End of Summer Fun

I had a little idea in mind one afternoon and I thought boy, my kids would love me and think I'm the Coolest MOM..... at least I hoped they would think I'm the coolest, if I let them do something that I thought was fun when I was a kid. I let them slide down the stairs in a sleeping bag!!!!! Okay, now when I pulled the sleeping bag out they asked me what I was doing? I said well you'll have to wait and see. I was teasing them that I needed to wash it (in reality I really was going to wash it, but that doesn't matter). I sat, and down the stairs I went they got so excited and asked can we do it, can we do it? They had a blast and laughed a lot. The only bad thing about that is the carpet. It got a little worn down, but after a couple vacuumings it kind of fluffed back up. At least the kids had fun. Okay, I had fun too.

Funniest Thing Happened

I had the funniest thing happen the other night. It was about six o'clock in the evening and I was cooking dinner and getting the table set. My phone rings, I look at it and it has an Arizona area code so I'm thinking oh my brother (Clint) is calling me. I answer and at first there was silence, I said hello again and there is a man on the other end saying is Dominique there I said who, he says Dominique, I said oh your so silly. Again there was silence. I said who is this, thinking okay Clint stop teasing me now. The man then says this is American Express security calling for Dominique. That caught me off guard big time. I said sorry, this is the wrong number I don't know this person and I'm sorry I called you silly. I thought you were my brother calling and teasing me. He said so this is the wrong number I said yes and then he just said thanks have a good night. Let me tell you I felt so dumb!! This guy totally sounded just like my brother. He had a Spanish accent when he first asked if this Dominique guy was there, but my brother speaks Spanish quite well, so that's why I thought it was him playing a joke/teasing me. I was wrong. I laugh every time I think about it. I'm just glad this man doesn't know me. It's good to have a good laugh, keeps things fun!!!!

"Busy Busy"

Well our ward was split a few weeks ago, and with a new ward comes a new Bishopric, presidencies, and teachers. You all know about how that works. So last Sunday the 17th we get a call from the 2nd counselor from the bishopric. We already know that they are going to extend a calling it's a dead give away when you get a call 40 minutes before church starts asking if they can come and talk to you. So we do the usual "I wonder what it's going to be, I hope it's not this or that". Let me inform you that the Sunday prior to the 17th the bishop approached both Jason and I, at separate times and said he was glad we weren't moving because he could use us. So we already had an idea that we would get "The Call" so we weren't surprised by the call. What did surprise us was our callings that they extended. We thought for sure we were going to be primary teachers, nope we were wrong . . . .We couldn't believe our ears did we hear them right? We sure did. Here's the big surprise I'm the second counselor in the YW presidency and Jason is the Sunday school instructor for Gospel Doctrine.WHOA is about all we could say all day. Actually I've been saying that all week. Hopefully everything will go well as we begin a new journey.

Funny Kids

Okay so Ashlyn is sitting here next to me playing w/Cole. She screamed and said Oh, I scream like a girl. I couldn't help laughing. I told her it's because she is a girl and continued laughing. She asked me what was so funny and I said you are because of what you said. Another funny thing that she said was last night. She wanted to say family prayers. When Ashlyn says prayers they tend to go on and on and on. She was blessing that she would be nice to her brothers and they be nice to her, to do what mom and dad tell her to do more than one time and so forth. So I whispered out loud to her so we could end the prayer, that we have a good nights sleep, she then whispers back out loud I don't need any help. It made the rest of us giggle sofltly until she was done and then we all cracked up. . . . We just love her!!!!

THE JOB

So here you have it. I thought I'd better update everyone on the job thing. We will not be moving. Jason has a part-time job working in a pharmacy at a local grocery store. He is also working at the same job that he's had for the last year and a half. We are so grateful to the pharmacist that hired Jason on. He has the kindest heart and we are extremely grateful to him and the others that he will work with.

blogging

Have you ever realized how much time and effort goes into a blog, I'm sure you all have. Needless to say I haven't been keeping up and being very faithful w/it. Sometimes I don't even know where to start. I'm still fairly new at the blogging world too, so I get a little confused/frustrated when I can't get things to work right for me. But w/more time and practice it will get better. On second thought, don't take my word for it because I can't promise that it will get better :).

Right at this moment I find it very difficult to blog. I have a little 13 1/2 month old baby boy that thinks he needs to be at the computer punching every button in sight. He isn't very happy w/me because he does NOT like to be told NO. He is so cute that it is hard to get mad at him. I just put him down for a nap much better now. Here is a pic of the little guy.

HOLY COW let me say that again HOLY COW !!! Can I just say why do things have to be so difficult? I just don't get it. Okay so here it goes. As some of you know Jason had a job that he had just started, (the run around job that took 4 weeks before he finally started). Well last night he called and told me they were giving him more problems. Back to the real problem, he is in the pharmacy tech field and has to have a license for every state you plan to or will work in, so his license was suppose to have been received at the place of employment, it hadn't arrived and the state couldn't find it at first (they finally found it,but still hadn't mailed it. This was over a week ago) so he wouldn't be able to work for the next two weeks from today 8/6. The state called Jason today and said it would take two weeks for the company to receive it). Needless to say we weren't going to put up w/this run around any longer. Jason told the company thanks, but that it wasn't going to work out for him. He worked there for a whopping two days and what was even better is that they gave him the wrong employee #. So, he is on the job hunt again. We do feel really peaceful about him not working there anymore silly us, it wasn't right to begin with, I guess.WOWZERS the life of the Clarke's sounds fun doesn't it!!!! We know things will work out and we will be blessed by our decision. There is a blessing in disguise out there just waiting for us.

So the other day my little cutie and I decided we would be goofy and take some pictures of ourselves. We let loose and had a lot of laughs posing w/fun faces or weird some might say, but we had a good time doing it! hope you enjoy.:)

Do you ever wonder why life throws such big curves in the road? Well, we do.You see Jason has been done with school (as of now, possibly could go back in a couple or fewwww yrs)for four months and has applied to at least 80 yes, I said 80 jobs with nothing in return except we have chosen a candidate w/more experience yada, yada, yada. Well ya see, you have to start out somewhere, but no one is willing to give anyone a chance to start out. It's all about EXPERIENCE. So w/no luck after three months we figured we'd keep pluggin along same ole routine.A month ago he got a job offer (this is a long story so I'll make it short)he called to accept, they w/drew, the next night they called back re-offered. We accepted on the next day.Jason went to do all the required stuff than they said we'll we need you back next week,anyway it has been four weeks today, since they offered the job, and he just started it.(They wanted him right away supposedly).There's more to it, but I skipped over all the middle frustration.Anyway, we don't know what to think about this particular job,with all the run around we've been getting. So,we'll see if it works out or not.We know that if it is suppose to work out it will. Please wish us LUCK!

What a month (July)

Well, we wanted to do a little something in our home to remember Brian, so we put a picture and a little saying above the picture on our wall. On the bottom part of the picture we put a sticker that says "A good friend is hard to find, hard to lose, and impossible to forget". Here is a picture of what it looks like on our wall.
We are so grateful to know that we have a loving Heavely Father who always watches over us. We have been so blessed and we know that we will See Brian again someday.