One Year and Counting...

Please forgive us for the four week hiatus from blogging...no excuses...we appreciate your patronage to the site, and we know that your time is valuable. What's been going on here that has kept us busy, you ask? Well, let's start with Thanksgiving.

We enjoyed a great holiday with both families - Baker and Davis- in Brownsburg, IN and Sidney, OH. Great food, great family time, great travels and best of all good health during that time. Poor Reece was hit hard the week after Thanksgiving with a cold; he had the works - a fever, runny nose, no appetite (and that is a big one for him), and the worse cough. Like I said though, we are thankful that he got this the week after Thanksgiving and was able to enjoy the holiday to its fullest!

In Brownsburg we were able to spend time with the Aunt Carolyn and Uncle Henry (Landry) in addition to the whole Baker crew. Reece and Grant had a great time running around and playing together. This time Reece only got a welt under the eye from Grant, instead of a knot in the head like the time before :)

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In Sidney, during a trip to the YMCA, a scene straight from America's Funniest Home Videos took place...be sure to ask us about it some time. Too complicated to blog about... The rest of the time in Sidney was full of time with cousins and eating lots of goodies. We always miss dad when we're all together like that, but are so thankful for the time we had with him.

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From early November to the middle of this past week was the busiest month ever...mostly because of the fact that my semester was wrapping up. I am extremely lucky to have a wife that understands and supports all of the time I spend in the books and on the computer. It paid off with a successful semester, but not without a lot of sacrifice on her part. That's probably the main reason that we don't have a lot to blog about for the past few weeks.

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This weekend was exciting because we celebrated Reece's first birthday! On Friday night we got the house straightened up and gave Reece his first-ever haircut in preparation for the big event. You can see from the pictures how much we chopped off. At first, we didn't realize how much hair he had, but once I started hacking it off, we learned just how long it really was.

Lisa did a lot of work getting a great party together. However, the Indiana weather had something else in mind. The "Blizzard of 07" was quickly upon us and we had to call off the small get together. We even sent Nana (my mom) on her way a few hours early because we wanted her to beat the bad weather on her way to Ohio. But at least she got a few hours with Smiley Reece.

Brooke and Dan, and Jenessa and Lydia came over to help us celebrate Reece's big day. He really enjoyed his cupcake and icing...of course it wasn't his first sweets (imagine that, a Davis eating lots of sweets) but he was still thrilled with it.

Speaking of eating...you should see this kid put town pancakes and eggs - it's amazing! His usual breakfast is about like a body-builder. Two eggs, several mini-pancakes, yogurt, banana...it makes me full just thinking about it. I don't think we'll ever be accused of starving the kid. Oh, and by the way, Reece is officially off of formula now. He loves his water and milk (he prefers water) - this boy can chug just as well as he can eat!

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One other exciting piece of news is that Ben and Marlo are moving to town! He just got the job as the Director of Alumni at AU...and will start some time in late January, right after baby girl #2 shows up. Be praying for a smooth delivery and smooth transition back to Indiana for Ben, Marlo, Jillian, and BGD. Well, I guess that's about it. Sorry, again, for the lack of blogging. We'll keep on it better during the holiday season.

We are throwing in some extra pictures so hopefully you will forgive us for our absence!

The monkey cake below was made by Lisa, it tasted delicious! And then we have Reece doing his birthday strut. The rest are a mixture of pictures with his birthday gifts and then some with family over Thanksgiving.