The Clark Family

BUBBLES!

2011-08-10T20:42:00.001-07:00

The other day Malia wanted to play with bubbles. So we played! Little did we know that our dog loves bubbles too!

I think he was the one who got more happy and excited each time the wand was pulled out. ESPN would jump and pop the bubbles with his teeth, and being a quick dog he got all the bubbles and left poor Malia with none.

This is my favorite! ESPN knocking Malia down to get BUBBLES!!!! Awe the power of bubbles, to entertain kids and dogs!

Why not a few pics of my cute kids too

Our Summer So Far……

2011-07-12T22:05:00.001-07:00

Wow its almost the end of July and pretty soon Summer will be gone! Pretty much our summers are the same every year, hopefully someone else’s are too! Throw in birthday parties, baseball, too many I’m Bored!, sleeping in late and going to bed early. Ok so that is only a dream of mine. Sometimes I need just a few hours of pure silence with zero children and watching the many shows we have on our DVR plus drooling over the yummy food on the Food Network channel.

My girls both have birthdays in June, five days apart. There are lots of parties to plan and cakes to bake. Bailee turned NINE and is growing into a beautiful girl! She is a great helper with Sadie and Malia. She is my go to girl and I love having her in our home. This year she had a Ice Cream party and we had fun making our own ice cream in a bag. She had tons of fun with her friends.

We had a fun day celebrating her birthday.

For Malia’s 4th birthday we had a Princess Party!

All her fiends came dressed up in their princess clothes and had a tea party.

We had crown PB&J sandwiches.

Red Jello Jiggler Shoes

and Princess Cupcakes

Her princess castle cake

Malia had a blast being a princess for the day!

it’s a pet, it’s a pillow, it’s a pillow pet!!!

Braden finished baseball and I’m thrilled its over! Braden excels in every sport he has tried and I’m glad he takes after his dad on that one. I do not have one athletic bone in my body unless you count dancing!

This boy is so dang cute!

and we cant forget Sadie! Here she is on her first 4th of July

The Things We Have Done

2011-06-25T22:03:00.001-07:00

So a lot of things have been going on in the Clark Household! Sadie was blessed on June 5, by her sweet daddy and wore an amazing blessing dress. Which happens to be made from my wedding dress! I thought I would put it to better use than sitting in a pretty box on my dirty shelf in the garage. She looked so beautiful and I loved every minute of that special day. Sadie must have known that it was her special day also, because she was so happy and always had a smile on her face.

Sadie turned two months as well and is growing like a weed. I need her to slow down and stay little! She weighs a whopping 12 lbs and 1 oz

I love this picture, she is giving me kisses! I sure love this baby girl!

We have been enjoying watching Braden play baseball every Monday and Wednesday. He is quite the little ball player. This year is his first at coach pitch and he does quite well! I love that he is competitive but that also means he can get frustrated easy if its not going well for him. One thing for sure is that he has an awesome throw!

Bailee has been interested in Tennis and is enjoying how to play. Its good to try something new and I think she is doing great for a beginner!

Malia celebrated her 4th Birthday and Bailee is now 9! I cant believe how old my kids are getting! More to come on all the birthday celebrations!

A Beautiful Baby Indeed!

2011-06-11T15:42:00.001-07:00

A good friend of mine introduced to me a photographer who does amazing work! I’m glad I went because they turned out super cute! This are from when Sadie was three weeks old! I could just look at them all day! I love you Sadie Girl!

Sadie is One Month

2011-05-29T17:46:00.001-07:00

our little Sadie girl is a month old! Well she has been a month for a few weeks now, I’m just a little late writing about it.

She has been quite the little angel baby! Only getting up once in the night, and sometimes she sleeps through the night!!! I couldn’t have asked for anything better! Sadie has learned to smile and occasionally giggle. However, much to her moms effort, she prefers daddy to make her smile. That’s okay because I know that I’m number 1 in her little world. I’m the only one who can calm this little cutie down

This is such a great picture! I love that me and my friends all have babies together. There is one lady missing and she has a two month old. Its been fun enjoying the stresses of having kids together!

Shantel with Daxon, Jessica with Emery, Me and Sadie, and Missy and Tessa

A Food and Shopping Vacation

2011-05-07T20:54:00.001-07:00

This weekend was all about ME!!! Well must of it, Cameron had to go to Boise for a work conference about Diabetes and I tagged along. His work provided a hotel for him on Thursday night, because the the conference was the next day at 8:00am. We dropped off our three oldest kids at Grandma and Grandpa’s and our mini vacation started.

We got to Boise around 7:00 and ate a the yummiest place ever to have a salad.

not just any old salad, the Luau Salad

Yummo!!! I ate the whole thing! I would have licked the plate clean but we were in a restaurant and I do have manners! Of course after our meals we ordered our cheesecakes to go to eat later. Or in my case, save it for breakfast the next morning!

Friday I was free to do whatever I wanted. So me and Sadie got ready for the day and headed out to meet up with my sister in law, Collette, to have again another yummy meal.

It was good to catch up with Collette and for her to meet Sadie. After lunch I headed to Ross to find some sweet treasures, but with no luck. I was looking for some clothes but nothing fit my new post baby frumpy body. After the conference, we hit the mall. I love the Boise’s mall, so much more than our dinky little mall. But again, I didn’t have much success with the clothing departments either. I have been blessed with a large chest thanks to nursing and I haven't found much that will cover and be cute at the same time. I did however, find three shirts that will work, and the best part was they were $5. So what does one do after a day of shopping….

You eat at Red Robin of course!

Thanks hunny for the great weekend, and on Monday my diet will begin along with some serious workouts! I must get this body back into shape for summer.

Sadie Kathleen Clark

2011-04-29T19:38:00.001-07:00

We are loving having a new baby in the house! We can’t get enough of her cute little face and sweet personality! Sadie is almost 3weeks old and it makes me sad that they can’t stay tiny forever. Sadie is so calm during the day and hardly ever makes a peep unless she is hungry. Even then, she only whimpers. Bailee, Braden and Malia love it when she is awake (which is a rare occurrence ) and they LOVE holding her.

We are lucky to have such a sweet baby come into our home!

Easter Has Come!

2011-04-29T18:21:00.001-07:00

We celebrated Easter in Utah this year and had a blast! Dying eggs, dying hair, Church, Easter egg hunts, family get togethers and yummy yummy food. I loved seeing my mom’s side of the family, which I don’t see very much!

My kids had fun dying eggs and playing with bubbles that Grandma gave them.

It wouldn’t be Easter without new clothes!!!

Hope Everyone had a great Easter Sunday!!!

Rock Creek Park

2010-08-23T20:40:00.001-07:00

For FHE, Bailee decided that we should go down to Rock Creek Park and take a hike as a family. Earlier in the week, she went with her Achievement Day leaders and had a blast and wanted to show us how pretty it was down there. I would have to agree with her, it was Beautiful. We had fun watching people play frisbee golf and having fun with our kids. Even our dog Espn, was in heaven with all the new "smells." We topped the evening off by going to Artic Circle and having a yummy shake. What a fun day!

Here are just a few pictures of Rock Creek Park.

Bailee calls this tree the "W"tree. Silly girl!

Bailee is Eight!

2010-08-07T18:06:00.000-07:00

Yes it has been awhile since I last blogged, but I wanted to share some great news! Our Bailee Ann was baptized on July 3, and was a great day spent with family and friends who supported her. Bailee was so happy that day and she always had a huge grin on her face. It was great to feel the Spirit so strong as Bailee made covenants with her Heavenly Father. Im glad that the whole day revolved around Miss Bailee and I'm glad she is Eight!

Sledding Fun

2009-12-31T19:40:00.000-08:00

It finally snowed so we took full advantage and went sledding in our neighborhood. It was Malia's first time and she loved it, even the cold snow didn't bother her. We had a great time and loved spending time with our family. Even mommy and daddy took a few rides down the hill.
This is Bailee taking down Braden. It was quite funny actually and was surprised I got it on camera!

Happy Sledding!

Christmas 2009

2009-12-31T19:08:00.000-08:00

Santa did come this year and left all sorts of wonderful things. We were defiantly spoiled this year. Bailee had asked Santa for an art set, Braden wanted an Indiana Jones whip, and Malia wanted anything ELMO! Guess what? Santa left exactly those things at our house! We discovered these items when we got up at 7:45 to wake up the kids, you would think that they would be the ones waking us up! Due to the lack of picture taking this year we failed to capture what Santa brought and our stockings. Maybe next year mommy will be more diligent on capturing these moments. We however, snapped a few pictures of the other presents the kids received this year.

Bailee got a easy bake oven, a Hanah Montana hoodie, an old navy fleece pullover, freindship braclet maker, weaving loom, jonas brothers movie and a new wii game. I guess Bailee's theme would be Crafty

Braden got his whip, an old navy jacket, a new radio, some wii games his favorite being lego rockband. (That I stood in line for at old navy for 3 hours in the bitter cold) Braden also got some new school pants, star wars lounge pants, and a really cool nerf gun.

Malia got a Elmo cd player with 4 interchangeable plastic cd's, an Elmo hoodie, Elmo blocks, land before time movie, color wonder marker set, and a new Elmo movie!

As a family we got Rockband and we have been having a blast playing it. After a morning of playing with our new stuff we headed down to Grandma Lindas to hang out with family! We loved being around each other and ate lots of great food. What a great day. Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas!

