 of which were teen moms. I feel so blessed to help them with their future and their child’s future! I know that this thing is going to continue to be amazing!
This week Mike and Matt built me cubbies for all of the kids stuff and we were able to make a welcome area, and now it is starting to look like a learning center! When I think about what it took to get here I just have to smile! Here they are installing the cubbies. They do good work :)
It has been a GREAT summer! We have had some really great times with family this summer! In Idaho we have gotten a visit from Mike & Brenda, Aunt & Grandma, Jaden & Jen, and The Kellerer’s. And on a little trip to Seattle we got to see all of the Davis clan for Uncle Jeff’s wedding! The kids have really enjoyed the summer! Lyla like’s playing in the water just as much as her brother does… Here she is drinking from the hose with Papa! :)
Summer had to come to end sometime though and for Ty it ended this week! :(
He is now in the 2nd grade and is in Ms. Ganske’s class. Matt and I know Ms. Ganske from college and think she is going to be great for him. So far he is liking it. Here is a picture of him on the second day of second grade! :)
He is standing next to our newest addition to our front yard. Some of you might recognize it :) The fountain that he is standing next to was bought for Mike & Brenda as a memorial to Jen by some of the Davis family and it was in their backyard in San Francisco, but since they have officially sold that house we asked if we could have it at our house so that it would stay in the family. They said yes and brought it out here and we placed it right in the front of the house. It makes a nice addition to the front! And we feel so honored to have it at our house!
It has been some crazy weeks! Hopefully things will start to get into a rhythm so that I will be better at updating until then PRAY FOR ME! :)
I have not had much time to reflect on the fact that today my little girl is turning one!
I can not believe that it is already here! This time last year all I knew was that I spent a ton of time dreaming up a beautiful girls nursery and was anxiously anticipating seeing her face for the first time. Because I had to be put under completely when I had my C-Section with Ty I was scared to death of what it would be like to have Lyla and being awake for the whole thing. But of course God looked after us and with Matt by my side we welcomed Lyla Rose Davis into the world.
This year has been FULL of beautiful blue eyed smiles, lots of messes, learning to crawl and then walk and now she is roaming around getting into everything. She keeps us moving but it is hard to think about life without her or even remember what it was like before her.
I Thank God for my beautiful little
LYLA BUG!
Dear Lyla: I love you more than words can say, I am blessed to be your mommy, and I can’t wait to watch you grow into a beautiful woman. ~ Love Mommy!
please help us celebrate that this time last year Lyla completed our family!
Most of you will receive this in the mail this coming week but it is just too adorable not to share!!
The WONDERFUL picture was taken courtesy of Andrea Dillabaugh
The VERY cute lay out and lettering is also courtesy of the wonderful and talented
ANDREA DILLABAUGH!
Thank you Andrea for helping us make wonderful memories for Lyla’s Birthday!!
This birthday is going to be wonderful we are also being blessed by the creative genius of my friend Sean Ingle’s wife… the wonderful and talented Mrs. Jennifer Ingle, or you can call her jingle :) She is making cupcake toppers and a beautiful banner!! I just can’t believe her birthday is next week!!
I am ready to PARTAY!!!
Andrea took some other pictures of Ty and Lyla and the whole family so stay tuned for those!!
