Adventures At Church

Every once and a while you will find yourself in a sacrament meeting where the speakers leave a lasting impression on you. No, I'm not talking about the speakers that give talks that inspire you to do better or shed immense light on a gospel conversation. I'm talking about the talks that you will always remember and look back on that will always make you chuckle. This last Sunday in church down in Arizona we had one such talk.

One of the speakers was a young woman from my in-laws ward. She was giving a talk about the temple and the importance of living your life in such a way as to prepare for entering the temple some day. One of the things that she touched on a couple of times during her talk was the importance of dressing modestly. After one such reference to dressing appropriately, Heather leans over to me and asks, "Do you see what she's wearing?" I hadn't noticed, but this laurel-aged young woman was wearing a sleeve-less dress that was very low-cut. After that, every reference to dressing modestly made us start to laugh.

The only other "impressionable" sacrament meeting talk that I have, was actually a testimony in my sister-in-law's singles ward in Provo. She related to us one girl's remarks in her testimony one fast Sunday. She was all choked-up and apologized for being "filled with feelings of overwhelmtion." That one is still a house hold joke that gets brought up every once-and-a-while.

Anniversary

August 12th was our 3 year Anniversary!
Time flies! So I just wanted to let you know what Spencer bought me....
He bought me a new dress. It is very cute!
He took me shopping in Park City...then to Dinner at "The Roof Restaurant" in the Joseph Smith Memorial Bldg....and the to the Anniversary Inn for the night! We left Ella with Grandma and Grandpa Clark....and all her Uncles and Aunts, for the night.
It was so nice to get away and spend time alone together and ReMemBeR what made us FaLL in LoVe with each other!

Moving

Today I went to our new house and let the carpet cleaner in and attached the hose in the back yard. Weird, we have a hose in OUR backyard! This whole moving thing is starting to get more real!

Starting Them Young

Thomas has always been obsessed with the computer. If Heather or I are doing something on the computer, he has to come and sit on our lap. I found an online car game that he and I could play to keep him occupied and out of Heather's hair (he would just watch while I got to play--great excuse, right?). After a while that kind of fizzled out as well.

He already knows how to start and stop a movie that is playing on the computer. In fact, yesterday he and I were watching Cars and I kept trying to pause the movie and he kept running over to the computer and starting it up again. He also loves to move the mouse around and feel like he's doing something. Usually that results in our desktop getting rearranged, and sometimes things get moved into the trash.

So, yesterday I decided to let him play a game by himself. If you didn't know, he's obsessed with Teletubies on PBS. It's not unusual for me to get a call around 9:00 am to here about Teletubies. So we went to http://www.pbskids.org/ to check out the "little kids" games that they have. They have a whole Teletubies page with tons of games that he is now in love with. The best part was letting him "drive" with the mouse. He's gotten really good over the last two days, but my favorite was how literal he took something I told him yesterday. He was having trouble clicking on an icon so I told him to move the mouse up. Next thing I know he lifts the mouse straight up in the air, still staring very focused on the computer screen. I couldn't help but laugh.

Nursery

On the way home from church today we asked Thomas what he did in nursery, he yells, "SNACK!"
Then Michael asked him what he learned about in his lesson. Thomas thought for a minute and said, "ummm, TRACTOR TIPPIN!"
Mike: "did you play with a tractor in nursery?"
Thomas: "Yes!"
Mike: "But what did you learn about in your lesson?"
Thomas: "ummm, SNACK!"

But really , isn't that what nursery is all about?

Triangle Man

Thomas never ceases to amaze us with his impressive intellect. His latest and greatest is "the triangle". He can spot them anywhere. It's not unusual for us to be out and about and have Thomas get really excited all-of-a-sudden and yell, "Tri-angle"! He has pointed out triangles in half-eaten sandwiches, the walkways by our apartment (they converge at an angle and do look like a triangle), things at the grocery store, things in parking lots, and clothes hangers. Most impressive is when he is coloring on paper, he'll actually draw a triangle and come and show us. At the rate he's going, I'm thinking he'll have mastered calculus by the third grade. Next week we'll be working on the Pythagorean Theorem.

Peter's Wall of Fame

Jill and I have almost finished one side of my wall with these NBA players and future NBA players. Once we are done with all the walls, which probably won't be for a couple years, I'm going to enter it into the sports illustrated contest for the best sports room and I will get money for this amazing room. With Jill going to college pretty soon I don't think it will get done for a few more years, and she doesn't trust me to put them on the wall, because she thinks the wall wouldn't look as good if I put them up. She is the artist in the family, I guess. The reason I said future NBA players was because I'm on this wall of fame. By the way if anyone comes to visit you will get this nice wall in your room because my room is the guest room. You might have to give me a tip for staying in my fabulous room, because of this nice wall. My room is also the cleanest in the house, ask anyone.

Ella Jane has 2 TEETH now!! She is showing them off with her beautiful SMiLE! She got her first one July 13th and the second one July 28th!! She twists her tongue and feels her teeth all the time now. She has discovered how to bite the spoon when she eats and also how to bite our fingers when she tries to put them in her mouth with various other things she finds to suck on!

WaTerMeLoN YuMMies

So Watermelon seems to be a big hit with the Clark Family!
Ella Jane and Thomas could finish a WaTeRMeLoN off by themselves! Ella makes quite the mess when we let her eat it all by herself....but that's all the more fun!

Our Family

So here we are!! Spencer, Kimberly and our cute little girl Ella Jane Clark.
We celebrated July 4th with a BBQ and some fireworks...which Ella did not really like...
She is such a cutie! She is learning how to crawl and has only figured out how to go backwards....she also scoots really well and rolls all over the room.....we are in for a real treat once she can crawl. She is such a curious george when it comes to almost anything!
Ella is 9 months old on August 16...boy how time flies! She loves her dad and has learned how to say dada.....which Spencer is very proud of!

Prayers

Thomas LOVES to say prayers and he's getting pretty good at it too. When he says the blessing on the food he always remembers to include the food in the prayer and sometimes at night he'll throw in little things that he can remember about the day. But one thing that is in every single prayer no matter what is Peter and David. I'm not sure exactly why, but he never leaves them out. He'll throw in Amy, Jay, Jill and SpencerKimElla (usually all one word) and he'll even remember Justin and Kimi and Grandma and Grandpa on occasion (we're still working on Travis) but it always ends with "and Pe'er and Dabid." I'm not sure if he just likes saying their names or if they really made an impression. Either way, both of you are getting prayed for about 4 times a day. You should feel very "blessed."