Happy 8th Birthday, Holland!!

December 23rd is always a "Holly-day" here at the Davis Establishment. We celebrate the birthday of our best girl, Holland Layne Davis. It's still hard to believe 8 years ago she came rushing into the world, in Joplin, Mo, 4 weeks early followed shortly by a major snowstorm. Our good friends had to help Mac and Grey get back and forth to the hospital on the icy roads. She started with drama and has not stopped since.
She has got a heart of gold and loves everybody. With the exception of Grey, she forgives freely and gives generously. She has a couple of really close friends and loves to hang out with them. She's eager to please and is very much a rule-follower. She loves to be at home and can play for hours by herself, but preferably with a good friend. She is a music-lover and loves karaoke. She's actually pretty good. I wonder if there are college scholarships for karaoke.hmmm She loves to read, and loves the 2nd grade. Though not a social butterfly, she gets along with everyone. She's my sweet, precious baby girl.

Happy, Happy Birthday Holly-Bear!For her actual birthday, we took her and her good friend, Faith, to Incredible Pizza for the day. Being so close to Christmas, there was hardly anybody there which meant we didn't have to wait in line for anything. (Just like I like it.)

Holland and her best guy, Daddy, and the big 8 balloon.

"Tangled" birthday cake complete with Rapunzel and her hair.

Spinning the prize wheel for her birthday. She won a free round of mini-golf.

All you can, but shouldn't, eat.
(Faith and Holland)

Bumper Cars and all smiles

Ready to race, until the guy started going over all the rules. Holland kind of freaked out thinking she was going to break a rule or do something wrong.

Faith had no such concerns.

She and Grey are of the same philosophy; rules shmules., let's race.

10 and 2.

Allstate would be proud.

GO!

However, I find the drivers that are overly worried get run over by the more relaxed driver. She got T-boned by #51 and broke down in tears. So much for that good driver discount I was counting on when she turns 16.

Sympathy 1st place ribbon.

Ahhhh Yeah! Laser tag. They have improved their laser tag since our last visit. It was a lot of fun. Take a gander at the scores. The Davis motto: Take no prisoners.

1st place TxRanger -Me

2nd place Astro- Grey

3rd place Cool Cat - Mac

4th place Lollipop - Holland

That's right, we took the top spots.

A little dance action.

Mini-golf

Mini-bowling

Of course, there was ice-skating on a plastic rink. This is Houston after all.

A shout out to her birth state and Missouri peeps.

Happy 8th birthday, Holland! You rock!

Cousins

I wanted a sweet picture of the cousins together.

We don't always get what we want.

Pit Stop

On our way to Mississipi for Thanksgiving, we made a pit stop in Hammond, La to eat at the Cracker Barrel with Papa Tom, who is working there......working in Hammond that is, not the Cracker Barrel.

Sock Hop Day

Holland told me about 50's Sock Hop Day at her school 3 weeks ago. She kept her enthusiasm for the day the entire 3 weeks. So ,she was ready to sing and dance when the day finally arrived.

You'll notice that Grey is visibly absent from the photo. He had no desire to dress up. However, I found out later that even though he didn't want to participate in the sock hop festivities he did make the finals in the hula hoop contest. Yeah, how cool are you now?

Happy Birthday!

I had myself a great birthday this year, even though I am rapidly approaching 40. Oh well, I'm younger than Chris and Hank.

I'll always have that to hold onto.Grey made me a birthday gift and wrapped it himself......in an old basketball jersey. At least, he didn't use up the tape doing it.

He made a Sprite robot bank. It only holds dimes and pennies which works just fine for me.
It's really creative, and I love it!

My baby and me.

The youngun's.

(I'm including myself in that category.)

Thanks for all the birthday calls, wishes, cards, and gifts! You know who you are.

Halloween 2010

Halloween 2010 was yet again another successful year, successful in the mass accumulation of chocolate and teeth-rotting candy. Life is good.

Here are pictures of the costume selections:Grey was a midget gangsta ridin' an ostrich......bless his heart.

Words fail me.

Holland was a Teal Ninja.

She refused to carry a weapon. She used her charm and blue eyes to disarm her enemies.

Move over, Ralph Macchio. There's a new Karate kid in town.

Holland trick or treated with her best friend, Tiffany, who happens to be severely allergic to peanut butter, so guess who got extra Reese's peanut butter cups?

One happy Davis household.

Two of The Sweetest Things In The World

Holland and Sugarbaby cupcakes.

Date With Dad

Spending Friday night with Dad having dinner and going to see Secretariat at the movies = Precious Memories

They even match. How sweet.

Happy Birthday, Grey!

First, I would like to give a shout out to Christopher Columbus since he and Grey shared October 11th this year. So, thanks Chris for the discovery and the day off from school. Historical figures rock!

HAPPY 11TH BIRTHDAY, GREY!

I actually ordered the cookie cake before Saturday's game. Had I known the outcome of that game, I would still have ordered it, but with a smile in my heart.

Those are sparkler candles in the shape of the number 11. Very smoky, but cool.

We had "Grey Day" on Sunday. We took him and his friend, Blake, to The Kemah Boardwalk for the day.

They rode rides over and over and over and over........

Frankly, I don't know how they kept their lunch down.

Holland said she didn't like this ride, even though this is her 2nd round.

She got rowdy. Steps were taken.

Chillin' in the awesome weather

Grey and Blake on The Inverter. They were completely upside down.

I like the slight look of panic/fear on Mac's face.

Grey had to ride the birthday broom at Joe's Crab Shack.

Grey, Mac, and Blake

Ridin' the train. Easy and Relaxing.

(photo by Holland Davis who wanted a seat to herself)

I loathe/hate/despise/havemajorphobiaof ferris wheels and yet, here I am sitting on one. A clear example of peer pressure, plus it was a small ferris wheel.

(Yeah, I changed shirts. I opened a Coke Zero and was soon wearing the contents of that can.)


Grey had a great day and hopefully didn't suffer any brain damage from riding the Bullet 9 times.

WE LOVE YOU!!