A Picnic!

Brian took the day off a few weeks ago and we had a picnic by the Salt River! Here's what we did:

We sat close to the river.
Mommy tried to take a cute posed picture of us. That didn't work out too well.

Mommy put me up in a scary tree... I didn't like it at all.

Daddy took a horribly unflattering picture of Mommy and us, and her belly.

We played in the dirt!

We looked for fish and learned all about weeds and plants.

Daddy played with us!


Logan waved to the camera.


The boys climbed trees.
We got a closer look at the water.

Daddy let me try to grab the fishys one more time.
Then we got tired and went home!
The End.

White Tank Mountains

In February, while Brian was at school seriously every day of my life, my parents took pity on me and we went for a Saturday morning hike in the White Tank Mountains. It was a beautiful little hike! We hiked about a mile up, to see a waterfall, then turned around. It was a little tricky to see the waterfall, so I let my dad and mom take Logan back there. Check out the pictures, there was some serious rock climbing for a couple of "Senior Citizens" and a 3-year-old! Hehehe, just kidding mom and dad! Anyway, it was great fun. Thanks parents!

Jaxon and his favorite Uncle, Troy

Logan and Grandma

Grandpa and Jaxon..... I told my dad to smile in this picture, and he said, "I AM!"

Trina, being Trina

Logan already getting annoyed at my picture-taking!


Jaxon walk-running, up the trail. When he "runs" which is more like a really fast walk, he swings his arms really fast, hoping that it will speed up his feet. It's super funny.

Troy and Logan. Look at Logan's face! What's up with that??

Yes, I carried Logan UPHILL on my back! (Okay, only until my dad saw me)



Jaxon looking at the little pond from the waterfall. He kept trying to go swimming in it! Oh and there's nothing wrong with his cheek here, there's just a kiss mark from Grandma!


Okay, so this is where you had to climb if you wanted to see the waterfall. So I didn't climb this, I just stayed back with Jaxon and watched my parents and Logan climb this. That was enough adventure for me!

Seriously, kinda scary for two senior citizens and a three-year-old, ROCK CLIMBING!

But as you can see, they all made it back safely. Once again, I told my dad to smile here... He was annoyed with me taking pictures at this point!

After Logan's "Rock climbing" experience, he felt very confident in his climbing skills. He climbed almost every rock on the way back! Then he would get to the top and say, "Hey look at me mommy! Take a picture! I'm a good climber!"

Is this a Grandpa Davis/Daddy face, or what?! It so reminds me of one of their faces they make!

And if Logan did it, OF COURSE, Jaxon could do it... Or should I say at least had to try!

There's that look again!

Logan standing tall on a rock, oh so proud of himself.

One big happy family!

Good Bye February!

Have I seriously not blogged all month? Holy Cow. Well, February was a dreadfully slow, but fast at the same time month. Brian took an elective class which meant he was gone Mon, Wed until 10:30pm sometimes later, and All day saturdays. Plus, Tues and Thur he met up with his groups for projects several times. So for me, it was a difficult month. I feel for the single mommas out there, or moms who have their husbands gone all the time. I can't live like that! Anyway, back in January we went on a little hike. It was a beautiful day. We have been loving the outdoors! The pics tell the story!



There was a cute little playground right by the trail.... So of course we had to stop there for a while!

Logan kept stopping and drawing "maps" in the dirt... Planning out where we were going to go next on our hike.

I convinced Brian that it would make for cute pictures if he went down the slide too! hehehe, I'm bad, I know!

Jaxon playing with Daddy before we left, on top of the van.


Okay, so it totally looks like we just went to a playground. But we didn't! We went on this little 1 mile stroller-friendly hike at Usery Pass. Not too far from us, and it was a beautiful day. Logan learned about the holes in the cactus, and bird's nests, and all kinds of wildlife things that Brian told him... Because you all know I know NOTHING about the outdoors. We had such a great time, Logan keeps talking about that one time when we went on a hike!

Home Decor

I've been reading the Make it and Love it Blog and I'm OBSESSED with it. I got an itch to make our house look more like a home, so here's what I did! I started with pillows for my couches. There was nothing there before, and now, I LOVE these pillows! I went to Joann's while they were having 50% off of their upholstery/home decor fabric, so I Totally scored there! And I already had some decorative plain pillows, that I just made slip covers for. Most of the pillows are completely made though.




Then I had some leftover fabric so I started to make some slipcovers for my barstools. Okay, so I didn't have as much fabric as I thought I did, so I had to get some more, but still, it was a good deal!
Here's the barstool before:

And here's the after:



Then I really did have enough fabric leftover from the stools that I was able to decorate my curtains. Before they were just plain solid colored curtains from Ikea.(boring, right?) I was inspired and feeling like I could do this, so I had the image in my head, then I came up with this:

I also made a grocery bag holder, which the directions are on Make it and Love it, and the slipcovers for the pillows are on there too. I did all of this in a few days... It was the week before I had my ultra sound for the baby and I was super anxious. So I had to keep myself busy. But I think it was definitely worth it. I LOVE it all! It's so nice to be able to make things that you actually like! Especially when you can SAVE sooooo much money!

A Day at the Zoo

When Brian's parents were here we went to the zoo! It was a beautiful day and we had so much fun!

New Years Eve Bash!

This was the first time I used my auto timer on my camera!

Matt didn't have his glasses or his contacts in so he had to sit super close to the TV and squint the whole time..... It was kind of funny to watch but it definitely didn't affect his singing!




We had so much fun on New Years Eve! Grandma and Grandpa Davis were in town, and Shannon, Matt and Jacob came over. We had a sliders party where we grilled up about 5 different kinds of mini burgers, and then of course pigged out on them. We played Karaoke Revolution on the WII and surprisingly, EVERYONE sang a song! And even MORE shocking..... everyone sounded good! Obviously Matt was great, but Grandpa Davis was seriously hitting every note! I was very impressed! We all stayed up till midnight and had a blast just hanging out.