Chloe's Room ~ Finally

The smaller middle frame still needs a picture of our family...

She decided she needed a clock because she was learning to tell time.

It sure was hard finding one for her that had numbers!

This is the IKEA frame I painted yellow for her Dorthy quote

"Follow your own yellow brick road"

The ultra pink shears make her whole room a little bit hot pink!

Wendy made the scallops for me and also cut the vinyl for me ~ Thanks Again!

Her ballet bar was installed into studs ~ Thanks to Tom!

I just hope she can't pull it off the wall...

The tape that came with the mirrors did not stick, we will have to try something else.

I made the flowers out of felt in the colors on her bed spread for the lamp and her pillow

The Be Strong block and the hanging magnetic square are from Aunt Laura

while we were at Bear Lake ~ crafts galore!!!

I wanted to get her a vintage turquoise tiered cake platter but have no patience

to wait to come across one that I could afford...  She loves that she gets to have her own

little earrings and bracelets on it as well as her dress up necklaces.

The cupcakes were easter eggs ~ i just loved them!

I wanted her to have a treasure shelf, this one might be too small!

She has bigger treasures up on her shelf.  Porcelain dolls from Great Grandma Thomson, her princess piggy bank, Toto in his basket, Her first pair of cowgirl boots, an Arora figurine, and a tea pot from my Mom!

I had so much fun putting her room together.  Becky had bought Hannah the same rainbow bedding from Target a while ago and I loved it.  Chloe has love the Wizard of Oz for so long but I hate having a kids room so defined by the theme.  I love that we can use every color in the rainbow and that she finally has somewhere to hang her artwork that doesn't involve many, many feet of tape!!!

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Have I Mentioned...

I am so excited for all of the babies that are coming soon.  My SIL Jen is due around Halloween with her second girl.  Her sister is prego with her first.  And my baby sister Erin is prego with her third and fourth!!!  I can't wait for these all of these babies to get here.  I am so happy for Jen, it is so much fun having cousins on both sides of your family for your kids.  I love, love, love that Chloe and Seth both have such good buddies on both the Thomson and Davis side of our family. 

I was at girls camp and Erin was trying to get a hold of me on my cell phone.  The service was bad and she kept leaving me messages that she had some exciting news and to call her back asap!  After trying and being disconnected with my own phone a couple of times, I finally borrowed a cell phone and was able to reach her.  I told the girls at camp, I don't know what could be so important ~ she just found out she was pregnant and just moved into her new house.  They all speculated about what it could be and someone even guessed twins.  I {very typically} started to tear up when she did in fact tell me that she was carrying twins.  I am so excited and even a little bit jealous ~ I will always be baby hungry!!!

So I can't wait until she finds out for sure which set should be purchased:

Two Girls:

Two Boys:

One of each:

Can you even imagine?

She went in this last week and the ultrasound technician thought that they were both boys but I am going to wait a few more weeks before making any plans!  It is so fun to think of Halloween costumes for Jen's two girls and the many combinations Erin and Kendall could produce, but the best part is that I can hold them and snuggle them and then go home and have a good nights rest!  Hallelujah!!!

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Movie Weekend

I got together with my pregnant sister-in-law last night to watch the Back Up Plan with Jennifer Lopez and this very fit fella.  I had seen the movie when it was in theaters and laughed so hard with my girlfriends.  I have to admit there was a difference watching it with my little brother.  I still want to know how you decide which of your friends {that are close enough that you invited to your baby's birthing} is the designated poop scooper!!!

I just got back from watching The Switch, another pregnancy/insemination movie, that was filmed at the same time but released just now.  It was funny and a little tender ~ the little boy was so adorable!  The crazy movie theater must have been having problems with the storm raging on outside because the movie kept cutting out.  I want to see it again and might even consider buying this movie... or at least borrowing it from red box!

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Tubing @ Willard

Chloe was the first to try it out.  After riding on Grandpa's 3 passenger hot dog at bear lake, she was a little nervous.  Bear Lake was very windy and had huge waves.  I told her that I was watching her signals and she was the only one in charge.  Faster, Slower or stop ~ she was in control, but still a little nervous!!!

A little Faster Daddy:

Uuumm, too fast:

Seth on the other hand had no fears:

He's kneeling up and pulling a No Hander:

We convinced them to ride together and were having fun:

until Seth wanted to go faster than Chloe:

After they got their fill on the tube, I became a little sea sick from the fumes of the engine.  I was trying to get a good photo for the blog but ended up a little green around the gills.  I situated myself up fron in the bow of the boat and we went for a speedy little ride to clear the air.  After a little while Dan tried fishing some more but was skunked ~ again.  Although he is bound and determined to catch a swiper here at Willard, we all had the best time ever fishing after Daddy got home from work!

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The letter A

This is his talent and skill that has been cultivated on this first day of preschool with mom

~ balancing his pencil behind his ear!

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Day Two!

Even though Dan fixed the battery in the car, we stuck with the scooter plan.  Seth and I walked Chloe to the meeting point and these beautiful girls scooted away.  Today we will be missing Chloe, again; doing laundry, still and starting Seth's home-Pre-School with a lesson on the letter A!

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Early Birthday!

