The Agreement

I love my husband dearly and he is a very hard working man, so I understand that he needs "his" time and "his" things to be who he is. But, sometimes I think Michael is a 16 year old boy stuck in a 35 year old man's body. He plays his xbox and I don't say a word. He loves his truck and says that one of these days he's going to jack it up and put big ol' tires on it. I just roll my eyes and hope and pray that never happens. Recently he put a new stereo in his truck that now he can literally bust an eardrum listening to Red Hot Chili Peppers. And now he wants an Ipod so he can instantly download up to 1,000 songs to his stereo. So...I came up with a deal when he proposed his last wish to me. Now, I am not a "Nag" wife and never wanted to be. So, for 13 years I have patiently sat back and let him decide when he is going to take responsibility "on his own" to commit to certain responsibilities. Well...it never has happened... so here is the agreement I gave him. We'll see how it goes.

Fun in the Snow

We had fun playing in the snow on Monday Evening. Snowball fights and building our big snowman. And of course Michael had to add the Colt's Logo on there. The snow is melting now so it was a good thing we took advantage of it.

Circle The State with Song

The Indiana Music Educators Association puts on a Children's Choral Festival every year called Circle the State with Song. Out of 18 elementary schools and 9 middle schools around Indiana only a handful of kids are picked to be in this. Courtney and 15 other kids from her elementary were picked to participate. It was moving to listen to all these kids sing good and patriotic songs. We were proud of her! If you can't tell she is the little one smack dab in the middle bottom row right in front of the conductor. Poor thing gets her smallness from her mom:)

Alex in the Snow

In the snow Alex doesn't look nearly as white as he usually does. He hates getting his paws in the snow! He's a spoiled little thing...but a good dog.

Too Cool for School

This is Camilla and her friend Hadyn home from school due to the snow blizzard we had. I found some funny pictures that they took up in Courtney's room. They must have been bored. The dew rags on their heads are actually Courtney's Trendy Book Covers. Camilla looks like she's trying to strike a Doug Heffernin (sp) pose.

Winter Sucks!!!

We got hit with a huge winter storm on Tuesday night that left 15" of snow along with 30-40mph winds. We have been shoveling snow and digging out driveways, some with 3ft drifts. School has been out all week and I couldn't work Tuesday or Wednesday which was fun, but now it's just a big white mess.

Surviving the Slumber Party!

See the fun fancy shoe cups!

As you may or may not know Courtney is our child that insists on a production of some sort for every event that happens...and her birthday is definitely the biggest of them all. I blame this on the first child syndrome with which a parent tends to over exert themselves with extensive, creative parties and such. Well, Courtney turned 10 years old this past week and this year was no exception. She picked a "That's So Raven" Theme this year. The birthday-slumber party consisted of 8 of her closest friends from school. All of you Clark's out west can't appreciate a true girl party like we can. (Maybe the Bell/Oram clan will). But, it involves a lot of screaming and high pitch noises and laughing and running all through the house. This year I found a few making phone calls to boys. YIKES! I can't believe it has begun! Anyway, it was 2am...then 3 am...then at 5am I had finally had enough and had to put my foot down. I was getting up in three hours and if anyone knows me they know I like my sleep! The next day...since Michael left me alone with these wild kids most of the night he was kind enough to clean up the mess. He actually found dried pop that had splattered all over our kitchen wall at some point and makeup smeared all over his recliner. He wasn't too happy about that. I guess the girls had smeared lipstick all over the girls' faces who fell asleep first. It was a pretty funny sight...but not so funny when we saw the damage. Anyway...we did survive another crazy year.
I'm so glad that Camilla is not nearly this high maintenance!

Patrick's Proposal

The coolest thing about our whole trip to Disney World was that Patrick completely shocked us all and proposed to Kinsey! We all walked around to the wishing well by Cinderella's Castle and threw in our pennies to make a wish. Then all of a sudden we look and Patrick is down on one knee asking her to marry him. It was awesome! We were all taken by surprise which is exactly what Patrick wanted...So Congrats to Kinsey and Patrick. We love you guys!!!

COLTS!!! SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS!

Not much to say except...GO COLTS!!!!!!! Kent is such a die hard fan he wore every Colts T-shirt he owned and took one off every quarter or more! He's crazy. The picture of him that looks like the football is hanging out his nose was actually thrown up to them right as the picture was being taken. There was a huge parade in downtown Indy yesterday and then there was so many fans packed inside the dome it was filled to capacity and no one else was allowed in. They were all there to greet the champions.

Disney World

There has been so much going on we haven't had the chance to post some things we've done lately. So, here are some pictures from our Disney trip. We have so many good pics it was hard to decide on a few. I'm sure we will post more at different times. Anyway, we had a great time and did so many cool things. I think it should definately be a Clark/Oram Family Vacation trip some day!

Happy Birthday Linda!

Can you believe that Kim and Michael's mom both have the same birth dates! Crazy. So, here's sending Linda a Happy 60th Birthday! We love you. Here is Kim asleep on her mom many years ago. And the other picture is a group shot after a family football game. Seven out of the nine kids are in the picture. Can you guess which one is Linda! Happy Birthday...We love you!

Here is a better look at these pictures! My blog was doing something weird.

Happy Birthday Pat!

Happy Birthday Mom. Seems like it was just yesterday I was as little as my girls are. You are the best mom ever! Look at how funny Dad looks in this picture. Ha! I love you & Happy Birthday!

Winter

This is the first day of snow for us here in Indiana, so of course the girls had to go out and enjoy it!