The awesome, the awkward, and the awful......

We'll today is a big day....huge actually....it's my mom's birthday!!!!!! Woot woot! Happy birthday mama! Her motto for this year is 61 and having fun! Those of you who know my mom know how cheerful, fun, and happy she always is.........and wonderful, wise, silly, loving, warm, hilarious, adventurous, spiritual, intellectual, and incredible..... I could go on and on and on and on and on and on ;) There is nothing she loves more then her children (specifically one of her daughters) so I thought a blog post (specifically a blog post from me) was definitely in order for today :) HA!!!

There have been a few things that have happened that I thought I should mention so here you go..... Let's start with the awesome, then the awkward, and then the awful shall we???

The Awesome-- My best friend, Sam, that I grew up dancing with came and visited Salt Lake a few weeks ago and it was so incredible spending time with her. We haven't seen each other in over three years, but the second I saw her it was like we were twelve again and boy did we giggle like a bunch of twelve year olds ;) 

It really was so fun catching up and hearing all about her life dancing as a professional dancer in Portland. The funniest thing we realized is that her boyfriend (who she met in Portland) used to work at Backbeats--a drum shop here in salt lake--and he sold kevin all of his drum kits and tons of his gear. What a small world!!! I told her that drummers are definitely keepers ;) hehe!

The Awkward-- I went to my 10 year high school reunion and man it was......something.....I'm not even sure what it was exactly, but I felt pretty awkward. Maybe it was because all my close friends weren't there or because I had poor Kevin with me who hates big groups of people AND being social OR that everyone was asking what you've been up to when secretly they all knew everyone's lives because of fb OR maybe it was the fact that I was in a room full of people who I used to spend every single day with and had crushes on or even dated.......ya......probably a little bit of everything ;) I don't know, I hear that the 20 year reunion isn't as clicky and is more fun, but it will probably take a lot to get me to go--and even more to get Kevin to go! ;) ha!!!

The Awful-- Kevin had a really exciting opportunity to go New York City (his first time ever!) this week and I was even ok to be left at home with the kiddos because I was just so excited for him to see such a magical place :) Unfortunately it wasn't very magical for him or for me....... As I mentioned before he doesn't like big crowds and he does NOT like anything dirty. Not sure why I thought he would think it was magical.....lol. He was supposed to come home around midnight Monday night, but one of his flights got cancelled so he had to spend the night in Chicago and take a flight the next day. It wouldn't have been a big deal but something horrifyingly traumatic happened earlier that day so I was pretty upset. I hope I have enough courage to share it with you now......ok here it goes..... I. Saw. A. Mouse. In. Our. HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!! It was running all around in our big kitchen room by the fireplace and I completely lost all control. Like seriously. I was standing on the counter screaming while Jane was just sitting there looking pretty confused. Thank heavens Sam was in his room or he would've been terrified! Some awesome friends came and set out some sticky traps and so I pretty much avoided being inside until we went to bed that night. I didn't sleep a wink the entire night for fear I would hear it suddenly scream. Eeeeew yuck I have the chills just talking about it! Kevin made it home eventually and there was no sign of the mouse so I thought all was fine and dandy until last night........ I was sitting and chatting with some friends when suddenly I saw the little demon run across the floor and went right under our stove. Kevin checked all our traps and the little monster had eaten all the peanut butter off of them and then eventually ripped himself free because there were pieces of fur still stuck on there. I am sick. This guy is good. Too good. He knows what he's doing and we don't stand a chance! We already caught two mice in our garage a month ago so I'm scared that there are hundreds of them living in our house mocking us!!! I have never been so jumpy in my life. While we were outside a leaf fell off our tree and I about ripped that thing to shreds. I don't know how much longer I can live like this!!! 

Well for the meantime lets try to get my mind off of things.....here are some random fun pics for you to enjoy :) 

The Jon Burgoyne band back together again!

Kevin feeling bored......

A delicious and successful attempt at cooking with our fresh zucchini!

I bought cute pillows for our bench! Sadly I didn't know that there are "outdoor pillows" and apparently these are just the "regular" kind.....Oh well! Still cute ;)

Sam visiting temple square :)

Being naughty with daddy and getting bubbles and a huge "doughnut"..... Hehe!

Kevin at the apple store in New York City!

While Kevin was gone Jane took over as keeper of the knives..... :)

While Kevin was gone I grew a mustache.... I think it looks pretty good....obviously ;)

Times Square!!!!!! Yes that is iron man, Mario, and woody in the background! Lol!

Me being nostalgic ;) Can you find little Kevbev in there?!? Hehe!

