Monday, November 10, 2008

Benjamin's baby blessing!!

What an amazing day! It started with us getting to church on time for the first time since we moved here!! Mike gave Benjamin a beautiful blessing, and I bore my testimony. When the meeting was over we went home for some grub! Here are some pictures of our special day!


The VIP of the day!


Our little family of six


My Parents





Mike's mom




Kimberly took this super cute picture!


The after party!


some of the Jackson side of the family


Some of the Martin side of the family


The Grub!!

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Baby Ben

Here are some pictures of our sweet little Ben in this first 4 weeks of his life! We are so loving him and I am loving having a newborn to snuggle! Kristen this is for you ~ thanks for being so excited about my baby! Hope you all enjoy our pictures!


Monday, October 20, 2008

September Recap


Paul at the fair

Brigham had his first field trip to the LA County fair and I had a total panic attack about someone snatching him, so what did I do??? I stalked his class! I wanted to be a chaperon but I was too prego and I had Paul. I told my mom I was going and she insisted on going with me (thanks mom) so she got up at 6:30 am and drove down to meet me. While we were there we got some cute pictures of Paul. He had a blast, my panic attack worked out great for him :) This was about 1 week before the baby was born.


My kids are so lucky to have such a fun grandma!



Paul with the goats - he loved them!


Feeding the goats....


riding the tractor...



me at the end of the day =)

Friends Shower

I have such great friends where I live! They planned a "girls night out" and surprised me with a baby shower! You guys are great! I love you!


Top L to R : Melissa, Sue
Bottom L to R : Elise, Jennifer, Me, Mom, Amber,
Heather and Kendra.


I got some pretty cute stuff!


This was the same day as the so I talked my
mom into coming along.


Heather and Kendra


Yeah... Heather and Amber were having lots of fun with the
camera!! Thanks again!!!

Fishing with Chad & Heather


On September 19 & 20 Chad and Heather invited us to go to Big Bear to go fishing with them. They got us a super sweet deal at their timeshare so we stayed the night and got up early to go fishing! It was so much fun! The kids had a blast with their cousins an it was nice to spend some time with Chad and Heather and my dad and mom. I think this might have been what put me into labor because I started having contractions the next day.

Me, Heather and Grandma on the boat with the kids.

Grant caught the first fish!! He was so cute!
All the kids (except Drew)


Chad's cute little family...thanks for the fun weekend!

He's Finally Here!


Benjamin was born September 22 nd at 7:42 pm. I already did a post about his birth so if you missed it scroll down.


In the hospital...my sweet baby boy.


So Sweet! Mike and Benjamin.


Grandma brought the boys to meet there new
baby brother. They love him!!

Our 9 year Anniversary

Our anniversary was 2 days after the baby was born so we decided to celebrate by going to lunch at The Corner Bakery. I was supposed to plan our anniversary this year but just got a little busy =)


I love the Corner Bakery! I always get the
Chicken Pommadori. If you haven't had it go get
it now! We had such a good time. Paul and little
Ben were so well behaved. I guess that was their
little anniversary gift to us!


I bought the cake at the restaurant, took the apple
cider and glasses the hospital gave us and the flowers
my parents brought and had a sweet little dessert with
my sweetheart =)

I Love My Family

I have the best family! My mom, sister, sisters in law and cousins had a shower for me at Olive Garden. Katie planned it (thanks Katie) before I had the baby but when he came 2 weeks early we had to push it back. It was alot of fun and I got some great stuff! It was nice to have the baby there for everyone to see :)


L to R : Sierra, Susan, David, Jackie, Katie, Autumn, Me, baby Ben
and Gina, Kimberly, Mom.


L to R: Kristen, Jaime, Sidney, Amber, Heather.

More really cute stuff!!
So that was pretty much my month of September in a nutshell!! Hope you enjoyed!

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

I got this little video of Paul today. I was watching the kids while Summer went to the store and I lost track of Paul for a minute. I was looking all over the house and then went out back to find him. I called out his name and his little head popped out of the top of this tree and said "What!" He promptly came back down so I made him climb back up so I could get it on camera. Some of you moms with weak stomachs might want to look away. Anyway, for your enjoyment.


Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Baby Benjamin is Here!

We are so excited to announce that Benjamin Michael Davis was born Monday September 22 ( 2 weeks early). He weighed only 6 lb 4 oz, our smallest baby yet! It was BY FAR my easiest delivery. We were admitted to the hospital at 3:00pm and he was born at 7:42pm. He is such a sweet baby and his brothers absolutely adore him! Paul is still warming up to him so as soon as we have pics with him we'll post them! =D

I know some of you are wondering what the heck happened to Luke or Porter right?? Well we decided that since neither one of us wanted the others choice we would decide on something we both really liked....Benjamin! We'll probably use Luke or Porter the next time around, but they just didn't feel right this time. We actually decided on his name when they admitted us into the hospital 3 hours before he was born!

We'll post more pictures soon!









Sunday, September 21, 2008

Girls weekend!!!

For the last 2 years I have planned a "girls weekend" with my sister, sisters in law, my mom and all my Cali cousins. This year was sooooo much fun! We stayed at Todd and Kristen's house and I hired 2 message therapists and an esthetician...it was heaven!! We all got facials ad messages, we sat in the hot tub and gabbed and ordered Olive Garden for dinner, YUMMM! We all brought our "favorite things" and shared them with each other so we got to leave with a nice goody bag full of fun stuff! We stayed up chatting till 3:30 am, got up and had a delicious breakfast, got dressed and headed out for shopping, movies and dinner! Everyone needs a fun getaway like this! I felt so rejuvenated when I got home! It was so nice to have this relaxing getaway before the baby comes! Thanks to my family for coming and making this such a fun weekend! I love you guys! And thanks to all our wonderful hubbies for watching the kids so we could have our "time out".


This is our Saturday Group Shot



Friday Night Hot tubbin"!
(back row L to R: Miriam, Kim W., Autumn, Amber
Aunt Barbara, Me. Front Row L to R : Erin, Susan,
Tanja, Jaime, Katie, Bettie, Emily)



Autumn was brave and went off the
slide head first!



After "Our Favorite Things"! We loved our
goodie bags! Heather did a great job making
bags for our stuff and folders for our favorite
things papers!



Yes these are my ugly, nasty, SWOLLEN
feet! I push on them and they indent like
this! I can't wait to have this baby so I
can have my feet back!



Some of the girls at breakfast.



At the movies! We went to see "The Women".



The Rabb/Barney group (Gina, Jenny, Susan)




The Thompson Group (back: Jaime, Kristen
Front: Heather, mom, me)




The Waldron group (L to R : Amber, Kim, Autumn,
Emily, Katie)

More pictures to come!

A Fun Slideshow