Another big milestone

We are officially homeowners!

Tonight is our last night sleeping in our apartment, but the only stuff left is all of our furniture-everything else is at our new house. Tomorrow morning the Elders are helping us move all of our furniture, so we'll be out of our apartment for good.

Wednesday evening we got our keys and started some cleaning. Thursday our friends let our us borrow their truck for the day. Matt made a million trips back and forth, while I cleaned. Thankfully Luke was able to play at a friends house for quite a few hours and we amazingly were able to get a lot of things done (funny how that works). And today we made a few more trips, and wrapped things up around here. It is EXHAUSTING!

Last year my sister was about as pregnant as I am and told me how awful it is to move while being pregnant and now I completely understand! I almost feel pathetic because I am constantly taking breaks and I don't think my feet have ever hurt so badly! At the beginning of all this madness I was starting to feel sorry for us because we don't have family to help out, but Matt has been amazing! I don't know how he has all the energy to move seriously everything in our entire house. And on top of that we have a wonderful ward. So many people have called and offered to watch Luke, help us move and bring us dinner. I am so thankful to be in such a great ward, they really take care of us! We couldn't do it without the church.

I'll post some more recent pictures at some point. We have a ton of cleaning and unpacking ahead of us. Matt is off for the next three weeks and he wants to put a fence in before he starts residency too. Whew!

We love our new place!

Ps. We have a very comfortable guest bed! 

Visitors anyone???

Introducing Dr. Matthew Brent Clark, M.D.

Sunday, May 16th, 2010 Matt graduated from medical school!

We waited so long for this day and it turned out beautifully, and really we can't believe it came and went already.

The day started before 7am. We had breakfast with the Deans of the medical school.

Class of 2010 pictures.

And then Anne and I went to the convocation where Katie Couric was the guest speaker and gave some great advice to the graduating students at Case.

Then we hurried down the street to Severance Hall where they had the medical school's commencement. 

Severance is where the Cleveland Orchestra plays. It is such a beautiful building! A HUGE thank you to Rob for watching Luke (for a few hours!) while Anne and I were at the other event (we could only get two tickets) and for saving us some great seats at Severance.

Dr. Matthew Clark receiving his diploma and being hooded by his society dean Dr. Kent Smith

Luke slept through the entire commencement, so he wasn't very happy after when we were taking pictures.

And there is my 23rd week pregnant belly.

Anne and Rob flew into town for the weekend. We had such a great time having them stay with us! We LOVE visitors! :) We did some fun things that I will post later. 

We loved having them. I think they really enjoyed their stay as well.

The proud parents.

Dr. Clark hooding the newest Dr. Clark.

Matt is the first grandson in his family to be a doctor. His grandpa Clark and dad were/are both Family Practice doctors, both doing a lot of Obstetrics and Gynecology. However, Matt is the very first doctor in my family, so my family is very proud of him as well!

Matt's graduating class (about 133 students).

Can you find him?

And little Lukey, maybe he'll want to be a doctor too?

He kept calling Matt "doctor daddy."

Matt, I am so proud of you and all of your hard work over the years. You have accomplished so many things and I am so grateful for your ambition and your desire to work hard and help people. You will make a great doctor! Congratulations sweetie pie!

The time has finally come...

TOFW

Last weekend I was lucky enough to go with a few other fabulous girls to Pittsburgh for the Time Out For Women conference. And, just like it was last year, it was amazing!!! 

It hasn't even been a year since I went last, and even though just a few of the talks or other things were the same, I loved it! I highly recommend it to everyone.

We made the 2 1/2 hour drive, ate some yummy food, and enjoyed the music and talks, stayed up too late chatting and laughing at our hotel, and sat at the conference the next day...it all went by too fast!

In our group we had Janelle, Cathy, me, Ali, Marilyn, Kristy & Marilyn's baby Aurora-who was a piece of cake. Once we were at the conference we met up with Laura and saw a few other gals from our ward there.

And if you've never been to Pittsburgh, you've gotta go, it's such a GORGEOUS city!!!

I wish I had more pictures of the city. In fact, I somehow managed to not take one single picture while we were there, I had to steal these from a friend. The city is alive and happening (unlike Cleveland), it has a huge river running through the middle, with pretty bridges crossing from side to side. 

It was SO much fun!!! Thanks to all the girls I went with, it was such a blast! 

And an even bigger thanks to my wonderful hubs who let me go and leave Luke at home. It was a much needed time out.

Every year...

Every year, this time of year, many of our friends move out and move on....it's a sad, but happy, time of year.

This year our ward is loosing something like 15 families?

 

Of those families, my good friend Molly, who is also in the Primary Presidency with me is moving to Houston (hopefully we can come visit them & our family sometime). We took a picture of our presidency the last time we were all together (and I am pretty sure this is the most awful picture of me ever taken, normally I don't make a big fuss in photos, but this one is definitely one of the worst-it was a long day).  Between vacations and Sarah & Debbie having babies, there haven't been very many times when we've actually all been together on Sunday.

We're also loosing so many great friends that we are sad to see go!

We thought we'd be one of the families leaving, but I'm actually really happy we don't have to say our farewell just yet!

Good luck to all of you, you will be missed!