memorial day weekend

haven't blogged in forever! we have been busy having fun! kids are all growing up so fast, too fast! gotta savor every moment with them!

 here is a ton of pictures of what we've been up to...

uncle dean threw jj in the pool. these pictures don't quit do it justice!! HE WAS SOOOO HIGH!!!! weird thing was is that jj loved it!! they did it over and over!

Jay Jay and William posing for the camera!

buddies. brydee and chloe

 buddies

 Brielle loves the pool!! and check out bay bay in her goggles!

 my new sweet little niece, evalyn. she is sporting her brothers glasses.

My brother in law Brandon, with his son lucas... there both showing off their muscles and being goof balls!!

haha I think it's so funny that the palm tree was placed so perfectly behind him to look like hair.

--Titan and Bugaboo--

 taking a break and bbq'n before we went out for round two of swimming!!

 Brydee and mommy! love Brydee's cheese with attitude.

 oh bailee... i just love you

Brielle 6 Months

BRIELLE HOPE DAVEY

wow is my baby already 6 months!!!

Brielle Hope is the best baby ever!! Just ask any of my sisters! She never stops smiling! she is happy all the time!! She is growing big. Every one says... wow she is so ... healthy! haha which is them trying to say nicely... wow she is so fat! haha! i love it! The funny thing is, dispite the fact she looks fat and chunky, she is light!! she is like a marshmellow and not like a rock.

STATS:

HEIGHT: 35%

WEIGHT: 40%

HEAD: 40%

*** My sister Heather took some really adorable pictures of Brielle. A big thanks to her!! These 2 pictures were the only ones I had. I know she has tons more. When she gets around to giving them to me I'll post them. Heather has been a little busy with her little tiny baby girl***

Lost & Found

Last week was teacher appreciation week at GWA and i went out to the school on friday afternoon to help clean up the teacher lucheon. Bailee fell asleep and was out cold. i knew she would take a long nap if i could just lay her down some where but there was no carpet anywhere in the gym. then Tia saw the lost and found bin and said just pull out a jacket and lay her on that. but then we thought why not just lay her in the bin full of jackets!! hahaha she slept for over an hour in there. and when we left she stayed asleep and slept in the van on the ride home and another hour longer at home on the couch! man that girl must be going through a growth spurt!

Brielle 4 Months

Brielle Hope

My baby turned 4 months!!

She is getting so big already! she is loosing all her hair :( she use to have so much dark hair but its falling out and its lightening up. so sad. but on the up side she is the happiest baby ever!! She will smile and laugh out loud at anyone who will talk to her. She's the best baby. I am the worst, I haven't taken any video of her ever and I haven't taken any pictures of her since her newborns!! Im so mad at myself! Everyday that goes by is just another day i keep missing!

 I"VE GOTTA PULL OUT THE VIDEO CAMERA!!

Here are her 4 month stats

23% Height

55% Weight

25% Head

I was at my sister Heathers house on Tuesday and she was doing a photo shoot for Titan. While Mallory was getting Titan Dressed I threw Brielle in front of the Camera and heather took like 6 quick pictures. She was just wearing a onesie nothing special. Its all i got but she's still adorable.



Bread

so you know those crazy die hard women who make homemade bread and never buy store bought bread and grind there own wheat?? well im privileged to say i've joined the club!! hahaha its a little crazy i know. my new years goal was to change the way we eat in my house. i want to eat a lot healthier! i strongly believe that by eating healthier and/or eating a certain diet could really improve your health. and we all know jeff needs all the help he can get. for christmas my parents gave us a juicer and a wheat grinder. so i've been juicing and making wheat bread. today we were eating sandwiches and my kids kept saying this is the best bread ever! i told them i made it and Brydee said.. i can tell it has so much flavor!! i thought that was interesting. but really i have to say it did taste really good. i don't think i'll use white flour ever again. and seriously i need to take and post some pictures of my kids!! Brielle is going to be 4 months next week! dang time goes by way too fast!!!

dinner..

So i don't know about you but i grew up with a good home cooked meal every night. and it usually could never be duplicated cause my mom hardly ever used recipes and when she did use a recipe she never followed it. for the first few years of marriage i stuck with the same 7 recipes and just rotated them! ha! but now im loving cooking and having fun in the kitchen. i notice im starting to cook like my mom. i'll read a recipe and then alter it (like i could make it better or something? :) its mainly because i gotta work with what i have :)  but anyways... so 2 nights ago i marinated and slowed cooked ribs for 7 hours! we never ever have ribs but i've ben wanting to make some really good ribs and they were on sale and such a good deal i couldn't pass it up. but i wish i would have! they turned out awful! and it wasn't because of me! it was terrible quality of meat! it was all fat and plastic tasting! i usually always get my meat at costco and i should know better to buy ribs at walmart but i just can't pass up walmarts prices.... but there is a reason there at that price right? so after that complete failure we took the ribs to roxy and she loved them! (my sisters boxer dog :) so last night i made some speghetti! even while im writing this im laughing. i feel like speghetti is no better then having cereal or chicken nugggets for dinner, not nutrition wise but easy cheap wise. BUT dang it was so good!! some good old fashion speghetti with some sausage meatballs and some homemade garlic bread!! dang it hit the spot! how funny that i tried so hard on my ribs and they were crap and then the next night made some speghetti and it was divine! hahaha gotta love it.

to all moms..

Have you ever heard the saying "cleanliness is next to godliness"? well if that's true me and Satan must be buddies. hahaha you have to admit that's pretty funny! but seriously i feel like i get up every morning send my kids off to school then clean ALL day while there gone then we do home work when they get home, then make and eat dinner then hang out as a family then bed time. and I'll look at my house and think what did i even clean today??? then i start over the next day with the same schedule only to find out i can never get on top of it!! AND there is no such thing as being caught up on laundry! By the time i do a load of colors then whites, greys and blacks i am starting all over again with the colors! there is always going to be laundry to do! my problem is balance! I'm either trying really hard to accomplish it all, but then I'm ignoring my kids and yelling at them for who knows what and driving myself crazy going behind them literally and cleaning up behind them or literally taking the toy out of their hand to put away just to make sure everything is clean and put away! haha or my house is in complete chaos! like i said i lack balance. i haven't quite figured it out yet. anyone else like me?  props to all you moms who got it down. you can tell by this post I'm having "one of those days." :)