Recent Pictures

Here are some of the pictures I said I'd post. Saturday Matt had most of the day off and we wanted to go on a picnic so we drove to the lake and it was really windy and not that fun. Luke all bundled.
We walked out on this rockie pier thing and it was scary. Noramally I dont think I'd be scared but the waves were hitting the rock so we got a little wet and since I was holding Luke it made me a little more freaked out.

The poor kid could hardly breath because the wind was so hard.

Matt needed to be bundled too.

The first little nap in Luke's crib, he loved it. As you can tell he's all sprawled out. The bedding was given to us by Matt's mom and sisters, they made the quilt and it is so cute!

Last week it got up to about 85 one day and our house was hot.

Luke loved sitting in his chair in front of the fan, he's so funny.

And Luke playing with his daddy.

Some variety to my week.

This past week was busier than usual. I have pictures I'll add later when I get my computer back. Here we go...

Sunday-It was my first time back into the nursery since I had Luke. We had 10-18 mo. old kids, lots of fun! We had a yummy pot roast dinner with Matt's mashed potatoes mmmm. Oprah's Big Give finale!! Our favorite, Steven won! Yay!

Monday-We got another new little nephew! Congrats to Rachel and Charlie!! Baby boy McKay Charles Allen 6lbs 14oz 18 in, a healthy baby! Our friend called and had gone to the hospital to be induced that night as well. I walked to the bank because we got a dishwasher! We found it on craigslist it's only a year old and the guy delivered it to us! Woooo.

Tuesday-Our friend who went to the hospital Monday still hadn't had the baby, so I headed to the hospital to lend them my laptop and some movies since labor can be long and boring. When I got there they decided to take the baby by C-Section, Julie Joyce Nutter was born 4 weeks early at 5lbs 4oz!! And she is an absolute doll!!! Congrats Janelle and Ben!! And since I had the car I ran to Target and Michaels, it was such a nice day!

Wednesday-Today a friend and I went to visit Janelle and her little baby girl, I'm glad they are doing well. Our water heater was not working and Luke barfed all over himself and I didn't want to give him a cold bath so I had to wipe him down with wet wipes!! Matt was on call till 10pm.

Thursday-Matt fixed the heater so Luke could have a real bath. We headed over to the office where I used to work to visit the gang. They were excited to meet Luke and I got to see my friend Jamie who was about to POP she's being induced Wednesday. It was fun to see everyone and show off Luke. Later I did my visiting teaching, it was so nice we sat outside in the warm sun watching the kids play while we ate these yummy MinuteMaid cherry limeade popsicles, SO good.

Friday-I got my grocery shopping done and later when I picked up Matt he brought home this "fancy food" from some lecture at school, so we had sausage, cheese, pita bread and humus for dinner...whooo! Later we went to the movies and saw Vantage Point, it was alright, only worth the 2 dollars we paid to see it. Then we had a yummy sundae at McDonalds. One of my best friends got married in Utah, I wish I could have been there. Congratulations Dani and Tyler!!

Saturday-We decided to go on a little picnic, we packed a lunch and drove out to Lake Erie. The park we went to wasn't very nice and the it was a little rainy and waaay windy, but the lunch was good. We came home Matt took a nap because he's on OB call all night tonight for the first time. From 7Pm-9Am....he's excited to deliver some babies!

More pictures I found

These ones were from Christmas time, obviously, I had a huge belly. We had Clark family pictures taken while we were there.

The whole Clark family. Well minus the two little babies.

Let me tell you how happy I was that I got to sit right on the side with my HUGE belly so everyone could see.

Utah pictures

Here are a few pictures I found on Matt's computer from our little trip home last month.

The night after we arrived we were able to bless Luke at Matt's parents home in Salem.
Our little family.

Matt's dad and grandpa are both doctors, so we wanted to get a 3 generation "doc" picture.
Matt's grandpa Clark is 107.

Here's a four generation picture.

