The Davidson Family

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Thanksgiving Pointe

The older Elliot gets the more fun it is to do stuff with her. We had such a good time seeing all the animals at Thanksgiving Pointe. I am always amazed at how fearless Elliot has always been with animals. (It may have something to do with having a dog in her face since birth). She liked petting the animals and even rode a pony.

I don't think this animal ( some type of llama) thought Landon smelled too good. Right after the picture he made a big snort and ran away.

Landon and Elliot fed these horses. That is why they are hanging out so close. They are braver than me I am afraid of big horse teeth.

Dress up with Grandma Davidson

Elliot had so much fun visiting her Grandma over Thanksgiving. Grandma brought out all of her dress up stuff and Elliot was in little girl heaven. She even had seashells like Ariel. I would have gotten a picture with Elliot in the wig but after Mom and Dad laughed at her when she walked out with it on she refused to put it back on. It was a lesson for me and I felt really bad that we had hurt her feelings.

New Cousin !!

We finally were able to meet Elliot's cute new cousin Bailey. Elliot really enjoys babies. So whenever Bailey was around she would ask to hold her. She even helped Alicia fed Bailey her bottle. We are excited to have a cousin close to Elliot's age on Landon's side. Before her only cousins were teenage boys.

Family Photos

During our visit in Utah for Thanksgiving we had Landon's Mom do a family photo session. We had not planned on this so I wasn't prepared with coordinating outfits but I was really happy with the results. Grandma kept trying to make Elliot smile by making funny faces and noises at her. Instead of smiling for the camera, Elliot would turn to me and say "Grandma is funny".

Friday, November 21, 2008

Events of October

Sorry it has been so long since I have posted any pictures. I figure I better post the events of October since we are entering the Holiday Season and I am sure there will be plenty of pictures taken.

I thought I would just share some of the things Elliot says and does:

The other day I was whistling. Elliot asked me what that sound was. I told her I was whistling and then tried to teach her how. After one attempt of blowing through her pursed lips and no whistle came out, Elliot told me her lips were broken. I tried to get her to keep trying but to no avail she insisted that her lips were broken.

One of Elliot's favorite things to do is the dishes. Of course this consists of her playing in the bubbles while dad or I load the dishwasher around her. She asks multiple times throughout the day to do the dishes. If you are at the sink for longer than 2 seconds with the water running, she pushes her little table over that she likes to stand on and says "do dishes". This method has worked out pretty well because it keeps the dishes done. In these pictures Elliot is showing me the bunny the bubbles made.

This is Elliot's first attempt at eating a whole hamburger by herself. We usually cut up her food into bite size pieces. But seeing as how our Elliot is too big for that, she needs to eat things the way Mom and Dad do. It was pretty fun watching her eat. She did not get too far before she gave up and settled on eating all of the avocado. Avocado is her favorite food right now, she asks for it almost daily. I can't complain at least it is healthy.

I came downstairs and found these 3 napping on the couch together. One of my favorite photos is of myself as a baby sleeping on my dads chest while he too is napping. I just couldn't resist taking this picture. I love seeing Dad's cuddle their kids.

Halloween

For Halloween we went to the trunk or treat at our church. Sorry we did not get very good pictures. Above is a picture of Elliot with a random guy who was dressed like a bee keeper and his wife and daughter were dressed as bees. They asked if they could take a picture with Elliot. If you notice Elliot's face she looks a little worried, her eyes are glued to me and I am sure she is wondering why her Mom would hand her over to a stranger, and a male stranger at that.

I had forgotten to grab a bag for Elliot to collect candy in, so Shana's Mom let Elliot borrow this basket. Elliot did not mind carring it around because people were filling it with candy. Elliot definitly has her Dad's palate. She loves sweets and hot & spicy food.

Pumpkin Patch

The week before Halloween we went to an overpriced pumpkin patch with the Christensens. The girls of course had a great time, so the money spent did not seem like such a big deal. Elliot and Ella had fun on a couple of the rides. And then Elliot helped us pick out some pumpkins to carve.

We could not pass up the photo op with all of the pumpkins. Too bad I picked a spot with the sun shining on our faces.

I just love these girls. I am so glad Elliot has a friend to play with.

Afterwards we ordred some pizza and carved pumpkins. This is Landon's pumpkin.

Ella's Birthday Party!!!

Ella turned 2 on October 20 and Elliot was so excited to go to her birthday party. She talked about going to the party for weeks before the actually event and even talked about the party for weeks after. It was Ella's birthday for the entire month of October (at least to Elliot it was). The kids all wore their Halloween costumes. Elliot of course did not mind wearing a costume, dress up is something she plays at least once a day. She enjoyed decorating a big sugar cookie, helping Ella play with all of her new toys and whacking the Elmo pinata. Which the kids decapitated. To our surprise the little kids weren't too dramatized seeing one of their favorite characters torn to pieces. I guess when you're two and candies flying out who cares.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Landons birthday campout.

Kristin surprised me with a birthday campout (Cool wife Eh?). She secretly invited my friends who already like lieing to me for the fun of it. haha. We got to the site and found that after paying for two days in advance the wiener camp host gave away our spot. Two seconds before Kristin was going to rip the host a new one, somebody left their camp spot and we got in anyway.

The evening went great we had some good old fashioned tinfoil dinners, and cobbler made in my birthday dutch oven. mmm. All went well until about midnight when outside our tent it sounded like Noahs flood wasn't quite over yet. We slept fitfully waiting for our tent to start floating away. To our great luck all of our gear was still where we left it in the morning. It was a bit chilly in the morning but it made the hot chocolate all the better.

Every good, memorable camp trip needs a little disaster to make it really good, so this one rocked.