Birthday #6

Happy Birthday, Ethan! Yesterday he had his first friend birthday party. My mom used to give us a big party every year and she did it for all of her kids. Even made great cakes, too. Kudos to her. It's not an easy thing to do. We made it only one hour. Darren had to do a Christmas bird count in Idaho Falls but Tracie came up and helped. Thanks to her, we survived.
















Eating cake and ice cream with his friends.



















Ethan's favorite uncle, right now, is Jeff because Jeff gave him his old guitar for his birthday. So any uncles that want to compete better get working on it. That will be hard to beat. The kids keep saying Ethan got 3 instruments for his birthday. Kevin gave him his toy ukulele (or however you spell that), Jeff gave him the guitar, and then the guitar also had a tuner with it. So, to them, the tuner counts as an instrument.




















Ethan with his new scooter (that came from Black Friday sales). Too bad it's been snowing all day and he can't even go outside and ride it. And since it will probably not get above 30 degrees until late February or March, the snow will not be melting anytime soon. That's what happens when you have a birthday in December.

Christmas at the Carousel

Tonight Santa came to the Rexburg carousel. Ethan had written a letter to him in kindergarten so we went down there and delivered it. Santa even pretended like he could understand what it said. Santa's great! We drove by the park first without telling the kids what we were doing because we didn't want to wait in any long lines. But there were no lines. There was only one child in front of us.




















Santa and Ethan















All the boys with Santa. I was surprised Jake didn't get scared.















Everyone got to ride free on the carousel. Darren rode with the boys and got some great pictures. Jake looks like he's freaked out here but he really wasn't.















Kevin and his photogenic expressions.















Ethan

Thanksgiving 2008

Here are a few pictures from our Thanksgiving weekend. Last time I tried to update them I couldn't find most of my Thanksgiving pictures. But this time they appeared. (I'm sure it was me and my greatness with technology).




















Kevin helping Darren put up Christmas lights. He's going to do a great job when he gets a little taller.















Parker, Darren and Jacob riding the Trax home from temple square.















Jacob on the Trax



















Carson and Kevin standing in the circle that turns when the Trax turns. They thought that was pretty cool.
















Ethan, Jacob, Kevin, Parker, and Carson on temple square.















Grandma and Grandpa Clark with most of their grandsons at Temple Square.



















Another Temple Square picture. This one kind of shows how wound up they were. If there was anything available to climb on or any water to play in they wanted to be right there.




















Darren trying to take a nap after Thanksgiving dinner.















Darren photographing the Thanksgiving spread. Everyone worked so hard and it looked so great it had to be documented.















Me, Kristi, and her sister, Emily at the 5K run in Bountiful on Thanksgiving morning. We had a workout before we pigged out.




















This was from the drive down from Idaho. Ethan was trying to play the gameboy but it was too bright so he was creative and put the backpack over him.