Ella's First Christmas

Early Christmas Morning....We all got new PJ's from Santa Clause....Ella's Smile says it all!
Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa Clark's-Ella was helping Travis play with his new toys! She acts like a little Mother Hen with Travis....she makes sure he stays happy!
Merry Christmas! Ella got her picture taken in her Christmas Dress....and shinny black shoes....she is such a girl!

Olives Anyone?

Ella Jane is definately a Clark! Between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day festivities Ella ate a WHOLE CAN of OLIVES by herself! She devoured them, after of course putting them on her little fingers!

Emerson Michael Clark

Here's the recap:

Born: 12/30/07 at 7:00 am

Weight: 9 lbs 9 oz

Height: 21 inches

Heather and Emerson are both doing really well. I'll try to post some more pictures on our family site within the next day or two.

Christmas Eve

We had a fun Christmas Eve party with a few friends from our ward.  Everybody brought soup and then we had a couple of musical numbers and a puppet nativity reenactment.  It was a big hit.

Then we sang a few Christmas songs and everyone headed home by 7:30 to get ready for Santa.  Thomas got to open one of his presents from Grandma and Grandpa.  

He decided to take his clothes off right there to put on his new "Cars" pajamas.  He could hardly sleep he was so excited about them.

Merry Christmas!  We miss you all!

Serious Disease

I ran across this public service annoucement that I think we all should be careful attention to, especially where some of us have small kids. Check it out here.

The GIRLS

Here's a little something to get us all in the holiday spirit...

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Merry Christmas!

Ready

So we finally got a crib! After we gave up trying to paint the old crib (my bright idea) and realized that we had totally ruined it, we started looking for a new crib. The problem is that new cribs are either pieces of junk or expensive furniture, there really isn't anything in between. For instance, Walmart just recalled one of their cribs because it was somehow strangling babies, YIKES! We were about to fork out WAY too much money for a nice crib but Jason and Allison came to the rescue. After we spent Thanksgiving together Allison called and told us her neighbor was giving their crib away and wanted to know if we were interested. Umm, YES! So here it is, our cute, sturdy, 4 poster crib. Hurray, now this baby won't have to sleep in a drawer!

Church History

So I was reading some documents that were assigned for my church history class of when Brigham Young spoke as if it was Joseph Smith speaking and to my surprise one of the select few that were chosen to have us read about was by Ezra T. Clark. So that was really cool, because he is totally like my Great, Great, Great, Great Grandpa (give or take a Great). Anyways, the very end of his long journal entry he said, "Two days later the Prophet was martyred, and two or three weeks later, when the saints held a conference, and Brigham Young arose as leader of the Church, I want to bear record that he spoke as Joseph used to speak; to all appearances, the same voice, the same gestures, the same stature. I bear this record to all the world, to my children and to my children's children, and also bear record that this is God's work, and that it will roll on as it has done from that day to this." Anyway, I just thought that was really cool.

Baby

What do you think that scary baby-thing will do when the countdown gets to zero? Will the baby disappear? do we get to cut the umbilical cord? I'm so curious?

Jill and BeBeez:)

I'm trying to think when this picture was taken. I think its way cute! I love how Ella and Travis are almost the same size. She still has him beat by 1 inch and 2 lbs. Jill is going to have to sprout a couple more arms soon in order to hold all the the Clark grandkids:)

Thanksgiving

We had a lot of fun while Amy was here, we miss her a ton! She was a huge help getting Thanksgiving dinner put together and a lot of fun to hang out with.


It was so funny to see her and Thomas interact. Actually, to see how Thomas started bossing her around! It was hard to convince him that Amy was in charge and he couldn't tell her what to do. He went crazy for all the attention and has been pretty bored since she left.

By the end of her visit he was going straight downstairs in the morning to see Amy and Michael and I could sleep in, it was so awesome! The first morning after she left we woke up to Thomas yelling loudly from downstairs, "Amy, Amy, where are you?!"

Here's a funny little video we took the day after Thanksgiving as we were polishing off the pumpkin pie (yummy).

baby blessing

I like this one cause everyone's different faces.