Brainwashed

Tonight Ethan is wearing a black shirt with yellow writing that says "Lucky Rooster Football." Tonight during dinner he leaned down, pointed to the letters on his shirt, and read "BYU duders." Apparently all letters read BYU.

Clark was pretty proud. You know what they say, "train a child up in the way he should go and he will not depart from it."

Martha Stewart Strikes Again

We celebrated Martin Luther King Day recuperating from colds, Ethan has been sick about 5 days now and yesterday Clark and I came down with the same fun.
To make the day a little bit festive in honor of Dr. King's and my Dad's birthday I thought it would be fun to make a Jell-o train using a cake mold. Ethan loves trains and I knew he would love Jell-o, what could be better?
Tonight we sat at the table and he was so excited to help me take the engine and train cars out of the mold...something went wrong...as you can see our Jell-o train was really a Jell-o blob!

Luckily Ethan is really easy to please! He thought it was great fun squeezing orange Jell-o chunks out of the train mold, yelling "bell-o," and then eating it. Didn't know a person could ruin a Jell-o mold!

Hope you all had a great holiday!

Excited to announce...

We had our ultrasound today and to celebrate Clark is going to buy me this hideous shirt:

We are so happy for Ethan to have a little brother! After seeing him run around and wrestle with all of his cousins in Colorado it was obvious we need another boy in our family!

Family Home Evening with a 1 Year Old!

Every Monday night (well most) we try to have Family Home Evening, we sing songs, have a gospel lesson, and play games with Ethan. Tonight Clark had a great lesson ready using pictures of Ethan's grandparents and talking about prayer and Heavenly Father...

Ethan was just so out-of-control excited that his Dada was home he was literally bouncing off the walls...we had about 45 mins. of this:

If nothing else Ethan gets a REALLY good workout from our family home evenings and we get lots of laughs!

Power of a Positive Attitude

Here are the current conditions: 19 degrees, slight breeze, sun shining, man sized icicles, and snow drifts taller than my car in my driveway. (Definitely an improvement from the past week of -20 degree windchills, snowy, no sun, COLD!)

I just left the bank, as I was leaving the cashier said, "have a nice day and get out and enjoy this great weather while we have it!"
"Sure will," I replied...but I was thinking, "Is she crazy? It is well below freezing and the whole world is slick and icy, yes it may be 40 degrees warmer than it was a few days ago but not quitet my ideal park day."

It's all about perspective! I guess I should be more of a "my frosted frozen glass filled with ice chunks and slurpee is half full" type of girl!

I'm a Survivor...

...of college football bowl season!

Last night Ethan and I made cookies together to celebrate the final bowl game of the season! We survived!

I have to admit I will miss moments like this:

I also have to admit I had a lot of fun on Monday making BSU posters and dressing Ethan up in Broncos colors just to antagonize Clark a little (he was cheering for TCU, keeping it in the Mountain West conference). Ethan is good at yelling, "go, go, go!" We had some friends over to watch the game and celebrate Boise State's big win!

When will Clark learn to believe in the Broncos (especially when it comes to big bowl games)?