The Davis Family

Our children are in year-round school. That has plusses and minuses. One plus is that they are out of school when other people aren't. The kids were tracked-out (meaning out of school for 3 weeks) in January. We were able to join all of Derek's siblings and make a trip out to Arizona to visit his mom and Gordon. It was really fun. We also had the opportunity to hang out with some good friends of ours, the Van Cotts. It was so nice to see everyone.

Here are two random January photos.

Kevin climbing a tree in our front yard.

Jared with all of the jewelry from the princess game. :)

Arizona

Brian and Jared hanging out in AZ

Kevin, Colin, and Jenna (Our children are never annoying. Why do you ask?)

One of the days we were there we drove to a ghost town. It's an old mining town. It's actually very touristy, but we had a good time anyway.

Kevin

Amanda and Jared. Jared was freaking out about something, but I am not sure why, so I was holding him.

Cousins. Tanner and Jenna

Derek and Jared

Aunt Anne and Kevin

Kevin

Jenna in front of the wanted posters

The whole family at ghost town

Kevin panning for gold

Kevin, Jared, Derek, and Jenna eating ice cream on the ghost town train

A view of the ghost town up on the hill (this was taken from the train)

Kevin, Jared, and Jenna in front of the ghost town train

The fam at the ghost town

Like I said, we got to visit with our good friends while in AZ. It was so nice to see them. They are awesome. Thank you so much for letting us crash your place and have dinner with you, Van Cotts. We had a blast!

Davis and Van Cott children

The beautiful Van Cott family

Julie and I

We were trying to get a picture of Derek and I with Julie and Dave, but Jared refused to leave. :) Good job to whichever child took this picture.

While we were in AZ we visited a zoo. We got to feed and pet several of the animals. It was really neat.

One of the farmers giving the kids food for the animals.

Kevin feeding the animal

Jenna feeding the animal

Jenna holding a chicken

Kevin holding a chicken

Jared holding a chicken

Amanda and Derek holding chickens

Nana holding a chicken. She was a natural.

Jenna and Jared petting the farm's bunny

Playing tag on the hay bales

I'm pretty sure Colin caught Kevin :)

Jared and Brian

Jenna and Kevin coveting a cool car in the farm's parking lot

While we were in AZ we celebrated Derek's birthday. Jenna made him a card.

The cake

Nana reading to the kids

Jared and Jenna "helping" Nana make brownies. Nana is very patient, which is really nice. :)

Grandpa Gordon reading to Jared and Jenna

For Christmas we went to my parents' house in New Hampshire. We had a great time hanging out with family. Because we couldn't bring all of the gifts with us, we had first Christmas at our house, and second Christmas at my parents' (yes, that was a reference to Lord of the Rings).

The tree at our house during first Christmas.

Jenna enjoying her new gifts

Darth Vader (I mean Kevin)

Jared, the transformer, with all his loot

We drove about 15 hours in our sedan to get to my parents'. It wasn't the most comfortable ride. Kevin was a good sport about being in the middle. Here they all are sleeping.