I can't believe it has been a year

A short twelve months ago we welcomed Evangeline into our family. I can hardly believe that much time has gone by. I have often told people that I wish pregnancy would go by as quickly!

She was born in the same hospital with the same doctor and the same nursing staff as her two other sisters, so the day wasn't that much of a surprise. I was induced, like always, and everything was smooth sailing. Two hours and three pushes later we had our darling third daughter.


She was such a good baby from the moment we brought her home, only getting up twice a night to feed, all the credit for that however goes to my mother!


Her birthday fell the day before Thanksgiving this year, but we didn't let it slide. Kevin made the cakes in a cute "bug" pan and I decorated them to the girls specifications. They turned out very cute if I do say so myself!!!!
You REALLY loved that cake!!


Eva we love you very much and are so happy to have you in our family. Your cute scrunched up little smile makes us all happy and we love to hear your excitement as you come down to breakfast every morning waving to your sisters.


Happy first birthday my darling girl.

Talk about a temperature shock!

We have arrived safely back home after a fantastic week spent at Audrey's home in California!

They are always the perfect host and the girls had a great time together (I hope you have all check her link for pictures of all the fun! She took much better photos than me!). As we were leaving we had to take note that the gauge in our car said it was a perfect 71 degrees out and we were sad to not only leave our wonderful family but the perfect weather as well. What other place can you have Thanksgiving dinner (it was so good, thanks for the stuffing!), then go to the midnight shopping sales for "Black Friday" and only wear a light jacket (I had no idea stores did a midnight opening, it was a lot of fun and sooo much better then trying to get out of bed at 5:00am), then go to the beach the next day! I have to say that the first time Paul and I went to visit over the holiday I found it very strange to not have snow, or be bundled up, but now I love it and look forward to it!!! So after all that fun and sunshine we made our way east and back into Utah. After stopping in St. George for dinner we decided that it was starting to get cooler, as we advanced our way north the temperature gauge began to plummet - 50, 40, 38, and yes it was a crisp 27 degrees as we pulled into our garage!!! Thank goodness for the kindness of my father who went over earlier to turn the heat back on in the house!!!! It was fun to see the frost on the houses and lawns this morning and everyone's Christmas decorations out, it has very much put me in the mood to do the same, this evening I think we will do just that!!! Thanks again Wilson clan for a wonderful week in Paradise, we are however, very happy to be home for the Christmas season!!! So without further adue click on the following link that Audrey so artistically created for everyone to join us Davis' in ushering in the Christmas season!!! Be patient, it takes a minute to load. Enjoy!!!!!

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9592877683

We found it to be completely hysterical!!!! Check back soon because my baby turned one while we were away and I will be sharing those photos!!!

California or Bust!!

We are on our way this morning, wish us luck on our 12 hour plus drive with three children in tow!! Abby is so excited to see her cousins that last night she told Paul "I just might not be able to sleep because I will be having fun dreams". So check Audrey's blog for updates on all our adventures for the next week and every one have a wonderful Thanksgiving with all of your loved ones!!

Until next week, so long!!!!

A bit out of sorts

I haven't been feeling the best today, I woke up this morning with an upset stomach and it has been hanging around all day. Paul has already made the pregnancy jokes so I don't need anymore of those!!! Mostly this upsets me because I wasn't able to run this morning, and with our much anticipated trip next week for the holiday I had wanted to stick to my workout schedule this week, next week will be a free for all! Oh well, the good news for all of you is that I was able to scrapbook instead!

This first one is using a bunch of my birthday goodies that I just love.


And these are the girls Halloween spreads - I have changed Abby's about 10 times and I am still not sure if I am completely happy with the results. It just may have to be revisited another day.


I have now finished a yummy bowl of soup and I think that it has made me feel better, hopefully it will continue through the evening!!!

Love to all, until next time.

Afternoon Confections

We decided that dessert was in order for after dinner this evening (mostly to give the girls something to do on an otherwise boring Sunday afternoon). So after a quick trip to shop in my mother's basement for a cake mix, and her happily sharing her chocolate frosting recipe, we had cupcakes, much to my children's delight!! Should I be worried that Liv gets this much of an emotional response from bakery goods?!!