2009-12-31T18:24:00.000-08:00

We loved spending Christmas Eve at home and had a wonderful time with Grandma and Grandpa Clark, Collette and Kelsy. We had a yummy dinner which consisted of ham, rolls, relish tray, crackers and dip and ended with eating cookies for dessert. After dinner was all cleared and put away we had a wonderful time reading about the real Christmas Story. Daddy read to us from the scriptures and the best comment of the night was from Braden: "Pregnant women should not ride donkeys." We all had a good laugh.

We have a tradition in our home where each child gets to open gifts that his/her siblings gave to them. This is the part where the kids go all crazy and hyper! Bailee received a sticker maker and was so happy she started making stickers right away. Braden got a racing set with motorcycles and Malia received a brand new baby!

Christmas Eve wouldn't be the same if we didn't get any fun Jammies to wear!

We had a great evening and ended the night by Bailee reading to us the book, The Night Before Christmas and left a plate of cookies for the man in a red suit to enjoy. I heard this year that Chocolate chip cookies were his favorite. Sorry reindeers no carrots for you this year, we ran out!

As the children were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of sugarplums danced in thier heads. Mama in her kerchief, and I in my cap, had just settled down for a long winter's nap.
Will Santa comes this year? We will found out!

Have A Holly Jolly Christmas

2009-12-16T20:10:00.000-08:00

We managed to get a few pictures of our family dressed up before we headed out to church. Is anyone else as busy as us? Between work for Cameron and I and all the Christmas concerts, cleaning, baking and more cleaning who has time to blog or yet alone to sit down for more than a few minutes! Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Braden's Birthday (better late than never)

2009-10-27T21:25:00.001-07:00

We had a wonderful time celebrating Braden's 6th Birthday. My mom and my sister joined us for the festivities and we had so much fun. Each year our kids get to choose what resturant they want their birthday dinner at. The winner this year......Gerties! If you are not a resident of Twin Falls then let me enlighten you. Its an all you can eat pizza place that has the best Chicken Ranch Cashew pizza you'll ever eat, and their dessert pizzas rock too. Literally we stuff ourselves to the point of engorgement, but its fun to get all the different varieties. We have the best time when we are all together as you can see.

Kelsy with Braden

Grandma Judy

Grandpa Clark showing us his great pizza

Aunt Megan with her yummy Oreo Pizza

Malia
Bailee

Braden also had a friend party at a bowling alley which was the greatest idea ever! The kids had a hour of bowling and each spent $1.50 on the arcade and of course they all had yummy birthday cake. I liked it because I didn't have to have it inside our home. As for most of the days in October, it was a little chilly. Braden loved being the center of attention and had a wonderful birhtday. We love you buddy

This Handsome Boy is Six Today!

2009-10-14T20:35:00.000-07:00

Yeah! Braden turns SIX today! All week is has been counting down the days with a paper chain Bailee made for him. I cant believe my boy is growing up so fast. We sure love you Braden and thank you for six wonderful years. Here are some pictures of the cutest baby ever! The quality isn't the greatest, I took the picture off the picture, but it will work just fine. Don't you just want to give those cheeks a good squeeze! This is Braden when he was 3 months.This is when he was six months, and yet he still makes that face

Braden at one year. What a little stud muffin!

Two Years
Happy Birthday! Will post party pictures later

Bradens Soccer Game!

2009-10-02T12:46:00.000-07:00

This fall, Braden has been playing Soccer! It was his first time playing and I think he liked it. Kindergarten Soccer is entertaining to watch and sometimes very stressful! Some boys would go the wrong way, making it easier for the other team to score and one time they actually scored for the other team! Braden even scored a couple of times which he thought was the coolest thing. Even though our team never won it was fun to see them try. To end the season everyone received a medal. Hopefully, Braden will want to play next fall, for he could be pretty good with a little more practice.

Pocatello Marathon!

2009-09-09T13:58:00.000-07:00

The Pocatello Marathon was upon us after 3 LONG months of training. We spent Labor day weekend in Pocatello enjoying good friends and family and many nights of eating out! The best part of our trip for the kids was our hotel. Isn't it crazy how the simple things make children the happiest. A week before, Cameron hurt his knee running and was a little nervous on how his knee was going to feel after running 26.2 miles, but he did AWESOME! He had many supporters who cheered him on and we were all glad when he made it at the finish line four and a half hours later. Cameron made a goal for himself to finish it under four hours, but with his knee it slowed him down. I think he still made great timing though, afterall it being his first marathon. I asked him after the race if he was going to run another one and the answer is probably not, maybe half marathon. Apparently that extra 13 miles is torture. Here are some pictures of our "Runner"

Go Cam Go!!

Cameron with his buddies, Shane and Matt

We've Survived!

2009-08-31T19:43:00.000-07:00

We have survived the first week of school! Yeah for us! The summer of waking up whenever we wanted has offically ended and its back to the rise of the sun. I think Mom is the only one who is still getting used to the idea of being up so early. Bailee is now in 2nd grade and is loving it, hopefully, she will still love school a few months in. She also has a teacher who seems nice and fun. Bailee is growing up so fast and pretty soon she will be in high school! sniff, sniff.

This is the only picture I took of Bailee for we still had to get Braden settled in and school was going to start in a few minutes. She looks so happy to be at school.

Braden's day had come to start Kindergarten! He was thrilled to be in the same school as Bailee and loved it when his friends were in the same class. (Poor teacher) He loves learning and I'm sure he will be a great student

Braden also has a great teacher, the same teacher Bailee had for Kindergarten. Braden has AM Kindergarten so I was able to take pictures without the craziness of everyone after school. I sure do miss my cuties while they are having fun at school, but I also love the quietness of just me and Malia. She has become my shopping buddy and we have FUN!

Bryce Canyon July 2009

2009-08-16T18:07:00.001-07:00

We tried to post a nice slideshow with picasa, but...apperently you need a PhD in computer sciences to do so...you can find the rest of the photos at: http://picasaweb.google.com/maryslamb57/BryceCanyonAndZions#

A Luau Party

2009-07-04T14:21:00.000-07:00

I have failed to post about Bailee's 7th Birthday so here it is. On June 23rd we took her out to Gerties and had all you can eat pizza and we stuffed ourselves FULL! Grandma and Grandpa came and so did Aunt Collette and Kelsy. She opened her presents there and had a great time. After dinner we surprised her with a NEW BIKE! She was thrilled and had to take a few drives down the street to test it out.

Bailee had a Luau Party for her 7th Birthday (that makes me very old). I had fun finding all the decorations and making it a blast for the girls. We gave each girl who came a Hula skirt, Lei, flower Headband and a flower Ring. Each girl looked so cute, here are a few of the girls.

After everybody was dressed up we made lunch consisting of Hotdog and Pineapple Shishkabobs, Coconut Bread, Grapes, and for our drinks: Shaved Ice. Each girl made thier own Shishkabobs and we then grilled them on the BBQ.

After Lunch we played Limbo, Water Balloon Races, Slip in Slide, and to end the day each girl had a chance to sing karoke with Bailee's new Wii game, High School Musical Sing It. I think Bailee had a wonderful birthday party with her friends. We love you Bailee!

Malia Marcelene Turns TWO!

2009-06-20T12:12:00.000-07:00

On June 18th, we celebrated a joyous event, Malia had a birthday and is now the tender age of TWO! Let me tell you the Terrible Two's have already kicked in. I thought we would go to the movies during the day and have fun, but little Malia had different plans. We went to see the Water Horse, not the greatest show but it was that or Marley and Me and I heard that it wasn't a good one to take kids to. We sit down and watch the movie for like 10 minutes and broke out the candy for our kids to eat. Another 5 minutes down and Im thinking "Hey this is turning out great" and then it started. Malia is throwing her candy and screaming. I took her out and told her she needed to be quiet and we went back inside. As soon as we sit down she started screaming again so of course we had to leave and I thought maybe she was thirsty , so I bought all three kids a drink and sat back down. More screaming and her pop goes flying all over the floor. AGHHHHHHHHHHH! Finally, we had enough and went home after only seeing half of the movie. The conclusion: Malia and movie theaters dont MIX! and I bought a summer movie ticket for her. Oh well.

She was more pleasant after a good lunch and a nap and was excited for her party later that day. We invited Grandma and Grandpa Clark, Aunt Collette and the Andersons, our neighbors across the street, to have a BBQ Party. Malia loved all the attention from everyone and loved opening her presents and the best part, eating cake (well the frosting anyway). Malia got mostly clothes from us and grandparents and she will look so adorable in them. The nieghbors gave her a book, which has become her favorite, some sand toys, and a water floaty for the pool. Hopefully our year of being TWO is not too TERRIBLE! We can only wish!

Malia was hillarious and had to show Grandpa each present she got. What a cutie!

Happy Birthday Malia Girl! We love you!

Dancer of the Year!

