T is for Toothless

Eleven days shy of six years old, my firstborn lost his first tooth! I think Brayden might have set the World Record for having a loose tooth for the longest amount of time.  We discovered this loose tooth sometime during high school baseball season.  Yes, that is March or April.  The past week, we spent wiggling, bribing, wiggling, begging, and finally..... yesterday August 1st, he came in the kitchen looking like this.

                                                          WARNING!  THERE IS BLOOD!

So, I ask him to pull......

He was SO excited!!! He used his uncles' tooth pillow and didn't sleep at all.   

The Tooth Fairy must be invisible, because he woke up with a BIG bill in his pillow.  When did the teeth become such a high priced item?

P is 4 photographs

I love pictures! When I enter some one's home, workspace, etc. I love to look at their pictures.  I think that the pictures one chooses to display can be like a window into their life. I am a sucker for grandmas' brag books, pet parents' phone pics, I just love pictures.  I am HORRIBLE at taking them!!! I chop off heads, snap when someone is moving, and I always catch the blink!  It isn't the worst quality to have.  But, it isn't great when you want a picture of your new house to send out your new address. So, I called on Kelli, more affectionately known in our home as "the other K girl."

Let me give you a little background.  I have previously said that our ball players are like our own children.  Well, Katie Beth (at 3)  had her first crush on one of those boys, Ryan James.  Kelli, so kindly decided she could share her high school sweetheart with Katie Beth.  Katie Beth informed us that Ryan must like "K girls."  Kelli just graduated from AHS and will be heading to OSU in the fall, even more reasons for us to LOVE her! She is interested in photography and has a great eye!

Ryan and his "Kgirls"

So, Kelli came by the new house with Ryan and we were all dressed up, ready for a photo shoot.  Here are the pictures she captured......

This is SO Bray right now!  If I had a quarter for every time I told him to push up his glasses....and YES that is his I am about to get myself into something good grin! I look at him and my heart swells.



Here are both of my gifts from God.  Does it get any better than this?

This is my Katie Beth.  My rainbow in this world.  You are seeing her sweet side, it is rare.  We usually have Sassy Sissy with us! 

We are jumping for JOY around here.  Kelli, we love our pictures.  I hope you know how excited I am about them.  They caught the looks, grins, and personalities of my family that mean so much to me!  I can't wait to see your work in the future and hope it includes more photos of my kids!

H is for Homerun

Last Saturday, our family took a little trip with Boo, Pa, Uncle Spud and MarMar to Dallas, Texas.  This is one of our favorite places to min-vaca.  It is a little like going home for Dusty and I.  We found all of our favorite shopping centers and restaurants.  We even got to visit our cousins Toby and Scarlet, which is always a riot in its self!  On Saturday, we stopped by the ballpark in Arlington to see our favorite baseball team play against Uncle Spud's team. 

You can see the kids were very excited to go watch the Rangers. We had to go find Bray a Hamilton 32 shirt, since Big Bad Vlad is no longer with his team! We had great seats thanks to a special childhood friend!

                                      

The atmosphere was amazing!  The game was great...back and forth all night.  We were really nervous in the bottom of the 9th that Uncle Spud's A's might win.  Then, with Katie Beth yelling, " Who are you yelling for? JOSH HAMILTON, " number 32 stepped up to the plate.  Behind by one, with a runner on, Hambone hit one out!!! We saw our first walk off homerun! WOW! Talk about atmosphere!  It was a perfect ending to a perfect mini-vaca! 

P is for Packing

The Davis' are packing up and moving out.  My mom recently remarried and moved to the big city and we decided to buy her house.  More on that soon, I promise! We are excited, so excited in fact that the kids have been begging for days to start packing their own rooms.  If you know me at all, you know I procrastinate.  I have no idea where I learned that from ;).   My kids, however, are more like their daddy in this aspect.  So after cleaning the new house all night, I figure today is the day to give in and start packing. Bray had to find the prefect box for his most prized possessions. Katie Beth just wanted any box and FAST! She was bound and determined not to let Bray get ahead of her.

YES! Those are Xbox games and Barbies! Packed and ready for travel.  Books were next, don't ask how many boxes of books we packed.  Remember, I am a teacher.  Did I say P was 4 Procrastination or Packing?  Better get off here and start PACKING! Looks like both are beating me!

G is for Go Get 'Em NOT Good Bye!

Typing through tears right now, tears of joy, tears of pride, tears of love, and just maybe a little selfish tear or two because we will miss this amazing young man that has been part of our family now for two years.  I know that boys have to leave the nest and spread their wings and fly, in this case literally! But, I didn't know I would get this worked up over one that isn't related to me. 
BACKGROUND:  For the past few years we have had a house full of high school boys over to eat on Thursday nights during football season. These O-Line dinners have changed my life! I Love getting to know the boys that my husband spends so much time with during the week.  My kids LOVE knowing the big boys on the field on Friday night and having someone to support by form of button on their shirt, cheer for throughout the game, and high five afterwards.  Over the years these boys have become half mine.  The older I get *cough-cough* the more I feel like a momma to them!

YESTERDAY: Jeremy came by to say good bye before he left Oklahoma for the comforts of Colorado by way of the US Air Force Academy Wrestling Team!!! This is the same Jeremy that brought my kids Christmas presents, would allow my five year old to sit through multiple innings of baseball with all the cool high school fans, and who always made time to stop and say hi no matter how busy he was. 

Bray was super sad the Jerms was going without playing Xbox one last time.  So, after rearranging his schedule, he came back TODAY to spend an hour with Bray playing baseball on the Xbox.  Really? Who does that for a 5 year old when he has a momma and daddy, little brother, best friend and girlfriend to say good bye to?  This guy did! 

Ok so do you get my tears? This kid is amazing! The next time I see him, he won't be a kid, he will be a man!  One that is going to serve our country.  US Air Force, you are getting the BEST!  Jeremy Delzer, we love you more than you will ever know!!! We are saying Good Luck and Go Get 'Em!! And, come see us when you are in town!

B is 4 Begining

Ok, here goes the beginning of my new web adventure.  I love to write, I just never take the time to do so.  I love my family, even though they decided to spread out all over the state and country. Hawaii is still in the good ole’ USA, isn’t it? So this little blog is my way of trying to keep my family of four connected to our extended family.  Everyone must begin somewhere, so here I go….