Davis in Duncan

We didn't tell the boys why we were making the trip to Duncan this past weekend.  They were really completely shielded from the hard parts of the weekend and were able to have a fabulous weekend with family.

Davis with the sheep in the backyard at Gram Boyd's house

Riding in the fire trucks - Uncle Brad and Hayden both work/volunteer for the local fire department so they took the boys down and opened up the firehouse to take them to ride on the different trucks - and you wonder why Davis loves this place!!

This is a cute story.  Sunday morning we went to church at the family church in Duncan.  Mark's Uncle Brad is the pastor.  It is always a time that I really enjoy when we are in Duncan.  I love the small church atmosphere and the worship with their church family is great.  Davis was very aware on this trip how different church was 'aesthetically'.  Our church meets in a gymnasium, with a band and rows and rows of folding chairs.  He noticed how different it was to be in a very small traditional looking church with piano led worship and a couple of rows of pews.  I grew up attending a church that had a more traditional church meeting place so this never strikes me as different, but it made an impression on Davis.  He also tuned in to Mark's uncle preaching from the pulpit up front.  When we got back to the house later, Davis and Parker were playing outside while we got Sunday lunch on the table.  He kept coming in an asking for weird things (a box, a paper towel holder, and finally a Bible).  He brought us outside and had assembled himself a little 'pulpit'.  The paper towel holder is his microphone.  He didn't have much to say in terms of a sermon (that is not really Davis) but he wanted to be like Brad I think - very sweet.

If you tell Davis that a trip to Duncan might be in his future, he is pretty much bouncing-off-the-walls ecstatic.  He really loves to go and had a great time.  "Duncan" to Davis is really Gram Boyd's house.  Everything about it is fabulous to him: lots of family, tractors, plenty of places to dig and run around, and animals to feed and play with.  At church on Sunday he made a little friend (Hollace) and told him "we are going to go eat lunch at Duncan (Mark's Grandma's house) you can come if you want, it is kind of far away".  I'm sure Hollace was confused since we were standing at the church IN downtown Duncan.  In the car on the way home I asked him what were his favorite parts of the trip.  He said:  the firehouse with Uncle Brad and Hayden, getting a 'fire hat' (from Aunt Brenda), and playing with his cousins.  His cousins are actually more like third cousins.  We have a great relationship with Mark's second cousins (the Robinsons) who live in New Mexico.  Davis had met their boys before but they got to play for hours yesterday and Davis had so much fun.  He told me, "Mom, I'm having so much fun, I love my new cousins, they are the best boys I have met all day" (okay so they were the ONLY kids he had been with that day).  I wish I had had my camera yesterday - they had a great time together.