Where the swings are like comfy recliners...

Playgroup made its way back to Angel Park for a warm and very windy morning/early afternoon. This time Holland brought her friend Deanna. Deanna prepares her dismount from the balance beam.

Holland and Deanna work on their Spiderman skills.

aaahhhhh yes, this is the life. Of course, I have cramps in my arms from the endless pushing. I plan on reminding Holland of that when I'm old and gray and need someone to push my wheelchair.

A Morning of Basketball.....Falcon Style

I can't tell you how much I enjoy watching this team play. Their games are so much fun and not just because they win, (although that is a really nice part of it) but because they truly love to play. You can see it. There's not one slacker on the team. They all give 100 %. This week was another victory.
Falcons 24 Panthers 2

Team photo:
L-R front row: Grey, TJ, Daniel
L-R back row: Asst. Coach Clayton, Jake, Mark, Nichalas, Coach Nick
not pictured: Kristopher and Kiernan

Fuzzy Math

When we order basketball pictures, we usually order the trader cards. Below is last year's basketball trader card when Grey played for the Hurricane Hoops. Below are the stats for Grey's 2006 trader cards. I was in charge of filling out the details for the stats.

Here is Grey's trader card for this 2007 season with the Falcons. Mac filled out the details for the stats this year. Does anybody notice a slight descrepancy, like maybe Grey grew 13 inches and put on almost 30 pounds in the off season?

The Streak Continues....

Falcons 28 Bulldogs 2

Happy Valentine's Day!

Holland loves Valentine's Day! She has been carrying her bag of valentines from her party at school Monday with her everywhere. She asks me a hundred times to read who they are from. She even slept with some clutched in her hand. She also got a card in the mail from Granddaddy and Carole yesterday with a paperdoll cuttout. That's tucked safely in her free hand. She dances around singing, "happy palentines day". (yes, that's valentines with a "p".) Grey, on the other hand, tolerates the day for the candy. (Of course, he was pretty happy about the $5 in his valentines card from G & C and another $5 from Ran & Papa.) He had to take a single rose to his teacher (the whole class did) via the bus. First he tried shoving it in his backpack, which I quickly nixed that idea. Then I watched him walk to the bus and get on desperately trying to hide it behind his back so no one would see it. Boys and girls; night and day.

Miracle x 3

Congratulations to Frank and Jessica on their 3 beautiful and most precious miracles!

Truly, your faith and strength have been a blessing to us!

Matthew, Nathan, Jordyn

5lbs .08oz / 5lbs 3.3 oz / 4lb 14.9oz

(Let the parade of casseroles begin......)

It's all in the headband.....

This week's basketball game was against the Bears. Coach Nick gave them all headbands to wear for the game. The boys loved them. (Grey wanted to wear his to church today...Uh NO.) I'm not saying the headbands had anything to do with it, but they did win the game 28-22.
The winning streak continues. 5-0. Go Falcons!

We had one referee who was a big kid. As the boys lined up for the 2nd half, he pulled the headbands down over the boys' eyes.

A New Tax Deduction Has Arrived

We here at The Davis 4 corporate office want to congratulate Joe and Mary Sullivan on their beautiful baby girl.

Molly McKenna Sullivan

February 5, 2007

9:08 AM

9 lbs 14 oz

22 inches

(Better go ahead and start saving for her wedding.)

Save the drama for your mama

I thought I had 9-10 years before I had to worry about this, but I guess I was overly optimistic. Holland came to me, waving her finger at me and told me, "YOU'RE RUINING MY LIFE!" I tried to think of what I might have done or said to possibly ruin her 4 short years, and I came up blank. Then I realized that she had been watching Disney's "Mulan" and was quoting a line from the movie. She was very convincing. She may really have a future in some sort of drama/music field. But don't worry, Hollandland is still in tact and "Mulan" is being returned to the library first thing.

U N D E F E A T E D

Another victory for The Falcons basketball team. They beat the Panthers 18-6. One of our players threw up about 2 minutes into the game. They cleaned him up, gave him a rest and then put him back into the game (at his request). This team is just tough like that. I've seen our players get hit in the head with the ball, run over by the opposing team and get up and keep playing. Mac says that our team plays "street ball". Whatever it is, it's working.

Flat Stanley

Papa , Ran, Flat Stanley and Flat Stanley's blind date, I guess.
(She's a little old for Flat Stanley. But that's just my opinion....)

Flat Stanley is one of Grey's school projects. The story goes that there was a boy named Stanley, and a bulletin board fell on him and flattened him, thus changing his name to Flat Stanley. He wanted to visit some relatives so his parents mailed him to California. They mailed him back, and Flat Stanley had great stories about all the things he did. So, Grey had to mail Flat Stanley to relatives or friends, and they would send Flat Stanley back with stories and pictures of all the things he did. Grey wanted Flat Stanley to go hunting so he mailed him to Papa and Ran in Starkville, MS. Not only did Flat Stanley go hunting with Papa, he also got to go to the Mississippi State Basketball game with Ran and Papa. He even got to meet Bully!!
(The only school project I had at his age was a pen pal in Canada. whoopee.)



Papa wrestles a deer to the ground and holds it in a headlock while Ran snaps a picture. The lengths grandparents go to for their grandkids....

( Bully, Flat Stanley, and Papa. Papa has friends in high places.)