A glacier trip

So the start of our summer started in CA really but I haven't gotten to those pictures just yet. Today we went up to glacier though for a couple hours. We're gonna go on a nice hike but the trail we picked out turned out to be not dog friendly. Got to do more research it looks like. But we went to the river and let Preston practice skipping rocks. I threw one and it skipped twice (I was sitting down and it wasn't a good skipper rock so I was happy) Preston came up to me and said mommy!! Good job honey!! 

My little boy lol taking after his dad and calling me honey. 

A bittersweet vacation

Where to start. This was a fantastic vacation but lets face it we didn't go to just go have fun and relax. This vacation had a purpose. Bare with me (and I apologize if I make anyone else cry) I didn't cry when I heard the news, except when Brianna cried, I didn't cry when we spread the ashes but for some reason I feel the tears wanting to come out now as I relive being at the ocean and feeling the freezing cold water on my feet as I slowly let the ashes fall from my hand.

 

She was the last grandparent alive and she held on for way to long. She fought a great battle but we knew she needed to end her pain long before she finally did. Not that she actually ended herself but she finally stopped fighting the pain and went home. December 10, 2015 the Davis clan lost their mother/grandmother Sheila Ann Click. As Jason put it she was a small person with a big fiery attitude. I remember when she would come to visit I would think yay grandparents are here time to con them into getting me things. I heard from my friends that their grandparents always brought them stuff or would go shopping with them for toys or whatever. Not my grandma :) she would take me to the store and then say now look we aren't shopping for you we are shopping for me.  Of course it really only happened a couple of times, when our grandparents were snowbirds.

 

Anyways, after I don't know how many years the dogs were finally spread in the ocean. And just a couple days before it'd been 11 years after Grandpa died and on what would have been her 77 birthday, we spread their ashes.

 

 

 

Its hard to see but of course I had to make hearts with everyone's initials

 

 

Well now that we spread the ashes it was time to do some sight seeing and take in what San Simeon had to offer (which wasn't much).

We drove up to Hearst castle. Now I actually don't have any pictures of the castle but I can always add them later and republish this if I get them. The tours of that place have definelty changed from when I went in high school. Its 45 minutes of 3 rooms basically and then you get to walk around the castle grounds by yourself. One thing kind of sucked.. the Neptune pool was missing statues due to trying to restore them and the pool was empty due to trying to fix a problem of it leaking around 5,000 gallons of water per day. It is not set in ground but rather above so the "park" is working with the family to figure out the best way to fix the problem.

 

The next place we went was to an elephant seal viewing spot. It was pretty neat to see. Of course they were all just really laying around but still it was neat to see them blubber (my word for their movement) up onto the beach and then cover themselves with sand to keep themselves cool. And on occasion you got to hear them talk (or grunt rather). It is molting season for them.

 

That night everyone but Grandpa Scott or dad went to the beach until the bugs to heavy.

 

The next day we drove north to Santa Cruz to have some fun at the Board walk. After what seemed like an eternity to find a parking spot we got to :) Pictures will be added later. I haven't downloaded my phone yet. The only picture that is missing is one that we would have had to get from the roller coaster picture station. Preston face is priceless and one picture that isn't even meant for him has him in the corner trying to get one more shot!! Or at least that what it looks like. But I am going to let the rest of the pictures speak for themselves when they get added :). 

 

Over all it was a nice get away and start to our summer! But I will say I will not be flying with small children for a long time. The kids overall did great but travel makes you tired and when you have 3 tired kids and 4 tired adults, no one is happy. 

 

 

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My sweet pumpkin

She's 3 months old. Hard to believe that around this time last year I had just became pregnant with her when I thought the timing was off. My chunky pumpkin is literally a sweet happy angel. She only cries when she's hungry and generally starts gnawing on her hands before she starts crying. She only wakes up once during the night and generally enjoys sleeping on her own. She's finally letting her laugh come out. Smiles all the time and talks up a storm when you talk to her as well. She's ready trying to sit on her own with no luck or balance yet (she'll be sitting up here in a couple months). 

She's just about lost her newborn hair and has her hair growing in nice and blonde but not as blonde as Prestons was. And I already see myself missing her baby fat I know she'll lose. 

2 months

I'm late by a couple days but I just remembered I needed to go a 2 month post. But instead of writing about her I'm going to let the old saying of "a picture is worth a thousand words" come into play. 

So enjoy the pictures of my last 2 month old chubby pumpkin!

2 months old!!!

Easter

 

Easter 2015

This year we didn't have Brianna in the morning but that didn't stop us from having Preston help dye some eggs. Our Easter was a simple one. We didn't go anywhere except for a chilly windy walk in the afternoon, to the Tamarack for an early dinner and then to Polson to pick up Brianna. We almost went to see the new movie Home but I will admit I got to lazy and by 9 am I could tell we weren't making the 11:20 showing. 

 

So Clayton hard boiled some eggs and after they chilled he recruited Preston to help color them.

 

Needless to say he thought the dissolving process was pretty cool.

He liked scribbling with the magic crayon.

Egg prep is a very serious job.

While big brother preps for the egg hunt Tory snoozes.

All ready to go find the eggs mommy hid.

Got his dusty backpack on to collect eggs.

He had a lot of fun and remembered  the colors he needed to find.

The easter bunny came and brought him a new toy truck that came with a horse trailer and two horses. Also a skid steer. For Brianna the bunny brought 4 new pajamas, 3 being frozen themed of course.

That night I asked Brianna why we celebrate Easter. She started talking about the bunny so I decided it was time to start teaching her the real reason. Christ was born on Christmas but he rose from the dead on Easter. She gave me a look so I explained it with the help of the book of Mark chapter 16.

Happy Easter everyone.

Month one of Tory

Although she sleeps better than Preston from day one this girl is no piece of cake. The first couple of weeks it seems like all I was doing was sitting in a chair nursing this chunky monkey. It was the only thing that would call her down. The next two weeks though she's finally giving mommy room to breathe (and shower). She takes a good 2-3 hour nap during the day as well as a bunch of good 10-20 min nap throughout the day. And at night on good nights she sleeps 5 hours. Bad night aren't that bad but her long stretch is 3 hours. So yes you can find me crawling into bed at 830 if I can. 

I remember doing more tummy time with Brianna and preston but I'm lucky if she doesn't start fussing after 2 min of being placed on her tummy. Tory LOVES to be held (although what baby doesn't), at least she'll push up on my chest and try to hold her head up so I count that as tummy time as well. Hopefully next month she'll get more floor time so she can start trying to roll over. 

This is how I'm able to cook dinner, and any other chores half the time.

 Can't wait to see her smile with her eyes open.

And of course Brianna and Preston love her. Preston even calls her his baby.

Happy one month birthday baby girl!