Happy Happy Birthday DaD!!

Today is my Dads birthday!! I hope it is a good one! I know you probably worked but I still hope you enjoyed your little party on Saturday when everyone was still here!I am grateful for all that you do for us! That you do for our country to ensure our safety! Your a great grandpa and the kids love you! I love you and I am so happy that your my dad! Thanks for everything and have wonderful Birthday!

I got to meet Adam!!

I would have to say that it is great to see the family for Christmas it was great to have everyone here(minus C,R and Mr.B) and the best part of all is that I met Mr. Adam!!! Oh my gosh he is the cutest thing ever! Love him!! I was loving holding him when it was my turn!! We are only missing Mr. B, Jaxson and Jace in the cousins pic! I dont have a pic with me and Adam that is on Tiffs camera I will have to have her send it to me! It was great!! Isn't he just the cutest!!

Christmas Morning!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

A little slide show of Christmas morning! Enjoy!

I won!!

So last week I was checking out one of my blogs that I go to after putting the kids to bed that it is what I like to do is read the blogs I like! So anyway she was having a live giveaway and so I entered them! There was four different ones! Well guess what I won one!!! So very exciting! I won a pair of Eleven shoes which is the older kids shoes of See Kei Run which is awesome! So I picked these for Savannah for the pair that I would like to win!! So cute! They are little big for her right now but that is ok! They will fit soon! These shoes are $50 on there website so it is very exciting and I got them like two days later how awesome!

Another Boy For Our Family!

I know I am posting this a little late but I had to wait for the clear to post on my blog since mine isn't private! I guess I should make it private! So Tiffany and Joe got the best Christmas Present ever!! Adam Chance was born on Dec. 9th at 11:51pm he weighed 7lbs 11 oz 21 inches. Everything went well! I have to remember the birth mom Maryann and the strength that she had to make this decision. I am very grateful to her and for the choice that she made! I don't think she could of picked anyone better to be his parents! I cry like like a baby every time I even think about this. Tiffany is a amazing person and I am not just saying that because she is my sister! Tiffany is one of my best friends too! She is someone that I admire and look up too! Yes she is my younger sister but she has been one of the greatest examples in my life. What she has had to go through to get to this point to be a mother is something I can honestly say I couldn't go through. I think that I take advantage sometimes how easy that it was for me to have become a mother. Seeing Joe and Tiffany parents is probably the best Christmas present I could of gotten! See the smile on Tiffany's face makes me tear up! Tiffany and Joe have been awesome Aunt and Uncle to my kids and my kids adore them! So I know that they will be the best parents!
I know that it was our Heavenly Father that had his hand in this to make all this fall into place and that has made my testimony grow so much! Power of prayer and fasting and has definitely blessed our family! Joe and Tiffany are gonna make wonderful parents for this little boy! Little man has so many people that love him so very much! And he is dang cute!! I can't wait to meet him next week! So mother nature better help us out here and make sure the roads are clear!!

Fun Mail!!!

I just had to share I have a blog I go to a lot called Twilight Mom and they are doing a gift exchange!! I got my gift in the mail today!! I am excited I love it!! Such a cute bag!! I just wanted to share! Some you will think I am silly but I love it!

Projects around the house!!

So I have decided that there are things that I just wanted to get done around the house! The backyard is the biggest thing but since the weather isn't the best this time of year we will wait for warmer weather for that so inside it is! I have been wanting to paint the other wall in my kitchen/eating area and we did it on Tuesday! Yeah!! I think it turned out great!! So I hung one shelf I got from IKEA and mom is gonna make a trip next week and I am gonna have her pick up the shorter one to put underneath and over the one I have there and I need two more frames to do my framed photography I guess you can call it! Rob and I took pictures at the beach when we went to Forks Washington for our anniversary it will spell Clark! I think it is gonna look awesome! What do you guys think? I have some other things planned to but that will have to wait for a little bit!

Requests for the Cookie Recipe!

Pumpkin White Chocolate Chip Drop Cookies
Beat the following together
2 cups butter
2 cups sugar
1-16 oz. can of pumpkin

Add to liquid mixture
4 cups flour
2 tsp. pumpkin spice
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1- 12 oz bag of white chocolate chips
Mix together and drop evenly on cookie sheet.
Bake at 375 degrees for 16 minutes or until set.
Cool for one minute on a cookie sheet.

