Way Overdue!

To cover the last two months entirely would take a long time, so here's a few pictures of what we have been up to. Clark finished his first semester of law school very well, and the fun is just getting started for him again. We had a really nice trip to California to spend the holidays with our families. We bounced around between households, spending Christmas eve day seeing my grandma, then on to Clark's grandparents to spend Christmas eve and Christmas morning. All the descendants of Clark's moms parents were there, 22 in all I think (although we missed Brock who is still on his mission in Slovenia.) And then back to the Rays we went for Christmas dinner. It was a wonderful blur. Clark left a few days before me and came back to AZ to go camping with his dad, brother and uncle. I think they had fun but of course I have no pictures of that.
January flew by and I'm not sure what happened! I've been continuing to work part time at a subacute care center, and baby boy #2 is growing fast. I'll get a picture of me up here sometime soon. He's giving me more heartburn and having the hiccups more often than his older brother did, if that's possible. And the jury is out on what we're naming him.
We're doing well, really enjoying the Arizona winter. It was 65 and sunny here today. Clarkie will be 14 months old next week, and is about to learn how to open doors (with doorKNOBs no less) so there's a new round of babyproofing for us. He is so curious, he can't help but get into everything. I'll hopefully be posting more in the future, but no promises!

Grandma Jones let Clarkie go nuts in the flour, and then she got to clean him up!

Clarkie and his cousin Sage. We could not get Clarkie to smile, wasn't going to happen.

Christmas morning goodies: Cowboy hat and boots from Grandma and great-grandma

Santa brought him a power wheels ATV


Back at the Rays, Clark wearing a nice new sweater from my parents, and Clarkie loving his new converse from my brother and his girlfriend.

Trying to put them on over footie jammies is hard.


This is a regular day at our house, we've got a climbing monkey for a son! (He also played with the camera and got the lens all dirty, hence the blurriness)

Trip to the zoo again with Clark this time, before he had to go back to school. Feeding the giraffes is so cool!

Loving those cowboy accessories from Christmas!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Sorry we are a little late. Here is Clarkie a few days after his first birthday, sitting on Santa's lap.

Things are going well here. I survived one semester of law school. Erin's belly is getting bigger. Clarkie is growing up and getting into more and more trouble.

Surprise!

Baby #2 is on his way! That's right, it's A BOY! He is due May 12th and we are so excited. And Clarkie can't wait to have a little brother.

Look Who's 1!

Today was Clarkie's first birthday! The time really does fly, seems like just yesterday we were welcoming him to the world. We had a fun day (but missed Clark, who had to take a four hour final). We went to the zoo:

Giraffes

Checking out the rhino in the distance

Watching the polar bear swim

Tigers too

Had lunch at In N Out

Clarkie got a basketball hoop for his bday, but he was more interested in stealing the camera

Birthday Cake

It disappeared fast!

Birthday boy in his birthday suit

Clark's final went well, only 3 more to go! He got to join us for cake and presents. Clarkie was very worn out by the end of the day, I think he enjoyed his 1st birthday.

11 Months

Clarkie is now 11 months old, only a few weeks until his first birthday! He has also been walking for about a month now, and he's getting pretty good, he walks about 75% of the time. In fact, he tries to get down and walk whenever we're holding him. He's very very active, always curious, always exploring. He also says 'mama' and 'dada' (though he says dada way more often). He amazes us more and more every day!

Halloween Etc.

We had a great Halloween this year, it was Clarkie's first. Clarkie went as a racecar driver, and he loves his car! We use it more than the stroller now. We went to the Law school halloween party Thursday, and went to Trunk or Treat with church last night and had a great time at both.

Skeleton PJs

Clarkie with his AR 15 Rifle

Us at the UofA vs. UCLA game last Saturday. Go Wildcats!

Blowing Bubbles and Clapping

9 Months

I'm a couple weeks late on this post, but I still can't believe our little Clarkie is already 9 months old! He has been growing like a weed, weighs 21 pounds and is almost 30 inches tall. He loves to crawl around and open all of our cabinets and drawers and get everything out. He walks along the couch and with his walking toy, and can even reach the top of the kitchen table! He has also started clapping, waving and he'll dance to any kind of music. Wants to eat everything we are, but he only has his two bottom front teeth so far. He sleeps so great at night and takes a two hour nap most days. He's super vocal, babbling and mimicking our speech and screaming all day, but he's still very quiet around new people. His favorite toys are, unfortunately, cords and computers, so we do our best to hide both. He also headbutts his daddy on command, which hurts daddy more when he's wearing his helmet! We love this little man more and more every day, everything he does amazes us.

Looking out his bedroom window; he has the best view in the house, overlooking the Catalina foothills and national forest.

Daddy got him dressed on this particular day
We went to the zoo with the playgroup from church this week. If you look very closely, there's a rear end of a polar bear in the background of this shot.
Flamingos; Clarkie was over it by this point, more interested in watching the other kids.
His favorite cabinet in the house, the plastic cabinet. This scene happens at least once a day, but it makes him happy, so we haven't locked this particular door yet.
Helping Mommy do the dishes is the least he could do; what a sweetie!