tree monkeys

Are you enjoying the fall weather?

After church this past Sunday, and an outing to the deeply missed Diamond's pizza restaurant, the kiddos decided to enjoy the day exploring Mother nature.

They ventured through pastures on their ponies, went fishing, picked gourds, filled a cooler with acorns and climbed trees like tree monkeys.

I loved laying in the cool grass to shoot some photos.

Their smiling faces, the beautiful sun poking through the mystical trees, and peering up at the vask sky was refreshing!

The blonde tree monkey is my niece, Baylee. The city girl seems to really love the farm!

r e s p e c t

"...just a little bit"

Last night as I was cleaning up the supper table Dexter decided to pull up itunes and do a little jig to a new song he was introduced to in music class.

R E S P E C T.

Yep, the good ole' song by Aretha Franklin.

It was priceless!

My three, rough & tough cowboys shakin' their booty to a little R&B. And I mean shakin' it! You would have thought I had 3 girls the way those bums were moving.

I couldn't get to the camera fast enough! I did consider it but didn't want to miss the moment:)

gourds

Earlier this summer the boys stumbled upon a volunteer patch of gourds.

You know, from the old ones we pitched over the fence into the horse lot last year.

We actually have 4 little patches of volunteer gourds/pumpkins. We haven't quite figured out why the horses stay away from them? It's a mystery.

They not only didn't eat them for a snack but they didn't even trample through them?

FINALLY, the other evening, the boys got to pick their gourds.....

behind the chutes

This past weekend we were in Osceola for the IRCA finals. The little boys got to partake in the mutton bustin Friday night.

From the looks of the photos they feel 1o foot tall

and bullet proof!

That scares me.....for what might be to come...

eeeeks...lets hope NOT!

belly laugh

First I shall say that Jaxson is not equipped with lightening speed nor has he figured out the meaning of the word hurry. Last night he was the last man at the supper table as he literally ate his pizza crust in 100 bites. Yes, a nibble here and a nibble there.....

100 nibbles.

Then, at a turtles pace he made his way to the bathroom to brush his teeth.

I sat patiently on the couch watching, waiting, watching.....he wanted tucked into bed when he was finished. Dan came came and joined me on the couch as WE then watched and waited for Jaxson to finish up. Knowing we were watching...he decided to humor us with a slam of the toothpaste drawer......with a thrust from his belly.

Yes, we belly laughed and he repeated the scene for us:)

KIDS.....Lets get to bed, Jaxson!

I know...unbelievable?

Jaxson was the only Davis whose teeth had been spared any

"boy damage".....UNTIL this weekend. A game of pool/poolside football took out nearly half of Jaxson's permanent front tooth.

I know..it's unbelievable! What would I blog about if my kids weren't knocking out teeth?

Yes, it could have been worse and we're very thankful it wasn't!

BUT.......SeRiOuSlY!
At this rate I'm starting to wonder if the Davis' boys will graduate high school with ANY real teeth?

Old News? More kids...

To some this will be old news....

I let the boys(this is including their Dad) head to the neighbors to purchase a couple more kids before they were hauled off to the sale barn. Our goat herd of 5 had dwindled to 4 and the boys were under the assumption they needed 1 or 2 more kids.

WELLLLLL

The boys returned with 15 wild, free range, not used to human, kids.

SUPRISE!!!! NOR were they accustomed to three cowboy crazed goat ropers.

Dawson suffered the consequences of the wild 15 when a kid literally tried to jump over him.

We all learned a goat can't quite jump a 6 year old.

The darn thing sent Dawson flying backwards and knocked out his 2 front teeth!

He pulled the bottom one!

...........another Davis' Herd adventure!

AND, I couldn't resist plugging in this picture from last fall.

Dawson's black eye from an 8 second goat ride.

WhAt to BlOg? wHaT tO bLoG?

Soooooooo I've taken a little time off from blogging.

My mind has been consumed with living and the unknown?

I've found great comfort in the serenity prayer:

God~

Grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change

the Courage to change the things I can

and the Wisdom to know the difference

I'm also reading a book titled Slowing Down to the Speed of Life...common sense, really.

The present is the moment,

the past was a moment,

the future will be a new moment.

Today, stop and smell the roses....

LIVE!!!!

Write a note to someone special!

(My kids love finding a note from Mom-I tuck them in their lunch boxes..lay it on their pillow...)

Phone that person you've been meaning to.

Take an extra 5 minutes outside looking at the changes of Fall

Make supper special just because

Smile at everyone :)