Our Valentine's

This was our Valentine's this year. Just hanging out and goofing around, me and the kids.

We miss you honey and love you! Happy Valentine's Day!

Some of My Easter Blessings

These are a few of the blessings I have this Easter season and I hope to keep forever because of Christ's sacrifice and resurrection...

The family traditions that help me to remember.

This one symbolizing the new birth of resurrection and the gift of life that Christ gives us.

A handsome son,

newest to join our family, and enjoying his first spring.

A beautiful daughter

in a beautiful Easter dress, getting old enough to discover

the small and special things in the world outside.

Time to watch my children grow and experience life

I’m grateful for this season, especially as Easter falls on the Sunday of Conference weekend. I’m reminded of the great gifts and sacrifices that Jesus Christ has made for me and my family. He has given us the chance to receive bodies and live on the earth together as our little Clark family. We are learning and growing together. We are moving forward to the greatest gift of all, eternal life and exaltation as a family,

all made possible because of Christ.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween Everyone! We hope you all had a fun and safe Halloween. Aine was a fairy this year. Rachael made her adorable tutu. When we put it on Aine for the first time she spinned around and around. She loved her costume. She went trick-or-treating for the first time this year up in Farmington. Following the lead of her cousin, Ellie, she wasn't too scared to visit each door. She just couldn't figure out how to put the candy in her sack, she wanted to hang on to it. Oh well, maybe she'll have a better hang of it next year and she can show Tanner the ropes.

Getting Ready for Halloween

We finally have a porch to display a pumpkin this year! Yeah! So, for family night this week we tried carving a pumpkin for the first time. He lost one of his teeth in the process. Oops!

Memorial Day Car Ride

Faith, Aine and I traveled with Vaughn and Tammy Durfee down to Wendover, Nevada. We enjoyed seeing the Salt Flats along the way. Drove downtown Wendover on both the Utah and Nevada border. We had lunch and stopped at a playground afterwards so Aine could get rid of the wiggles. Drove back to Stansberry Park. Sorry we don't have any pictures. We forgot the camera. Those of you who read this might have to use your imagination.

Christmas Time? Really?

I have to admit, that although Christmas time is my absolute favorite for the year, it just doesn't feel like Christmas this year. This fact makes me really sad. Maybe it is that the weather is warmer and we haven't had a good Christmas season snow yet. Or maybe it is that we have decided to wait on putting up our decorations until after the big move. I don't know for sure... but it makes me really depressed. The Christmas season has always been the time of year where I get a real "happy boost" that carries me through the rest of the winter and year. Any ideas on making this season feel more like Christmas?

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY

I hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July. As for Faith, Aine and I we were up early. We went up to Kaysville and I ran the 10K race. I did well. I came in 4th overall and first in age group. My time was 36:02. That is a 5:47 mile pace. It was good race to prepare for my marathon which is coming up here in two and half weeks. Great to have Dad, Mom, Nathan and Seth all come out and cheer for me. Nice to see friends from High School again and how different they are ten years later. We went and hung out with Faith's family for the afternoon. Drove to Grantsville to see the fireworks that night.

Holiday Success

Well, I must not be such a horrible christmas baker. I made Wassle, Mexican Wedding Cookies and Glazed Nuts for my work's "12 Work Days Until Christmas" today and everyone loved them. That helped my confidence in making Christmas goodies. Maybe I'll get the guts up to try that fudge again. :) (P.S. That is not a picture of my real cookies, but I'm putting the blog up at school before class and I thought I would at least include something that looked like what I made) Heehee

The Wheels on the "Hummer" go round and round

Better watch out I have a new drive in town. It's yellow and it's big. The only thing that's missing is me in it. Christmas came a couple of weeks early for me. I won this bad boy in a drawing at work. Look forward to having some fun.

Oops! I Did it again

Charity came over Sunday night, just in time for us to make holiday goodies. So we made some delicious caramels, cute little Mexican Wedding Cookies (minus the powdered sugar), and a sorry excuse for fudge. My sister and I about wet our pants because we were laughing so hard at our fudge. We had to take a picture to prove how ugly it looked. We wanted everybody to laugh with us. I think we must have cooked it at just the right temperature for the sugar to crystallize and separate from the butter. It still tasted really good though. We put it back on a low heat to see if we could get the sugar to redissolve and it did help a little. We decided to call it a chocolate crumble rather than fudge. Que Sera.

Christmas

The Christmas holidays are here. Faith and I decorated the tree and our apartment. What a wonderful time of the year see christams trees and lights. City Creek Park up through Memory Grove have their lights decorated like this. It is very pretty at night, especially with the snow we've recieved.

Linton's Thanksgiving

We gathered for the annual Linton's Thanksgiving dinner. We had a great time with family members. Although we did miss Vaughn who ended up having to work. Thank you for the smiles.