Fall Foto Contest

Sarah over at G.I. Joe's Wife is having a "Fall Foto Contest"! She lives in Hawaii where she doesn't get the experience real fall, so she's enjoying it via her readers!

Here is the photo I'm submitting..

What do y'all think?

I can cosmically feel the mean faces

Somehow all of you have managed to get inside my head and nag me until my clicking and typing magically delivered me to my blog. All I can say, is EPIC FAIL on my part. I know I said (I'm BACK!) once before, but I lied that time and my nose grew too long so I have some making up to do. 'Cause I just don't look right with a Pinocchio nose...

You know what I love? I love when I come back from a 3 month hiatus to find that one of my bloggy friends has awarded me not only one, but TWO blog awards. Katelyn (yes, we are name twins) over at Life Is a Beautiful Mess I heart you :) I promise I won't let you down again

Katelyn awarded me the:

Versatile Blogger Award

And the:

One Lovely Blog Award:

Lately things have been pretty chill around the Davis house. We have two of Jack's "uncles" staying with us right now. Uncle Dan Dan and uncle Jeremy. It's been an adjustment getting used to adding two more people to our family but I will be sad when they are gone. Oh, and no they are not the gay kind of uncles :) One is happily married to a dear friend of mine, Marcy. And the other is happily straight. hehe.

Jack is one! O-N-E, one! It's crazy. And let me tell you that kid is walking all over the place. He is 1 going on 15. He can effectively and adorably say "huh?" when we say his name. He waves hi, and occasionally says "hi" He knows Da da, and ma ma, and dog dog. He loves to eat anything and everything, as long as it doesn't have a weird texture (like jello, or green beans, or cottage cheese). Aside from getting into everything, he loves to be outdoors, playing xbox with daddy (daddy gives him the unplugged controller), and dances and cleans with mommy.

Daddy is back on a somewhat regular work schedule, he is squadleader now, which comes with a little more work and responsibility, but he's handling it well. He is still trying to pull some strings and jump through some hoops to get us stationed closer to Ohio, but no word yet. Stay tuned for more info on that later. Good news! Things are starting to align that have lead us to suspect Jeff might be promoted sometime in November. This would be great for him and great for our family, so, fingers crossed everybody!

I've come to the point in my life where I feel I can be honest about my ongoing fight with depression. And I'm just going to say it, I've been having a hard time lately. Everyone has good days and bad, but lordy, I've had my fair share of bad days and then some lately. I can't say enough about how great my husband has been. Thanks hunny :) For a change of subject, I've began job hunting! Yep, after two years being unemployed, I am getting the feeling it's time to at least start looking. I have found a couple daycares as well that I really like. If I get a call about a job, I will tour them and interview the provider. Nothing is set in stone yet, and we are not so desperate for money that I need to work right now. But something part time would be beneficial to my self-health I think.

One more piece of news before I head out to try and fix the crazy background mess that has been goin' on here.

VOTE FOR JACK! in the Baby Gap Casting Call 2010

YOU CAN VOTE ONCE EVERY DAY

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Sigh, it's good to be back

I think I'll end by sharing this super cute picture of my two favorite men

CIAO!

Long Overdue Update

Holy moley, where do I even start...

Apologizing for being absent so long sounds like a good beginning. Business has been wholey surrounding the Davis family lately. Jeff is doing convoys almost every day, so we aren't getting as much communication as we're used to. But we know that this deployment will soon be over. Redeployment is on the horizon and it's so close, it almost doesn't feel real. But the truth is, Jeff will be home in less than two months!

Jack, Luna, and I made it safely to Washington on Saturday May 15. We traveled the 2500 miles in 3 days! I can't say enough about how amazing both my babies behaved.

After a trip as well as the one we had, I had a feeling something was going to go wrong, and boy was I right. As we pulled into the parking lot of Harbor Oaks Apartments, I started to get a bad feeling. I just told myself I was being paranoid and parked the car to get out and look around. In my 20 years of life, I've never witnessed a drug deal... until that day. Right there in plain sight in the honda accord next to me a very shady guy (around thirty) sold pot to a teenager. I jumped back in my car and made the decision to get us the heck out of there. I saw three cop cruisers pulling in as I was pulling out onto the street. It was not a good neighborhood, that was evident. And in all honesty, the pictures of the place were very misleading, it was a dump. Needless to say, I did not sign the lease.

I called my (AWE-SOME) friends Jeremy and Marcy in tears and they housed Jack, Luna, and I for a few days and helped tremendously in the house hunt. We ended up signing a lease for the house that is the other half of the duplex they live in! Jeremy and Marcy - I don't know what I would do without you! Thanks doen't seem like enough of a word but I don't think any other word would do either.

It's in Yelm, which is the city we lived in before. It's a little further from post than we ideally wanted to be but you can't beat a safe neighborhood, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, a fenced backyard, and great neighbors :) It feels very ... like home, here (for lack of a better way to explain it).

We have been striving to settle in and it's definitely a slow process. There are many things we still need but we are purchasing the big (expensive) items one thing at a time. We want to avoid financing at all costs (no pun intended). We still need a mower, a convertible crib for Jack, a dining table/chairs set, a guest bed,  and possible new living room furniture. Then of course, all the decor items need to be found as well. So it'll be a while until we are fully settled and not adding things to our house. But we have the essentials and that's all we really need. P.S. BIG thanks to Kellee from You + Me = Wiiiiii for helping me move all the stuff from my storage unit. Kellee's husband is deployed with Jeff and she drove from North Carolina to Washington around the same time made made our trek, so she and I have been doing our best to support each other since we're going through the same thing! She's an awesome blogger as well :)

Last and the most exciting news for today, Jack is CRAWLING! He started really going while we were staying with Jeremy and Marcy. He is quick! And nothing is safe. He really likes cords. So we've had to be extra careful about keeping track of where he is and what he's got his hands on. I only have a short clip right now, but I promise I'll have a better video soon.

Until daddy gets home, we are going to keep busy and hopefully as the weather gets warmer, we can get out and explore the Pacific Northwest a little more too. We can't wait to see aunt Erin in June and then the rest of our Ohio family in July/August! Love you all, keep us in your hearts and keep looking for updates.