All the grand kids together at Papa Steve's summer camp this summer!!!!! So fun :)

Happy Birthday Mom! Hope this brought some amusement to your life on this very special day! Love you!!! :)

Girls Camp!!!

A few months ago I was called as Camp Director for our ward and man what a wild ride it has been! Ever since I got the call it has constantly been on my mind and for those of you who know me, it's all I've been talking about ;) so sorry about that! It has been so busy.........meetings, brainstorming, shopping, ordering, planning, praying, meetings, certification, scheduling, crying, meetings, calling, emailing, visiting, buying, meetings, equipment hunting, crafting, learning guitar, tent finding, practicing, preparing, crying, meetings, meetings, and more meetings! Haha! Needless to say it has been very emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually exhausting...BUT the benefits and blessings that came along with this calling completely surpassed any stress or headaches involved and I would absolutely do it again in a heartbeat :)

I was SO happy to finally get up there and for camp to begin. Saying goodnight to Sam and Jane the night before I left was soooo sad because I knew it was the last time I would see them for four days! I was a wreck! Try and picture me, if you will, singing my lullaby to Jane hysterically sobbing.....not a pretty sight! If only I had known then what an amazing week I was about to experience.....it might of helped a bit ;)

Our stake theme was True Treasure Island and each ward was assigned a ship. We were Battleship. By far the coolest ship in the entire stake!!! (I mean others were sportsmanship and friendship........ya..........LOL!) Our colors were black and gold so try to picture us strutting around wherever we went decked out from head to toe.....we were so cool!!! Dang!!!! But seriously.......we really were ;) hehe! Each day we had a theme and it all tied into the stages of battle. So day one was: Create your battle plan--be prepared. Day two: You are in the midst of battle--arm yourself. Day three: Reflect, revise, and remember. And day four: You've won the battle--now go and win the war. It all ended up coming together so perfectly! It really was amazing. We had the perfect mix of spiritual vs fun and silly activities. Three girls were our YCL's (youth camp leaders) and they completely blew me away. They ran the whole thing and their thoughts and testimonies left me speechless.......and you'd think tearless, but they just kept coming!!! So powerful. I really was either giggling and laughing my face off or bawling my eyes out. Too funny! I grew and learned so much from them and all the other girls. Absolutely ah-mazing.

Just so I will never forget, here are some of the fun things we did and highlights of the trip!

Crafts: decorated sunglasses, bags with our logo, made lipgloss, decorated and personalized our own pocket sized book of Mormons, bandanas, friendship bracelets, fabric bracelets, magnets, painted nails, and tablecloth doodles.

Activities: dance party, roll calls (that we did horribly at!!!), faith walk, swimming in the lake, canoeing, shooting the potatoe gun, balance beam competition, solo time, the cup game song, welcoming our fourth year hikers, doing our nice pranks on all the other wards, snipe hunting, singing camp songs, our lip sync dance, testimony meeting, devotional by sister Cook, and bedtime stories.

Moments I'll never forget: putting on those gold pants--Ok so we did a lip sync and had a huge dance prepared and in the middle of the dance I ripped off my black pants and revealed these hot gold pants.....best. Moment. Ever. Haha!!!! Oh I'm dying! Ok continuing on--ziplining into the lake, getting attacked by a porcupine, having a girl walk in on me in the bathroom, everyone thinking I was a girl and not a leader, having all my girls cheer my name when I was down in front being recognized as camp director, trying to survive and kill the bat that got into our tent, going around and sharing our favorite scriptures/thoughts, getting dragged like a doll during our snipe hunt....the girls were so scared!!!!, playing the guitar during our camp songs (I've always wanted to learn how to play so I took this opportunity to learn how and I accomplished that goal. Woot woot!), trying to sleep thru all the snoring! Haha! Sneaking into my car at two thirty in the morning to try and escape said snoring.....HA!!!, reading the book of Moroni during solo time, hearing each of the girls testimonies, pulling a prank on the girls that we left a cooler at home that had our dinner in it and the bishop showing up at that intense moment with cafe rio, getting to know our funny priesthood brethren better.... Indiana Jones!, calling home to check on Kevin and the kids and hanging up and the girls asking "Are you ok?" and then shamelessly bursting out into tears, having all the girls in our tent the last night till three in the morning, hearing weird things with my earplugs in.....haha!, making moose noises, waking up the girls in the morning with our awful and ugly instruments, walking up and down to the bathroom, being totally schooled by everyone else's cheers and skits, being late to EVERYTHING, and feeling the spirit so strongly and feeling sooooo close to my Heavenly Father and loving Savior :) 

Pretty awesome huh?!? Best. Week. Ever.

Here are some fun pics that were taken during camp!!!

Oh yeeeeaaaahhhh ;)

We're so bad it's cool!

