So, to start the New Year off, I’m moving my pictures to another site:

Shutterfly

This way the site it locked down and I’m not posting to random people all over the internet! I will most likely keep this site until it’s renewal in September, but that’ll be it I think.

~Jen

I figured I’d close out the year right by updating about the last month in the year and all of the holidays.

Since I got the new camera at the beginning of the month, I spent WAY too much time taking pictures. (Is there such a thing??) Actually, it was fun to mess around with different settings and such and try it out.

Jordan sang with her classmates at her school again during their Santa Shop. Caleb’s school also put on a "holiday" show at a church nearby so Jordan and I went since it was during the week and Ryan had to work.

Ryan also missed out on his family get-together and PaBob’s family get together. Somehow, my mom’s side escaped the family photos. I even had the tri-pod setup but never got everyone together for the shot.

So, we survived another year of Christmas overload and I’m slowly getting the house back together and decorations put away.

Now, time for my favs:

Jordan at her show

CJ at his

Cousins!

Coombes Family

Duffy Family

Clark Family   

~Jen

Happy Thanksgiving!!! We had a wonderful meal and holiday this year, not like last year, stuck at home with a croupy boy! Rachael, Jason, Sage and Spencer spent the night Wednesday night so that we could get an early start cooking on Thursday. Jimmy came by after his family visit and then I picked up my sis Rachael and Dave met us at the house as well. Of course, we had both our kiddos as well this year, so it was a full house!

The other big event in November was Jordan’s Princess Ceremony. We completed our Princess Club classes at the church and Jordan "graduated" with her girlfriends on November 18th. After the ceremony, they had a quick reception with cake and treats. Jordan had a great time and it was a proud moment for us also.

I also went to my BeautiControl training and am now starting my business, hosting spa parties for the ladies! My first big one is this Friday at our house, and I’m hoping to have a decent crowd. We have so many specials this month and I’m hoping to get the word out to save people money on their holiday shopping!!

More pictures:

Princess Ceremony

Big Kids’ Table 

Group picture ~ Dave, Caleb, Rachael, Rachael,

Spencer, Jason, Sage, Jimmy, Me, Ryan, Jordan

Silly Shot

~Jen

Another month went by super quick! I can’t believe how fast this year has gone. We did slow it done in October mostly, but still had a handful of fun stuff to do.

First, we celebrated Xavier’s first birthday with him and the family. He’s just adorable, with his beautiful blue eyes and it still amazes me how much he looks like Trevor! We got the classic first birthday cake shots, which are hilarious.

I had taken Jordan to a pumpkin patch last year that was close to the house, but our neighbors have been telling us to hit up Rock Creek for the last few years, so I got in touch with Malinda and Trevor and we took all the kiddos out to pick pumpkins. They even had a whole kiddie area with a slide and maze and petting zoo. The kids loved it, and I got some great fall photos.

So of course the biggest event in October is Halloween!!! Since Ryan had to work on the night-of, we made sure to hit all the parties the weekend before. The kids costumes turned out to be pretty cute - Jordan was a bride and Caleb was the Hulk, although he would have been Spiderman again this year if I’d have let him wear that poor torn up costume.

Happy Birthday, Xavier!

The scrapbook page I made him!

Scott Family at the Pumpkin patch

Scarecrow & Pumpkin Boy

Hulk & Ms. Bride

Happy Halloween!

~Jen 

I can’t decide which was more busy, August or September! We had stuff planned for every moment of every weekend it seemed. We started the month with Rich & Melissa’s baby, Harper’s 2nd birthday! It was nice to see some of my Denver coworker’s outside of work for once.

The next weekend, I had arranged for Ryan and I to sneak off to Breckenridge for the weekend once again and made sure that I planned our weekend to coincide with Oktoberfest! Can you believe it, Ryan even got me to drink beer (and I liked it!)?

Another weekend and it was our good friend Tommy’s girlfriend, Heather’s birthday. We joined a group of the old McLane crew in Westminster for that party.

One of Caleb’s dad’s closest friends also had a little boy about a month after I had Caleb, and while the couple is not together any longer, she and I keep in touch as much as we can. We hadn’t gotten the boys together since Caleb’s last birthday, so it was long overdue and I met up with her in downtown Denver one day so the boys could play. I was amazed, little Alex can already ride a bike with no training wheels!