Once we had left Grandpa's cabin in Bear Lake, I realized we had left a few things.  I called Aunt Kate and asked her to bring my watch and wedding ring home.  Then Chloe remembered that she forgot her scooter.  I had made plans with neighbors to have her scoot to school with a group of kids.  I called Grandma and asked her to bring her scooter home and she could use it tomorrow.  Grandma called us back and said that the scooter looked too small and was too dirty to bring home.  They wanted to get her a new one for her birthday and took us all out to dinner at Chili's ~ her favorite. 

For years they have taken the kids to their favorite restaurant and then to toys r us to pick out a toy.  This year was much quicker because we didn't have to case out the entire store!  Seth found this awesome Lego fire fighter but Chloe went strait back to the scooters and found this pretty pink daisy Razor with an annoying bell!

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First Day of School

She woke me up this morning before my alarm had a chance to go off.  She was dressed and ready to go!  We made her favorite breakfast, cream of wheat, and packed her lunch.  We missed back to school night and she was a little nervous about meeting her teacher.  She got a little teary and thought she would like to stay home instead.  I said that was a great idea and assigned her a bunch of chores to coax her into changing her mind.  She bucked up and we did her hair and headed out to the garage.  We got the car seats in and got our seat belts on and the car would not start.  The thing was dead, no noise, no nothing!  I called Aunt Jenn to see if she could take us, I called some neighbors but they were already on their way.  I called Dan to see if there was anything I could do, quickly, and then we all started walking to school.  She was whimpering a little about being late and neither of us knew exactly were to go.  Our friend Amy, from last years car pool, saved the day and stopped and took Chloe to school.  She had a car full or I would have gone with her.  I got a hold of Uncle Tom and he let me borrow their little black car and Seth and I were able to meet her once school was over.  She had gotten a little nervous but told me she was very brave!  Recess was the best part of the day and she went on and on about the big kid play ground that she gets to play on now that she isn't a kindergartner!!!  For lunch she sat next to a sixth grader and there was no cheese to get the cheese touch from ~ go figure!

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Bear Lake: Day 3

While we were having the Thomson camp out, the Davis side of our family was celebrating the birthdays we have in August.  Today is Bry's birthday and Grandpa wanted to spend it defying his age by skiing and wake boarding.  {i think he is secretly batman!}  It got really windy later in the day and riding along on the hot dog was all anyone was up for!

Dan and Drake:

Dan, Chloe and Seth:

The wind was perfect for flying kites:

After we had the best BBQ, the kids played some more on the new airplane teeter-totter and climbing dome, then Grandpa made us some cinnamon and sugar donut balls with home made ice cream.  The kids needed to go to bed ~ tomorrow will be the first day of school...  Chloe was reading stories to Gwen:

And Seth was taking care of himself:

While the kids were away the dads will really play!

Tai was the best ball boy:

It took both Dad and Ben to take on Dan and his cat like reflexes!!!

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Bear Lake: Day 2

Here are a few more of my Favorite Beach Pictures:

{I can't wait to get copies of everyone elses shots!}

Here are the two who started it all:

Auntie Laura was in craft mode and brought out the paints.  She was responsibly concerned about Sam's clothes getting ruined and took them off so that all excess paint could be washed away!

But someone took pity on his cheeks and their nearness to the forest and underpants were located!

I thought this picture was so cute until I realized they were just watching Hannah's DVD player!

We had so much fun, even though the camp hostess did not have the mostess!  She was an awful Biotch and Dan swears he will be filing a complaint to the appropriate authorities. 

We had a not so talented talent show that Chloe decided to participate in without Dan's or my knowledge.  Weeks ago, at Pine View, Dan was removing his swim shorts in our tent.  All of us were there and he was teasing Chloe for watching him.  He started to sing the stripping song. "Na, na, na, na, na ~ ch,ch ~ ch,ch" and she was rightly embarrassed.  He still had on his speedo and then discreetly changed without her watching.  So today, we had talked about singing a song she learned in kindergarten.  She was sitting on the other side of the camp fire and when it was her turn she stood up and started swinging her hips and sang the stripping song!  I am curious to see if she has shared this not so talent, talent with her primary class...

Then we shared our favorite songs for the year.  I can't wait to get a copy of every ones music.  This was our families list:

Dan ~ Stop by Jane's Addiction from the Ritual De Lo Habitual album

He chose this song because there is a Spanish tutorial at the beginning and was teasing my Mom!

Liz ~ Sweet Caroline by the Cast of Glee a remake of Neil Diamond

I am obsessed with Glee music and love all of the remakes they have done!

Chloe ~ Bad Romance by the Cast of Glee a remake of Lady Gaga

I'm obsessed ~ she's obsessed...

Seth ~ Imperial March from Star Wars

Even though this was someone else's song last year ~ it is his favorite!

Even though we had to stop after the first nine or ten songs because the awful camp hostess thought we were being too loud (at 8 PM) and kept going through iPod speakers, we had a great time guessing whose song was whose!!! 

It was a bummer that Kendall had school, so that he and Erin couldn't come up ~ we missed them.  But hopefully after seeing these pictures of Sam, they will either let him come with us instead of Laura or come themselves to spare a bit of embarassment!

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