From winter to spring in only a week...

This was the weather a week ago:

This is what we got to enjoy today: After church this morning, we met my family to celebrate my grandad's 89th birthday. Drew took Clark afterwards to my parents' house to fish and I was able to get in a couple hours of school (college) work. Drew and Clark had lots of fun spending the afternoon together. I think one of Clark's favorite things was chasing the geese into the lake. They were not happy, but Clark sure had fun!

Snow in March is always fun!

What a wonderful way to start the month of March! We had fun in the snow!

Fun with bubbles...

Barnum & Bailey Circus comes to town...

We took Clark to the circus on Friday night and we all had a great time. Clark loved the excitement and his favorite part was "the trash can" that blew out bubbles. I thought surely the first time ever seeing an elephant and a tiger would be his fondest memory...not a trash can! However, Clark had a great time and really LOVED the cotton candy, pizza, and ice cream.

Decorating for Christmas

Clark holds his ornament proudly!

Clark put the first ornament on the tree. He loves the new Elmo ornament Peep gave him!

Drew helping Clark decide the best spot for his ornament

Clark wanted to help every step of the way while Drew worked to trim the tree and get it in the stand. As you can see, he was dressed for the weather!

Christmas Photos

Clark in one of his cute Christmas outfits in front of our tree @ home.

We found an adorable sleigh @ Ashley Park that I thought would be a perfect photo prop. It didn't work quite so well. Something about the freezing temperatures might have been the reason!

I have no idea what he's looking at, but this is one of my favorites!

Clark discovered our music boxes when we unpacked our Christmas stuff. He has all 7 of them out on the rug (still as I'm typing this two weeks after decorating) and loves to line them up and listen to each one. It's very cute...I think Santa should bring him one more to add to the collection!

As you can tell from the pumpkins in the background, we start Christmas as soon as Thanksgiving is over! Clark loves his monkey with candy cane pajamas.

Christmas Cookies...

Christmas time is always fun for me because I love to get the kitchen a mess with cooking/baking. Clark and Crystal joined in on the fun last night with our family's famous Christmas Cookie baking. Thank goodness Crystal came because I sliced my finger (for the 2nd year in a row) and she ended up doing most of the work. FYI: The whole process takes about 3 1/2 hours, so you can imagine what my kitchen and table (with about 150 cookies on it) looked like! Thanks, Cryckle, for helping. Clark has tons of fun!

Like I said, it took a long time and Clark got a wee bit bored. He had quite a time in the bathroom pretending he was a Charmin puppy!