2009-06-05T12:14:00.000-07:00

On May 30, Bailee had her end of the year recital. She was SO excited to dance in front of everyone and to be in her pretty costume. Bailee has been taking ballet and tap since the beginning of September and she loves it. Ahh taking after her mother I guess. Grandma Judy flew in for the special day and Aunt Megan and Bella came as well. Bailee did a great job dancing and even WON the Dancer of the Year award in her division. Way to go Bailee!! I was so proud of her, my little dancer! This is her dance teacher who Bailee always has a smile for.Grandma Judy and Bailee sharing a sweet moment

Power of Coupons and Preschool Graduation

2009-05-23T12:03:00.000-07:00

We have had a busy week! Well I have anyway. My friend got me started on shopping with coupons and I have been addicted. It is so fun and also confusing at times. Thanks to the internet for allowing me to print coupons, and my friend for showing how to put the items together that will be the most beneficial. I had my first shopping trip at Albertsons the other day and I was so excited to see what I could get without spending alot. It made grocery shopping a little more fun. This is what I bought:

4 pkgs of Wheat Thins
6 BBQ sauce

2 pkgs of hot dogs

3 6-pack hersheys chocolate

3 pkgs of marshmellows

1 container of ice cream

1 2 liter of pop

4 Skintimate shave gels

3 pkgs of honey maid graham crackers

2 Darigold chocolate milks

and the grand total of what I paid after coupons...... is..............$8.68! Wow isn't that crazy. Now only if my coupon inserts come in the mail soon, so I can have LOTS more coupons to save. Braden also graduated from Pre-school and had a program with lots of songs they have learned over the year and ended with a ice cream party afterwards. Braden sure loved going to preschool and has learned alot too. What a smart little boy we have, and a handsome one too! Here are some pictures of him at preschool

Now he is off to Kindergarten and is all grown up! :(

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARY!!!!!!

2009-05-15T07:20:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to let everyone know that it is Mary's birthday today!!! She is 28 and Friggin' old. I couldn't have asked for a better wife or mother. hope your day is fantastic!!!
love Cameron

A Great Mother's Day

2009-05-12T12:42:00.000-07:00

I must say I have the greatest husband and kids! They spoiled me this year and I loved it!

Bailee and Braden made me some cool gifts at school and little Malia made an adorable handprint at nursery for me. Bailee made me a keychain that spells MOM, and Braden made a bookmark with his picture on it and some flower seeds.

Even Cameron made a wonderful dinner of steak and pototaoes and the kids helped him make a dessert pizza. We invited Grandma and Grandpa Clark, Collette, and Kelsey to come and have some wonderful dessert. I love my family very much and I'm grateful for them everyday!

Its Finally Done!

2009-04-27T14:38:00.001-07:00

We have completed our remodel of our master bathroom, and I LOVE it! Cameron did a great job with the tile work, and I did a great job painting. Also we had to buy our mirrors, much to our dismay. The previous mirror was glued so much it was impossible to take down without breaking. Here are some pictures of our "new" bathroom.

this is the tile that is on the floor

Here Comes Peter Cottentail!

2009-04-14T12:04:00.000-07:00

We had a great Easter! On Saturday, we went to Jerome to Grandma and Grandpa's ward breakfast and egg hunt. It was cold but the kids loved eating pancakes, doing a cupcake walk, where each of them won, and finally ending the morning with a Easter Egg Hunt! Malia sure loved picking up the eggs and most of all eating the surprises inside. Bailee and Braden also loved finding the eggs and got quite the collection. They even shared the loot with Mom and Dad. (we have sweet kids) Later that evening we invited our nieghbors over to color eggs and had so much fun. Between the eight kids around my tiny kitchen table we had only two spilled cups of dye, not bad! They loved coloring eggs and couldn't wait for their next egg. Even Malia had fun with her egg. She colored on it with crayon and then decided it was better to smash the egg instead of making it pretty. Here is Bailee helping our neighbor Penny with her egg.
Sunday morning was fun too. The Easter bunny came and left goodies for everyone and hid the kids baskets throughout the house. The crazy bunny hid Bailee's basket in the dryer. Silly old rabbit! Braden's was hid in the game closet. Then it was a quest to find those easter eggs from last night. Easter is fun but we will never forget why we celebrate Easter and we tried hard to let our kids know the real reason. I think they get it. Here is our cute little family all dressed up.

The Clark Family Update

2009-04-09T13:37:00.000-07:00

We have been very busy and my blog has suffered from it! We decided to remodel our bathroom. We ripped up the lanoleum(I know the spelling isn't right ) and took the tile off the front of our tub. We are putting tile on the floor and on the front of tub as well. We also have a huge mirror we are going to take down and make two mirrors out of it. Hopefully we are able to get it down without it breaking, wish us LUCK! Cameron has a love hate relationship with the demo, too much work! I will be thrilled when it is all done and looking magnificent. I have been busy taking pictures for my photography class. I have had so much fun looking for some great spots. For one of our assignments we had to stop action and blur action. Here is what I got.

The water pictures are taken at Niagra Springs in Jerome.

Happy Birthday Cameron!

2009-03-17T09:29:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was a BIG day for Cameron he turned 30!! I know this post is a day late but oh well. Yesterday was so crazy getting everything ready for the party and deep cleaning the kids bedrooms, cleaning the rest of the house and decorating Cam's cake I fell behind on blogging Cameron's special day. I tried to have a surprise party for him but of course he found out! I had a bunch of his friends come over to help celebrate with him. Its crazy to think the friends he hangs out with, are the friends he had since high school.

I have to admit my husband is the best looking guy ever!!

I also have to admit my cake I decorated for Cam looked so good, even though it took like two hours to do it.

I just wanted to say Thank You Cam for all that you do for our family and we love you tons!

Picture Tag

2009-03-10T07:44:00.000-07:00

I was tagged to do the fourth picture in the fourth folder so here it is.

This is Bailee swimming at the city pool. Our friend's dad won a prize to have the city pool all to himself so they invited us to play. It was in April so the bubble was on, but we didn't care. We were swimming in April!!

I tag Jill Dixon, Megan Everson, Tina Bailey, and Cami Jepson

POOP STAINS!!

2009-02-28T18:16:00.000-08:00

Our family loves poopstains! Yep its true, gross as it may be, but they are yummy! I had a craving for these tasty treats and decided to eat them. We refer to no bake cookies as poopstains. It all started when my brothers were young and my mother made them all the time for them. Coming from little boys and not being clean in all the right places, they thought they looked like poopstains. So the name stuck and all of us now refer to these delicatable treats as POOP STAINS! So I hope I didn't gross out anybody or made you crave some chocolate goodness.

Photos of My Darling Kids

2009-02-11T19:00:00.000-08:00

My mother made this adorable little tutu's for all her granddaughters for Christmas. I decided to have some fun and take a little photo shoot of them. Malia was so happy and loved the attention, but Bailee would only pose for one picture and she was done. I guess as you get older, the less you want your picture taken. I'm still trying to work my new camera and I think the setting is not right one this picture of Bailee. (what do you think Kerrianne?) Malia was shaking her booty in her little tutu and always gave me a big cheesy smile.

Braden had the opportunity to ride on the big 4-Wheeler. Boy was he excited to go around the block with one of our nieghbors. Boys and thier toys! After his ride he asked if we could buy one. Yeah, in your dreams!Malia's hair is finally getting longer in the front and I love doing her hair. She also likes getting her hair done. Maybe, its because she gets to play in the sink. This is her first time with pig tails and I think she is such a cutie. My little baby is getting so big!

Hop 2 It

2009-01-27T11:35:00.000-08:00

Can I just say this is the greatest place on earth for kids! Send them loose and let them get all thier energy out in a hour or less. Of course the parents can play too which is awesome!

In case you dont know what Hop 2 It is, I will tell you. It is a huge indoor playground with lots of those really big bouncy toys you see at the fairs. There is a huge slide which is our families favorite, an area with balls, (the ones that used to be at McDonalds a long time ago), and the concessions are all a dollar or less. How can you go wrong with that!

We have gone here a few times and we just love it. Why didn't we think of building a place like this. We could have been rich. Here are a few pictures of our crazy adeventure.

Sick Kids and a Missing Tooth

2009-01-14T11:46:00.000-08:00

First of all the Tooth Fairy came to our house a few weeks ago and left some money for one our kids. The lucky receipent was Braden! He lost his first tooth and was way excited for the dollar the tooth fairy left behind. Today we have two sick kids. How fun is that! Bailee woke us up in the middle of the night saying she threw up in her bed. Luckily for me Cameron cleaned it up. We decided to keep her home from school today in case she did it again. Malia also isn't feeling the greatest. So with two sick kids what will we do. We will make some muffins! Bailee was playing some games on the computer and saw a game where you can make food. She saw a recipe for Chocolate Muffins and wanted to make them. Bailee had a blast dumping the ingredients into the bowl and putting the batter into the muffin tin. We have an excellent baker in the house. Here are some pictures of her making her muffinsand the end result looks like this:

They look pretty yummy! Good job Bailee!

Our Christmas Holiday!

2008-12-30T08:45:00.000-08:00

My mom was supposed to come to our house for Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day,but all the flights were full and Grandma couldn't come. We were all dissapointed but still had a great Christmas. We made sugar cookies for Santa and had fun decorating and eating them.

Then we listen while Daddy read the nativity from the scriptures and Bailee read us the The Night Before Christmas. She is such a good reader and loved reading the story to us. We open up pajamas on Christmas Eve and of course mom had to take a family picture.

We were spoiled by Santa and family this year. Santa made the kids go on a scavenger hunt for their present. The kids thought that was so fun and found a Wii at the end. They were so excited and couldn't wait to try it out. What a fun game system and the games are pretty fun too. Braden got the Indiana Jones Lego game, Star wars lego game and Bailee got a princess game. Mom and dad got Guitar Hero World Tour and love rocking out!

