The Clarks

The Clarks

Monday, September 30, 2013

Lake Powell Catch Up



The Clark family Lake Powell trip was in June and I am finally posting about it.  Yikes!
Once again, another great trip with great family!!!  The best part was that 7 out of 8 of the Clark siblings made it this year.  This is a feat!  We missed the Ludlows :(
We found a pretty little bay up in Hall's Creek that was perfect for bathing in the shallow water and playing on the beach.  We had lots of little ones on the boat, as well as 2 prego ladies - Jenny and Jess.
One of our favorite parts of this trip {that I didn't get pictures of} was going to Forgotten Canyon to see the ruins of the Moki Indians.  It was a way fun and cool excursion!!!  It has been a few years since we last made the hike and for some reason it gets neater each time.  Of course Will had a million questions and comments about the whole experience :)

AWESOME TRIP!


Sambo and Landon
Audree, Sadie, Q

Of course I brought crafts....we made Sharpie tie-dye shirts and bracelets with the Rainbow Loom
Also see picture at the beginning
Grandpa Jim surfing
Grandpa Jim biffing it
Fishing fun with Brady, Sadie, Q, Spencer, and Kade
Kade and Will
 


Will, Sam, Millie,  Rylee, Karlee
Sadie, Spencer, Q, Audree
Millie wake boarding
 

Sam and Karlee
Q and Mom
 

Pure Joy
Laters
Silly Grandma
Taking a break and watching a movie
 



Monday, September 2, 2013

Fishing Deer Creek with Grandpa Jim


These boys do love to go fishing with Grandpa!
They were extra stoked this time because they caught a Walleye!

Tifie Scout Camp

The Boy Scouts in our ward invited the 11 year old Scouts to join them for a couple of days, so Sambo and BS went up and for some camping fun.  Camp Tifie is a posh camp and they had a blast!




Bought a new pocket knife at the Trading Post
This is how 11 year olds pack the car 

A Nice Day


We try to spend as many free summer days as we can at ECR, but it's never enough.
I took my bike and rode solo up to Snowbasin.  It is quite a climb, but it was so nice because it was cloudy and not so hot. It started to rain just as I reached the lodge.  I took some time to enjoy the rain and some rare time to myself.  But then it rained all the way back down to Mountain Green.



I made it!
 When I got back the kids were fishing in the pond.  I helped Will's friend Maddux catch his first fish.
 My boys think it's so funny that I know how to set up fishing lines, bait the hook, catch a fish, let it go, or gut it :)

 

And of course, the usual 4 wheeling and motorcycling.
It's so great that we can bring friends up here and they can just be kids in the outdoors. Explore and do whatever they want and just be kids.


What a nice day!

Pamperfest


In July, my friend Kelly talked me in to doing a cycling event called The Pamperfest.  It is a 4 woman relay from Snowbasin to The Homestead in Midway.  Even though I haven't been riding much, I figured I could handle 2 legs that were 20 miles each.  As unfortunate events played out, Kelly's Dad passed away and she had to miss the event.  I decided to still go for it - but instead 4 of us rode together for the last 3 legs, equaling 67 miles.  That would have been fine, except we started at noon.  Noon in July.  It was soooo stinking hot!  I struggled at one point but for the most part I really enjoyed my day with awesome people!  Even better was the 30 minute massage I got at the finish line, in the shade, at the beautiful park.

Jenny, Brenda, me, Dee

From Kamas to Heber with Jordanelle in the distance


But the best part of the day was coming home a scrumptious homemade cheesecake that Millie made
just for me!


Stolen!

In the early morning on July 3rd, BS and I went went outside to go for a nice bike ride. BS was fiddling with the bike tires when I noticed that the car {Escalade} was not in the driveway. I asked BS "Where is the car?"  He looked at the driveway, looked at me, then we both walked out and looked back and forth, as if it would be parked down the street or something.
It was gone.
And I immediately remembered that I had left my purse in it the night before.  
Ugh!
Yep, pretty much invited the robbers by leaving my purse in the car, with a spare key to the car in my purse.  Not that I usually do that, I was planning on making a quick run to the grocery store when our neighbor friends invited us to go to a late movie.  We jumped in their car, went to the movie, got home late, went inside and went to bed, totally forgetting about the purse.
Forget the car, my whole life was in that purse!

We drove a rental car around for 8 days {that luckily insurance paid for} until we got a phone call that our car had been found.  In WEST VALLEY.
Here are some pictures of where the car was found, all locked up.  The car was in good shape, not one bit of damage.  But all of our personal belongings inside were gone. 




It has been a total pain starting over without licenses, cards, checkbooks, social security card, etc.
Oh well, what can you do?!