Bumbo Baby

Luke is getting stronger every day, so today we thought we'd try out his new little bumbo chair. We know it's purple, it was given to us. Luke will get it over it. He's still got a little bobble head. He liked it. Isn't he cute!

And since he's just a little guy if he gets tired he can lean back and he's got a head rest.

Haha, I guess he needs to grow into it a little more.

The big 26!

Happy Birthday to Matt!

Monday was Matt's 26th birthday. He had to work most of the day. All he really wanted was a good dinner and dessert and a few little odds and ends. Since I'm a "former" Pier 49 Pizza employee he requested the Nob Hill pizza, which is basically a garlic, alfredo chicken pizza. It was yuuuummmmmmy!!! Then our friends came over for dessert. He wanted homemade brownies with ice cream.

Ta Da!!!!

Isn't it beautiful.

Luke was a party pooper.

Last week...

Sunday-General Conference, wahoo! Matt was home to enjoy it with me, what wonderful talks. It was so enjoyable. Matt and I headed over to Shaker Lakes and took a stroll it was a beautiful day.

Matt's little mini-me.

Monday-Matt was on-call all day. It was so nice outside and finally around 6:30 I decided I had to get out, so I took Luke on a walk. Me and Luke had our own little FHE.

Tuesday-Matt got home at a decent hour and we walked to one of the libraries near by. It was fun because the weather has just been beautiful!!

Wednesday-My friend Debbie gave me a call and we took our boys out on yet another walk. It was great we walked for an hour and a half, it was nice to get out.

Thursday-I was supposed to get the car today, but Matt left in a rush and we both forgot it was too early. I went visiting teaching and...you guessed it I walked! That's all I do these days, it's actually kinda nice. When Matt got home we ran some errands and I bought some stuff to work out with like a pilates ball, weights, stuff like that. And we got Enchanted, my favorite, thanks Emily!!!

Friday-No walks for us today...it was a rainy day. Fortunately I had things to do at home. I've been really into working off this "baby fat" and when we were at the library we picked up some workout dvds and I got this one called, Walk it off with George, as in George Foreman. Ahah it is so funny, but it really kicks your butt. Or maybe just mine, since I'm sooo out of shape. Matt got home and we watched Enchanted during the tornados. Whhoo.

Saturday-This morning we had our Aldi fiasco. Later that night we attended our Adult Stake Conf. meeting, it was really great. It's so awesome to live in the Kirtland Stake, there is always such a special spirit at our meetings because of the pioneers and Joseph Smith who settled in this area. We truly have wonderful leaders in our stake. After the meeting we hung out the Kienes and played some Guitar Hero! It was so much fun!

This one is for all you Utah people who hate to bag your leaves

I've lived in Cleveland a year, you think I would have see this by now. Well this morning I finally witnessed it. You can just brush all your sticks and leaves to the side of the curb and the city comes and sucks it up! It's awesome. I always used to see people in Utah brushing out their gutters and I hated bagging loads of leaves.

Just move to Cleveland.

Isn' t this sweet!

The Aldi Experience

This past weekend was great Matt was home the whole weekend, we had Stake Conference, enjoyed some Monk, we watched Enchanted (my absolute favorite) oh and apparently there were tornado warnings a few miles west of where we are...we weren't harmed but it was pretty creepy.

Well on to the good stuff. So, I do my grocery shopping at Giant Eagle. It's nice, good location, you get fuel perks, they have pretty much everything I'm looking for, the prices aren't bad but I'll admit they are a little higher than some of the "discount" grocery stores around, but not as expensive as other whole food stores and other ones.

Anyway, my good friend has been telling me to go to Aldi's, she says they have way good prices and their produce is cheap. So I finally decide to give it a chance. I was about to go and looked it up online to find out where it was, well I had never been that way and as far as I knew it was in the ghetto, or sketchy part of town. So I decided to wait until Matt could come with me for the first time.

