Alabama Christmas 2010

A couple of days after Christmas we headed over to Fairhope, Al for some Banny and Pop time. We arrived to a dinner of chicken and dumplings and banana pudding. Grey was ready to permanently move in. We had a lot of fun. We arrived on Monday and left on Wednesday so we packed it in. We went to the beach, hung out at The Hangout, bowled a few ugly games of bowling, (We all could have used the bumpers.) and then played some card games at night. We had a great time! Me, Banny, Pop

Great grandparents and the great-grand-hoodlums


My red hair sake

No matter how cold, he always heads to the water.

Beautiful beach. We only found seashells, not a single tarball. Guess we can always get those in Galveston.

There's the Christmas Card for 2010.

If only I had it before Christmas, I could have used it.

Merry Christmas, anyway!

Beach Bum

Loves her Banny

Ping

Pong

Thanks for letting us invade your home!

Same time, next year?

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.