Team Davis Welcomes # 4: Baby Sister's first blog!

I'd like to introduce you the the newest member of our family:

Anne Frances Davis

"Annie"

AKA: "Annie Frannie"

AKA: "Squeakers"

Born 3:55 am, Tuesday, January 6th, 2015

7lbs, 11oz 

18 3/4"

100% Adorable!

First Photo

What do you think, Big Brother?

She's Awesome!

Is she giving me a raspberry?

She's adorable!

Little Sister

 

Pretty Cool addition

Who was that?

I have a big what?

Oh, great...

Oh great, Indeed!

Grandpa Cameo

Bundled for the cold

So glad you could join us, Annie!

Welcome to our family. We love you!

Team Davis

Daily Happy: Shameless Dad Blog -- Announcement?

"Where have you been?", they ask. What could you possible have been doing to interrupt the blog for so long?

More to Follow!

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Because we're about to embark on another wonderful Journey in 2015, here's a lok back at the last year end wiith Huge (tiny) news:

Top Davis Headlines of 2011

No blog would be complete without a top 10 list for the end of the year. Well, here's ours, with just a few hours to spare. See you in the blogosphere in 2012!


1. Robby
There’s nothing surprising about No. 1. Of course the biggest story of the year was the birth in September of our beautiful son, Robby. He’s truly been a gift and a blessing. We can’t wait to see what happens in 2012 with Robby on our team!

2. Bobby earns his MBA
Three years of hard work finally paid off for Bobby in August. Now I have to finish. I’m eight classes in with another eight to go. I should be done sometime around 2030.


3. Blizzard Blizzard Blizzard 2011
Ugh. We wished we could have forgotten this, but January and February of 2011 were brutal. Feet of snow upon feet of snow. Thank goodness we had a guy to plow the driveway.

4. Winter Storm A-hole
Ugh again. This Halloween storm drove us from our electricity-free house for eight days. We (two adults, one four-week-old baby and a grumpy cat) took shelter with family, but really missed our own bed (and litter box). With a generator in the garage we shouldn’t be in that position ever again.

5. Bobby’s new job
As if we didn’t have enough going on around the end of summer, Bobby started a new job in August. He’s now the OEM Market Manager at Henkel in Rocky Hill. Henkel is a Germany-based industrial adhesives manufacturer. Danke schoen.


6. Christina’s career transition
With the arrival of Robby, I stepped down from my role as editor of the Worcester Business Journal. I’ve started working for the same company (New England Business Media) part-time from home, focusing mostly on web efforts. I’m really lucky to have the flexibility to work from home!


7. Finishing the basement
We’ve had our fair share of projects at Chez Davis including a new deck, a brick patio and walkway, two new bathrooms and digging out the foundation to fix the drainage. This year’s big headliner was definitely the basement, which is now pristine with a coat of paint. We just have to hang our custom wallpaper – an 8-foot by 2-foot image of the beach at Cape May.

8. 60 Recipes Challenge
This year started with a pledge to cook 60 new recipes in 60 days. Unfortunately the plan was thwarted by morning sickness (see No. 1). But we’re back on the wagon, cooking up a storm and blogging about it. Eat your heart out.

9. Trip to Asheville
Our travels were relatively limited this year. We skipped our annual trip to Savannah in favor of a visit to Asheville, N.C. We enjoyed the hippy city in the mountains, especially the Biltmore Mansion.

10. A man and his top 10 list
Bobby and I headed to the Big Apple to see Mr. Letterman live and in person. It was a blast. Dave is a true entertainer. The entire process, including waiting in line out in the cold, was so much fun! Some day I'd like to see Saturday Night Live. If anyone manages to score tickets give me a shout!

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Christmas Past:

It's not Christmas without.....

It's not Christmas without:

 

Cookies for Santa

 

Cookies for Robby! 

 

Cheese steaks for dinner

 

Tater Tots for Robby

 

Trimmed tree ready for presents

 

Tree ready for Santa's visit

 

Babies tucked in.

 

Merry Christmas to All and to All a good night!

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Not so long ago throw back:

Daily Happy: Shameless Dad Blog

Catching up from previous weeks while I was traveling. Robby keeps getting bigger. He got his first big boy haircut. Watched his first Superbowl. Had his first pepperoni roll.

Here's the boy at Grandma and Grandpa's house for the Superbowl. He's putting a garlic press on his nose and watching Aunt Becky and Noelle.

Look at that big guy!

Another batch of pepperoni rolls. This time for the Superbowl. They didn't last very long.

Robby snagged my phone and snapped this picture. Budding "foot-ographer"?

Reading Highlights with dad

An old freind found this in his parents attic. I was all-county soccer in my senior year!

