A few new pictures-

Here's just a few new pictures of Rose- she's almost 3 months old now- and Lils and Ebay! Lils started her first day of Kindergarten last Monday *sniff*.


Here also, is the koi pond that we converted into a wading pool for the kids, complete with waterfall and chlorene. Clark's Dad was amazing and built the fence around it and then Clark created the beautiful stone work all around the outside edge. It was rough, sharp rock before, not very kid friendly. So the kids played in the pond and then jumped into the hot tub and then back into the pond for hours today! Horray for backyards!

Aren't kids the best?

Lils and I were playing Barbie's the other day in our "Harry Potter" closet. We call it that because it's a big closet that's under the stairs, just like Harry Potter was forced to live in for the first book or two at the Dursley's.. yes, I am a dork. Anways- we were playing and Ebay wanted to join us. Knowing Clark would kill me if I let him play Barbie's (even though Clark dressed up many times in Wonder Woman underroos and had his nails painted many, many times by his sisters.. but that's a different story!) I gave Ebay the Ken doll and said- "you're the Daddy!". So Lils and I kept playing and a minute later Ebay makes his doll say,"Bye, going to work!" and he made his Ken doll walk off to work. Yep. So that's what daddy's do, huh?!

Breaking Dawn!

Y'all knew this post was inevitable, and I promise not to spoil anything for you "late readers"- but HOLY COW! That book was amazing! Clark said to me the night of the release- "If you don't go at midnight, then you're just not as big of a fan as I thought!" Yes, that was a challenge- so I called two of my new friends here in Cali and they called some friends and well, we were the only moms there who weren't there with their 12 year old daughters (or sitting in the cafe at Borders with the dads waiting for this to end!) But who cares! We bonded by our love for these books!

It was a blast- after the first 10 or 15 minutes, we no longer felt embarrassed by our age and just embraced our "Twilight" obsession! Talking to the girls in line if they thought the guy they picked for the movie to play Edward was cute.. because I personally think it should be Christian Bale (I know, I know, he's too old... but so am I right?!) Trying to answer the "Twilight" trivia like "what direction was Bella walking when Edward noticed her scent in this particular scene..." Are you kidding me?! The craziest part was, half of the 100+ girls knew the answer! They asked how many of them had read the books over five times.. even MORE raised their hands! Wow. I can't separate myself from them too much... but I'm not THAT bad, right?! :) We later went to the little fortune teller they had there, I'm sure she was just a "Borders" employee who pulled the short straw. We were to ask her any question about us. I asked how old she thought I was- she said "22 or 23" Yay! I'm sure she was just being nice. So I got a pair of pink fangs. As you can see by the pictures below, she wasn't very good at guessing ages.

LOL OMGosh!

OK, I just heard about this blog- whoever writes it is HILARIOUS! Holy cow! She is so presh... anyways- I can't tell if she's fo' real or what, but man, I love it! My fav is the camping one where she's "roughing it" in nature in the hot tub at her parent's cabin! LOL! :) Now I'm starting to write like her-

http://seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com/

Holy SHNIKIES!!!!!!!

My birthday was yesterday and Clark had this elaborate surprise for me. I had NO idea where we were going or what we were doing! Clark's sister, Liz, took Lils and Ebay for the the day and Clark, Rose, and I just started driving. I kept trying to guess where we were headed, what we were doing... nothing made sense! Then I noticed we were getting closer and closer to San Francisco... then past the city to this random beach/cliff area where I saw some large kites.... "are we going to go fly some large kites, Clark?" I asked, teasing, thinking we had made a wrong turn... "wait a minute those aren't kites", I thought... "ARE WE GOING HANG GLIDING????!!!!!" I SCREAMED!!!!! YES! We were going hang gliding!!! Clark had been planning this for a month! I have always wanted to go and when Dave was in Brazil two years ago and went hang gliding in Rio De Janeiro, I almost killed him!!! :) But yesterday was my turn! It was really cold and windy in San Fran, but I didn't care... plus, I was really glad it was windy! :)

We met Gordon, the pilot, and I signed my life away on some forms. Then I got strapped in and we ran off the cliff! What a feeling! It was incredible! Right there on the coast there is a VERY strong up-draft of wind that goes from the ocean below and hits the cliffs and goes up. So we soared down the coast line on the glider. Gordon did a bunch of really cool dives and 360's while we were up there. But mostly we just soared around and floated on the breeze. We were up there for a half hour and my feet were starting to go numb from the cold. Landing was a really neat feeling too. Oh man, what an incredible surprise! Clark is the best ever! Happy birthday to me!

Rose's baby blessing.

Rose was blessed in church on Sunday. It was a beautiful blessing! My Mom, Clark's parent's, Clark's sister and her family, and brother Jeff and his girlfriend were all able to come. It was so wonderful! As a parent, it's one of those moments that make all the craziness of a new baby go away and you really can focus and see your child as this wonderful, sweet little spirit from heaven! She's been such a little joy in our home. Our ward building is right beside the Sacramento Temple, so we get to go there every week! It's been really great to see the temple every week, and the kids love it. There are always wild turkeys roaming around the temple grounds, too, which is pretty crazy, so we try to see who can find the wild turkeys first!

4th of July weekend!

Here are just a few pictures of our 4th of July weekend! We were up in Oroville with Clark's fam and had a great time! Here are the 10 of 14 grandkids on Clark's side in "Fairytale Town" and our first family photo with our new little baby Rose. She's 6 weeks old now-