I got a really great camera, the ones that professionals have and love taking pictures with it. I now need to learn all the tricks to it. We also got a keyboard so we can play the piano. I used to play but never had a piano to practice on. Now Im excited to learn some songs all over again. Thanks to Grandma Linda I now have a beautiful illustrated songbook of the hymns to play too.

Braden also got some lego sets, clothes, Robin hood DVD, Sword in the stone DVD, remote control car. Bailee got a MP3 player, Sleeping Beauty DVD, clothes, Barbies of Hannah Montana friends. Malia got mostly clothes which she was excited about. A toy vaccum, Barral of Monkeys, a baby doll, a ride on toy and a toy radio. Malia also like to unwrap the presents which was fun to watch.

We had a fun dinner with Grandma and Grandpa Clark Christmas day and enjoyed visiting with family and having yummy food. Grandpa always makes such yummy dinners and the coconut cake was to die for.

We headed down to Utah the day after and spent some time with my brothers and sister. We has a great time playing games and opening presents again.

We had a great holiday! We hope all had a Merry Christmas!

Christmas Pictures

2008-12-19T12:54:00.000-08:00

My friend did an amazing job taking our pictures. We couldn't be happier with them. Here are some of our favorites.

My Favorite Things

2008-12-15T12:19:00.001-08:00

This post is inspired by the Christmas song "My Favorite Things" even though that particular song is not a favorite. Hopefully some of my favorite things may be yours as well.
1. Long hot hot showers.
2. Being with family
3. Hanging out with friends
4. Baking goodies to eat.
5. Date night with hubby
6. When our kids play nicely with eachother
7. Christmas Season
8. Christmas songs, Breath of Heaven by Amy Grant
9. Scrapbooking (even though I dont do it as often as I like)
10. Shopping
11. Going out to eat, Wingers and Chili's
12. Watching sappy girlie movies, The Notebook
13. Decorating our house
14. Taking pictures
15. Kissing my kids and hubby
16. Gardening, a new favorite
17. Playing boardgames, Sorry
18. Reading good books, Twilight, Harry Potter
19. Sleeping in on Saturdays, which doesn't happen often
20. Working out at Golds
21. Blogging
22. I love to vacuum, sounds crazy I know
23. Playing with my kids
24. Meeting new people
25. love to cuddle to get warm at night

Well I hope you enjoyed some of my favorite things

Lets Dance!

2008-12-10T14:05:00.000-08:00

So one of Bailee's favorite thing to do at home is dancing in front of the TV. I guess she likes to see her refelction while jamming out to the latest of Miley Cyrus. Well, when Bailee starts dancing little Malia will join her and they dance thier little hearts out. Usually Malia dances much better than the video will show, but of course when you want to tape them they stop performing. I hope you enjoy the future backup dancers to Hannah Montana! You might want to turn down the music in the background before playing.

Malia's First Ponytail

2008-12-03T11:18:00.000-08:00

Today is a day to celebrate! We kindly refer to Malia's hair as the "mullet." It is growing so long in the back but there is hardly any hair on the top. So I got my comb, squirt bottle and elastic and was ready to create magic. I just had enough hair to make one little pony tail and I think its adorable, and of course I thought Malia looked so cute. From now on I think I will do this to her hair everday, since she wont wear her cute little headbands anymore. Such a little stinker. I had to take pictures to capture this wonderful day.

A Christmas Performance

2008-11-23T13:32:00.000-08:00

As you know, Bailee is taking dance lessons through the city and she just loves it. They had their first performance on November, 21. They have been working very hard in class. She did a fantastic job on both her tap dance and ballet dance. She was so excited to perform and loved it when daddy gave her, her own special flowers. Thanks Grandma Linda, Grandma Judy and Aunt Megan for coming. Bailee was happy you made it out to watch her in her first dancing performance.

Sunny Sunny Day

2008-11-05T14:21:00.000-08:00

Well, while most of you were enjoying the nice weather here in Idaho, I was enjoying much nicer weather in Sunny San Diego. I was able to go to a CME conference for work and had a great time. Unfortunately, I went without Mary but a co-worker went along too. I got to go eat at "Seau's" which is a restaurant owned by my favorite football player of all time (Junior Seau). we went to the beach for an afternoon, and went to Joe's Crab Shack, where "our waitress gave us crabs!" All in all it was a great time, hopefully next time Mary can come, and it won't be over Halloween, but then again, I didn't get stuck walking miles and miles trick or treating!! I also got to go to Qualcomm stadium where the Chargers play, however they were tight a**** and wouldn't let us on the field. (felt like a broncos fan!!)

Halloween

2008-11-04T07:07:00.000-08:00

We had a great Halloween this year. We spent it in Utah since Cameron was away soaking up the sun in California. I have spent too many Halloweens alone and wasn't going to do it again. We had such a great time and the weather was amazing. I remember it being super freezing every year and this year we didn't even need to wear a coat. First, we headed to one of the nursing homes and did some trick or treating. Let me just tell you this is the best idea ever, the kids are nice and warm and the elderly get to have fun by passing out the candy. Malia was hillarious. She wouldn't put the candy in her bucket and would insist on keeping them in her hot little hand. When I would take it away and put it her bucket she would throw a fit. She did this for about 5 minutes and eventually she got the hang of it and was excited to pick out her own candy. Apparently, suckers were her favorite candy. Next, we headed out in the neighborhood of where my parents live. By then our kids had quite the assortment of candy and had to empty thier bucket so more would fit. We had a great time. Bailee was Snow White, Braden as Captain America, and Malia was a grumpy Flower, she wouldn't keep the flower part on her head.

Legos, Legos, and More Legos

2008-10-25T13:55:00.000-07:00

Since Braden is in love with building with legos, we thought it would be great to buy him more legos for his birthday. Braden is so talented on building his own creations and takes pride on what he can do. For a couple of days we were comitted to building his new sets (okay so only a few hours I was having fun). I think I was having more fun than Braden. Only if they had girl sets in the stores. When I was little me and my sister both had a set of girl legos. Mine was a baby's nursery and Megan's was a playground. Here are a few pictures of our newest creations

Braden Is Five Today

2008-10-15T12:30:00.000-07:00

Our little boy is 5 years old today. He is so excited to turn a year older and tells us throughout the day "I'm five." Officially he wont be five until 5:46pm. He had to go to preschool today and they gave him a cool birthday crown to wear. He was in charge of providing snacks for the whole preschool so I made sugar cookies in the shapes of pumpkins, ghosts, and bats. Earlier this month we had a little party for him in Utah the weekend of Conference. Where all his aunts and cousins on my side could help him celebrate.

We are going to have birthday dinner at our favorite pizza place, Gerties. This place is awesome it has quite the assortment of pizzas and dessert pizzas. My favorite is the Chicken Ranch Cashew pizza, while the kids love the dessert pizzas the best. Braden will have an out of this world star wars party with friends on Saturday where Jedi's from all over will help him fight the dark side. It is hard to believe that our little man is growing up so fast.

Happy Fall!!

2008-09-25T09:45:00.000-07:00

We have been slightly busy but boring people. I'm still adjusting to getting up before 7:00 to get Bailee ready for school, and then helping Braden get ready for preschool on Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Luckily I have a carpool going so I only drive across town for preschool once a day instead of twice. Braden is really loving school and is learning shapes and letters. I'm glad Braden is having this chance to get out of the house and make new friends and learning. It's crazy to think he will be 5 on October 15. Time goes by so fast.
Bailee is still loving first grade and today they are taking a field trip to the dairy. Sounds like alot of fun. Bailee is our little reader, and reads US stories at bedtime. We are putting her in ballet and tap. She loves to dance around the house so I'm sure she'll love it.
Malia is our little ray of sunshine. She is always running around the house jabbering and making messes. Her new favorite thing to do is go through our drawers in the bathroom and take everything out and find new places to put them. Also, she loves sitting in the shower especially after we are done. Its funny what the tiny things will make them so happy. Who needs TOYS!
Every friday the family goes to the Jerome High School football games. I guess I knew what I was getting into when I married Cameron. He just loves FOOTBALL. It not that bad to sit and watch and its much better than watching football on TV.
Football means that fall is here and I love Fall. It is my favorite season. I love the cooler weather where I can wear my favorite thing: Sweaters! I also like to decorate for the holidays and my house is already decorated for fall and Halloween. I know its early but it makes our home look so festive. Our trees are starting to turn colors and I love seeing the bright red, orange and yellow leaves everywhere. Maybe thats why my house is decorated with the color red. I only wish we could have fall weather a little longer and not have such a long,cold, diery winter. Oh well we can look forward to Christmas and that makes it better!

Braden's First Day of Preschool

2008-09-06T18:50:00.001-07:00

Friday, September 5th was Braden's first day of preschool. He was so excited to finally go to school. What a big boy he is getting to be. He carefully picked out what he was going to wear and was excited to wear his new school shoes. He loves his teacher and knows some friends that are in his class. I asked him what his favorite part of preschool and he told me the recess. Typical boy! I hope he enjoys the learning as well.

Bailee and Braden always ask eachother "does your school do this?" Always a competition with those two. I will miss my little man in the mornings, and maybe I will be able to get in a few workouts while he is at school.