One low heat.
1 container cream cheese frosting
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
combine and drizzle over cookies while warm.

Cooking Week!!!

Pumpkin White Chocolate Chip Cookies


The Black Beans!

The Chili!

These are the Pumpkin Chocholate chip Muffins
These are the Cheesy Muffins!
So Rob has been on vacation so we decided to cook a bunch of different things and freeze them! I have pictures of some of the stuff but not all of it sorry!! We made a huge batch of meatballs! We use them for spaghetti or sweet n sour meatballs. We made homemade mac n cheese and Pumpkin chocolate chip muffins, Cheesy Muffins, Pumpkin white chocolate chip cookies(YUM)I am not a big fan of pumpkin stuff but these two pumpkin items are very good!! The cookies my visiting teacher gave me last year and I had her give me the recipe so I could make them!! I made a batch of Chili today for the Civil War game!! GO DUCKS!!! I made a crock pot of black beans that I will freeze into small portions for dinners! I use these in Mexican lasagna, tacos, nachos etc. It is nice that we will have things that are fast when I don't want to cook or we are short on time! I am also gonna make up some bean burritos then freeze those too! Tomorrow I am gonna make breakfast burritos and freeze some of those too! It does take time to make all this stuff but it is worth it when you need it!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIFFANY!

Today is Tiffany's Birthday!!! Happy Birthday to a very wonderful sister! I love you so much and want you to know how very much I admire you and even though your my younger sister I look up to you in so many ways!! You are so very strong! You are amazing a person who will be a wonderful mother! Very excited for that day to come for you! I love you very much have a wonderful day!!!

Thanksgiving Weekend!!

We went to my parents house for Thanksgiving it was nice we haven't gone to my parents for Thanksgiving for a few years now. We usually go to Rob's moms but she was working. Mom took some family pictures of us there is only a few then her battery died.
Then Niki wanted to go see New Moon so I gladly went with her to see it again! Then woke up early to go Black Friday Shopping!! We got most of our shopping done! Just for each other left and a few things here and there! Then we went out to the coast Rob won a night at the coast from work so we decided to do it this last weekend because Rob is on vacation and wouldn't need to take time off. Mom and Niki watched the kids for us THANK YOU!!!! I am sorry mom didn't get enough sleep!Sierra didn't sleep well while we were gone! There is pictures of the beach from our room we had a awesome view! It was very windy though! We went to Newport and walked around and there was a rock covered with sea lions! It was crazy! Tons of them! Oh at that seagull was outside where our room is and it has a starfish in its mouth! I have never seen that before thought it was cooL!

Happy Birthday to Me!

So yesterday was my birthday!!! It was an okay day! Didn't do anything! My excitement for my birthday was seeing New Moon on friday! I honestly cant believe that I am 33! I don't feel 33 I feel like 25 so I guess that is good!

Award!

So the other day I got a letter in the mail from Hunter's school informing me that he would be getting a award at the assembly which was on friday! So I went to the assembly with the kids I had at home. He got a Student of the Month award for outstanding achievement in Peace Building!! I praise Hunter Clark for being a good friend to all. Hunter is helpful, compassionate and a good listener. Thank you. Hunter
Mrs. Sims so that is what was said on the paper to nominate him for the award!! Here are some pictures I tried to take some of him receiving the award at school but it was to dark for some reason!

Hunter at Autzen 2009!!!

So Hunter had his last game today at Autzen stadium for those who do not know that is the home of the Oregon Ducks!!!! It was very cold so the other kiddos were not very happy as you will see in some pics!! Niki ended up taking all of them to Grandma and Grandpa's car and watching a movie! Thanks Niki!! It was a awesome game and they played so good!!! They WON!!!!!!! It was very awesome and so very exciting! Hunter loved that Grandma and Grandpa and Niki and Ethan came to see him play!!! So here are some pics of the game! There are some of him when he runs out of the tunnel and they announce his name and number!! It is very exciting!!! Gosh I can never get the pictures to go in the order I want!! Sorry it is kinda backwards!!!!