Other Summer Activities

There's never enough time to capture all the little adventures day to day.  Here's just a few memories by photo - says it all.

Mother's Day

Father's Day

@ the Park

First Haircut

Visiting Margaret Hanni

July 4th

July 24th

Farmer's Market

Cafe Rio

Grandpa Clark

Lately, we have been showering this man with extra love and support.

He just beat throat cancer and is 92 years old.

Grandpa Clark sealed us in the SLC temple 4 1/2 years ago.  David's dad's dad.  Tyson's great grandpa.  From England.  Strong testimony and dang strong physically too.

Of course he's aging but he's still there with his funny jokes and up-to-date news and his accent of course.  We love him lots and spent some extra time doing pictures this summer with Tyson and him and also a "generation" pic, maybe we'll get a more dressy one later, but for now, I love the one where Grandpa is holding Ty.

April 23rd, the week he was getting the tracheotomy

August 13th, 2 weeks after his tube was pulled out and all healed!

 David really wanted to show the height difference

My favorite picture, look at Grandpa Clark, what a sweet man.

NS + LB Wedding

We were lucky to get to participate in Nate's wedding August 12.  Can't believe I have pictures when he was 2 yrs old and I was just getting big enough to babysit him.  How crazy.  But it was a lovely day.  Poor Tyson got stuck at home most of the time and gratefully Grandma Clark was able to watch him, the first time he took naps w/out his parents and did pretty well actually.

(he's started blinking or closing his eyes even w/out a flash, silly boy)

Getting Crafty

This summer I've really had a CRAFTY bug.  Okay, I think I always have it, but life has been a little too busy as a new mom.  I feel back in the groove and even though I'm still mom at home and working, I hope I can keep this up!

Cooking - we are cooking a new meal each month.  We have found some good favorites to keep up!  Pasta bakes and desserts (like Tyson's cake!) and such.

Freezer jam - how did I forget about this?!?!?!  This was a favorite when I visited Grandma Ginny.  Us kids would seriously fight over it.  But I got my own jar full when I visited alone in college.  Okay and it's SO EASY.  Yeah it does take time to wash all the berries but after that you just mash up, add sugar and pectin, stir, put in jars and done!  We are making several from the farmers market raspberries.

Chocolate covered raspberries - still on a raspberry kick I decided to learn and make chocolate covered raspberries.  Delicious!!  And easy when you freeze them before and after.  And even eating them frozen is good, or not, either way.  Man, I'm letting out lots of good secrets!

Earrings - I found out how to make filigree earrings from ordering some basic metal pieces and painting them all sorts of colors.  I had no idea how time consuming it would be --- mostly because I'm OCD about getting it perfect - but way fun!  I may gift some or sell to whomever if you want, cuz man they may not cost a lot but lots of time!  If I didn't have a stay-at-home computer job I may just have to pop on Etsy or something, glad I don't have to yet.

Videos - as already mentioned I'm making videos from our home videos - Tyson's 1st year is in the works, wedding is done, and I really want to someday do a miracle pregnancy one, and who knows what else.

More to come!  Probably a wreath here for these great holidays coming up....