This has been happening a lot the past few days.

Carson has been hiding his wood toy snake in the flower bed going into the grass or this morning it was coming out of the flower bed onto the driveway.

Yesterday, I almost told Raven to watch out for the snake as she was getting out of the van, but then stopped myself when I realized it was just the toy one.

I guess Carson finds it funny because he knows how bad I hate snakes and our yard is full of them and I mean FULL!!!

This morning, Nadia asked Carson why his stuffed animals were in the bath tub.

Carson said that his animals finally turned 8 so he had to baptize them.

I can't help but laugh about this. I also love this at the same time.

I love seeing glimpses into my kids spirituality.

It lets me know that they are actually listening in primary and at home when we speak about baptism.

All of those times, you don't think your kids are listening, they really are.

This makes me want to cry a little bit. I loved her longer hair, but she has begged and begged since her last hair cut to get it cut shorter.

It is her hair and if she will do it, I will let her do whatever she wants with it.

I also can't blame her for wanting it shorter. Her hair is so thick, almost sickening thick.

Right now, I am still trying to get used to it, but I am sure it will grow on me eventually.

I'm ready for school to start. Don't get me wrong I love my babies and love spending time with them but these past few days have been a nightmare from hell! If it's not one having a tantrum them it's another stealing other people's things or "running away" (staying on our street thank goodness). I'm exhausted. My kids are old enough to be able to entertain themselves for the most part but I can not turn my back for one second with one of my kids or said child is misbehaving. How does one get anything accomplished when they have to practically sit with a child all of the time?

Today was kind of a laid back kind of day until this afternoon.

Kids all slept in until 8:30.

We didn't have to be up for summer school or volleyball.

Raven had violin at 10:00 this morning.

We went grocery shopping.

I sewed some.

Took Carson to his doctors appointment at 4:30 and didn't get home until 7:00.

It was crazy.

Joe didn't get home until 8:45 pm tonight.

Kids are now in bed.

We have a busy day tomorrow.

This is all I have today! Carson caught his first butterfly.

Quynsie got home from girls camp today. I sure have missed her.

Our house is a big hot mess right now.

We are cracking down on bad behavior and disrespectful behavior and that has turned this house upside down. Nadia is pushing as hard as she can to get away with things and it is not working and she hates it. We now have a hole in her bedroom wall thanks to her slamming her door against it. The door knob went right through the wall. 20 minutes before this happened, I had warned her that if she kept doing it, she would keep making it weaker and eventually it would break, and break it did!!!
Carson has the same problem and it is just out of control.

If we don't get a handle on it now, during the summer, we will have a very hard and trying school year.

This is all I have today! Carson caught his first butterfly.

Quynsie got home from girls camp today. I sure have missed her.

Our house is a big hot mess right now.

We are cracking down on bad behavior and disrespectful behavior and that has turned this house upside down. Nadia is pushing as hard as she can to get away with things and it is not working and she hates it. We now have a hole in her bedroom wall thanks to her slamming her door against it. The door knob went right through the wall. 20 minutes before this happened, I had warned her that if she kept doing it, she would keep making it weaker and eventually it would break, and break it did!!!
Carson has the same problem and it is just out of control.

If we don't get a handle on it now, during the summer, we will have a very hard and trying school year.

June 24, 2016

Nadia caught on really fast. I showed her once and she picked it up and did awesome.

Look at all of those squares!!!

That my friends is 288 squares X 7 different patterns = 2016

Thankfully, we only have to sew 288 squares because the squares are 3 pieces of material stacked together. You have the pattern on top, a plain piece in the middle for some weight and then you have the back.


Raven won this scooter on her last day of summer school.

These two have been BFF's for 3 years.

This is Olivia.

We invited her to go swimming at Papa's hotel pool with the cousins and Grammy!

Carson and his I am annoyed look!

My nephew Aiden

Raven...She keeps telling me that she needs a hair cut.

I am not sure how I feel about that.

8 kids to two adults, that's a lot!!!

We are starting to miss Quynsie really bad. She has been at girls camp since Tuesday morning and is not due to be home until sometime Saturday. I will be glad when she is home.

I don't realize how much I rely on her until she isn't here for a week.

Because of Carson and the difficulties we are having with him, she steps up a ton with her sisters.

