just more fun happenings

We just got back from some good times with Clark's family. Unfortunately my camera battery was dead before I could take one picture! Quick summary: We went to Flaming Gorge, Clark went golfing, we saw some dear friends and their new adorable son, and ate delicious food - Clark's mom is the best cook I've ever met.

Before we left for Spring Break, we decided to go camping.

Clark's making dutch oven potatoes (the best potatoes you'll ever have).

Around 8 o'clock it started getting cold. Really cold. Clark had the brilliant idea of not staying the night and instead heading home. Sounded good to me, so we didn't end up camping, just setting up our tent, eating dinner and sleeping in our warm beds at home. The next day we went up and hiked around and took our tent down.
How were we able to go camping, you might ask? We got a truck!! Clark is thrilled (and actually I love it too)! Now we can take off anytime and go up to the mountains or we can haul a mattress or any other thing that won't fit in a car. What possibilities! :)

Mops, Blankets, and Balls

Rosie has been a very good helper lately. She loves to throw her dirty diapers into the garbage. Yesterday she carried the mop around the front room and mopped our carpet.

Will was begging me to watch "Finding Nemo" one afternoon so I turned it on for him. A few minutes later, I went in to check on him and I found him asleep under his blanket. What a kid!

This really cute guy asked me to the Brown 'N Gold Ball on Saturday. :) He found a hilarious (or "sweet" in his words) suit at a thrift store. The owner said some guy brought it in and said he wore it in a barber's quartet in the 70's. I tried to find a dress that was somewhat 70's and somewhat modern. We had a great time.

Photo Tag

So you're supposed to go to your sixth folder and then pick the sixth picture and post it. Then tag six people to do the same thing...

Here is Will with my Dad. Will has a special love for his "Papa" and it melts my heart. I love seeing my Dad as a grandpa.

I tag anyone who wants to do this!

Sugar cookies and peach jam

For V-Day, Betsy made the most delicious sugar cookies and we decorated them. Will had such a fun time doing it. If you look closely, he did the ones with all the swirls. I asked what he was spelling and he listed everyone's name in our family.

This is my beautiful mom and beautiful sister helping with the kids.

Here's another beautiful sister, though she really didn't want me to take her picture. She was a peach jam pro. She helped me skin all the peaches and then pour them into the jars.

When Clark came home and saw that I was struggling with mashing the peaches, he jumped right in and helped. First he used a biscuit cutter (the peaches were still pretty firm), then he used the blender. Last he used two long knives, as you can see in this picture.

I learned that you really should wait until your peaches are soft before you make jam. But, it was a great night and the jam tastes pretty good too.

This week

I caught Clark reading with the kids. Clark's the best!

Will and I wore red on Friday for Women's Heart Disease. What a cause!

Will's wearing Uncle Ryan's hat.

Now Rosie's wearing Uncle Ryan's hat.

We had Steph and Ryan over for a steak dinner. It was delish. (I think Steph was the only one ready for the picture.)