Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas Eve Dinner at Grandma and Grandpa's home with the Browns and the Glenns. We had a little Christmas concert, played games, and watched Luke 2.


The children loved playing the gift exchange game -- and everyone was still smiling at the end!

Grandma and Grandpa sent us little gifts from Peru, so we took a picture to send to them. We miss them!

Everyone loved playing the Wii Fit, but the best was watching Grandpa run! Way to go Grandpa!

SNOW!

Merry Christmas Eve!
This morning, Matthew said, "Mom, Come and see my snowman!"

Our neighbors brought a big truck back from Flagstaff this morning, covered in snow! Matthew built a little snowman right on top of the truck! Clark helped Courtney and Matthew bring snow back to our house to make a big snowman!

Building a snowman is a little warmner here than in Idaho.


The girls made fresh squeezed orange juice while the others had a snowball fight outside!

Creative Clarks!

Christmas time is bringing out the creativity in the Clark household!

Kimberly made this little nativity set in Young Womens with teracotta pots and wooden craft circles -- easy and cute! Carie helped stuff our green plants with sprigs of holly and little poinsettas in preparation for our ward's Enrichment Home tour a couple of weeks ago.



We decided we better make a Christmas centerpiece for the dining room table. We used a candle and wreath and added ribbon and ornaments to make it look festive. Kristin even managed to make a runner with some old fabric and trim we had from our stockings.


Courtney's 1st grade class made darling little candy trains for Christmas!

She enjoyed eating it as soon as she came home from school!


Carie loves to make things beautiful and has an eye for design.

Today before church, she made this necklace to go with her outfit. She is thinking about starting a little jewelry business!


She also added this cute flower to her hair elastic after looking at some she liked at the mall!


She looked beautiful as she sang in the Ward Choir for the Christmas program! Kristin, Kimberly, Katie, and Carie all participated. It was fun to be a small part of the beautiful Christmas music.

Temple Work

All of the grandchildren 12 + years went to the temple to do baptisms on Friday afternoon. The adults were able to go later that evening. It was wonderful. Here are a couple of pictures that were taken after the Snows and Browns had already left. Sorry!
The Clark girls with their Dad.
Lydia, Katie, Abby, Carie, Kimberly and Samantha.

Thanksgiving 2008

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with all of the Clark family, Grandma Geri, and the Glenns! Kristin was especially thankful that it did not rain and that her parents called her!


Kimberly and Matthew started the day off right by running the Turkey Trott with their cousins!

There was plenty of yummy food for Thanksgiving. All of the cousins had fun!
Julia and Eliza.
Carie and the boys hard at work on their quiz. (ET made a quiz for the grandkids about Grandma and Grandpa -- they took it very seriously!)
Another great table!
And another -- I think there were some more that I missed!
We had 43 people, so everyone was a good sport to split up at different tables!
There was plenty of dessert!
Cash, taking a break after all the food!
Courtney -- still going strong!
Grandma and Grandpa celebrated their 45th anniversary! RuthAnn and Emily surprised them with a fun DVD of their life together, and David had special bottles of Jones Soda made for them -- all of the kids loved that! We also had a blast playing some fun games at the church organized by the Browns!