Deer Camp

The only weekend anticipated more than Christmas for the Clark boys is the deer hunt.  This year ranked as one of the best ever.  Weather in the 60's and nothing but sunshine was a nice change from the snows of last year.  Uncle Jordan joined us and was initiated into the circle of trust by eating the recently harvested tongue from Sean's big buck.  Sambo and Will volunteered to eat tongue and Will was kind enough to eat 7 pieces.   Don't tell them it is actually just a piece of steak.

The ruins of the Hermit's house were still in the third hole and we made the traditional trek to have a picnic in the most frightful place in the Wasatch.  Sambo and Wilbur both rode the horses unsupervised and did a great job being cowboys.  

Highlights of the trip were: (1) having grandpa Jim back with us.  Last year he was out of commission with blood clots in his lungs.  (2) Jordan, our newest member of the family, proved that he was a real trooper and worthy of marrying my baby sister. (3) The hundreds of sticks the boys carved, and the thousand bbs the boys shot out of their guns. (4) Having my dad, brothers, and my boys together in my favorite place for 72 hours with no interruptions. 

The ladies met us at the bottom on Sunday afternoon and had a chance to ride horses while the boys cleaned up and unpack.  Although it was only 72 hours, it was great to see them.  I think Quin was in heaven to actually ride a real horse.

We are already counting down to Deer Camp 2012.  323 days and counting.

 

Champions

So stoked with his gold medal!

Last year Sambo's football team won the football championship...this year it was Will's turn!  Both of the boys went all the way their very first time playing football.  We have really had to explain to them that they are very fortunate and not to set their expectations too high on winning every year!
Will played his heart out and did his job to help his team win.  He is surprisingly one of the taller boys on the team and made an awesome pulling guard.  BS loved coaching him!  And Will loved BS coaching too!  The head coach, Chris Burton did a fantastic job with the boys and we were lucky to have him.

Way to go Knights 2nd grade football team!

The game was at Lehi High School

M and Q cheering from the stands with hot cocoa (it was cold!)

Half-time in the Warming Hut

Will and his good buddy Jack

I managed to capture Will's face during a play

1,2,3 Break!

We are #1!

Halloween - Twenty-Eleven

I think I have finally recovered from the Halloween happenings.  It has taken a week because the chaos didn't end with Halloween...
Halloween was on Monday.  Costume parade, class parties, neighborhood party, soup in orange bread bowls, trick or treating, hot cocoa, candy counting & checking, candy eating.

Easiest class party treat: pretzel spider webs with white chocolate

Even easier: Jack-o-lantern oranges {your kids draw the faces}

"Wrapped" mummy game at Millie's class party

Heading out for Trick or Treating - thank heaven for awesome weather!

I can't even remember Tuesday.
I  worked at the clinic Wednesday {which was November 2nd} and had the pleasure of listening to Christmas music for 4 hours!  At first I was thinking "What the heck!?"  But it only took a couple of songs before I was finding myself in the Christmas spirit and feeling ready for more upcoming {quickly!} holidays. Which was a good thing because I took Quincy to the mall after work and man was it festive!  Christmas music, decorations, all of the kiosks with the latest Christmas sucker punch gifts.
On Thursday, BS and I welcomed a new nephew - Landon Later.  Congrats to Candice and Doug!  We love you.

Then Friday Uncle Sean married Megan so we had a full day of family wedding activities.  It was a really nice day/night.  Congrats to the newest Clarks, we love you!

My handsome boys at the reception

My darling girls at the reception

Saturday the girls got pedicures with Aunt Casey who is in town from Ohio.  Then it was Will's semi-final football game in the f-f-f-freezing cold - but they won!   Saturday night we spent a lovely evening celebrating Uncle Nate's 40th birthday.  He truly is thee nicest and funniest guy I know.  We ate at Tepenyaki which is always a treat, then to the new movie theatres in Centerville to see "Tower Heist."
Sunday consisted of preparing/cramming for sharing time in Primary, church, yummy dinner, and most importantly... a giant nap!

Awesome and eventful week!

Here are photos of the kids in costumes.  A friend from Draper was doing a Halloween mini-session so I jumped right on that!  I love getting costume photos over with before the actual day because there is always so much going on.  I think the kids look awesome and adorable...

Hoo, Hoo are the cutest owls ever?

Quincy agreed to be an owl ONLY if it was a scary owl. I let her pick out her fabric colors and she picked purple...is that scary or what?

Hoo, hoo do I want to eat up right now?

I have to give credit to Millie - she cut out and applied almost every single feather! She was very involved with choosing this costume, the fabric, and assembling it.  She was a good sport to let Quincy be twinners with her

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Hoo, hoo looks Asian?

Kept getting mistaken for the KKK

Pulled this one from Grandma's old trunk - from a road show when I was little

Very ferocious!

Without fail, Sambo chooses costumes that require make-up.  I wish I had skills in that department.

More photos and such:

With cousins at fun Gardner Village

Kissing cousin Bode

Millie's Haunted House book report