You HAVE TO check this out!!!!

My amazingly, talented sisters are participating in a craft fair on Mother's Day weekend. They are bringing lots of goods and oh how I wish I could be there!!!!

For all of my Utah friends, you've gotta check out their booth, "Seams Like Susie."
I have posted some pictures of a sample of what they will be selling!

For any of my Ohio friends, I will be going to Utah for the second half of May, if anyone would like to place an order I can pick them up for you while I am there (no shipping!!!)

These are GREAT prices!!!

First Item:
The Nursing Cover.
This nursing cover has boning in the neck, so it bows out making it easier for the nursing mother to see her baby. It also has a D ring in the neck strap, to prevent the baby from pulling it or it sliding off your neck. How cool is that?
The best part is, this trendy, darn cute cover is only
$16.50
You can't beat that.
In many different fabrics.
Love this one.

Every mother will LOVE this one.
It's a chalk board place mat.
It is portable and great for kids!
Here is a picture of it rolled up.

The back is lined with oil cloth fabric.

The front has chalk board fabric and a small pocket off to the side to hold two pieces of chalk (one comes in it). Kids can color and then just wipe off the chalk and start again!!!
These are only $12.50!

These bibs are adorable and come in so many different patterns.
They are also made with oil cloth, so they are super easy to wipe off and keep your baby clean!
These are only $4.50!
Check out just a few of these darn cute bibs.

Next, are these darling burp cloths, which I love!
They have really cute patterned fabric on one side, with terry cloth on the other. Every mom needs a bunch of burp cloths, why not have ones that are ADORABLE!

Again, these are only $3.50 each!

Above is the front. Below is the back with the terry cloth.
They are about 7 1/2 in x 15 in.

My other sister had been busy making some things as well.

First of all, are these must-have (scripture) tote bags.
They are perfect to fit a triple combination, pens, paper, a few snacks for the kids and even a sippy cup! There are tons of different styles, different handles and embellishments.
These are only $15.00!
I love these!
Here are a few...And lastly, are these TO DIE FOR dresses and skirts, for babies and girls.
These are made with shirring, so they are very stretchy and will fit for a long time. Some of the skirts come with a small flower that can stay clipped on the skirt or taken off and used as a hair clip.
Since they are so stretchy they are sized as follows:
M-L Dress for $18.00
XS (babies) - S Dress for $15.00
XS-S Skirt for $10.00
M-L Skirt for $12.00

Here is a little preview of the skirts and dresses.
My nieces are modeling and are the cutest!!!!

Here is the info for the fair for those of you who want to go!
Mother's Day Gift & Craft Boutique
Friday, May 8th 10am-8pm
&
Saturday, May 9th 9am-7pm.
389 North Main Street
Spanish Fork, Utah
In the Veterans Memorial Building.

Anyone else is more than welcome to order through me.
Contact me via email maryclark87@gmail.com.
An Etsy store is opening soon!

So funny

Occasionally Luke likes to be so silly and make these hilarious faces where he just laughs and then glares over and over. I finally got a video of it. This could possibly be my favorite video so far. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do!

Mr. Destructor!

Luke has been given a new name-with love.
Mr. Destructor!
(You have to say it with an Arnold Swartsinagor (sp?) voice, and emphasize the OR)

While he is learning how to get into just about EVERYTHING. I thought I better write it all down, so I remember just how smart he is.

A few things he has learned (and LOVES) to get into are:

• The printer (see pics at the bottom, he looks so determined).
• He loves anything electronic.
• The remotes (He's seriously obsessed. Once he sees one, he HAS to have it. His eyes get big and he started breathing harder until he gets it.) The other day he found my exercise step bench thing and moved it over to the remotes, which were on top of the TV stand, on top of the big stereo and he reached up and grabbed it and they all (four) fell on his head. He looked at me like, "Oh dang, I got caught."
• The refrigerator, he loves to unplug it and he's working on opening it.
• The microwave...loves to unplug that one too.
  
• Cell phones (as obsessed as the remotes).
• The Stereo for the TV, he loves turning the music on or changing it while we are watching TV (of course during the best part).
  
• The DVD player, it's velcroed to the TV stand.
• He recently just ripped the soft speaker covers on the stereo speakers off and the front of the dvd player.
  
• The Oven. It's also velcroed shut (we love velcro). He will shake the handle as hard as he can with his whole body to get the oven open. A few times he's fallen flat on his back because he gets it open.
• The Stove. He has learned to step up on the drawer under the oven (that holds all the pans) and pull himself up so he can grab things and see what I'm cooking...not good. We've got to figure something out for that one.
  
• The toliet. Enough said.
• Plugs. He loves unplugging everything.
• He loves pulling the safety covers over the outlets off.
  
• He loves to wrap the vacuum cord and any other cords around his neck (this one scares me, we ALWAYS have to keep our eyes on him. Everything cord/rope type thing in our house is put up or hidden).
• All the book shelves out in our living room/dinning room are turned around.

So our house is actually pretty safe.
Perfect for children.
You really don't realize how much you have to childproof a house until you have a child.
It's crazy!
This pic is actually quite cute. He looks like he's fixing it or something.

