DIY DAVIS STYLE: 30 Day Challenge {Day 4}

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

30 Day Challenge {Day 4}

Day 4: Your parents...

These are my parents! We'll all them BS...hahahah just kidding...but really...their initials are B & S. B is a dentist in Virginia and S is my mom...she is the office manager at my Dad's office. We'll just go with The Daddy and The Mommy for identity's sake

B & S in Saint Martin

The Daddy is pretty much a super man if there ever was one. He is a jack of all trades and I am not sure there is anything he can't do. I like to think I was on the receiving end of his desire to do everything..all at once. I always have a 3 page long to do list of running projects, and even though he is a Dentist, that doesn't stop him from doing a ton of other really awesome things like stained glass, woodwork, "farming"...I say "farming" in quotes like that because when he was little he spent his summers on the Myers family farm in Illinois (being a Florida boy) he always talks really fondly of "The Farm". So naturally when they decided to move us as a family from Florida to Virginia we moved onto a "Farm"....he built two "barns" and a greenhouse. Notice I am putting all of these things in "Quotes"...because they aren't what you would typically think of. Our "farm" is 92 acres of land situated on the back of a mountain in Virginia. The "barns" are basically big tool sheds where he works on his bazillion projects. So see all the wood in the picture below? It covers the entire house...

A picture of the Daddy's stained glass work...and see all that wood?

When The Daddy and The Mommy bought all this land it was all trees...with The Daddy's skills, he cut down, planed and coated all the wood so it could be used in the house!Whenever people ask me about him I always feel like I say...oh yeah..he's a dentist BUT...haha

The Mommy is pret-ty amazing too. She was my high school cheerleading coach and everyone loved her. She's fun, creative, outgoing and the list goes on and on. When my sister B and I were little (yes we actually do call her B...just the letter...not the cheese) if we ever came to her and said...Mommah we're bored, you know what she would do? She would whip out a piece of poster board, and markers from her secret Mommy stash and tell us to pick a theme and make up a board game.

The Mommy & I on my Wedding rehearsal day!

B & I would spend hours creating rules, playing cards and finding miscellaneous items that we could use for board game pieces. The mommah didn't just leave us to do all of this alone...I remember one time we created a "ZOO" themed board game and neither B or I were very skilled in our drawing at this age (9 and 10) so she created these amazing pictures on our poster board. One of a tiger, and a huge elephant head...think Dumbo's circus here. And even some other small circus themed thing like peanuts and popcorn. It was seriously awesome. And when The Mommy wasn't drawing really cool things she was teaching us how to cook a Thanksgiving Day meal or how to do a DIY furniture painting.

So I s'pose it is safe to say that I come by my DIY Crafting skills honestly...and my OCD/AR skills? Those come from The Mommy :)

{DIY Davis Style}