The young women's presidency and me :) love these ladies!

We're cute and crazy!!!

Pretty sweet selfie!!!

We look so awesome! Is it just me?!? 

The girls decorated my tiny thin braids with flowers to make me look like someone on frozen (never seen it) and to probably make me look more beautiful ;) lol!

This is Emma. She is the spitting image of my BFF Sam when we were her age. Not only does she look like her, but her personality, mannerisms, laugh, even her handwriting is exactly the same as Sam!!!!! Insane! I just stared at her the entire time.....she probably thinks I'm so creepy! Haha ;)

I sent Kevin this pic of me in my tent having an awesomely fun time :)

GO BATTLESHIP!!!!!!!!!! Aren't my gold pants pretty sweet?!? ;) oh and I know my back leg is horribly bent....don't judge me (Morgie)..... HA!!!

As you can see (and read) you can probably tell that this really was such a special and memorable experience. I'm SO grateful that I got to spend time with these incredible girls and get twenty new best friends :) 

B. A. T. T. L. E. S. H. I. P.  We will fight for truth and light with all our might ya we're so tight! We're battle....what? Battle....what? Battle....what? BATTLESHIP!!!!!!!!!

May!

Looking back at my last post I seem really whiney and pessimistic.... May did have some downs and was definitely cursed at times, BUT there were so many awesome moments that I don't want to forget about so here are some of those happy memories that I thankfully caught with my camera :) Enjoy!

I love that I took a pic of this...... I found her playing with my necklace, some hair gel, and a tampon....what a girly girl!

She may be girly, but she is still a Davis ;)

May 9th was Jane's birthday! What a fast year it has been :)

Jane taking an awkward selfie on her birthday ;)

Happy birthday Janie boo!!! I remember Sam's first birthday and how he cried and hated all the attention on him. Jane was completely the opposite. She LOVED all attention and knew it was her special day. She could not stop smiling :)

We had our first date since having Jane and it was delicious!

Here are the cookies I made for our first aid certification night for camp....it's getting closer!

Morgie and I went to see Ballet West's innovations.....such a fun night! We were so giggly seeing all the dancers that were on breaking pointe. After the show I got a little too excited and jumped in front Rex and Allison's car and started blowing them kisses and dancing around....pretty sure I'm twelve...it seriously was the best night ever. Love my Morgie time!

Sam did not get potty trained his month :( He still makes me change him on the changing table....LOL!!!

We planted our first garden!

Sam went to his first big kid birthday party and had a blast! At one point he told me to leave him alone.... I guess I was embarrassing him in front of the other kids :( Ha!

I got me some new shades and I LOVE them!

I think Jane might be a doctor one day :)

Jane made lots of messes.......

And Sam cleaned them all up......

Sam and Jane love to sneak into the freezer and eat all the ice :)

Sam got a new haircut, new shoes, and a new hat!

Took this pic late one night when I went in to check on Jane....what a sweet girl :)

 I felt like I was having a good hair day one night so we took a pic to document the monumental occasion.....

Then I started posing.......

And then it got awkward......can't you see the anguish in my eyes?!? Haha!

Excited for summer!

Lots of playing outside! 

I love that her favorite thing to eat is cereal....just like me! Yay!!!

Sam before he got his haircut.....clearly you can see he really needed it ;)

Mmmmmm mmmmm :)

My little strawberry :)

She already has her daddy wrapped around her fingers...he bought her a new car :)

Happy May and here's to a happy June!!!

Cursed

Have you ever felt cursed? Like seriously for reals cursed?!? Now I know that I am VERY blessed and have a wonderful and happy life, but there have been a few things that no matter what I do I am seriously CURSED....... Seriously!!!!!! Ok let me explain--

Let's start on a small scale... Can openers. Every single can opener I have ever owned has been terrible. Absolutely terrible. I'll buy a cheap one and it breaks. I buy an expensive one and it breaks. I buy a mediocre one and it breaks. I'll never win. They will always beat me. I am cursed! 

Another one-- lip gloss. I had a lip gloss I loved and used for almost fifteen years and now it has disappeared. I searched and searched for a new kind and finally found this...

Love it. I found it at Walmart and thought my life was complete again. I ran out so I checked all the grocery stores we go to and couldn't find it. So I went back to walmart. I've been a million times and they never have this color. Finally one day they had one there so I bought it. I opened it when I got home to find the tube inside completely empty. Every time I've gone back since then they haven't had it again. Then two nights ago I went and it was there! I decided to buy the two that were left just to be safe. I opened them both right away to make sure they were in there and they were! Woohoo! I got home and put them in my make up tub and like literally five minutes later I found Sam covered in shimmer. I ran into the bathroom to confirm my worst suspicions and what I found was horrifying....He had grabbed them and twisted them all the way up and smeared them everywhere. Again, like I said....CURSED. 

