Family Frolf

Now that the weather has warmed a little, we have once again taken up our favorite summer pastime of frisbee golfing at the local course. OK, this is really Tom's favorite (because he is stinkin' AMAZING at it and places at all the area tournaments!), but he lets us come along and Derek and I are learning together. Dallan gets to ride in the stroller and play at the park when we are done.

If you are really savvy with a frisbee (like my Tom), you actually call it a "disc" and thus "disc golf", and carry a specialized bag full of expensive, varying weight "discs" including distance drivers, putters, etc... Yes, you would think that this being like and actual SPORT I would normally run and hide, but I actually quite enjoy it. Last summer I even bought a basket to practice putting in our backyard!! Roller blades here I come!!! OK, so I'm still scared of all sports that require balance. Oh, and balls. And teams. He he. But I am seriously thinking about trying to play in our famous family four-square tournment this year.

Derek celebrating after he makes a fairly long put!

Tom looking very serious about the game.
We thought this picture was awesome becuase of the way the sun is shining on Derek's frisbee.
Dallan the happy rider.
If any of you out there want to try it out sometime, come on up, we would love to take you! :o)

I'm old!!

OK, so I'm not that good at frequent blogging. Big surprise huh? I hope no one was waiting on the Christmas pictures. I did get them into scrapbooks in record time but forgot about the blog. I'll try and post a couple below.

So I survived my 28th birthday. Can't believe how old I am! I remember my own mother when she was my age. Speaking of my mom, she and my little brother Brock were nice enough to come up and watch my kids for a whole day while I went shopping and went to a chick flick with Tom. It was so nice! THANKS MOM AND BROCK!


Derek has started going to preschool and loves it. He is such a social kid and wants to play with friends all day every day. Dallan is getting to be a little "smarty" like his brother and has already mastered the fine art of clicking the mouse to play his favorite PBS and Nick Jr. games. I have to pull him off the computer several times a day.

Tom is back coaching track and is pretty busy at his other part time job as well (Academic Mentor for Achieve Online School). We don't see him much in the spring but appreciate how hard he works for us. It's nice that we have the summer together to make up for it.

I finally finished my brother's art website . It's not the most professional site ever, but I'm proud of it and he got it for free. :o) I also finished the 6th season of SMALLVILLE (great incentive to ride my elliptical each morning). I am now back to watching LOST and THE OFFICE. I haven't worked out so consistently.....well, ever! Thank goodness for good TV on DVD!

Dallan in his new gear

Derek as the cowboy Batman

Tom's step-brothers and their families

Sledding fun

Tom actually sat on the toboggan backwards and slid down the hill in front of the boys to get the first video, until he took a tumble! And check out Derek's "super trick" as well. I will post Christmas pictures soon.

Yes, I am Cory McKee's sister....

Just wanted to give a shout out to my older brother for his awesome drawing that the Jazz hired him to draw. You may have seen it on TV while watching a recent Jazz game, as they are giving away prints of the drawing to people who donate a certain amount of money to charity. Anyways, I think it's awesome so I wanted to show it off. Go Cory!! (Although I'm sure he never reads my blog. :o) I'm working on a website for his artwork (as well as one for mine) which should be up and running shortly.

Why don't we just eat the Candy??

I attempted making my first gingerbread houses with my kids this last week. For the most part I would say it was a success, although I did cheat and only used graham crackers and a hot glue gun. Dallan was a little disappointed and put WAY more candy in his mouth than on the house. Derek did a little better, but soon got bored of the decorating part, which he left to me, and just started eating as well. Derek's decorating ideas were along these lines "hey mom, lets put this candy inside the chimney and it can be Santa, and this one will be his uncle, and this is his other uncle, etc...... " until the chimney is stuffed full of Santa's uncles, which will be SOO SOO funny because now Santa can't move!" and "this green one on top of the chimney is me looking down at all the people stuck in the chimney and laughing" His other big idea was to fill the entire house full of blue M&M's so that it would be a flood like we had when our dishwasher broke. Then when Santa got un-stuck from the chimney he would fall in the flooded house and "that would be SOOO SOOO funny!" Little boys are very interesting!! :o)

These are a few of my favorite things.....

I'm not trying to copy Oprah OR Julie Andrews, but I just thought I would share a couple of my new favorite things this holiday season! Just for fun.....

