Clark Family

Summer time...and we moved!

2010-08-02T14:05:00.000-07:00

Once again my mom informed me that my pictures are sadly out of day. I tried to update them a few days ago but after trying to log in about 50 times because my e-mail address has changed and I couldn't remember my password, I gave up. I tried again today and finally figured it out.

We did move. We are living in Cottage Grove at the moment and are hoping to stay in the Eugene area. Jacob and I are both looking for work...so we will see where that takes us.

Charlie had his birthday right after we moved. This is one of him presents. He had a lot of fun opening everything up and eating his blizzard birthday cake later that day.

Here he is on the 4th of July. He really liked to watch the big fireworks that someone was lighting off nearby, and we purchased a ton of pop-its, which he threw everywhere for days after the 4th.

This is one of the presents my parents sent him for his birthday. He really liked playing with it.

We took Charlie to a parade in Cottage Grove which he loved. It only took him about one minute to figure out that they were throwing all of the candy for him to get. He was fearless running around to pick up the candy.

We also went to the beach. It was soooooooo windy down at the coast that Charlie would not play in the water...when you stood on the beach you got sandblasted...so we got a few quick pictures and then left so that he would stop complaining.

We did find a cliff that protected us from much of the wind. He was able to play in the sand for a bit and climb the rocks.
We went camping for a few days with Jesse, Nanell, Reese, and Valerie. Chalie loved this. He would play in the water as long as it was not too deep. He seemed to be afraid of the water when is was really deep even if Jacob or I was carrying him. We will have to work on that.We went to the zoo just this last weekend. They were having a dinosaur display that Charlie loved.

We took him on the train at the zoo as well. This was really fun for all of us. Jacob and I had a lot of fun at the zoo, and Charlie loved all of the animals.

So I think that is enough for now. Once again I will try to do better at updating. We did go to a family dinner while we were in Portland but I don't have the pictures for that yet...maybe I will do that before Christmas!

easter

2010-04-04T15:24:00.001-07:00

Today, easter sunday, it was is the low 60's at noon, by 2:30 is was snowing...this spring has been crazy!
Charlie with his easter basket. Being as I only have one child I figured I would spoil him...all of his candy came from see's (his favorite candy shop).

coloring eggs on easter morning.

On a climbing rock at a park on the day before easter...I have to catch him as he jumps off.

Going down the fire man pole at the same park...this is his favorite thing to do here.

Charlie went on an easter egg hunt on Saturday.

Here he is searching for eggs with the basket that I made him!

Snow

2010-03-30T18:07:00.001-07:00

We had snow when we woke up today...at the end of March. I was sure that we were not going to get any snow pictures this year so I was really excited. Some of the pictures are from the morning time as I did not expect it to last the day so I did some in the morning...but then some was here when we came home from work so I got a few more.

He loves throwing snowballs at me!

This is the morning time...he really liked his footprints!

Just him and me being silly a couple of days ago.

And this is two or three days ago...this weather is just not making sense this year...I guess it is spring time in oregon!

Quick Update

2010-03-23T15:56:00.000-07:00

So, it has been forever. I got a full time job in October, and I just never have time anymore. In fact today I finally got the photos of Christmas off of my camera and onto my computer. So here is a quick update. It is spring break for us so I have a little time. I finished a quilt today. There is an upclose view so you can see the stitching and then the overall quilt. I have done this quilt one other time but this time it turned out a lot better.

Charlie taking a bath in the sink. I am sure he is too old for this but he is cute so when he askes to do it I usually let him.

Charlie at Christmas time. I went a little overboard on the Christmas presents this year. But in fairness my inlaws came down and they had a ton of presents for eachother, and we did have presents for Charlie that came from people other than us. I realized just how overboard I went when Charlie didn't want to open up any more presents!

And this is how he helped me with the Christmas candy making.

Wildlife Safari

2009-09-10T11:35:00.001-07:00

So...we went to Wildlife Safari on Labor day weekend. Charlie loved it. On of the best things we saw was the bears playing. We watched them for several minutes. There were a lot of buffalo around and Charlie kept saying, "That's massive" whenever we would stop to look at one.
Here we are looking at an elk which he also liked.