The innocent, "I didn't do it" look.


As for the sweet things he does lately:

• He says, "Laaallaa" for Love or I love you.
• He loves to give mom and dad kisses. And he's really good at it.
• He loves to give big hugs too.
• He's learned to spin around. However, he gets it confused with spit...so I have to choose my words carefully or else I'll find spit all over my floor.
• He all the sudden started signing and saying all sorts of words.
  
• Yesterday he said the words, "cheese and milk."
• He says, "Ah dun" when he's finished eating.
• His uncle Dave taught him to put his arm in the air and pull it down and say, "YES!" It's really cute.
• He pats his head and says, "Oh noo."
  
• He says "Uh oh" all the time.
  
• He stomps his feet really fast on the ground, like he's running in place.
  And the list goes on...

We love you little Lukey. Please don't grow up to fast. We have so much fun chasing you around and playing with you every day.

Lovin' this warm weather weekend!

The last three days have been really nice and full of sunshine. It has been between 55-70 degrees, a really nice change.

Since we're usually cooped up indoors, we go out whatever chance we get!
One of the days me and my friend Kat took our kiddies out for a walk to a nearby park. Matt had my stroller (it was in the car) so Luke got to walk. Lily pushed her little stroller & baby. And Kat had their stroller with their new baby Jake. It took us almost two hours, even though the park is like 2 blocks away. Those short legs don't go very fast and there are LOTS of distractions along the way.
I didn't get very many pictures, but they had a lot of fun playing on the playground. These kids play so well together, which is really nice. They chase each other around and giggle the whole time.
Luke landed in his first big mud puddle and stopped dead in his tracks, looked up at me and said, "Uh Oh." I realized he is not so much a baby anymore, he's turning into a big boy who loves rocks, sticks, dirt & mud.

On the walk home Luke and Lily decided they wanted to hold hands AND push the stroller at the same time. It was so funny and so cute! Check out the video at the bottom at the post.
I love their little work out outfits.

Luke loves playing on our front steps.

We saw our first flower pop up in our front yard and I was trying to show Luke the flower and to be soft and nice to it and as I am taking the picture he whacks it and I he ripped the flower off. Friday afternoon I got hit with the flu bug. It was a bummer because we had a babysitter lined up and we were supposed to have dinner and go to the art museum with Matt's fellow med students. We take any free date we can get. We haven't been on a date (without Luke) since October, so we were really looking forward to it. That was canceled and when Matt got home he sent me to bed and he took care of Luke until I was feeling better (which was mid day Saturday).
I found these pictures on the camera, this is how Matt gets dinner and other things done when he's on Luke duty, by himself.

Luke was watching T.V. in both pictures, taken on different days.

He was watching his first Cav's game in this picture. He LOVED watching it. He was really into it. I love his little outfit. It's a soccer jersey...but it works for basketball too, right?

After a while he wasn't into holding hands as much, you can hear him saying, "Mamamamama." He's a mama's boy these days.

Man, he's getting old...

Matt celebrated his 27th birthday on Tuesday.
We had a yummy dinner and dessert with some friends. Matt always says he doesn't want anything...so I didn't get him ANYTHING!
(well I matched all his socks in his sock drawer, he loves that and mended his favorite blanket...hehe).
I know I am a mean wife.

He got a fun game from a friend. And he is in the process of finding a keyboard (a piano kind, not computer one), so that is really his present from his parents and us. My parents sent him a package with some sweet stuff. He also got a bunch of cute cards from his nieces and nephews. And lots of hugs and kisses from Lukey.
A BIG thanks to everyone!!

Part of the package from the parents contained these cool protective eye wear for shooting.

Matt made cool sailor-style birthday hats for him and Luke. Unfortunately this was the best picture I could get. I'm surprised I didn't take more pics of his birthday.

Happy Birthday Matt!!!
We love you.
Thanks for being the most amazing, kind, loving and fun dad and husband. We appreciate all your hard work and all that you do for us. One year older and wiser too. We love you!!!!

Easter Weekend

We didn't do much this year for Easter.
We figured since Luke didn't really get it yet we would save our money (well we bought candy after Easter and save 50%!! haha).
The Friday before some women in the ward got together as a little playgroup and had a little Easter egg hunt. We all brought 12 eggs and each child could keep 12. It worked out well.
Here are pictures from Luke's very first Easter egg hunt!Naturally, the first one he went for was a soccer egg. He seemed happy with that one. He never did pick up the concept of grabbing as many as fast as you can. He'll learn next time.

It was rainy and a bit chilly so we had it inside the church.

It was also a pot luck lunch that turned out great. It was a lot of fun!

When we got home he finally realized the eggs had something in them.
Unfortunately, he has a mean mama and he didn't get any candy. I kept it all for myself! Whahahahaa. Jk. He doesn't need it anyway.

We would have celebrated it Saturday...if we would have done baskets this year, but we didn't. We did hard boil some eggs...but forgot to color them.
Man we're lame.
I promise we'll be more fun when we have more & older children.

