Ice skating...

Last night was finally opening night of the ice rink! For the last couple of weeks everytime we would drive past it the kids would ask if it was ready yet! So last night when we saw it was open we decided to go drive by. That turned into let's go walk around on the ice which turned into hey let's go rent some skates! 

A nice little skater was kind enough to offer take our picture after she saw that the whole family was in there except for me! Pretty adorable if you ask me! We skated around, some of us fell more than others (richard) and we had a grand time! So grand that the kids couldn't wait to go again!

Well renting skates is expensive so luckily we found a box in Grandma princesses garage with all of our sizes! Lucky, lucky!

The boys wanted to hit the ice...literally today so we let them do just that!

Jack is doing pretty good...he's really good at jumping around to get where he wants to go! Actually skating not so much! But he has fun and that is all that matters!

Harper loves to skate around on her boots! She also loves laying on the ice! She says, "look at me I'm a ice princess!"  She really is just the cutest girl ever!

Trey is picking up the skating really good! He skates all over and falls a lot to but you'd never know it because he bounces right back up! Here's to more family ice skating adventures!!!!!

Cheers to a new year!!!!

We have been looking forward to this day for so long!!!! We have been ready to say goodbye to 2013 for at least 6 months. This year has been rough for us to put it mildly! 

We were all excited to ring in a new year and hopefully some good luck! The kids loved popping the mormon bubbly in the fancy glasses! Harper loved it the most. She kept saying, "can I have s'more please??!!" 

We all hung out watching movies snacking and watching the firework show the neighbors were putting on from our back patio!

At about 11:20 some little people were starting to have a hard time keeping their eyes open! 

10 minutes later the first and only party pooper was out like a light. We kept trying to talk to him to keep him awake but it was not happening! I was proud of jack though because he is not a night owl so I was pretty impressed he made it to 11:30!

When midnight struck we kissed 2013 goodbye!!!! Happy new year!!!!

Christmas time...

Oh christmas time how we love you! We started out christmas by going to my grandmas for our traditional family Christmas Eve party! 

We took this great picture of my grandma with all her grandkids. Us girls are pretty out numbered don't you think? Incase you are wondering I am the oldest grandchild and the youngest is seven. Trey is the oldest great grandchild at 7 and Harper is the youngest at 2. 

After we came home we got all settled in for the night. We spread out some reindeer food that the boys both made at school.

Everyone opened their christmas Jammies!

Then we set out cookies and a coke for Santa! A coke is a must for santa at our house.

Jack had a very hard time going to bed that night. It took him forever!!! He was just to excited for Santa and every sound he heard in the house he was sure it was santa! He finally fell asleep though thank goodness!

Christmas morning the kids were nice enough to sleep in until 7. We woke Harper up and it was present time!

The kids loved everything they got Harper got princess stuff and babies. Jack got his beloved aggies bear that he has been asking for for ages. Trey got all the sports stuff he could ask for!

 Santa was kind enough to get the boys personalized jazz jerseys! They are pretty awesome if you ask me!

Harper got tons of new clothes but her boots with the fur are by far her favorite! This girl loves the ugg boots! If you want to make her happy give the girl some boots!

Did I mention santa sent us bowling alley? That was a pain to put together but it's been worth it! We played a ton of games today...it's been great!

This is my favorite! I have been wanting this rug for forever! I honestly didn't think it was a possibility but that richard he's to good to me! We all love it but how could you not its beauty!!!

Harpers spent today taking care of baby cinderella! She's such a good little mommy it's pretty adorable!

Richard brought home our traditional christmas feast after work! We started this tradition a few years ago...we wanted to be just like a christmas story.

We ended the night trying to get a sweet family picture in front if the tree and fire. But in the typical fashion of this family, this is how it turned out! It couldn't be better it's totally us! We had a great christmas couldn't have asked for anything better (except richard not having to work)!! 

Once there was a snowman....

It was out first official day of christmas vacation today. We have recently got a ton of snow so me and the kids decided to go out and make a snowman after lunch!

I was going to wait until after Harper had gone down for a nap but I thought why not let her join in on the fun...even if she did scream at me the whole time. Plus she looks cuter than any person on the planet when she's in all her pink snow gear!

So here he is...our snowman! Sadly he didn't last very long. It started to rain so snowman now has a melted face. He went from looking happy, happy, happy! To looking like he had a stroke. Oh well it was fun while it lasted!

Santa I know him....

