Mother's Day and Father's Day

For Mother's Day Jonathan got me some Ice Java, which he had to get off ebay because they don't have it in stores anymore! He also got me some honey mustard from McAlister's. I know it might sound crazy but it is EXACTLY what I wanted!! He also got me a key chain with Jackson's picture on it. What a great Mother's Day!!




For Father's Day I got Jonathan stuff for playing tennis: new shorts, new tennis balls, a head band, and of course hot tamales. I also cooked him dinner and made him an ice cream cake. The ice cream cake was SO easy and worth trying. Below is a picture and the recipe.


8 ounces chopped semisweet chocolate, melted
4 cups crisped rice cereal
2 pints ice cream

-In a large bowl, combine the chocolate and cereal until the cereal is completely coated. Transfer to a 9-inch plan. Press the mixture into the bottom and 1 inch up the sides of the pan. Freeze just until firm.
-Spread the ice cream in the prepared crust and freeze, covered, until firm, for a least 2 hours and up to 3 days.

I got the recipe from Real Simple.

Post from Jonathan...all by himself

So, Erin was like, "Let's post a new blog." I was like, "There's nothing new to post." She said, "You can tweet on twitter all day long, but you can't think of anything to blog about." I thought to myself, "touche." So, here we are.

The iPod Erin bought me for a wedding present 4 years ago died, so I got a new one (32 gig, iPod Touch, which I saved every penny for). I have a lot of apps on there that are for little kids that Jackson just loves.

Marmee is teaching the 2-year-old VBS class at Temple this week, so she wanted Jackson to come. He has LOVED every minute of it. He plays and eats and wears himself all out. It is also a week of Lousiana Tech Freshmen Orientation, so Jackson has been doing the BCM deal this week. I am glad students love him and that he feels so comfortable around large groups of strange people...well, at this point I do.

We have been going out more on my bike with his bike seat. He enjoys it a lot nowadays. Also, Erin is borrowing a bike from a friend, so now we get to do that as a family.

Jackson is feeding himself, which is GREAT for meal-times.

So, I guess that is about it that is new in the life of the Clarks. The End.

Our trip to Flintstone!!

Flintstone was so much fun. We went to see Shelby graduate from the 5th grade! I am so proud of her and can't believe she is going to be a middle schooler. I love you Shelby!!






Fun at Collidge Park. The kids were so great and had LOADS of fun!!




My trips to Flintstone ALWAYS include Jessie..She totally has my heart!




Jackson watching Dixie eat! It was so cute!!



Cleaning out Granny's storage unit. We found her old glasses!! HA HA



I love you GRAN!



Playing at Elmo park! They have so much fun together!



Fun times at Sweet Peppers Deli.



Jackson having fun at 'Nay's' house!



Playing with Sadie and Mason!!



Watching Awards Day with Aunt 'B'

Homemade Pizza with Mommy

Growing up I loved homemade pizza. I would love to instill that into Jackson. Jonathan, on the other hand, could take it or leave it. Since Jonathan had to work late this evening, Jackson and I decided we would make us a pizza. He helped with ALL the steps, from kneading the dough to cleaning up. It was a lot of fun and quite delicious at that!

Tech Farm

Jackson loves animals so we took him to Tech Farm to see all the animals. We had a great time!

and then there was NONE!

So since our last post my parents and nieces came to visit, Aimee came two weekends later, and Jackson got his first pet, four goldfish.
Our visit with the parents was so much fun. We ate, shopped, swam, went to church, and just enjoyed each other. I love it when they come to visit! I can't believe how much Shelby and Regan are growing up. They make me feel so special and we have lots of great conversations. My parents are always so good at spoiling us. For my birthday they bought me a swing. I am actually swinging right now while I type this. We use it just about everyday!
Aimee came this past weekend and it was so great to have some sister bonding. We did not do anything exciting. Aimee surprised me and therefore I did not have time to plan anything exciting. She was simply forced into our world. Friday we went out to eat and to Wal-Mart. Saturday we went shopping all day and Sunday went to church. Monday we did some running around here in Ruston and then had community group that night. Tuesday we kept Arleigh and ate at Marmee's house. It was so great to just simple be around her. She was so great to cook some amazing monkey bread for community group and sleep in Jackson's room the entire time and get him if he cried. I think that a lot of the time he would end up in her bed just because she loved him being there so much!! Truth be known he probably liked it just as much as she did!!
To 'semper fi' our time together AMAZING!!
And lastly, Jackson's first pets were so much fun. He loved them so much. He would take any visitor to his room to see them and would tell them 'night night' before bed. The sad part is that they only lasted one week. We flushed the last one this afternoon! Tears.... Don't buy goldfish from Wal-mart!

Sorry so many words.. Now the pictures

Happy Birthday Paulie!

This past Thursday we went to Clarkco State Park in Mississippi with Aimee and Michael. It was a BLAST. The weather was perfect! We celebrated my birthday (Happy Birthday, Paulie) with some DELICIOUS bon bons and manicotti. We played outside the entire long weekend. The boys mountain biked several miles of intense trails while avoiding cougars. They also played many rounds of disc golf. Aimee and I played with Jackson at the playground and sat by the lake and got our tan on while having much needed girl talk. Every morning we fed the fish tortillas or bread. One night we went to Meridian and ate at the Outback and shopped some. We took Jackson into the Petco where he totally enjoyed the animals. We also filled our night with "Take two" and "Would You Rather" since we were without cable or internet. We had so many laughs and can't wait until our trip next year.