Favorite New Recipe:
Pumpkin CakeMix Cookies - SO EASY! Just take one 15 oz. can of pumpkin and combine it with one cake mix (any flavor - I've heard spice, carrot, yellow and chocolate are all good) and mix in some chocolate chips and you have instant cookies. Except you do have to bake them. :o) 15-17 min. at 375 degrees. No eggs, no oil, just the cake mix, pumpkin and chocolate chips.

Favorite New Piano Sheet Music:
Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella by Sally Deford (piano only)
As Shepherds Kept Their Lonely Vigil by Sally Deford (beautiful SATB arrangement)

Favorite New Christmas Songs:
What Child is This - Martina McBride
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Mercy Me (Not your traditional Christmas, but I still love it)
O Come All Ye Faithful - Josh Groban and the Tabernacle Choir (I wish there was a little more orchestra and a little less organ, but what a great singing combo at the end!)

Thanksgiving

I feel like I have passed on to a new level of homemaking now that I have made and survived my own Thanksgiving dinner without any disasters. We ate at home this year, and invited Tom's mom and his grandfather to join us. It was very nice.
Dallan the chatterbox was the biggest conversationalist during dinner and kept us all giggling at his silly comments. The boys were a lot of fun and excited to make decorations and watch the parade in the morning. We had Tom's mom (Liz) take some family pictures of us while she was here, but the boys didn't cooperate very well. Still, they turned out pretty well...

Here are some more good pics, showcasing Derek's favorite "space stare", and Tom's fake natural smile. :o)

Halloween recap

Halloween was a lot of fun this year. Derek wanted to be the same thing he was last year- a koala bear (hurray for me!) , and Dallan was a cute little cow. Together they represented the cooperation of wildlife from separate continents. Yeah....... something like that. ANYWAY, Tom and I had just as much taking them around the neighborhood, and eating all their chocolate candy bars since they much prefer the suckers and laffy taffy.

Right before Halloween I was able to take a trip to Disneyland with my parents and some siblings. It was so much fun! I love Disneyland! And I really want to take my boys when they get a little older. As they were a little too young right now, they sat this one out and stayed home with Tom (who is not a big fan of Disneyland).

Turns out that Tom is a better homemaker than I am! Maybe I should go back to college! :o) I returned from my trip to find a clean house, beautifully carved pumpkins on the porch and both boys smelling like roses (or maybe baby lotion).

Under New Management

Tom has officially handed over the keys to upkeeping our blog, so I will be posting from now on. For those of you out there who have ever had email correspondence with me, you will know that writing regularly is not one of my strong points, but I at least hope to post a few good pictures every couple weeks. :o)

Christmas Time in Brigham City

See the following for the Davidson family Christmas Card.

http://www.behsscience.com/christmas.pdf


Merry Christmas,

The fam

Isn't life Grand!

I suck at this, right Amanda? But here it is. We are doing great. I could list all the reasons that I have not posted in a while, but you know what they say about excuses...

Lately it has been work and homework for us here. Mel has been taking care of the boys and I have been trying to stay caught up with my school work. If you want to read a really boring Blog you can find you way over to this one. I am required to maintain it weekly; it is a design journal for my final project.

http://www.loggerpro.blogspot.com/

I hope you enjoy the read.

The boys are doing well. Derek is struggling with potty training, and Dallan has developed a strong desire to hurt people, but besides that, all is well. They are remarkable healthy, and usually happy. A side note, Derek has not been sick since he had his tonsils removed, that was in February. That is amazing considering that he was sick about every other month before that. I think that we made the right decision. Here is a cute picture of the boys.

I hope all is well with y'all.

The Fam

Fire on the mountain!

What a fun and exciting day this was. We watched this small fire explode into a huge fire in about ten minutes. It almost got four houses, but the planes saved the day. We are all well and happy that we live in the valley.

Tom

Dallan's Everest

Dallan climed the stairs for the first time today. I thought that I should shoot a picture of the pround climber.

We are all great and HOT. Have a good weekend y'all

Tom

Me and da Boys

I thought that it would only be fair to add me to the blog since I am the one doing all the work on it. Here is a recent picture of me and the boys.

Us at the Air show

This is our first blog. We recently went to see the Thunderbirds at an air show at Hill Airforce Base. We had a really fun time. You can see Mel and the boys in the cargo area of a C-5 transport plane. It was huge. We had a lot of fun.

We are going to try to keep this updated fairly regularly. You are welcome to comment using this tool.I think that these blogs are pretty cool. I hope that I can actually be good at using a communication tool for once. Right mom?

Much love to all of you!

Tom and the fam

Best Phot of the Thunderbirds

Here is actually the best photo that I took.