Winter Wonderland 08 Part 4

Finally a break in the weather! We all headed out on the snowmobiles for a quick 65 mile ride. The kids were troopers in the single digit temps and FEET of snow. Here is the gang at a stop for hot chocolate and burgers.

Wilbur you are a great man with great hair!
Here are the ladies on the sled looking so beautiful

Guess Who

Guess who turns 34 today?
This is from the birthday breakfast that Grandpa Tom is famous for.

Winter Wonderland 08 Part 3

Christmas Day!!! Presents, Eating, Snow, Eating, and MORE SNOW!!! Here is Sambo playing the Mexican guitar hero "Samba De Amigo".

Winter Wonderland 08 Part 2

This is what we woke up to Christmas morning
If you can't tell what this is, it is our Suburban buried in snow. Here is another
What you can't see here is 7 snowmobiles completely covered in the white stuff. Looks like we will be doing alot of this
For the next week!!!

Winter Wonderland 08 Part 1

This year the 6Clarks are celebrating Christmas up at Uncle Shad's lake house in Island Park, Idaho. What an adventure it has been so far. We arrived on the night of the 23rd and on the way up, Dad got pulled over in Ashton, Idaho AGAIN for having no trailer lights (the same thing happened on the August trip). This time the State trooper gave us a $52 ticket. Merry Christmas to you Mr. Mustache and State of Idaho! The morning of the 24th we woke up and went to find the perfect tree to decorate. We all thought Grandpa bought a permit to chop a tree down, but after observing the speed at which he fell the tree, hitched it to a snowmobile, hauled it to the truck, threw it in the back of the truck and sped off, it was obvious that no permit ever was purchased. I barely was able to get these pictures.
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Regardless of how legal this was the tree turned out lovely.

Santa's little helper

This is a CLASSIC Wilbur T. Clark moment. Will is hilarious! Everyday he raises the bar. Tomorrow is his Christmas program at school. Here is what happened at last year's pre-school sign along:

part 1: the first 2 minutes of the program(singing and smiling)
Part 2: The next 13 minutes of the program (not singing and disguising himself under his hat)

The most dangerous thing

This evening while fixing dinner for the kids, ultimate fighting happened to be on TV. In this particular match there was a guy who was choked and completely passed out. Millie was terrified by this and asked why anyone would want to do something where they could be killed. I mentioned that in any sporting event, there are some risks to getting hurt and somtimes dying. As soon as I said that Sambo jumped in. He said with full confidence "yeah Millie like when you go down a mountain on your bike and fall off a cliff and land in an alligator pond you would for sure die"!

Oh so it's not the falling off the cliff that would kill you, it's the part where you land in an alligator pond! Oh Sambo that was pure genius. Where does that kid get his brilliant ideas?

Dude looks like a lady

This week was the 3rd grade rendition of a classic, The Christmas Carol. Millie did a great job as the 2nd gentleman. After a trip to DI for her wardrobe she was ready to shine (check out the cane). Here are a few pics from her performances. Great job Millie!
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It is IMPORTANT for Millie to have her groupies there cheering her on. Thanks Grandma, Jen, and the "Goalie's Girl". It really means a lot to her and us.

Santa Baby

My baby girl's all grown up. Here is a little bit of her latest. She is the one in the middle.

















Thanks to Grandma, Aunt Casey, and Lucy for coming!





Merry Christmas from Millie

Bros

I love this picture because I think it really captures the way these dudes feel about each other. I told them to get together and without prompting Sam put his arm around Will, and then Will grabbed his hand. I also love how much they are different from each other, but don't really care most days. Will is lucky that Sambo is very easy-going and plays what he wants to play most of the time. He's very tolerable of Will's chattiness. Except, on occasion (usually after a long day at school), Will brings Sam to tears by doing nothing but talking to him. Wilbur waits all day for Sam to come home, then the second he walks in the door it's a non-stop talk fest on Will's end. This is when Sambo begs in a crying voice, "Just stop talking!" And he's really crying.
Sam is lucky that Wilbur is so funny and worships the ground he walks on. When Sam can't find a friend to play with he knows that there is always a little play mate following him around. Will is also Sam's comforter on occasional nights when he gets scared. We often find Sambo has crawled into Will's bed and they are snuggled together. These boys are best buds. They are bros.

Stories from today

A couple of stories from today:

Millie: Has a boy in her class that has a huge crush on her. She found a "love note" in her desk from a secret someone. According to Millie she has known who the "secret person" is for a few days. Millie though, has eyes for a more "studious" fellow who is already into science club and dungeons and dragons (if you know what I mean). So Millie came home today and told us that the kid who has a crush on her PUKED by her desk at school. She told me all she could say was, "Ew, you threw-up your spaghetti!" Then she couldn't get far enough away. Poor kid, I bet he was crushed.

Sambo: Shortleg is back to himself. He has eaten 22 crickets in the past 2 days. Ironically enough that is the same number of Oreos our "Lunchbox" has eaten.

Wilbur: Got a haircut. Just like Sampson of old he did not want scissors to touch his locks. He yelled out "I don't want a buzz" as he slammed the door to the car. His hair looks great though and seems to be happy with his doo.

Quincy: Had 2 defining moments as to the TRUE origin of her DNA. First of all she had a meatball test. Holly debated if she should feed her Spaghettios with or without meatballs because it could go either way. If her DNA is more Guffey then she will eat the meatballs, if she is more Clarks the meatballs wouldn't be touched. Well after 10 minutes we checked her bowl and found meatballs on the floor, seat, counter and everywhere else you could imagine. You could tell she chewed on some and then spit them out. But the "O"s were all gone, she totally sorted through it. She is definitely Clark when it comes to love of meatballs. Next was the nap test. She has only been napping a little over an hour for the past few days which is unusal because she usually sleeps 2-3 hours. Yesterday Holly made a comment about how 1 hour naps weren't gonna fly. (Quincy was grumpy). Today, after 5 hours Holly and I had to wake her up in fear that she wouldn't go to sleep at her "normal" time. 5 hours! Once again, a Clark gene. You see, Clark's have a "sleep gene", in which they just require more sleep. Their body always makes up for lost sleep, even if they are standing in a room blasting with noise.