We Love First Grade

2008-08-28T10:11:00.000-07:00

This little girl is in First Grade and is loving every minute of it. She especially likes having three recesses, and eating lunch with all the big Bailee was sure cute on the first day, I woke up at 6:30 to get myself ready for the day and went to wake Bailee up at 7:00. At 6:45 here comes Bailee all dressed and ready to go. She was sure excited to start school, now that it is the fourth day she is sound asleep until I wake her up at 7:00. Bailee has some great friends in her class and loves her teacher. Bailee also thinks it is neat to have her own little desk instead of sharing a tablewith other kids like in Kindergarten. I hope Bailee will continue to love school and have many happy memories. We sure do miss our Bailee girl and cant wait for her to come home.

Our Beautiful Little Area of the world

2008-08-17T09:04:00.000-07:00

This weekend we took a trip (ok 10 minute drive) to Shoshone Falls. Truly an amazing landmark! this is the 2nd time we went this year and the water was still flowing pretty good and thought we would share the beauty of Twin Falls, ID!!!!

We also shot over to the canyon rim and checked out the sites there, we like to go walk the canyon rim trail while the kids cruise around on their scooters. The kids are standing in a look out area looking out over Blue Lakes Country Club.

Our Summer Vacation

2008-08-10T14:40:00.000-07:00

Me and the kids had a mini summer vacation without Daddy (he had to work). We went down to Ogden and had fun with my parents, Megan and Bella (my sister and her child). We spent most of our days at our favorite place to go swimming, Cherry Hill. I would strongly suggest everyone should visit this place it is a blast. Bailee and Braden were like fish and showed us their impressive swimming skills, and Malia would just lounge in her little floaty.

I went to the gym with my mom and had fun working out with her and her personal trainer. I thought I was pretty strong since I had to carry Miss Heffalump all the time, but I was wrong. My mom has been going for about three months and her trainer has made her strong and she was showing me up, that was a real blow to my self esteem. We did arms one day, and then shoulders, and the last day was legs. I was beyond being sore, but it was worth it.

Then we headed up to Island Park with my aunts, cousins and their families and we stayed for three days in my cousin's cabin. One of the days we headed up to Yellowstone. I have never been there so I was way excited to go see some bears and buffalo and of course Old Faithful. However, the only thing we saw was Old Faithful, the bears were hiding, but we saw some elk by the side of the road. The kids had a blast and loved being with thier cousins Tessla and Kaden. We will have to go again so we can see some bears. Here are some pictures of our fun trip.

Hip Hip Hooray

2008-07-16T07:39:00.000-07:00

Malia is walking!! After about a week of little steps here and there, she finally walked across the room. It's funny to watch her, she gets so excited. But of course she thinks crawling is faster and believe me she is super fast crawler. I will be glad when she is walking all the time. No more dirty knees and worn out capris from crawling. We are very proud of our little girl

Visit From the Tooth Fairy

2008-07-09T12:37:00.000-07:00

Over the weekend Bailee noticed she had a loose tooth. So each minute of the day you could find her wiggling and playing with the tooth with her tongue. By Monday that poor little tooth was hanging on by threads, but still Bailee would not pull it out. Even the incentive of receiving money didn't help. I think Bailee was too worried it would hurt if she pulled it out. Cameron finally talked well forced her to let him pull the tooth out. After one little pull it was OUT! Bailee was surprised that it didn't hurt at all. After all the drama all weekend she finally had a visit from the tooth fairy and received 1.00 for her precious little tooth.

Shots!

2008-07-03T14:10:00.000-07:00

Malia had her one year shots yesterday. I left Bailee and Braden at a neighbor's house and took Malia to see daddy at work. Poor girl, didn't know what was coming, all she knew was we were visiting daddy. We visited while the nurses were getting her shots ready and then we went into the room. She was supposed to have three shots, but there was a student nurse helping out along with Cameron's nurse and apparently the student made the shot too tight so instead of the vaccination going into Malia's arm it went all over the table. But yet she still had the poke of the needle. So Malia had to be poked twice in the arm and once in each leg. Malia was just hysterical. Of course the nurses felt bad. I took Malia home and she fell asleep in the car and I promised to take the kids to the park to eat lunch so I couldn't lay Malia down. Thank goodness we parked in the shade at the park and I let Malia sleep in the car with the door open and we ate lunch on the grass beside the car. Once she had her little nap she was happy again.
Cameron came home and had a little surprise for Malia. His nurse felt so bad that she went to the store and bought Malia a doll. I thought that was very nice of her and I'm glad Cameron has such good nurses to help him out. It's sad to think we put our kids through pain so they can be healthy later on but I will take a little pain over having a serious illness any day. Luckily we have a few more months until our next visit to the doctor.

Birthdays, Birthdays!

2008-06-24T20:45:00.000-07:00

June is a busy month for us. Since Bailee and Malia both have birthdays in June. Actually they are 5 days apart. It's been busy around here planning parties, shopping, baking cakes and decorating. Both girls had a blast and I'm glad it is all over until October! Bailee's birthday was on the 23rd and had a friend pool party on the 21st. Bailee and her friends loved swimming in the pool and loved the slip n slide. And you can't have a water party without water balloons. We had some fun games that involved the balloons but eventually it broke out into a big water balloon fight. Bailee loves Hannah Montana and received many things to decorate her room. My little girl is growing up so fast, and I can't believe she is six years old already.

Malia had a great time eating her cake and opening her presents. I made little balloon cupcakes for us to eat since the next day we were celebraing Bailee's. I also made a special cake just for Malia to eat. Much to our surprise she ate it all. It was fun watching her explore and enjoy her cake.

Happy Birthday Malia!!

2008-06-18T05:40:00.000-07:00

My little baby is turning ONE! Today is bittersweet, I want Malia to grow up but then I want her to stay my little baby. Malia was such a sweet down to earth baby. Never cried too much and was always happy with a big smile on her face. It's hard to believe how fast time flies by and thank goodness for pictures so we can always remember how cute they were. Here are some favorite things of Malia that I love.

Whenever she hears music, whether it be from church or a toy or someone singing, Malia shakes her little bottom and shoulders side to side. It is the cutest thing ever. I think she will have a love for music in her life.

Whenever she gets excited she will do her arm flap dance. It looks like she is a bird and is about to take flight. Maybe her nickname should be birdie.

She loves being with her sister and brother. Whenever Bailee has friends over, Malia will be right there playing along. We can usually find her in Bailee and Braden's room playing with their toys. Malia's favorite toys are Bailee's pretend food. Malia does like her food, real or pretend.

She loves to eat PEAS! I could not get her to eat the baby food peas, but she loves the frozen kind. I cant blame her for not wanting to eat the vegetable baby food. It smells horrible.

She always has a cheesy smile on her face. Its the kind where the eyes are closed nose scrunched up and all the teeth are showing. You can help but smile yourself.

Malia will clap all day. When we tell her good job, she will give herself a little clap. If she sees us clap at bailee's t-ball game she will join in. She is our little cheerleader.

Happy Birthday Malia!! Born June !8th at 1:26 pm

Chocolate Chip Cookies

2008-06-08T19:12:00.000-07:00

So today I had a craving for chocolate chip cookies. Every time I would walk into my pantry the chocolate chips would be right there. Instead of putting the chocolate chips somewhere else I decided to bake cookies. So I measured the ingredients all out and mixed and shaped the dough into balls and put them in the oven. Sure enough those cookies went flat and hard. I have yet to master the skill in making perfect chocolate chip cookies. I know if you use all butter they will go flat, but the recipe I used called for butter and shortning. So I don't know what happened. Maybe chocolate chip cookies are not for me to bake. However, my family could care less whether they look good as long as they taste YUMMY! Maybe some day...

Busy, Busy, Busy

2008-06-01T17:56:00.000-07:00

Today, Cameron and I celebrate our 7th Anniversary! I can't believe it has been seven years already. I can say it has been awesome being with Cameron and having my three wonderful children. I have loved every minute of our marriage, good and the bad times. Cameron is a great husband and a great provider for our family. Sometimes I take him for granted, but I love him with all my heart.

We have been married for so long we have witnessed graduation of one of our kids. Kingergarten graduation that is. Bailee has successfully completed Kindergarten and is moving on up to First Grade. They had a graduation ceremony and they wore caps and gowns. The girls wore white and the boys wore black. It was cute to see them on the stage singing songs. Then everyone told what they wanted to be when they grew up. Most of the boys wanted to be cops and the girls wanted to be cowgirls. I guess when you are five years old you want to be like everyone else.

Even though our fence and yard work has been done for awhile, we would like to show you all the hard work that Cameron and I put into our yard. My parents helped out a lot.

Happy Birthday To Me!!

2008-05-18T19:01:00.000-07:00

On May 15th, I celebrated my 27th birthday with family and friends. Bailee and Braden gave me my birthday spankings bright and early and kept saying Happy Birthday Mom! all day. It's was nice to have them so excited for my birthday. Cameron and the kids spoiled me as always. Cameron bought me some summer clothes which I desperately needed. All my clothes from last year are too big. Yeah for me. The kids got me some really cool presents from the dollar store. Bailee gave me some scrapbook items, Braden gave me some socks, and Malia gave me some sunglasses. (However not a dollar store item). My parents flew up for my birthday and to help us do some landscaping and help Cameron build a fence. More about that on the next post . On Friday we all went out to eat at Garibaldi's (mexican) and ate some wonderful food. The waitors sung to me and I got a special birthday treat. It was fun having both set of parents there to help me celebrate.

Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater

2008-05-11T18:06:00.000-07:00

We took a trip down to Utah for some girl fun while Cameron worked on our fence. We went to a craft show and I purchased some hairbows for Malia, and went birthday shopping at Tai Pan Trading. My mom has a piano and Bailee was interested in learning how to play. So we taught her a few songs to play. The classic Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater and Chopsticks. I was way surprised how quickly she picked it up. Maybe some lessons from Grandma Linda will help her develop her new found talent. Here are a few video clips of Bailee's debut.

It's a Miracle, she is mobile!!

2008-04-21T18:33:00.000-07:00

Well it only took her 10 months to figure it out, but Malia is finally now crawling. She is growing up so fast. She has even started pulling herself up on furniture. The kids just love it, though now I have to vacuum everyday. She is really curious and is getting into a lot of things.

Malia Talks!!

2008-04-13T13:34:00.000-07:00

On Friday, April 11th was a special day for Malia. She said her first word, Da-Da. Of course, Cameron couldn't be happier. Malia is proud of her accomplishments too, because she says it all day long. She is such a happy baby and now we need to help her master the word Ma-Ma. Braden was our only child to have said Ma-Ma first. Oh well.

Malia also had her first swimming trip , we went to the Twin Falls pool on Saturday. Shane and missy invited us to come with them. Bailee and Braden couldn't wait to show off thier new swimming skills. They have really come along in thier swimming lessons at Golds Gym. Malia loved the water and had fun splashing with daddy. She took a little break to eat some squash but didn't wait long before she headed back in. Cameron is holding Abby (Missy's daughter)and Malia.

Malia is almost ready to crawl and gets on her hands and knees and tries to go forward. I think alot has to do with her weight. I bet its hard to move 21 pounds around. Malia would rather stand and try to walk. I can't believe she will be a year old in June.

We are Still Here!

2008-03-27T12:53:00.000-07:00

I know its been awhile since I updated on my little family. Our lives are just too ordinary and not very blog worthy. Easter was fun, my mom flew up for a couple of days and stayed until monday. The kids sure like having her come to visit. Especailly when we pick her up from the airport. Bailee and Braden always ask "When can we go on a airplane?" On Saturday we went to an easter egg hunt at one of the greenhouses here in town, and it was so crowded. Appartently the whole city of Twin Falls was there. We got there about 15 minutes before it started and was at the back of the lines. When the announcer said GO! all the kids tried to get to the eggs and since we were at the back it was hard to get by the parents just standing there watching their own kids. Apparently they had 2,000 eggs and we came home with..... NONE.

Lets just say the kids in the front took them all. A neighbor and her kids shared with us and our kids were happy. I don't think we will be attending that one next year, or go way before it starts to get a good place in line. We also colored eggs and had our very own egg hunt in our yard. The kids thought it was pretty fun. It has been a tradition in my house that on easter morning, the easter bunny hides the eggs we colored the night before and our easter baskets. I thought i would carry the tradition to my own kids. They couldn't find thier baskets, I think they look with thier eyes closed because they would look in the spot where there basket would be and whine about how they couldn't find it. It was funny for us to watch them though.

My mom helped me refinish our kitchen table. it used to be tan colored top and white legs. Now it has a red mahgohanny stain with black legs. It looks really good and we can't wait to do our chairs. The weather wasn't allowing us to finish. Maybe in a couple of days or so. With the table out of commission we had to eat on the floor. Bailee and Braden loved the idea of having picnics everyday. I however, hated to clean the floor everyday.

Malia is 9 months old and is weighing in at 21 pounds. She is working hard on her girly figure instead of crawling. oh well she is starting to pull herself up and is working on getting to all fours.

She is started to sleep better through the night and mommy is very happy about that. She has come to the conclusion that our food is better than her baby food, and wants what we are having. I guess that is a good thing.

Rub a Dub Dub, Three Kids in the Tub

2008-02-03T11:08:00.000-08:00

Bailee and Braden were just thrilled to have Malia in the tub with them. Little Malia thought it was fun too. She was laughing and splashing and having a great time. Malia is getting so big, she has outgrown her little bathtub and has moved on to having baths with Bailee and Braden. Malia is seven months old now, and weighing at 18 lbs. She recently has come down with RSV. It makes it so she can't breathe well and has to have breathing treatments around the clock. She also had pink eye and is teething. Lets just say she has had quite the week! She now has three teeth, two on the bottom and one vampire tooth on the top. Her other fang will be coming in shortly. I call her my vampire baby. I will be glad when winter is over in another six weeks, thanks to the groundhog. Winter is just a time for getting sick, and when one person is sick in our family everybody else gets it too.

Hannah Montana Rocks out the Show!!!!!

2008-01-12T21:07:00.001-08:00

Bailee just loves Hannah Montana and got her CD this Christmas and also got a microphone to sing along. Dad caught her rocking out....

Bailee's Kindergarten Christmas Program

2008-01-12T20:52:00.000-08:00

In December we got to go to Bailee's Christmas program at school. She did such a good job as Dancer the Reindeer, even though she did wander occasionally into her princess land. Braden loved the song "Snow Pants" and Bailee was happy Daddy came over from work to watch and that Grandma Linda came too.

Christmas Comes in January (not really)

2008-01-12T20:13:00.000-08:00

Well I am a little behind on my "blogging" so I thought I would hurry and post some pics from Xmas. We loved being able to stay in our new home and have our first "Family Christmas" and then scoot over to Grandma and Grandpa's for some Rock Band (which Cam loved, but was boring to watch for hours and hours) and Guitar Hero. Braden and Bailee had a good time. Bailee was up at 5:30 but we made her lay in our bed until 7:30 until we woke Braden up. Malia had no idea what was going on but just had a good time, blowing out in her new outfit!!

Gingerbread Tradition

2007-12-15T16:43:00.000-08:00

So we are going to start a new tradtion in our house during the holidays. We are going to build gingerbread houses. We got our kit at Costco, which was neat because it came with candy, icing and the gingerbread was all made, we just had to put it together. The kids had fun putting the candy on the house that Cam built. However, I think the kids ate more candy than they put on the house. It turned out way cute. The temptation was too much for the kids and they began to nibble on the house shortly after. Our cute little gingerbread house lasted about a week. Oh well, Bailee and Braden had fun and thats what really matters.

Malia Sprouted Teeth

2007-12-05T12:34:00.000-08:00

Over Thanksgiving, we noticed that Malia was unusually fussy. So we checked in her mouth and noticed TWO TEETH!! She is 5 1/2 months and can't believe how fast she is growing up. Her favorite thing to do is push her tongue against her new teeth.
Well I have come to the conclusion that Malia is stubborn with a Capital S. I guess she gets it from me. We are trying to give her a bottle, so mommy can have a little break once in awhile.
But she refuses to even try to take it. She will arch her back and just scream. You would think someone was hurting her. On friday Cameron and I have a date. It has been a long time that we have been together without the children. Grandma Linda is going to watch our kids while we have fun Christmas shopping. The problem is she wont take a bottle!! I've tried to pump but I dont have enough milk to make a bottle. We need help, does anyone have any suggestions on how to make it work for all of us.

Deck the Halls

2007-12-01T19:29:00.000-08:00

Well Mary finally got me out on the roof to put up Christmas lights, of course that lasted about 15 minutes, and then I decided to just climb a ladder and move the ladder along the house, since I am a little scared of heights. It was quite the experience since this is the first year we have had a home to lights up on. (Only had to redo the lights twice) I must say that they look pretty good. Mary also got the house all done up, she wished she could have done it the day after Thanksgiving but we were out of town, sooo the day we got back it was already started. The kids enjoyed decorating the tree. They also love torturing Dad with their Rudolf and mouse dolls that play, "Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer" and "We wish you a merry Christmas" respectively 20 times/hour. They sure were cute the first 30 seconds or so.

Turkey Day

2007-11-29T12:20:00.000-08:00

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving in Utah. We headed down on Wednesday night after Cameron got off work. My job was to make pumpkin pies, six of them to be exact. Apparently that is my job every other year. We had lots of good food and ate until we couldn't eat any more. After we let our stomach digest some of our food we headed out to go bowling. Some of our cousins came with us and we had such a good time. The kids got their own lane with bumber guards and did a great job. I wish we had the guards too, it would have been alot easier to knock the pins down. On Friday we went to the Festival of Trees and saw some awesome trees. My dad's favorite was the Home Depot tree, and of course Braden found a cool Superhero tree. We also checked out a cool Ifly thing they have downtown, it is like skydiving, just a big fan blowing people in the air!!

Saturday was the big Holiday Parade with Santa. We bundled up the kids and had fun watching the parade. The highlight was to see Star Wars characters walking in the parade. We couldn't quite get the connection between them and Christmas but to Braden it was the best thing ever. Malia loved the Pina Colada sucker that she got, so I could enjoy the parade!!

After the parade the city plugs in their lights and the whole downtown was lit up. Christmas is officially here. Yipee!!

Food!! Glorious Food!!

2007-11-09T17:28:00.001-08:00

Well it may be a shock to hear that Malia likes to eat. A little too, much maybe. We think she may have a little reflux disease, which is fairly common, causing her to be a little whinny and "snack" a lot (which Mary's Milk Inc. just loves) and to spit up often, (lets just say everytime she moves) so we are trying a little rice cereal to try and thicken what is in her stomach to see if that may help with the spitting up. We thought we would post how messy, I mean cute she is while eating. In all honesty, I don't think any of it really got into her tummy, just on the outside of her tummy on her shirt. she had a good time with it though. She is growing, at 4 mo she ways just shy of 16 lbs. I guess we may have to give her my old nick name of the incredible bulk!!!