Yes Audrey, thanks for the dress, she hasn't worn anything else since she saw it!!! It is her new "very favorite" dress.

Oh, and since we only ate four of the TWENTY FOUR the mix made, does anybody want one? PLEASE!!!!!

My favorite time of day

Abby and her dear friend Audrey(the little girl across the street, not you Paul's sister!) are upstairs in her room putting glittery make-up on each other. I really should go and take a picture because they also have on fairy wings and princess high heel shoes! Liv is, of course, watching her favorite movie "Cinderella" while decked out in full costume. My darling little Evangeline has just settled in for her afternoon nap. What does this all mean? I now have a moment to share my latest page creations! I am quite proud of these because 1. I made them from scratch, no templates, and 2. I scrap lifted the page ideas from one of my favorite blogs "multi-photo layout gallery". I love the simpleness of Eva's page, kind of reminiscent of the paper way, and I love Abby's bike page for the same reason as well as having everything grouped together in the middle.



What do you think?

Just a quick one

I can't believe that this week is almost over! It has just flown by. I don't have a lot of time today, I seem to have triple booked myself this evening, along with letting the toys and dishes pile up! Tonight Paul is going to be at the BYU game. Thursday night games are not my favorite seeing that I left this morning to take the girls to story time at the library and yelled a quick goodbye to Paul as I ran out the door and he won't be home until after 11:00pm tonight. My mom is having us over to play for a while this evening, being interrupted by a baby shower that I need to be attending and then hurrying back to go walking with Jerianne, then taking the girls home and getting them to bed. So while my day wasn't all that busy my evening will be, but I am glad for all the things I will be doing. Now I need to go and do the before mentioned cleaning so that I don't pull my hair out when I walk in late tonight!!!

I will leave you with a layout. Eva turned 11 months old a couple weeks ago, can you believe that she will be one in a short two weeks!! I can't believe it!!


Have a great evening everyone!

Me at 30

Abby of all people helped me take these self portraits the other day and I have to say she did a pretty good job!! I will also say looking at these pictures has made me realize that Hillary and I might just be sisters after all! I am seeing alot of her in my face for some reason. While putting this layout together it let me think about this whole turning 30 thing. Many people really dread this milestone, makes them feel old and start to wonder if they have done all the things they thought they would by this age. I am one that has totally embraced turning 30. I feel as though it is the right age to be when you have been married nearly seven years and have three children. Quite frankly I feel like I have been thirty for the last 10 years. Now don't get me wrong, at times I wake up and think to myself, am I not still 16 because I swear that I am 16! Then I look in the mirror and realize that I definitely don't have the body I did then, but my heart and mind still feel that young and free. I have always felt responsibility for my life, I have just never really been a flighty giggly teen girl (I admit that there have been times, before everyone contradicts me!). I have worked since I turned sixteen, put myself through school until I was 22 and got married at 24. I have had a great life thus far, done many of the things on my to do list of my teen years, not necessarily in the right order or time frame, but the checks are there and I feel great about it. I love being thirty, they say a woman's greatest time is in her 30's, I think I will just put that to the test!! As Kelly Conroy told me the other night, "Welcome to the thirty-something family!" I join with great happiness and pleasure!!

Good things for my Birthday!

Did you all tune in and watch Good Things Utah on Friday?! Because if you did you were able to see my 15 minutes of fame! Paulene and I had such a wonderful time attending the show that morning. It was really interesting to see how it is made, all the people behind the scenes and get a few freebies.


I was the only birthday in the audience so I was able to have a close up and wave to everyone, it was really very fun and exciting! I have to say the ladies look exactly the same in person, but they were very genuinely nice. Here is our photo with the girls after the show.