After we went through the park we went to the petting zoo area.

And he found a playground to play at for awhile!

Jacob and Charlie having fun together

Jacob also wanted to take Charlie on a camel ride. It was really expensive and did not last very long...but Charlie really liked it...and so did Jacob.

We went on a train ride which Charlie loved. The went on a small loop through part of the park.

After spending time running around Charlie wanted to go and see the animals again. When you pay you actually get two tickets to go through on the same day...so we used the second one. This time through these two giraffs came about 3 feet from our car...it was neat.

Just before we finished the second time through Charlie finally got sleepy. He slept the rest of the way home!

At the Park

2009-08-29T11:23:00.000-07:00

Charlie really likes to go to the park. I try to take him once or twice a week. This time I brought the camera. His favorite thing to play on are slides. Sometimes he jumps from the top step here...it always scares me but he has yet to hurt himself.

After the slide this is his favorite part of this play system.

This park also has a fun water area for him to play in. He runs around the outside of the water like a crazy man until he decides just what part of the water he wants to play in.

And this is usually the part of the water he likes the best. They do have water guns that work on a swivel...which he really likes, but there were a lot of kids there this day and he did not like to stand in line waiting for the water guns.

Charlie & Jacob

2009-08-25T20:20:00.000-07:00

Here is a video of Charlie and Jacob playing with Shadow. It is in the morning so Charlie is still in his pajamas. In this video Charlie is perfectly happy and good...however maybe next time I will post one of him crying and having a fit...I think that happens just as often!

Grammy Lynn Visit

2009-08-20T09:44:00.001-07:00

My Grammy came down to visit! Most of the time that she was here I could not find the camera, but we did find it and I managed to get a few good pictures.

This is him showing my grammy his lightening book. Ever sense we had the lightening storms he is really interested. We recorded a National Geographic show on lightening and we bought him a book. He has his favorite picture and he kept showing it to Grammy Lynn...who acted way more interested than I did as she has only seen it 20 time now!

Here they are are outside looking at something.
One more time outside right before she left...this is my favorite picture.
And for the second post in a row, here is something about somebody other than Charlie!
I have started canning. I have only done a few things but I am excited when they turn out. On the right you can see the pears that I did earlier and on the left is the applesauce that I did the other day. I think it looks pretty to have the food in the jars rather than the store bought cans.

Summer Time

2009-08-15T15:25:00.000-07:00

We take Charlie down to the river all the time, and most of the time I forget to take the camera. These were from a couple of weeks ago.

I think that his smile might be a little crooked when I see this picture...oh well, he is still the cutest kid I know!

And just because this is supposed to be about our family I thought I would post this picture. Jacob hunts like mad up here and he shot a bear yesterday. Now we have to process all of the meat. We are making sausage and hamburger and a few roasts.

More Charlie

2009-07-07T07:31:00.001-07:00

Yes...it has been awhile. I will post picts, but not much writting because I cut my finger and it makes it difficult to type!

So here he is with his train set. We keep it set up in his bedroom now because he plays with it almost every day!

He is sooooooooo cute!

We went to visit Wayne and Marys and happened to stay the night on the same night they were babysitting Reese & Valerie...they all had a good time!

And finally here are some birthday pictures...I can not belive he is 3 already!

Here he is after playing in his new pool

And one last thing. I made a different quilt so I thought I would post a picture.

Charlies Mail

2009-03-28T10:46:00.000-07:00

My parents sent Charlie a wooden train set which he loves. I will post some pictures of him playing with that later. After he played with the train set for about 45 minutes he decided that the bubble wrap and the box were fun to play with as well.

In this video he is saying thank you...although you can not really understand him because he is more excited about playing than talking and he gets shy sometimes when I am taking pictures.

And finally here he is playing with the bubble wrap. He set it up so that he could jump from one to the other!

