Happy Birthday Little Man!

What a wonderful year, we are so grateful for our baby boy! He is always full of smiles and adventure. For your viewing pleasure I give you a very brief sample of our favorite pictures from K-Man's first year!

Sharing Glama with cousin Baby Bella

(bella 4 mo., K-Man 10 mo.)

Measuring up to a great ape.
10 mo. old



Visiting great Grandpa Nielsen (who he was named after) with Grand Jo Mama
9mo. old

Early crawling picture




Snuggling up to Grand Jo Mama

Sweat'n out tummy time with his best friend The Beans

4 mo old

Early Christmas pictures (for the card we never sent out)

Cutest pumpkin in the patch! Halloween

3 mo. old

Cheering on the Sox

3 mo. old

Chubby thigh contest with cute cousin Davis

(2 1/2 mo. old, Davis 7 mo. old)

Passed out with Daddy

6 weeks old

One of my personal favorites

A sailor suit always speaks for it self

4 weeks old

Our First night home together
4 days old

Poor little bat boy was under the Billi lights 20 hours a day for a week. Stupid Jaundice!

1 Week old

A much preferred way to fight Jaundice

5 days old

Bringing K-Man home from the hospital

4 days old

First Bath

4 days old

3 days old

Not even a minute old.

Thank you buddy we love being your parents!

Audacious Audi is back! :(

Stow Aways

The Beans thought he could sneek his way into Grand Jo Mamas bag is he hid in some yoga pants.
K-Man thought he could slip right into the front pocket of her checked luggage

K-Man Climbing into the bag

Then figured out that there was more stuff to play with inside the bag.

To say that we enjoyed having JoMama in town would be an understatement. Her week long trip to Utah turned into 3 weeks and we could not have been happier. As you can see our two boys were not willing to let her go without a fight. We found out all sorts of interesting information about our beloved Jo for example

1. She can put on make up in the dark with no mirror and with one hand behind her back.

2.Heavy Narcotic pain medication could also be used as a truth serum on her

3. When she was a member of 4h as a girl she got a blue ribbon for her Banana Bread at the state fair.

4. I know every celebrity crush she currently and she has some excellent picks!

We had so much fun we cannot wait to see you again in 6 weeks!

K & K Kleen up Krew to the Rescue!!!

A very special thanks to our wonderful Heber cousins that helped us clean up a very nasty and dirty duplex after our renters were evicted. There were all sorts of treasures to be cleaned up like ferret poop, mildew bathrooms and booger walls (just to name the high lights). Did I mention this renter was only there for 3 MONTHS! We called Kris and Kat to ask if they were interested in some bio hazard cleanup last minute and amazingly enough they agreed! They drove the 45 min down Parley's Canyon to help us all evening. You really saved us ladies we would have NEVER had the duplex ready for our next renters with out you!!! I don't think they will ever answer the phone again when we call but if they do they will be treated to a Bee's game and some hot dogs!

"Take Me Out to the Ball Game" - Oh and bring Grandma Jo and Grandpa Burton along.

The key to getting inside your opponents head is intimidation with a face only a mother could love.

That or you could make them feel bad by playing around, and pretending not to care when they are up to bat. Seriously what would you rather be doing playing with grandma or watch a team called the Ace's beat up on our Bee's?

Next you've got to call in your back up and really mean it with the intimidation faces. K-man is giving them the constipated don't mess with me look and I am giving them the crazy or happy smile.

All in all we had a great time even though the Bees lost -Oh well, the night was a lot of fun. It was military appreciation night so we got in on Grandpa Burton's and Grandma Jo's military ID's for half price. The Bees player dressed in a camouflage uniforms - I guess that's why it felt like they weren't on the field you really couldn't see if they were playing or not. We even lost K-man in the grass a few times because of his camo overalls purchased by grandma jo. Thanks for a wonderful night.

Memorial Day in Brigham City

What is a memorial day without a trip to Brigham City to visit family?!? We first ate lunch at Craig and Kris' - we had stir fry, fortune cookies and an ice cream dessert too good to describe.

Grandma Jo, Nersey, K-man and I couldn't make the trip without a stop to our favorite candy store in the world - Idle Isle!

Then off to the cemetery we went, where K-man visited the grave of his namesake.

The graves looked beautiful - Uncle Craig did a great job decorating grandma and grandpa's grave.

K-Man and Grandma Jo before we headed home to Salt Lake.

It was a great day, blue sky, warm weather what more could you ask for on Memorial Day?

Super Duper Easter Egg Hunt!

Kenneth playing with his favorite Miller Cousins
Big Boy Snuggles with Cayden

Garret and Kenneth enjoying whatever spoils they can find on the floor.

This was Kenneth's first Easter egg hunt and boy did it not disappoint. Auntie Heather invited us up to the Mother of all Easter egg hunts put on by the FABULOUS Marla! There was egg coloring, cookie decorating, yummy food and Tons of treats to hunt! Thank you Marla and Auntie Heather you have set a very high standard when it comes to the art of throwing an Easter Hunt. You are the BEST!

What Have we been up to?

Perfecting our splash technique

Catching up on our reading

Found Just the right book

Discovering the great out doors and basking in the Sunshine

And Spring Training

Glama's Birthday.....Finally!

Glama turns 60!!!

Or if you prefer is celebrating her 21st anniversary of her
39th Birthday
The beans were so good the pan was passed around the picnic!

Our January picnic

This post might require a little explanation. We have had some technical difficulties finding our photos on our computer so this birthday post is shall we say a bit late. I am going by my Grandmother Smiths adage that a birthday greetings still counts 6 months after the day and if it any later then consider it an early greetings for your next birthday.

Since Glama is such a special lady it was important that we have a blow out be fitting of this wonderful lady. Picnics are a time honored tradition in the Davis house hold, in the summer time nearly every Sunday is spent out on the back porch enjoying yummy BBQ, juicy conversation and Glama's beautiful hill. One picnic in particular tends to stand out in Davis kid memory (not mine because I was not born yet but heard the story enough that it feels like I was there) was the picnic in the family living room on a cold winters night where Glama and my siblings took turns running into the bathroom to flush the toilet so they could all enjoy the sounds from a near by water fall. Glama is always full of great ideas and kept all eight of eight of us thoroughly entertained and made us all feel like we were her favorite child. We spent this winter's picnic gathered as a family telling our favorite memories of Glama. We love you Glama!!!

Pictures for Everyone. What a Looker!

Well, finally after eight months of relying on our own photog skills we decided that we had better get this little guy some professional pictures done. Don't worry family, you should be getting your very own copy of the cutest kid, but we thought you would like to enjoy them now and later. (click on image to enlarge)