A few weeks ago we went to our ward christmas breakfast. We have lived here eight years and we've never been. Mostly because it's a breakfast that starts a 9am. We aren't exactly moving that early on a Saturday. But we did it, ate all the breakfast cassarolles (yuck) you could imagine and looked forward to our visit with Santa. Our ward has a few good characters in it so I thought hey santa probably won't be that bad. Think again....I was really waiting for jack to bust his all time favorite quote of "you're not the real santa...you're a fake....you smell like meats and cheeses"

Luckily he made a good picture he just wasn't very jolly and when he told Harper , "am I going to have to tickle your knee to get you to smile?" Things got a smidge weird and it was time to get out of there!

Luckily we had another Santa time lined up and this guys was the real deal!!! Last year we went to kneaders and had breakfast with Santa one Monday night and it was the best so we made it a tradition!

This Santa was really the best! He knew their names, totally called the boys out on their brotherly behaviors and allergy to cleaning their room and put Harper in her terrible two place. He even talked to them about their elf Elfis and how he has been talking to santa about them. It was magical!!! Trey also discovered there is something worse than getting coal...Santa told him if he wasn't good he would bring him a Barbie! It was great the boys had the best time and Harper could not get enough of batting her eyes at the big man!!

The saga that is the garage door....

So you know when you have those days that just suck and you wish you could go to sleep and have it been over. Well that's what life has been like at the davidson house for the majority of 2013. We have had the worse luck this year. If it's not one of our appliances breaking its a car problem or whatever else you can think of. So rewind back to September. We were getting ready to go on our vacation to disneyland we were glad because we needed a break. The night before we left I had a bad feeling something was going to happen while we were gone, then our oven exploded! So I thought oh hey that must be what was going to happen and tried to push the thoughts out of my mind. We went our merry way to disneyland. Spent 2 hours in LA traffic to only go one mile. We were all cranky and hungry. We pulled into our hotel and went straight to disneyland. Then it happened Richards phone started to ring he wasn't going to answer it, but decides he should since it was a logan number. He answered it and while literally walking through the gates of disneyland was told. "It's your neighbor my truck just went through your garage door!" So there was my bad feeling!!

To make along story short his truck popped out of gear and since their driveway is on a slant it flew down the driveway across the road and into our garage. Now I don't know what most people would do but considering our luck this last year we laughed and said ok we'll take care if it when we get back. They were able to get someone to come out and secure the garage for us so that the garage door wouldn't fall on someone or we wouldn't get robbed thank goodness! It's so great to know that we have the kind if neighbors that will go to great lengths to look out for one another. So with that we went on our vacation and had a great time. 

Now when we got back that was another story! We pulled into our driveway around 930 one night when we went to go in the house we discovered we had been locked out. One of our neighbors thought they would put all the kids bikes in the house and lock the door so that no one would steal them. It was a very nice gesture but unfortunately we didn't have a key to our house on us. So we were locked out and had to climb all over the house looking for a window that would open so we could break in. So that was fun. The next day we talked to our poor neighbors that had the accident happen to work all the business out and get insurance information. 

For the next week we dealt with insurance company people, garage door people and finally were approved for a new set of garage doors. We were very lucky because we got to get them both replaced. They didn't make the garage doors that we had anymore so both needed to be done. So fast forward right long weeks of waiting and here we are today!

With two new absolutely beautiful garage doors! 

We got carriage doors minus the windows and they are totally gorgeous! I'm so glad I can finally pull my car in the garage! Putting kids into a cold car was starting to get to be no fun. I hated it but they hated it even more. Trey is so glad that he can play basketball agian. We are all just so happy to have this saga over with!

This is halloween....

Halloween our favorite time of year!!! I feel like this halloween has been the longest coming ever! Going to disneyland and celebrating halloween so early has made this seem like the longest holiday of all time. We have had fun though! This whole last week has been full of spookiness! 

Harper started Monday off with this awesome outfit. She just had to wear jacks shirt and the whole rest of the day she walked around saying "I'm jack the pumpkin queen!!!!" Just to tick jack off. So that was a good day ;)

Later that night the kids got all dressed up for the school halloween parade! Harper decided she would be Minnie Mouse that night while trey and jack stuck with their king candy and fix it Felix! It was a circus but they had fun showing off their cool costumes!

We carved pumpkins! Trey has gotten to be a good little scooper the other two not so much! We carved squishy from monsters university, the poison apple from Snow White, jack wanted a yeti and I must say I think I did pretty good with that one! Harper wanted sulley and finally the witch in the poison apple! We had fun! We love getting creative with our pumpkins every year!!

Finally it was halloween night! Unfortunately the kids all had horrible colds so it wasn't our best but we still had fun! We visited family and trick or treated the night away! I must say that we live on the best street ever!!! Our kids and us got loaded up with candy, cookies and donuts! It was amazing! I guess that's what we get for having the cutest kids ever!!! Happy halloween!!!