Charlie's Gun

2009-03-01T19:00:00.000-08:00

Well...I know it has been awhile but in all fairness I have been busy. I was talking to my mom on the phone the other day and she let me know that it had been too long because the most recent post was the Christmas pictures. So here are some new Charlie photos. My son is really into guns. We have not purchased one for him...but everything he owns becomes a gun. I am a little concerned about him turning into a terrorist!!! We were playing outside and he found a piece of wood that worked good for a gun so here are some of the photos. He looks funny in this picture because he is shooting me and saying, "boom boom".

He also trys to be covert about it by hiding behind trees and walls when we are inside and then jumping out and shooting us.

Still shooting me!

I made him sit for a minute before I would give him his "gun" and this is the best I could get him to do...he was anxious!

He has the "gun" in these two photos as well...but he was holding it lower. This was actually on Friday and we had to put the "gun" in a special area outside when it was time to go in so that he could play with it on Saturday.

And finally...here is a video of him shooting me...he is just so cute!

Christmas Morning

2009-01-12T08:52:00.001-08:00

Okay...so I know it is a little late, but here are some Christmas morning photos. This is the first year that we did all of Christmas in our own home, and it was wonderful to have all of that time together. This is the first present that Charlie opened and it was difficult to get him to open another one once he saw his tools.

He really liked his hot wheels and their track and he still plays with them every day.

This was his remote controlled car which he loves...but he is a little hard on it so I am always having to fix it.

Charlie throwing snow

2008-12-15T11:01:00.000-08:00

Here is cute Charlie with the snowman that he kept trying to kick over.
And Charlie and Jacob down by the river...which Charlie still wanted to play in...but this time we told him no.

And finally Charlie and Me down by the river.

Here is Charlie again...this time throwing snow at Jacob!

Snow days

2008-12-15T08:48:00.000-08:00

So...again, this is why we moved further south...this is what it looks like inbetween snow storms...I just love the sunshine!

We walked up on the mountain and jacob brought down some more fallen trees so that we have more wood to burn.

Charlie is just too cute to not take a quadrillion photos of.

Here he is again...just being cute

Then on Monday we woke up to a lot of snow. It is still early in the moning in the picture so there is not a lot of light.

Charlie likes playing in the snow. I snowed a little on Saturday and Sunday...and then a lot last night. We went out in the snow this morning. I will try to get better pictures later today when is is lighter if the snow sticks around.

Getting Our Christmas Tree

2008-12-07T09:15:00.000-08:00

Seeing as we live on a lot of property we decided to cut down a Christmas tree where we live rather than purchasing one this year. We found out that this is a lot harder as most of the trees in the wild don't look anything like what a Christmas tree should look like. First things first...This is what it looked like on December 6th when we went to cut down our tree...which is one of the big reasons that we moved further south!

Here is cute Charlie helping us find our tree. He loves it when we go on these adventures because he can throw all the rocks he can find.

This is the tree that we finally chose after hiking around for about an hour...I think that it is actually a really nice one. It is also cool that we could get a really tall tree because one of our rooms has really tall ceilings.

Here is Charlie and I with the tree outside...we had to pull quite a bit of leaves and pine needles out of the tree before we brought it inside.

And here it is all up and before Charlie could start pulling ornaments off...not that perfect little Charlie would ever dream of doing that...but I have heard that other children his age do.

Charlie at the river

2008-11-15T17:46:00.001-08:00

Here is Charlie headed down to the river. This river runs through our property...but it is about 150 yards or more down the hill from our house. And of course he is wearing his favorite outfit...this time with red pants as the black ones were dirty!

He stomps around for awhile with his sandals on. His favorite thing to do is make me pick rocks out of the river so that he can throw them back in...my hands get cold doing that this time of year.

Then he decides that it is summer time so it is okay to take his shoes off.....

and walk around and play in the freezing water.

Upon return I put him in a warm bath to wash off the mud and warm him up after the freezing river water.

Halloween

2008-11-11T13:27:00.001-08:00

And finally...the halloween photos. He still has candy and I am totally giving it away at school this week!