Sunday was a beautiful day for Easter.
We were in the Choir at church and sang a beautiful song.
We had dinner at a friend's house, that was super good!
To top off the day we made a trip out to Kirtland to see a a bronze exhibit that depicted scenes from Christ's life. It was beautiful! And amazing to learn about the artist. She made a life size sculpture of Christ, that was beautiful, but she made it in 5 weeks, which is just amazing. Luke kept touching his feet and walking up to him saying "Hiiii" and "Geshus," which means Jesus.
Overall, we had a great Easter weekend!!!
But really missed our family and all the partying they were doing!

Slacking

I have been quite the slacker this week, I must confess.

I have not worked at all this week, which isn't good considering we got a ticket for 205.00 dollars! And made a few other financial mistakes...dang Keybank. I haven't studied much this week either, although I have done my homework. I need to get back into the swing of things.

Matt started his OB/Gyn Acting Internship (which means they treat him like a resident=long hours, more responsibility). It's good for him because he's really leaning towards doing this for the rest of his life, so after it's all said and done hopefully we'll have made a decision if this is the path he wants to take. For some reason when he does OB rotations life gets REALLY SLOW around here. It's quite depressing! He works longer hours and may get called out in the middle of the night. Luke and I (more me than him) mope around all day some days and stay in our pjs all day long...I'm lucky if I shower before Matt gets home. It might have to do with the fact that Matt is working on the west side, so he always needs the car and if the weather is bad we stay cooped up inside all day. It makes for really looong days.

Now that I have complained, I am going to get over it right NOW! Because this will most likely be the rest of my life.

Has your husband ever walked in the door and the first thing he says is, "I need to shower, I smell like Placenta?" (maybe a few of you, haha). Well I've heard this three different times this week.

Or has your husband had to come home and get his suit dry cleaned and his shoes washed because he got blood and other people's other bodily fluids (I'd rather not go into it) on them? It's only been a week.

Welcome to the rest of my life.

The good part is I get to hear a lot of amazing delivery stories (I think that is so cool) and the BEST part of it is, I know he loves what he is learning and doing. I can tell it makes him happy, so that is what's important.

Other exciting things that happened this week:

Luke barfed twice, in the same night, in his bed.

I have been able to work out every day this week (wahoo!)

It snowed for two days straight this week (thankfully not putting much down).

I have been outside once since Sunday (it's Friday).

I'm just thankful that I have good friends and family to keep me company on the phone and great blogs to read!

Most of all I'm thankful I have this little man to keep me smiling everyday...

I love you little Luke!

Another great weekend

This weekend we had visitors!
We love visitors.
And we had so much fun, as always.
Our littlest visitor was...Baby McKelle!
Ohhh I just love this outfit she's wearing.

They came in LATE Thursday night (about 2 am, so I guess that makes it Friday).
Thursday was such a beautiful day, so surely we thought Friday would be too.
We packed a lunch and headed to the beach. When we pulled up there were no cars there, it seemed a little windy and was raining a little. We got out walked over to a table and nearly got blown away and soaked. We ended up eating in the car.
Next, we headed over to the Art Museum because it is FREE. We walked into a free exhibit that was all photographs and as we came around the corner there was a wall full of naked people!!! Ahhh. It wasn't indigenous people and they weren't paintings, it was photos of normal people. It was disgusting!! We shot right out of there.

On our way out there is a room by the front doors that has all glass walls and doors with nothing in there. I was so excited to finally let Luke run free and he goes running right into the window. He fell on his bum and had a huge bump on his forehead. It was pretty funny at first, but so sad. And the worst part is my friend also has a toddler and she warned me about the glass room (because her son did the same thing) and I didn't even think about it!

Later that night, Dave & Meg took us out for dinner for Matt's Birthday that is coming up.
It was SO good!
Thanks again you guys!

The boys.
And the girls.Little McKelle has gotten so big since we saw her last month, but she's still so little.

Oh she is so darn cute!! I love her little smiles!

McKelle met the bumbo chair while visiting. Luke was a good boy and never touched her, he just would run over to here and lean his head in and say, "hiiii."

Saturday headed to the West side to pick up more inventory for our booming mirror business. If anyone is looking for a big, framed mirror, we've got three styles we are currently selling! We headed back home and enjoyed two sessions of general conference. That night we ate at the beloved Dewey's Pizza and the guys headed to Priesthood and Meg and I hung out. It was my first time having someone to hang out with while Matt was at Priesthood. It was great, even though McKelle was not a happy girl.


Sunday we had a big, yummy breakfast and watched the morning session of conference (all sessions were so good!) In between sessions it was so nice outside so we headed over to Shaker lakes to take a stroll.

Luke loves being outside. I love the picture below.

After walking for a bit, I hate to say it, but this creepy guy just walks up and picks up Luke! Luke was a little worried. We need to teach him Stranger Danger. We were right there and he only had him for a minute, but who does that anymore? Below, is the dude with a beard that is longer than my hair.

My baby is getting so big!

Thanks Meg and Dave for taking the long drive to spend a few days with us. We had so much fun and can't wait to see you again in a month. We are so grateful to have family close enough to see every now and then.