Just before my little sis, Rachael’s birthday, Jordan and I got our braces from the orthodontist. Yep, I am a 29-year-old brace face. And it’s no fun, but I’ll live. The doc promised me that we’d only have them for 6 months, so I figured what-the-heck.

Unfortunately, that same week, we planned to spend time at the cabin with Jason and Rachael Williams, so they had to endure my whining and non-friendly self while I adjusted to this crazy contraption in my mouth. Nolan and Danielle joined us for a night as well. But, it was still nice to see them all and the kiddos, at least from our perspective!!

Another thing I had wanted to take Caleb to see but hadn’t gotten around to it until this year was "A Day Out With Thomas." I had heard about it years past but had missed the opportunity to get tickets, etc. so I finally bought them early this year. The unexpected treat was that I got take my niece, Winter along with us! It was so great to see the cousins together, since they are only 17 days apart in age. They LOVED riding the train and seeing all of the sites at the Railway Museum in Golden.

We finished out the month with Danielle’s 23rd birthday during the Broncos vs. Kansas City game at their house. I don’t want to talk about that game, thank you, but we had a good time none the less.

Ready for pictures? There’s a BUNCH!!

The Davis Family (Melissa, Harper, Rich)

Oktoberfest in Breckenridge

Heather’s birthday

Alex & Caleb

Tinsel Teeth!!

Guys at the Cabin

The Girl Cousins!

A Day Out With Thomas

Danielle’s Birthday!

I can already tell you that October’s post will not be this long as we are finally into the "slow time" for plans!!

~Jen

August was a super busy month for us! We have a ton of friends and family that have August birthdays, so it seems like the busiest month of the year usually.

Ben & Heidi’s baby, Torin, turned 1, so that was the first party of August. Then for boy-Jordan’s (as Caleb calls him) birthday, we went to Elitch’s. That night, we ran up to Loveland for Sage’s birthday.

I took a trip to Omaha for work and finally got to see the PayPal office and what life in Nebraska is like. I have to admit, I really liked the area, and was pleasantly surprised. I just happened to get the week of the best weather of the summer, so that was awesome.

After I got back, we had a crazy weekend where a bunch of us went out to the Bit of Billiards in Longmont for Kelli’s birthday. That place always cracks me up. There’s this staple group of people that have been going there for like 10-15 years now and I swear they still go every weekend!

We also went to Jordan and Riley’s joint party at Naomi’s but the kiddos missed it as they were at the "other" parents. Our Jordan started school super early this year, but so far, so good.

I think we’re finally getting back into the fall/school year groove.

~Jen

I also got a photo CD from Ryan’s Aunt Connie with more pictures of Frank, so I added those to an album called "Frank James Clark" on the photos page.

Oh, yeah, pictures!

Happy Birthday Torin!

Cousins at Elitch’s

PayPal office!

Girls at the Bit: Sarah, Me, Danielle, Naomi, JoAnn, Kelli, Jayna

Happy Birthday Boys!

Thanks for coming back to check it out … it’s taken me months to get organized enough again to get this site updated. Whew! Now there are some long-winded posts below with a quick snapshot of pictures from each month. If you make it through, you rock.

It’s taken me most of today to get the pictures uploaded and the posts written etc. so thanks for taking the time to keep up with us.

Much love to those of you we don’t see enough and also love to those of you that we’ve had the pleasure of seeing this year so far.

I will update for August at the end of the month as there’s still quite a bit left for us to do as school gets going this week!!

Love, Jen

Well, as you can see, I had to dedicate an entire post just to the Texas vacation… so there was actually a few other notable events in July.

Obviously, the first was Ryan’s birthday, so I made him a yellow cake with a fruit flag [see below]. He played a softball tournament that day and then we ran over to Daisy Duke’s where my brother Stevie works.

Toward the end of the month, Jordan had a talent show for her
"BASE" program. She and her girlfriends danced to Hannah Montana’s "Rocktar." It was adorable and we shot video that will be so awesome to show her first boyfriend.

That night, I took the kiddos to Kidz Bop Live at the Boulder Theatre. I was so impressed, these kids and the two adults that performed were amazing. At the end of the show, they threw out Beach Balls and Caleb caught one and then they signed anything you brought to them afterward.

Quick Pix:

Ryan’s Cake

Dinner with the ‘rents

L to R: V, Jordan, J, E

Kidz Bop Live   

~Jen