An Iceberg on the Chesapeake Bay. Photo taken by Dan Goff in Shady Side

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Just plain old cute:

Daily Happy: Shameless Dad Blog

Robby had a busy week: Picnics, Hikes, and a visit to the library to hang out with a giant stuffed teddy bear.

Or maybe a Tubby Bear?

Here's the bouncy dance -- getting them legs ready to walk.

http://youtu.be/Ohdwru0nAn4

I can't help it. I'm kinda cute.

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Remember these?

Three Blind Muse: Gallery Spoon Smile

Its everyone's favorite time of the week; the moment you've all been waiting for: Three Blind Muse. This week we did, as the title suggests, Gallery Spoon Smile. Three Excellent Choices.

But before we go ahead, we need to tally the scores from last week: With one vote for Blizzard 2016 and one vote forThe Character's Court, we have another tie. Reminds me oflast week's post:

Blah Blah Blah, no one votes. Blah Blah Blah, maybe I should have figured out that no one's reading this blog.  Blah Blah Blah dreams crushed under the weight of a cold, uncaring world. 

Wait a minute: one last vote just trickled in through the interwebs. Who could it be for? Blizzard 2016!


By the power vested in me by Shakespeare, Kafka, Swift, Nabokov, Milton, Chaucer, Solzhenitsyn, London, Faulkner, Tolstoy, Conan-Doyle, Poe, Steinbeck, Twain, Goethe, Descartes, Mill, Dickens, Tolkien, Hemingway, Orwell, Joyce, Fitzgerald, Wilde, Vonnegut, Rand, Woolf, Camus, Melville, Dahl, Huxley, Bradbury, Blake, Sheldon, Shelley, Beckett, Nietzsche, Emerson, Lawrence, Sartre, Thoreau, Chekhov, Lewis, Salinger, Dostoevsky, and, most of all, Chuck Norris, I declare Robert Clifford Davis III, begat of Robert Clifford Davis, Jr, begetter of Robert James Davis, as this week's undisputed Champion of the the free world of Three Blind Muse. It's about F*&king time. Took you people long enough. A#%holes. Seriously. I've been giving you F*&king gold for three weeks, people. Make like a straw and Suck it. 


Oh. No. I read it wrong. It was actually a vote for The Character's Court. That means Christina won. Yeah. 


 Anyway. Here's this week's entries. I stand behind everything I said.

Reclamation

Capo gave me a wry smile as he clicked on his intercom. “Another spinner.”

He kicked at the rubble, clearing shards of pottery and wood until we could see a blackened hand. It shook like palsy. “Pull it out.”

“I hate these Infects”, I mumbled. Ever since the change, we’ve spent all our time flying to earth and burning off the stain of what used to be humanity.

“You could be one, you know.” He smiled at me again, motioning at my bio-suit.  “What do you think this place used to be?”

“Before the cleansing?” I surveyed the room. “I don’t know. Museum? Picture gallery? There’s a lot of crap on the walls. Maybe some wealthy guy’s house.”

“Well, the silver spoon didn’t help this guy any”, Capo observed, poking the discolored corpse with the muzzle of his M326 heat rifle as I pulled it from the debris. It flailed like it was trying to get up. Capo pulled his trigger, turning it to dust in a matter of seconds.

I turned to Capo, “What do you say we fly back up to SOH318, clean up, and wait for the next supply delivery?”

“Sure. Some dinner sounds good, Johnny Cake”

A Capital Offense

John dropped his spoon absentmindedly into his empty soup bowl.

“Need something?” asked the waitress.

“No, ma’am,” John said, shifting his gaze toward the door.

She followed his eyes. “Got any plans?”

“I’m going to the theater,” he answered, grabbing the bill and pulling out his wallet.

He threw cash on the table and headed outside. He kept his head down and walked across the street.

There was a crush of people pushing their way in. The crowd was hoping to get a glimpse of the honored guest. They didn’t realize that they would be witnesses to history.

John slid his way through the crowd and made it into the lobby. He handed over his ticket and bounded up the stairs.

The second floor outside the balcony was oddly empty. John paused to take in a gallery of paintings. His heart jumped when he realized he wasn’t alone.

“Can you believe all these people for a play?” the stranger chuckled. “I’m only here because my wife dragged me… Sorry, I should introduce myself. My name is Louis Smith. What’s yours?”

“John Wilkes Booth,” he said with a smile. “Nice to meet you.”

So, what do you think? Is there a clear winner this week? Use the comment section below or send an email torcdavis3rd@gmail.com to enter your vote for this week's Three Blind Muse winner. We'll announce the winner next week. 

The three words for next week's contest are:


Binge Gossip Hamburger

Sweetness!

We'll be putting our stories together here at Ashford Living. 
And if you want to be a guest writer, send your story to me, rcdavis3rd@gmail.com
Remember to follow the rules. If you do, we'd be more than happy to have you in the show!