On Saturday morning we went there, after driving through a very ghetto part of town, but the shopping center wasn't too bad. First of all you have to deposit a quarter to get a shopping cart which is actually a good idea so they don't have to go out through the parking lot to round up all the carts. Once we're inside we were getting pretty excited about all the low prices, I was grabbing things left and right. I get to the milk...you may think we're weird but we drink Skim, and it was expired! Then we get to the produce and it was sweet! They had a pretty good selection and it was really good prices, we loaded up on produce. Well after going through my list there were a few things I couldn't find. They don't have a huge selection, it seems like they get what they get kinda thing. I started looking around and I realized we were the only white people in the store, so that was different. So we're checking out and I look over and see people bagging their food with bags they are pulling out of their pockets. Apparently, you have to bring your own bags or buy them, which was kind of weird and of course we didn't bring bags. Finally we are checking out and they don't take credit! What kind of grocery store doesn't accept credit or checks! Only cash or debit. Well we didn't have $60 in cash, and we both forgot all FOUR of our pin numbers! So we tried four different cards..nothing. No groceries for us.

Well they're like "Go to an ATM, we'll keep your cart here." So we're in this neighborhood were we don't know where anything is, we find an ATM and Matt tries over and over, different pins, everything. Then we see KeyBank, so he tries to go in and get cash out. It was 1:02..they closed at 1:00. So he tries the ATM there and one of my cards from Utah gets EATEN! I'm not kidding, that ATM machine ate my card. It printed a paper that said, "Your card has been retained, please contact your financial institution." And our other cards were "deactivated. In the meantime we were almost out of gas.

So after about 2 hours we decided to just go back to good ol' Giant Eagle. And did the whole grocery shopping thing over again.

It was a long morning.

By the way, I hate grocery shopping. But I think I'll stay true to Giant Eagle.

Weekly Highlights

Sunday-My first husband-less trip to church, we we're lucky enough to bum a ride with the Lindseys. When we got home from church I was changing Luke's clothes and I was tickling him and he started to laugh!! It was so cute, he chuckles all the time now.

Monday-Matt came home and it was a beautiful warm day so we went on a walk and came home and grilled up some hamburgers, they we're so goood and it was nice to spend time with him.

Tuesday-Work, work, work. Luke took a few long naps so I could get some good work time in. I talked to my best friend Dani and her and her hubby are moving out to the east for a few months, we plan on meeting up with them this sumemr and I'm so excited! Oh, and of course American Idol.

Wednesday-Another beautiful day, me and Luke walked up to our friend Marilyn's house. We hung out, played a little Sims and had yummy tacos for lunch. Matt got his scores back from the boards and we were both very pleased with his good score. I'm so proud of him.

Thursday-I got the car again! Whoo. I did some grocery shopping and this nice old man that worked there took my groceries out to my car and even loaded them in my trunk, it was so nice. It made me really miss Macey's, but I was thankful for his help.

Friday-Yay Friday, Matt gets off earlier on Friday's. I finished some crafts and cleaned our apartment. Our friend Jon was in town and stayed with us for the third time, he's our star guest. We all went out to dinner at Red Robbin and watched a little Monk (we are obsessed with that show, and now it comes on nbc on Sundays at 8pm!!!) There is a pretty good chance Jon and his very soon-to-be wife will be coming to Cleveland for med school, we're really excited and hope they do!

Saturday-Matt was on-call all day. I was able to get a lot of spring cleaning done, talked to my mom, enjoyed conference and did some decorating around my home.

I didn't have the most exciting week, but at least the sun is out and the birds are singing!!

Welcome Spring! It's about time!!!

Someday I'm going to hire someone to decorate my home.

I am having curtain issues. So I need some input please! Does this look good? If not, what could I do to make it look good. I don't love the droopey swoopy look, I like this look but I feel like it maybe needs something else, I don't know what though?? I'm not very creative, I wish I was. I have three of these windows in my living room.