Memorial Day

For Memorial day weekend, the boys went motorcycling while Q and I enjoyed some sunshine at Aunt Heid's house. Millie was still in California.

We pulled out the Slip-n-Slide!

 

Then I took Q on a date to the movies to see Disney's "Bears" movie. We loved it. Right up her alley.

 

On Sunday we took flowers to the graves and to reminisce about Grandmas and Grandpas

Easter!

On Easter Sunday in their Easter outfits

We spent Easter weekend at the cabin for a fabulous lunch and Easter Egg hunt!

All ready to go hunt for eggs

 

Each kid had their own color to find - that way everyone scores big with plenty of eggs!

 

Coloring eggs:

Sunday morning Easter baskets!  The Easter bunny did not disappoint.  They even got giant chocolate truffle eggs with their names on them. Yum :)

A Great Green Day

St. Patrick's Day came and went so quickly that we almost missed it!

This year the holiday entailed green waffles and green milk for breakfast; 

and green rice, jello, peas, punch for dinner. I kept the pork chops normal color ;)

Let's not forget the green nails:

And green Swig sugar cookies! Yum.

Heidi sent me a picture text of these cute little leprecauns. 

These shirts look familiar - we made these a few years ago and passed them down :

DONUT you want to be my Valentine?

Enjoying a Dizzie Izzie at Dear Lizzie

I'm pretty sure I dig Valentine's Day more than most.  Every year I find myself getting excited to find ideas and make cute valentines with & for the kids.  This year did not disappoint and we had a fabulous heart day!  Millie didn't have a "special" Valentine at the moment, but both of boys did! Sambo even gave a stuffed animal, a flower, and some chocolate to his.  Her name rhymes with Madison :)

Will had his eye on somebody and was planning to ask her to be his Valentine, but a different girl beat him and asked him to be her Valentine first.  Of course he couldn't say no!  As a 4th grader he wasn't quite ready to give her a gift but he did give her an extra donut.  

This was the first year that Millie didn't put together and hand out Valentines, so we only had 3 kid's classes. They unanimously voted on donuts.  Lucky for me Krispy Kreme makes really cute and scrumptious donuts for Valentines day. And lucky for the kids, assembling the valentines only required folding boxes, throwing in a donut, and slapping on a sticker!

The boys have sleepy eyes because they are putting theirs together at 6:30 a.m. They procrastinated.

But there was still enough time for pink pancakes

And here they are looking adorable and ready for Cupid to strike:

I gave them these cute mugs filled with goodies along with their favorite hot cocoa:

And of course BS and I went out on a date. We love Tepanyaki and going to the movies. It was hot in more ways than one ;)  Yep, still madly in LOVE!

BS and I gave ourselves one of these packages that came straight from heaven - a mix of homemade chocolate dipped strawberries, oreos, cinnamon bears, pretzels, and marshmallows.  The Young Women in our ward {mosly us leaders} made these and sold them for a fund raiser. It was super successful and we will probably do this every year! So Good!

Clark Clan Christmas party

As usual the Clark Christmas family party was a blast!  We started off at Fat Cats for some bowling and dinner. There is both Pizza Factory and Costa Vida so there is something yummy for everyone. The cousins have fun bowling together and the adults love it as much as the kids. My favorite part was my awesome strike caught on video ;)

 

After bowling we went to Grandpa Judy's for dessert, cousin gift exchange, a surprise visit from Santa, and acting out the Nativity story.  A couple of weeks earlier the adults went to dinner at Magleby's and did a White Elephant gift exchange.  It's too bad we didn't take any pics.  It was hilarious!  But it was great getting together with adults only so we could enjoy each others company and have more time at this party to focus on the kids. 18 of them! Grandma and Grandpa gave the kids cozy slippers and a certificate stating that they started a college savings account for each of them. Great idea! Grandpa told them that each time they deposited some of their own money into the account he would match it. So of course, Will is all over that! We ended the evening with kids acting out the Nativity story. 

It was so sweet!

 

Silly Sambo!