After the taping Paulene took me to the opening day of The Cheesecake Factory, my father in law David joined us. I have never eaten at one and being opening day we had to wait no less than 1 hour and 45 minutes to get a seat, but the food was fantastic and I ordered the white chocolate raspberry cheesecake, now that was amazing!! Thanks you two for spending your entire afternoon with me!! I had a great time with you!

I have to thank Paul for his gift of my Salon evening the night before and then taking the day off of work so that I could go to the show and lunch with Paulene. We were gone longer then expected and it turned out that Abby had her first day of her new Preschool that morning so he was truly Mr. Mom that day! That night he took our little family out for wings (I LOVE wings!) so that I wouldn't have to cook dinner. Thank you honey, I love you and all that you did to make my day special (including doing all the dishes cleaning up and sweeping and mopping the floor!)

Then I was surprised by a visit from the Conroy's, Jerianne the sweet girl that she is, made me little bite size cheesecakes topped with all kinds of sweet and yummy things and they sang to me, so wonderful and appreciated.

Last but not least I need to thank all of you who took the time to call, (the Wilson serenade was fantastic!), or even sent me a gift certificate and downloads to my favorite digital scrapbook stores. Audrey and Michelle, so nice of you and I have already filled my cart!

This really was a fun birthday and I felt very loved and special. I will be posting again soon with a layout of me at 30. I loved that Jerianne did that and with Abby's help yesterday I was able to get some pictures of myself(something that I never do) and I will be scrap lifting Audrey's "Me at 35" page, I hope you don't mind :)

So stay tuned!!!

Halloween, Halloween, Trick-or-Treat!

We had such a fun day yesterday celebrating the holiday! How can you not with school parties, dressing up, getting a jack-o-lantern pizza (thanks Mom!) and carving pumpkins, all combined with being able to go door to door asking for candy! We did the usual routine of Paul taking the girls around the neighborhood while I stayed home with Eva,all dressed up in my Maid costume, to answer the door and see all the cute costumes. Funny story about my costume, I put it on while Abby was out playing and when she came in it scared her to death to see this unknown blonde woman taking the pizza out of the oven. I turned and said hello, she let out a nervous "Mommy, I didn't know it was you!" Very funny, and little Eva kept looking at me funny all night, although she loved having all the people come to the door. She would crawl over to the open doorway and just grin and grin until one of them would get down to her level and talk to her. So cute! Here are the pictures you have all been waiting to see(sorry I am always the one behind the camera so there won't be any of me!:

Abby was Sleeping Beauty, the new favorite princess because she is pink and has three fairies! Thank you Taryn for letting her borrow it and to Michelle for making it, such talent!


Liv was her favorite, Cinderella. She has been wearing this costume all day everyday for about two months now. I think it is very funny that at the exact same age as Abby, she decided that Blue is the best color and Cinderella is the greatest thing in the world. They might be sisters after all.


Sweet Eva was my little Tinker Bell - She didn't know if she liked the wings very much but she sure did look cute with them on!



And here they all are ready to head out with their Dad to fill up the buckets with good things to eat!


Hope you all had just as much fun last night, I really do love this holiday and am sad that we have to wait an entire year to do it again. I guess that is when it becomes a good thing that you have three girls, everyday is a dress up day for them!!

Tomorrow is my birthday! So tonight Paul is treating me to a Salon evening, I will be getting my much needed makeover with my hair. Nobody get too excited, I won't be cutting it all off, just some maintenance! Then tomorrow morning Paulene (my sweet mother-in-law) is taking me to be a member of the Good Things Utah audience!!!! I know that it sounds funny, and that for several years all I did was mock those ladies, but now I have been watching it three days a week while I run on the Treadmill and wouldn't you know, I have formed a bond with them!!! I really enjoy the crafts, profiles of events and businesses in town, and don't get me started on the cooking segment! I have tried several and they have become staples in our house!!! So everyone tune in on Friday morning at 10:00am, or like me, Tivo it, because Paulene and I will be in the audience waving to all of you, and hopefully getting some giveaways, and maybe even I will get a birthday spotlight!!!! One can only hope!!!

Everyone have a fantastic day, mine has already started off well!!!