We are not able to turn our backs for two seconds before Carson is doing something naughty!

*Running

*Sneaking out of the house without permission

*Taking things that don't belong to him

*Making big messes, especially in his room

*Hitting

*Kicking

*Biting

*Breaking doors

*Putting holes in the walls

*Breaking other peoples things

*And oh so much more

We got to introduce the 3 younger kids to their cousin that they have never met.

Joe and I have only seen her 3 times in 11 years.

She is Joe's brother's daughter that he had with someone while on break from his ex-wife.

He eventually got back with his ex-wife and had a son, then finally got divorced.

He is now re-married.

Anyway we were excited to see her.

June 22, 2016

I just looked at the school calendar and realized that the kids start school August 15.

Poor Raven will only get one month and two weeks of summer because she has been doing summer school for the past 3 weeks.

They start way early but get out about the same time they did this year. Which means more day's off somewhere, but it didn't look any different than normal.

Nadia learning how to cut material for her blanket.

Yes, I look a hot mess!!!

We sent Quynsie off to girls camp this morning and then took Raven to school.

Then we went to play group with some friends from the ward at the splash pad.

July 19, 2016

Happy Father's Day

Happy father's day to the best daddy...

Joe is soft hearted and easy going, most of the time.

He comes home from a long day at work and try's to spend time with the kids.

He teaches them right and wrong.

He does not allow our kids to disrespect me.

He is a great provider to our little family.

We love him so much!

Thanks for being the best daddy to our kids, we love you.

This is what happens when you talk about boys in front of grandma Torri, she embarrasses you.

This is what happens when you are trying to hot glue your daughters padding onto her bucket lid for a chair for girls camp.

The finished product.

July 18, 2016

We are getting somewhere on this shop. Joe is building the permanent forms for the cement.

July 17, 2016

Quynsie going down the stairs.... Thud Thud Thud Thud Thud... Ow
Me... Are you ok
Quynsie... Yeah
Me... Can I laugh now
Quynsie... Yeah

Carson helping mom sew on his blanket.

We found out today that Nadia's teacher, who was supposed to be teaching 2nd grade this next year (who I wanted Carson to have) quit and will be teaching at another school.

Nadia's response was this...

Nebo school district, public school, that's just not her style!!!

June 16, 2016

This is so true, except I have control of the girls' phones from my own phone. I can lock it up so tight that they can't even make phone calls if I don't want them to. This even includes music. If I don't like what they are listening to or it is way to loud, I just block the app they are using and they will run to me as fast as they can and say, "But mom, I was listening to that". And I can say, "Yes, I know that you were listening to that and that was the problem. I don't like the music or I don't like how loud it was" or whatever the reason is at the time of blocking it.

Quynsie and her friend Eme, who is in our ward working on their girls camp quilts together.

Eme, wasn't sure how to go about putting hers together so I offered to help her.

While I was helping the girls with the quilts, these three played on the trampoline with the water.

Don't mind the stupid weed patch. This is where Joe's shop is going. The rest of the yard is going to get redone once the shop is built. Or at least once the cement is laid.

Carson helping mom cut out his material for his blanket for camping.

June 15, 2016

This girl is one cute thing!

Took the kids to the dentist and 3 out of 4 don't have cavities. Quynsie is the one with a couple of cavities.

Kids have been begging to see exactly what their dad does for work for awhile now.

Today they got that chance. He came and insulated our attic today.

June 14, 2016

Quynsie's face looks so much better.

Welcome to the Davis' where life is peaches and creams. Pop some pop corn and sit back and watch the show...
Last night we thought we were going to take a trip to the ER, but thankfully we didn't. Carson cut his toe really bad on nadia's magnet board. So bad that he soaked through 3 wrags and all over Joe's pants and the carpet.

Girls camp is just a few days away and Quynsie has been procrastinating in hopes that mom will finish it for her...AND...

She was right! I did finish it for her.

June 13, 2016

8 quarts of strawberries ready to freeze for summer smoothies.

That is a lot of pigs!

Under the bed storage is the best.

Mamma went on a cleaning spree in Nadia's room today.

Then I made stuffed noodles!

Daddy not so thrilled with this but mommy thinks it's cute. To be honest this is a shirt from the ladies department but Nadia was so stuck on having it for a dress and I thought it was cute so I got it for her.