Happy Trick or Treating.

2007-11-02T11:19:00.001-07:00

Our kids had a blast dressing up and going to our ward carnival party. After, we took them trick or treating in our neighborhood. We couldn't believe how much candy they got. Thanks to Grandma Linda we could both go out with our kids while she helped out with candy and Malia.
Apparently our subdivision is the spot to go trick or treating. We will have to remember to buy lots more candy for next year. It was neat to see people come to our door, in Pocatello no one came. This year Bailee was a blushing bride, Braden was Luke Skywalker, and Malia was a butterfly

Award Winning Cornbread

2007-10-22T10:14:00.000-07:00

On Saturday, our ward had a Chili Cook-Off, where people can bring their best chili, cornbread, or dessert and they would be judged by the young women and men. Well I thought I would enter my cornbread. Well when we got there their was so many versions of cornbread that I thought I dont have a chance, surely there would be better tasting cornbreads than mine.

But to my surprise, Mine WON!! I was excited. Mine won as the sweetest tasting cornbread according to the young women and men. If any are interested in the recipe here it is. I hope you try it out.

1 C. margarine, melted 1 1/4 C cornmeal
1 1/2 C sugar 2 3/4 C flour
2 C buttermilk 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
4 eggs 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt

Mix all the ingredients together and pour into a greased 9x13 pan. Cook for 35 minutes at 375.
If you want to make a smaller batch, just cut everything in half.
Enjoy

Happy Birthday Braden!!

2007-10-17T12:13:00.000-07:00

We celebrated Braden's 4th birthday on Saturday, the 13th. Even though October 15th is his birthday. He wanted to have a big party with all of his new friends. We had 10 little kids running around and having fun. Our good friends, Shane and Missy, and Fonda came with her kids. Also Grandma and Grandpa Clark came. Grandma and Grandpa Samson gave Braden a big surprise. They flew in from Salt Lake to come to his party. They orginally weren't going to come because of the long drive, but my brother works for Skywest airline as a aircraft mechanic so they can fly free on standby. This was there first time flying to our house and the kids thought it was neat to see them come off the airplane.

Braden loved his party and loved playing Duck Duck Goose, Red Light, Green Light, and Pin the Tail on the Donkey. Thank goodness it was good weather or we would have 10 kids running around playing games. We had a big football birthday cake and our house was decorated with a sports theme. Braden had such a great time opening his presents, he had lots of lego sets and mom and dad gave him a leapfrog leapster with the Cars game. Its hard to believe our boy is 4 years old

Malia Laughs!!

2007-10-09T16:58:00.002-07:00

Well Malia has started to laugh when tickled, it is actually pretty cute (I have 3 kids, I can say cute). Mary is pretty happy since I could get our other kids to laugh pretty easily and she couldn't. This child is definitely Mary's since she can get her to laugh and I can't. The funniest thing was saturday after the afternoon session of conference, Mary went to get her hair trimmed and I was rocking Malia. Bailee walked up to her growling and she went nuts, laughing. She laughed for about 20 min, it had us all laughing too. Malia is now almost 4 months old and is growing like a weed.

We Just Love Construction!!

2007-10-01T12:29:00.000-07:00

It must be the season for construction, because we have new houses being built behind and across the street from us. Of course there is still the hospital being built too. Instead of looking at the bare fields we look at huge cranes, backhoes, and hear lots and lots of pounding. I guess it's good to have more neighbors. Hopefully it wont take them very long, it could get old seeing gross men working. Now if they were cute it would be a different story. HAHAHA!

Well I just planted some tulip bulbs in my flower bed and we will see if I have a green thumb or not, when they come up in the spring. Its been fun working in the yard even though I have no idea what I am doing. I guess we all have to start somewhere.

Cameron and I have new callings in the ward. Cameron is the Cubmaster and teaches the 11 and 12 year old primary class. I think Cam will do a wonderful job and will have fun with the boys. I was called to be an assistant Den Leader for the Bears. I had to laugh when they told me I would be in cub scouts, because I was the den leader for the bears in Pocatello. At least I will know what I am doing, and can bring in some ideas from before. It will be fun to work with Cameron in scouting. Wish us luck.

I am Legal!!!

2007-09-19T19:00:00.000-07:00

Well I have been working under a "graduate PA license" for the last month. This license allowed me to diagnose and treat patients, however, I could not write prescriptions. So typically I would hang out in our office hallway for another provider to pop out of a room and corner them to sign my scripts. The graduate PA license was a temporary license until one passes their boards (certifying exam). I got confirmation last week that I passed (only took three weeks for them to let me know, though they say two, that led to some sleepless nights!!) so I got to apply for a real PA license last week and finally got it, so....I am legal!! Feels good too, the last 6 years finally culminating into a career.

Halloween in September?!?!?!?!

2007-09-19T18:07:00.000-07:00

It's Halloween at our house!! Well not really but the kids are celebrating a little early. Grandma Judy came up for a few days to visit and to give the kids their halloween goodies. Daddy and Mommy got some candy and some halloween decorations for the house. Bailee and Braden got some candy and halloween balls. Grandma also gave them a CD that has some kid halloween songs. They love the songs and want to hear them all day. While Grandma was here, we went to the dollar store and we found some Halloween costumes for the kids to play in. Bailee wanted the witch costume and Braden found a Ninja. They were so excited to get home and try them on. For only paying 1.00 they were pretty cute.

Grandma brought up Malia her Halloween costume. Aunt Megan and Grandma Judy found this cute butterfly costume at Shopko and had to buy it. We think she looks adorable, and is ready to go trick or treating. We just hope the excitment of Halloween will still be there in a month.

Picture Day

2007-09-12T10:02:00.000-07:00

Well yesterday was picture day at Bailee's school. And of course she had a nice shiner under her eye, thanks to Braden running her over on his bike. If you know Braden at all he doesn't always watch where he is going. Mom tried to hide with makeup but it was a huge scap, and makeup doesn't like to stick to scaps. Oh well It reminds me how when I was little we (as in my brother and me) would experiment with the scissors and play barber shop. I always got a cute new haircut, with half of my bangs cut almost to the scalp. My mother would just cry because it would be around picture day. So to say the least some of my pictures didn't turn out too cute. Im sure Bailee's pictures will be just adorable.

Yesterday I was bored and painted Malia's tiny toenails. I think I got more on her skin than on her nails. She looks cute with painted nails. Thanks Cami for showing me how cute baby girls look with painted toes. However, we will have to wait to paint her fingernails, for she always has her hands in her mouth. I was going to post a picture but for some reason Im having difficulties with the picture software. Will post when i figure it out.

Bailee's First Day of School

2007-09-05T15:36:00.000-07:00

Even though Bailee has been to school for a week. I wanted to let everyone know that Bailee is loving Kindergarten, and told me she is excited to learn how to read. She goes in the afternoon at 11:55 to 2:55, which gives me three hours to do my errands and play with Braden. He likes it when I teach him "school". Braden already knows how to write his name.

Bailee also likes her teacher, Mrs. Dickensen. On the first day of school, she already made a new friend Cierra. I'm glad that Bailee is starting to be more outgoing. Well here are a few pictures of her first day.

About Me

2007-08-30T12:01:00.000-07:00

Jobs That I've Had:
Certified Nursing Assistant
Administrative Assistant for Chartwells
Mother

Places I've Called Home:
Sandy, Utah
Grace Idaho
Twin Falls Idaho
Pocatello Idaho
Back to Twin

Movies that I never get sick of:
Fools Rush In
Harry Potter
The Karate Kid (I used to have a crush on Daniel Son)

Favorite TV shows:
Greys Anatomy
the Home and Garden channel
30 Minute Meals

Favorite Vacation Spots:
Hawaii
Texas
Just being away with family

Last thing I ate:
Leftover meatloaf

Eye Color:
Brown

Summer or Winter:
Summer, however, Fall is a close second

scary or Happy endings:
Happy

Speaking in Church and the Kids New Toy

2007-08-26T11:28:00.000-07:00

Today I spoke in church about obedience. Usually I get so nervous and can't speak without tears. Well today I turned over a new leaf. I just read my talk and I got through it without being nervous. It was probably only a few minutes, the shorter the better. Right. Cameron gave me a blessing of comfort and i think that helped tremendously. Now the people in our new ward wont think of me as a crybaby when ever I talk in church. Watch they will call me to be a relief society teacher where I would have to talk all the time. That would be horrible.

Cameron recently got his first paycheck and we thought we would buy the kids a swingset to play on. It took Cameron two days to put it together. Too bad it won't hold me and cam if we want to swing. Hopefully Bailee, Braden and Malia will have many happy times on thier new toy.

Malia is Two Months Old!

2007-08-17T17:51:00.000-07:00

Malia went to the doctor yesterday for her 2 month well child checkup. Where she received three shots. There was a newly graduated nurse who gave malia her shots. You could tell she hasn't had much experience because she did one vaccine one at a time and put the band aid on after each shot. I'm used to the nurses doing two at a time and then putting the band aids on after they were all done. Poor Malia was just hysterical. Luckily for me, Cameron was there to help out. Mommy has a hard time holding kids down and watching them scream bloody murder. We thought Malia would weigh in around 10 pounds. Boy were we wrong, she weighed in at 12 pounds. I thought wow you are fat. So today I looked at what the other kids weighed at 2 months and was surprised. Braden was 14 pounds and Bailee was 12lbs 2 oz. So I guess she isn' t that fat. .

