5 Years!!!

Happy 5th Anniversary Toby!
April 26, 2003
Spokane Temple

I can't believe how fast time has gone by. It seems like just yesterday, we met country dancing. Thanks for all the wonderful times and crazy adventures.

Some of the things we've done in the past 5 years:

Graduated college and gone back for more
Moved 5 times and have lived in Idaho (Rexburg and Boise), Nevada (Vegas twice) and beautiful Naples, Florida.
Gone to Brazil to visit your mission
Had how many car break downs??? Too many to count.
Traveled lots of fun and exciting places
Gone to many concerts
Lots of camping and outdoor adventures
Become great tennis players (well maybe Toby's great-I just like to play for fun)
Started a family-he should be here pretty soon. :)

Fallen more in love everyday! I'm so thankful that we're married and that I picked such a great spouse. I sure love and appreciate you soooo much. Thanks for being such a wonderful example to me with the way you live your life. Here's to 5 more happy and crazy years!

Enjoy the photos-they were from our dating days. I had to scan them in-we didn't have a digital camera back then (meaning 2002-2003). Wow, how the times have changed!








I love you!

Great Surprise

Toby cleaned the bathroom! This is quite the MIRACLE---seeing that in the 5 years (Saturday is our 5 year anniversary) he has cleaned the bathroom ONCE. It was such a nice surprise coming home to a clean bathroom. Remember, I've been gone for a long time and the bathroom probably hasn't been cleaned in 3 weeks. Gross, I know. So, THANK YOU babe for doing that for me! He knows how hard it is for me to bend down to pick up anything on the ground, let alone lean over to scrub the tub. It was a wonderful surprise. Better than flowers. :)

Spokane Fun

Well I finally made it home last night from Spokane. I've been gone for 12 days and it was soooo fun to be with the family. It was weird leaving because next time I go home, I'll have a baby! I don't think it has really hit any of us that he coming (and coming to stay forever-a good thing). It will be a wonderful thing to have another little family member and I know my sisters are just ecstatic to finally be aunts! They can hardly wait for the next 3 1/2 weeks to go by. As for my brother, he's excited but doesn't want to have to change any diapers!

We made more blankets-the Life is Good blanket is Toby's favorite. Probably because it has golf on it and he has always loved Life is Good products. I love all of them! So glad my mom knows how to sew and that she makes the cutest things for me. Some of the blankets we made last time and we also made a little animal blanket with a frog. We cut him in the middle and added the head to the top and then the feet on the bottom. It sure turned out cute. I had such a wonderful time with my mom. We went out to lunch, shopped, watched Pride and Prejudice and had lots of wonderful talks. She is one of my best friends and I'm so glad that we have a great relationship.

Going Home

35 weeks! Only 5 left to go, we're under 35 days! We came up to Spokane to visit the family one last time before the baby comes. Toby had to leave early, but I get to stay for another week. We had so much fun with Toby up here--the boys went golfing on Saturday and we went out to dinner with my parents at PF Changs downtown. Yummy! It's always fun to visit the fam. The girls think I've gotten bigger and love to feel the baby move. He doesn't kick as much as roll around in my belly. It's so crazy to see my belly move and watch the lumps.

I'll post more photos later, we're having lots of fun!

Steelers

These would go great with a couple of outfits I have for him.....so cute!

Ouch!

Doubt this photo is real, but let me tell you---this is how I feel! As much as I love feeling the babe move, he can be quite tough! Mostly it's in my rib cage. I swear I'm getting bruises and that body parts are getting stuck.
On the flip side, it still is amazing to see my belly move and feel really hard lumps and trying to guess what body part it is. Oh the joys of pregnancy!

baby burp cloths

Mom and I were making blankets when I was up in Spokane and she had the best idea! We use cloth diapers for burp cloths because they actually soak up the spit or puke a lot better than normal burp cloths. She added extra fabric to both ends and they turned out so cute! We also took ribbon and that looked great as well. I made some for my sister-in-law's for their new babies. If you're having a baby anytime soon, you'll be getting these from me!

Clark Fam

After spending time with Toby's family, we headed up to Bountiful to see some of mine. Char was in town with the kids and it was Skyler's birthday on Sunday and then Dallas' on Tuesday so we had a party for them! Lots of birthdays this weekend. We haven't seen Char and the kids since 2006 at the family reunion. David didn't come out so we didn't get to see him but hopefully they come back to visit this summer.

Char, Skyler, Alissa, Tammy, Dallas and Lilly

We got to see Linda and Chris, Ashley and Isaac and their kids and Lindsey and Dan. Both of them are moving this summer and we are so sad they won't be in Utah anymore! Linda and Chris are sad because now they lose both of their daughters and their grandkids! Not fair, but we are excited for the both of them. Ashley and Isaac are heading to Mesa, Arizona for a new job and Lindsey and Dan are moving to Texas for Medical school.

Stephen and Suzette came up along with Chris and Summer, Stevie, Jordan and Jenny. I was super excited because I haven't seen Mary, and she is a beautiful little girl! I snapped a few photos of them in Grandpa's yard-such a cute family.

fun photos

Ash, Tam and Lin

Tammy and Ashley

Jordan

Christian, Summer, Jenny and Tammy

Nice, Isaac!

Grandpa and Capri

Oh Stevie!

Such a stud of a cousin! :)

Steelers!!!

I think the Clark family is the Steelers biggest family fan group! When we got to Grandpa's house-both Stevie, Jordan and Toby all had Steelers gear on. I should've grabbed a photo. Check out uncle Stephen's truck and Stevie's truck!

Tallie and Andrew

Sweet Isabel

Isabel's Blessing

We were so glad that we were able to make it to Tom and Alicia's baby blessing. She did really good and didn't cry at all and the blessing was beautiful. It was so great to see all of Alicia's family and get to hang out and visit. It snowed alllllll day in Santaquin which was not a good thing! We were hoping for great weather while in Utah, but oh well. Tom and Alicia's house is beautiful-we hadn't seen it since they moved in. We also celebrated Alex's 3rd birthday a little bit early (it's on April 8th) and we had cake and lots of presents. Isabel is number 8 for the Thornton grandkids. My babe will make number 9 and Tara is due in June and then Elizabeth is due in November. Lots of babies! We'll finally outnumber the kids with the number of grandkids. Fun stuff. :)