So's your face BONE JUNIOR.

Be careful with your trash talk you supporter of loooooosers.

I have only one thing to say to you......

BEAR DOWN CHICAGO BEARS
MAY EVERY PLAY CLEAR THE WAY TO VICTORY (over the stupidist philadelphia eagles).

Oh it's great when your team beats your friends team. You being an eagles fan wouldn't really understand, but trust me, it feels goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood.

Now here's where you get to come back with a powerful uh uh.

My Opinion

In my opinion we're screwed come election time.

I don't care who you like. I don't care why you like them. Just remember that when either candidate wins, he will do something you like, but he will do something to totally screw you as well.

If you are self employed you best be voting for McCain. Otherwise you can start to kiss more of your hard earned pesos good bye so that President Obama can give more people welfare. Most people on that system totally deserve it too and would never abuse it.

If you consider yourself an environmentalist you best vote for Obama. Otherwise say hello to offshore drilling and other drilling in areas you don't agree with. At the same time say good bye to some of your rights to keep and bear arms. Senator Obama is a fierce opponent of your right to own guns. He has already helped pass strict gun laws and wants you to have to register your ammo as well as your guns.

I myself am writing Robert Redford into the ballet and voting for him. If Hollywood loves him so much he has to be good right?

Last but not least, if you buy into all the b.s. these two are shoveling at you. Your a tool.

My little guy is all grown up
I really can't believe how fast time flies. The first couple months with your newborn seem to last forever and then suddenly they turn three. I came across these pics on Mike's computer the other day and couldn't get over how stinking cute Raycer was (and still is) when he was a baby. I just wanted to tell him how proud I am to be his Mom, how flattered I am that he chose me.

How lucky we are as women to mother these beautiful, strong, teachable, perfect little spirits. There is not a day that goes by that I am not amazed at how smart Rayce is. The things he says and the way his mind works always amazes me, and a lot of times makes me laugh. Children are truely PERFECT and more than anything I think that they are here to teach us (at least me) more then we are here to teach them.
One of the biggest lessons I have learned from being a mother is how much more I need to learn! Each day I am reminded of what I need to work on and be better at. Parenting is God's attempt at perfecting us as adults. I need all the perfecting that I can get, so I hope that Rayce stays really patient! If he is anything like his mom he will have to work on it too!
THANKS FOR BEING THE SWEETEST BOY IN THE WHOLE WORLD!

P.S. COULD RAYCE AND LANIE LOOK MORE ALIKE

We're going down to CALI

The BEACH

Jos and Jared's dog Cooper

Over Labor Day weekend we ventured down to Southern California to help Mike's sister install a bamboo floor in their awesome ranch style house. The plane rides went really smooth, both times I got Lanie to go to sleep while nursing and then some LOUDY on the plane would wake her up. Don't you just love it when people hack up a lung on the plane, you got to love that re-circulated air! We flew into San Diego and visited some of our friends and family before driving up to Bonsall.
Mike worked most of the time and the kids and I just did a lot of hanging out. It was a really relaxing weekend. Rayce had the most fun looking for frogs at night, helping aunt Sunny with Cheyanne, hanging outside, looking for bugs, watching tadpoles (which ended up being mosquito larva..GROSS), and most of all helping with the floor (by helping I mean, using a shop pencil to write on just about everything and carrying a rubber malet with him at all times). We also got to hang out with Andy, Mellisa, and Bell. They came down from Burbank to spend Sunday with us. THANKS guys!
We stopped at a WAHOO's in San Diego to have lunch and hang out by this fountain at Rayce's request.

Here is Sunny and Kurt's back porch/patio. We seriously hung out here every night, their yard is amazing!

Here are the boys working on the floor

We went to the beach in Carlsbad the last day and hung out for a couple of hours. The water was super warm, like a big bath tub. Lanie and Rayce both decided that they needed to eat some salty sand, and they actually both liked it!

here is Rayce with miss Cheyanne

here is Rayce with Lakota

here are the boys rollin' the MULE, check out the sweet hair!!

Here are Rayce and Sunny feeding the horse. Seriously he helped her every day with all of the horse duties, that included pooper scooping!! What a helpful little guy he is! Sunny actually cried the day after we left because her little helper was gone.

Little miss pea took her first "real" crawl steps on Monday night. I was at work so Mike got to witness the momentous event! He called me right after it happened. What a proud daddy! He was out of town when Rayce started to crawl so I am glad he got to be the one to see Lanie's first crawl. He is also very happy about her first words, "da da da". Did I mention that she has her daddy wrapped around her little finger!

Family Pics July 2008

The Clarks

Mom and Dad

The whole ZOO (32 of us now)

Grandkids

My little ones

The Cassitys

The Helms

The Larsons

The Greenwoods

The Twedes
My whole family was in town this summer and we decided we had better document the occasion so here are the photos to prove it. There are 32 of us now and even more to come. Thanks goes to Camille for taking the pics, it is not easy to photograph such a large family, especially when you have to push the timer and run into it too! I am truly blessed to have such a great family. I wish that Dawn and Scott could live here or at least visit more often.

STINKY BREATH

So I have to blog this funny story. The other night I was working and Rayce fell asleep before I got home (around 7:30pm). He hadn't eaten anything and we couldn't wake him up. I knew that he would probably wake up in the middle of the night HUNGRY, so I forced him to drink some "cocoa moo" in attempt to help him stay asleep all night. Well 2:30 am rolled around and sed Hungry Boy woke up and came into our room. He said that he was starving. In the mean time little miss Lanie decided to wake up too. I told Rayce to lay in bed with Mike so I could put Lanie back down and then grab him a snack. While he and Mike were laying there this awesome conversation transpired:
Rayce: dad your breath STINKS!!!
Mike: Oh, sorry bud I will just roll over
Rayce: Dad I got a good idea....how about you just stop breathing?
is that a good idea!
Mike told me about Rayce's genius plan the next morning, I was laughing so hard I almost stopped breathing.

MISS SUNSHINE'S PRESCHOOL

Rayce started preschool this year. He is toilet trained and ready to learn! We are so excited for our big boy. He loves miss Sunshine and seems to like all of the kids. He says Treyce is his favorite, even though they seem to butt heads at times. I guess "birds of a feather flock together"! here are some pics of his first day. What a handsome guy he is. I have put in a request for my children not to grow up so fast, but apparently the request has been denied. We love our Raycer and are so proud of the big boy he is growing up to be! Have fun in school Rayce!

BEAR LAKE 2008

Every year we go to my bro-in-law Ben's family cabin up at Bear Lake. The cabin is north of Lake Town on the East side. All you have to do is cross the road to a private gated beach, it is AWESOME!! They have all the toys you could imagine: sea doos, arcade games, nintendo wii, a golf cart (for transporting gear and children of course), a dune buggy, 2 huge 4-wheelers, a sail boat, and don't forget the sweet tractor. We all get together eat lots of great food, sit out in the sun (if it happens to be around), play games, and chew the fat! It is a lot of fun and most of all Raycer has a ball! We are truly blessed to have such a great family. I love that my kids love their cousins so much. Thanks again Cassitys!! See you again next year!

2 little nubbins'

Lanie just got her first two teeth about a week ago. I just didn't want to forget the timing of the teething so I am blogging about it. There are so many things that I didn't write down when Rayce was a baby and I really wish I would have. (I did take way more pics of the Raycer than I have of the Lanster though). Two bottom teeth and I am still nursing! She has been a nice non-biter. Hope she still feels like being nice when she get the top ones!! We love our sweet little pea-wee!