Christmas Day

     Christmas at the Davis house is actually fairly well organized. Pretty unexpected, I know. It goes smoothly because we have the following rules: 

• You may NOT come upstairs until Mom and Dad are ready. 
• All presents must be opened one at a time. No rushing! 
• If you ask for a present, you receive yours last. 

     And that's pretty much it! Here are some pictures of our Christmas morning. 

Here are the kids waiting to go upstairs. This is actually how the boys sleep. I like to sit on them.  

I'm not really sure what Isaac is looking at... 

This year we did a daily devotional called The Jesse Tree that leads up to Christmas Day. Unsurprisingly, we got behind on the reading, so we had to skip a few to get to the last one. 

Emma made all the boys these awesome scarves. They are so adorable. 

Dad's alway begging us to make him snickerdoodle cookies. But we never do. So, I baked a whole batch just for him on Christmas Eve!  

Then... I ate a lot when he wasn't looking. Whoops! 

This has to be my favorite picture of all the pictures I took that morning. I worked for weeks on Mom's Christmas present. It's a specialized meal planner with categorized shoppings lists that covers 5 weeks of meals. 

She was so happy she cried!!! 

*Thank you all my Facebook friends who donated recipes for this gift! We are so excited to try them all out. 

This is probably Landon's favorite gift. It's a giant toolbox completely full of candy and junk food. 

A pre-teen boy's DREAM. 

Kate was the most excited to receive something she already owned. A while back she saved up and bought an iPod touch... which she then accidentally broke. Mom and Dad sneakily stole it and got it fixed for her. 

I love this picture too. Emma had been begging for cowboy (cowgirl?) boots forever. She was convinced she wasn't going to get them - thanks to our amazing acting skills. Boy, was she surprised when she opened this box! 

Ally bought me these insanely tall heels! I love them. And will always wear them with these socks. It is so attractive. 

Just kidding... 

Isaac expression is PERFECT in this photo. 

Landon and his Chiefs stuff... 

Well, that was our Christmas. I hope you enjoyed looking at the millions of pictures! It's so hard to just pick a few... 

Happy New Year everyone!!! 

Christmas Time!

Miracles do happen! I logged onto the blog to finally fix our little problem... but it had fixed itself! Absolutely nothing was wrong. I am so thankful! I really do not like trouble-shooting problems. 

Anyway... 

So much has happened since we left off, that I can't really catch up. Therefore, I'm just going to start with Christmas. 

Kansas is bipolar. It's December and the weather is always changing. Somedays we don't even need a jacket and the next we're bundling up just to walk to the car. The boys were so disappointed we didn't have snow, so they decided to simulate sledding. Using various wheeled toys (such as: wagons, trikes, bikes, and scooters) they sped down the hill in our backyard. 

You may be thinking, "What? Isn't that a little dangerous?" 

Why, yes. Yes, it is. But they are boys, and this is what boys do. A little scrape is worth the memories. 

Actually, at the end of the day, no one got hurt at all! I think that counts as another miracle. 

With Christmas also comes cleaning! The way less fun side of Christmas, but it's necessary. 

This is how we organize the jobs. 

I LOVE this picture! 

Mom... does not. 

Jonah likes to help whoever folds the laundry. 

Mom decided to make cleaning fun by adding Santa hats! 

Yeah... still not fun. But the little kids looked cute!

While we slaved away, Jonah was enjoying running around and around our coffee table pulling a trashbag. He was giggling like a maniac. So. Funny. 

Well, there you go! That was the beginning of our Christmas. 

We hope your holiday was as good as ours! 

Technical Difficulties

Hello!  Julie today.

I told Glynne that we need to let you know we are having problems.  Not with each other :) but with this blog.  A couple of weeks ago, Glynne told me she wasn't able to upload any more photos - blogger said we'd maxed out our allotment.  Ok.  Now what?  Glynne looked into the problem and told me we need to decide if we want to pay 3.00 per month to man this blog.  After we pay, I guess we get to upload more photos and continue on.  Boy, 3.00 - I don't know if we can part with that much each month :).  Of course, we should pay it!  That's only 36.00 bucks a year.  We have to continue on.  Now, I just need her to do it.  I don't have a clue about things like this.  So that's why we haven't been updating much; we're stuck.  And until Glynne fixes things, not much will be happening.

I will tell you about the things I wish I could blog about:
-Our 9 foot real Christmas tree.  It's so incredibly soft - a Frasier fir.  And ...we didn't have to wear gloves up to our elbows to decorate it!!
-Jonah.  He's getting a personality.  When I unload the dishwasher, he likes to hand me the silverware ONE AT A TIME! Each time I say thank you, he claps for himself two times: clap - clap.
-We moved our house around.  The dining room became our living room and our living room is now in the kitchen where our dining room used to be.  It works.  It's also much more fun to clean - well, that was last week.  Now it's not so fun anymore!

We are looking forward to Christmas.  It seems like it should be sooner than a week away.  We're enjoying a Jesse Tree devotional and that has helped keep us focused on the point of Christmas. 

I guess that's all.  Hopefully, we'll get this blog thing all figured out.  I'll tell Glynne she has to fix it before she can ...hmmm I can't think of anything...eat??? That'll go over real well.

Have a wonderful Christmas!! Julie