Mount Malia Erupted

2007-08-16T08:19:00.000-07:00

I'm so proud of Malia, she slept through the night!! She slept from 10:00 to 5:00. When she woke up at 5:00 she was eating like there was no tomorrow, just gulping away. She went back to sleep so I thought I would burp her before laying her back in her crib. Thats when she erupted!! Throwup went everywhere, all over me, her, the carpet ,and the chair. So of course I had to clean it up and change Malia's clothes. By this time she was wide awake and wanting to eat again since her stomach was on empty. I was a little hesitant to feed her again.
She ate for like two minutes and was back to dreamland. I hope Malia will continue to sleep through the night. Wish us luck.
Later today she goes to the doctor for her two month checkup and shots. I hope the shots wont make her fussy all day.

It's That Time of Year

2007-08-10T21:37:00.000-07:00

It's that time of year again when summer is over and we send our kids to school. Bailee is so excited to go to Kindergarten. School starts here on the 27th of August. What will we do all day without Bailee? Running errands in less time. Dragging three kids around to more than one store is an errand in itself. I took Bailee school shopping for some clothes and she was so cute she wanted everything she saw. I would pick out a shirt and would say, Do you like this? Of course moms taste didn't match little Bailee's.
I remembered the good old days when my mom would take us school shopping. I love getting new clothes!!

Just gotta love kids...

2007-07-30T17:30:00.000-07:00

Oh you gotta love having small kids in the house. When we moved to house with more than one bathroom, I thought that the days of dirty kid potty's was over and done with. They have their bathroom and I have my throne in solitud. Oh the naivete of it all...

... Braden likes to sneak into our bathroom and hurry and use it and run out before he "gets caught." (Like he would get into trouble anyway)...and with that background I will recount an experience I had in the near past.

I came home from work on a peaceful day to a lovely wife and lovely kids playing around in the house. Just like any other day, if you will, after a nice break we had dinner and after dinner I felt the urge, like most men do after dinner, to grace the commode with my presence. As I was in a half sit, pull down (you get the picture) I note something of a darker color out of the corner of my eye on the floor. I frose with terror and jumped up!! To my surprise the last time my wonderful (the wonderful is for my benefit, and for Braden's sake) son sneeked a potty use was in too much of a hurry and left a nice brown goo-goo-cluster on the floor. Luckily my cat like reflexes allowed me to jump out of harms way since the inside of the toilet had more streaks on it than the Indianapolis motor speedway.

Soon after my discovery I had Braden clean up his surprise. SOOOO the moral of the story is to...

...Just cause you may have your own things, people can still crap on them.

Just gotta love kids....

7 Random Things About Me

2007-07-29T14:32:00.000-07:00

My best friend Cami tagged me to do a 7 random post about myself. I would like you to know it was very hard coming up with 7 things that no one really knows about me. Here it goes.

1. When I was a child I used to bite my fingernails. My mom thought I would stop when she would put nasty medicine on them. Oh no! I would just suck off the medicine and continue to bite down. When all ten of my fingers were down to nothing, I would start on my TOES. Gross I know. Its a good thing I've outgrown that habit. Its not pretty to see people putting their toes in their mouth.

2. I used to hate salad dressing. When at home or at a resturant I would ask for no dressing whenever I had salad. People thought I was pretty wierd to eat just plain lettuce.
Its been only a few years since I made the switch to salad dressing, but it can only be Ranch and only just a little. I also can't have mayo or miracle whip on sandwiches. Just call me Plain Jane!!

3. My first two children are birth control babies. Cameron thinks I missed a day, but I faithfully took the pill each day, maybe not at the same time every day but I took it. Maybe God gives us children when he is ready not when we are ready. Thats the lesson I had to learn when we found out we were expecting Braden. Bailee was only 6 months when we found out. I was taking the mini pill. Doctors didn't tell me you have to take it at the same time every day or the effectivness goes way down. I'm glad though I have my children, I couldn't imagine life without them.

4. I'm a corn on the cob lover. I look forward to the summer when corn is in season. I could eat corn on the cob for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. My poor family gets it alot, at least every other day. When we only have two options for a vegetable that the whole family will eat, corn works out just fine. The other is broccoli.

5. Cameron and I dated for only a month before we got engaged!! I guess Cam didn't waste any time when he found the right girl. I'm glad I said yes, because the last 6 years has been wonderful. Cameron is such a great guy.

6. I'm not very coordinated when it comes to playing sports. I can barely hit a baseball. I throw a football like a girl, I was on my junior high's volleyball team, but didn't play much. However, I'm still trying to convince Cameron that dancing is a sport. Dancing was my life in high school. I loved performing at half times and at competitions. Our dance team brought home over 10 trophies every year. We ROCKED!

7. I also have the gigglepees, probably most women do after having children. i have to cross my legs when i laugh, cough and sneeze. Cameron makes fun of me all the time.

Let's Ride!!

2007-07-25T16:18:00.000-07:00

When we visted Jef and Sarah a couple of weeks ago, Their boys Logan and Mason let Bailee and Braden ride their motorcycles. Of course they were so thrilled especially Braden. They learned quickly how to ride and how to release the gas to stop. Mainly due to daddy and uncle Jef screaming STOP!! Bailee almost took out a parked car, luckily for us she missed it. They could have ride for hours if they could. Here are a few pics of them riding.

Bailee's New Baby Doll

2007-07-25T13:09:00.000-07:00

Bailee thought it would be fun to put Malia in her baby doll stroller and take her for a ride. ( mommy watching very closely) Malia thought it was pretty fun and loves being with her big sister.

Malia is One Month, Trees and Flowers

2007-07-18T11:50:00.000-07:00

Malia is one month. It's crazy how time flies by. She is getting so big and is now fitting into her clothes. She also has her first cold, it sad to see her with a runny nose and a little cough. Oh well kids and colds go hand in hand. I will post some pictures when our computer gets set up with a faster internet connection. Malia also has moved into her new room and slept in her crib for the first time. Now we just need her to sleep through the night.

Bailee and Braden has made some friends, thank goodness. That means I wont have to hear them complain that they are bored or listen to them fight with each other. Luckily there are kids around their own age to play with. At least the boys are not into star wars!!!

This weekend my parents came up and helped us with some yard work. We planted our very first tree. Well three trees to be exact. Cameron was nervous making holes into our grass. What a baby! Just Kidding. I also planted some flowers. It was fun doing something to our yard.
Today I started my first official workout to get rid of my buldges. (spelling) hopefully I will be able to keep doing it, my motivation is not the best. My walking partner lives to far away to help me.

2007-07-15T13:26:00.000-07:00

Well we finally moved in to our new house. Now it looks like a tornado touched down. The easy part is over, now comes the hard part decorating. Its very hard for me to decide where to put pictures and all of my nick nacks. Usually there are many nail holes in the walls. Cameron and I do not get along at this stage of decorating. Not to damage our freshly painted walls I have to contemplate very hard on everything I hang up.

Bailee, Braden, and Malia have adjusted to our house and are very excited to have their own rooms.

Malia Marcelene

2007-07-05T18:14:00.000-07:00

Moving On

2007-07-05T13:54:00.000-07:00

This is our brand new house in Twin Falls ID. We love the fact that we are leaving apartment life for good. We have lived in apartments for 6 years and we are so excited to start a new chapter in our lives. Cameron got a job in Jerome working as a Physican Assistant (PA), which he will be starting on August 13.

Our house has 4 bedrooms 2 bathrooms and a really big kitchen, which I love the most. Best of all it has a dishwasher! I would still probably hand wash our dishes out of habit though.

The kids are excited for our garage. A little strange if you ask me.

According to the kids we need to buy lots of stuff. They would always ask "when we have a house can we have this." I think the first thing we will get for them will be a swing set.

We are going to miss the playground at our apartment, and most of the little friends that Bailee and Braden would play with. I'm going to miss the neat friends that I have made over the 5 years we have lived in Pocatello. Too bad you can't take them with you. It will be a sad day for me when we move on July 14th. Twin Falls is only an hour and a half away, so we can always visit. (that is a hint to our good friends and neighbor the Jepsons)

Our Happy Family of Five

2007-07-04T16:29:00.000-07:00

We are now a family of FIVE! We welcomed Malia to our family on June 18, 2007, big sister Bailee and big brother Braden, love having her in the house. Braden would always ask "why do we have a baby?" and "do we get to keep her?" I was a little worried how our kids would take to a new baby, but they have adjusted well, thank goodness. Bailee always asks if she can hold the baby and tries to be Malia's mommy. When I was pregnant, Bailee would say to people that she would do everything for the baby except changing those dirty diapers. That was going to be my only job.

Malia Marcelene weighed in at 7 lbs. 8 oz. and was 21 inches long. She is our smallest baby so far. Bailee wins by weighing 8 lbs. 7 oz.
Maila's name is Hawaiian for Mary, I always wanted a girl named after me but a different variation. So when we vacationed in Hawaii we learned that Mary was Malia. So when we found out that we were having another little princess in the house I knew exactly what we were going to name her. Luckily Cameron liked the name as well.
Marcelene comes from her paternal great grandma.