This brings me to my current cursed situation. Kevin and I decided that we would make a goal to have some big house projects done by Jane's birthday (which was May 9th) and we actually almost made it. We got rid of our beautiful turquoise indoor carpet and put in wood floors. Here is a pic showing all the different stages :)

It was pretty intense. They estimated that they would need 3 bags of leveling solution stuff and they ended up using 24 bags.....so instead of it being a one day project it ended up being three days and a LOT more $.... This is what we lived in--

Kind of fun! Haha ;) Ok so Jane's birthday was on a Friday and they got done with the floors Wednesday night. We had picked out a few handles for our cabinets and seeing them with the new floors I decided this was the one I wanted--

Thursday morning I woke up early and went to Home Depot to buy the remaining 41 we needed. They only had 23 there so I bought those and went home. I put them all on by myself and was so proud. They told me other Home Depots in the area had tons more so I figured I could get the remaining ones that night. I went and they had the same ones, but they were black instead of bronze. They told me to go to a different Home Depot and that they would have them for sure. I snuck away early Friday morning (the day of our big party) and went to get them. I got there and it was the same thing....they were all black instead of bronze. The sku number was the exact same, but they werent the same! They were black! The workers kept telling me that they had them because there computers said they had them, but they weren't the same. They didn't get it! I was about to lose it, but decided to go to a different Home Depot (my fourth one at this point). I grabbed a bronze handle at home so I could show them just in case. I got there and of course it was the same situation....they were all black. Again I had to sit there and listen to them tell me that they did have them and that these were the same ones I had bought (because the sku was the same) even though the one I was holding was brown and the others were BLACK. BLACK!!!! I totally lost it at this point. An angel named John came and took over. He could actually see past the sku number and see the difference between my bronze one and their black one so he went and looked in all their boxes to see if he could find some for me. Meanwhile I am sitting on the ground crying and people are awkwardly walking around me. He couldn't find any that were the same. It turns out that literally over night they stopped making them bronze and changed them to black and I was lucky enough to get the last remaining 23 that existed in the universe. He sat with me for an hour and we went thru hundreds trying to pick out the ones that looked the most bronze. He was so nice. I decided to go home and see if they would work and he told me if they didn't then he would refund me for all of them even though I had opened half of them and didn't have a receipt for the first 23 I bought. I went home and put the rest on and they looked terrible! Didn't work at all. I decided to leave them on for the party and prayed that no one would comment on how half were black and half were brown because I probably would have attacked them. 

Ok...so now it is about nine in the morning. We bought a new fridge and stove and they were supposed to deliver them sometime between ten and two. They came around noon. Perfect right? They took our old fridge and stove and brought in the new ones. If they didn't fit I was going to completely break down. They bring the fridge in first and.........totally didn't fit. Way too big. Two inches too tall. If Siena hadn't been there I don't know what I would have done. The workers were pretty snoody and just stood there asking me what they wanted me to do. I called Kevin and he said for them just to leave it there and when he got home from work we would figure it out. To say I was freaking out is a total understatement. They wheel in the stove and it did not look like it would fit either. After pushing and pushing it finally BARELY squeezed in. They left and I seriously think they were grateful they were still alive. For those of who who don't know, I can get really freaky scary. Poor Kevbev knows :( He came home and ripped out the cupboards (along with the molding unfortunatley) so we could get the fridge in. He somehow found a way to get the molding back in and fifteen minutes before the party started we pushed it in.....

Now we just need to figure out what to do above the fridge there. I want to just get a cute picture or decor thing and cover it up, but the perfectionist in Kevin probably won't let me do that ;) Oh and a funny side note-- Kevin wanted to try and hook the water up to the fridge before the party (during that fifteen minute interval) but I said no and it was a good thing I did.....it ended up being a couple hours of intense water spraying and leaking and two trips to Home Depot before it was all done.....phew!!!!! At least one crisis was averted! 

So now it is May 23rd and we still have no handles on our cupboards. We can't find any that we like. We have to pry at them with our fingers to get them to open....it's ridiculous! I'm pretty sure that my angel, John, was indeed just that-- an angel, or he is one of the three nephites because I keep calling that Home Depot back to see if he is there working and they don't know who I'm talking about.....so I still have all my blasted brown and black handles :( So where was I going with all this??? Oh that's right..... I am cursed. CURSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

If anyone knows where I can get beautiful handles for my kitchen, some champagne Burt's bees Chapstick, and a can opener that works all at the same place.....please oh PLEASE tell me :)