Mom n Matt day

Dave took the younger kids to SL today. They went inside the capital building. They said that the elevators that you can see through were fun to ride but Jack said that they smelled like 'llama turds'. They also went to the Joseph Smith memorial building and had a delicious grilled cheese and bacon sandwich. They had a tour through the beehive house which was Brigham Young's house. Jess had been at a leadership conference over night, she came home to get ready for her date--Prom night. Of course they had to go on an all day date. So Matt and I decided to go to the Golden Spike. We walked around checkin everything out then we drove out to the Spiral Jetty. That was so cool! I had no service out there so when I got back, it was just in time to go to the Prom thing where they walk across the stage and show off their dresses. Jess looked beautiful as usual--she did her hair herself cuz her slacker mother was out spending time with her brother. Sorry Jess!

The Ring of the Month

You know how people belong to the 'Book of the Month Club' or 'Dessert of the Month'? I have decided to start my own 'Ring of the Month Club' and so far I am the only member--imagine that!!!! It started with the Christmas gift I got from my good friends Paula and Heidi Hensley. They were so sweet and gave me this beautiful blue ring for Christmas. They bought it at 'Where Else' in Brigham and I thought it was absolutely beautiful (you know how much i love jewelry--the costume kind--I am not an expensive jewelry girl. Why buy 1 piece for 50.00 when you can get a ton of fun stuff for the same amount. It goes out of style so fast anyway!). In Jan. I thought I'd go into the cute little store and check things out--it has so many cute things in there! But of course my fav: the rings.

January-----The black and white snowflake

February----Pink and purple (for valentines day--not intentionally)

March-------Green pinwheel (for st. patricks day--intentionally)

I can't wait till April!!!!!!

Lacrosse season

Not too much going on lately (compared to bball season anyway!). Yesterday I went out to lunch with my good friend Jan Burger--I just love her! It was fun to just sit and talk about everything, after 2 1/2 hours, we figured we' better stop talking! Then (yes i did spend time with the kids that evening) it was girls night out with some of the girls I went to San Fran with: Heather, Kim and Bridgette. It is always fun to do things with them. I always have a good laugh!

Yes Lacrosse has begun. First game tonight against Clearfield I think. It is such a fun game to watch! Very violent, but fun. I need to get Matt some extra padding because he is so tall, there is a lot of room between his chest pads to his waist. He loves Lacrosse and is very good at it. He has a wonderful coach who contributes a great deal to Matt's love of the game. A good coach makes a huge difference!

I went into the front room to get the kids ready for Matt's game and I found Porter and Eli curled up on the couch. There is nothing sweeter!!!!

Let's go fly a kite

It was a brautiful day!!!! After church, the kids were all outside enjoying the pre-spring weather. I love the different signs of spring! Some of my favorites:

• the smell of thawing dirt--I love it!


• My tulips are poking up.


• The ducks are wandering around the yard and quacking all night!

Spring is absolutely my favorite!!!!!!

Jack and Porter flew kites (even though they were cheap--they flew!)

Clawson Kids Update

Jess: She is soooo excited to move to Logan. She just spent the night in the apt she will be living in with Alaina, Hil and an unknown. She received a scholarship to USU--I am so proud of her! She will be working all summer at Great Harvest so go in and say Hi if you're ever up in Logan. She has 3 college classes this tri--so she's going to finish off high school relaxing. She wishes! She also just bought her own car to go up to school in.

Matt: He is done with basketball. They had an ok season--but now he is all ready for lacrosse. He got his first car and was totally excited!!! It's fun to see him so excited about it. He is such a good boy. He's getting it all ready for all the hot dates he's going to go on!

Brooke: She is as social as ever and to help her out with that, her dad bought her a phone!!!! yay!!! now she is the texting queen! She is almost as bad as me! who is almost as bad as Jess!

She is tall and beautiful just like her sis. Although she did pass Jess up!

Jack: He is doing really well in Bball. His team struggled a little toward the end of the season, but they are a great group of boys--i am excited to see what they do when they get to high school! He is still a little ladies man and tells me about all the girls who like him!

Porter: He also is done with bball--which he is glad about because his coach put his 2nd grade team in a 3rd grade league. So not only did they lose every game, they got killed! He had some awesome blocks though!!!!

Heber: He will be starting school next year and some days he is excited to go, and others, he never wants to. He and Eli have so much fun together. Heber is starting to stick up for himself with Eli so it has been driving Eli crazy. A lot of screaming going on all day!

Eli is just getting bigger and bigger. He had a cold last week, but is over it. He loves to go outside and play with his brothers and of course when the weekend comes he can't wait to go to 'Daddy bacon eggs'!

Porter the Bobcat

I am totally behind on this Sorry!!!! The other night, we went to the Blue and Gold banquet for scouts. It was a chinese theme so we all learned what animal we are--I was born in the year of the dog. What that means--I have no idea. Maybe if I did, in some way, it would better my life? Probably not. Porter received his Bobcat (no thanks to me) He is such a handsome little Scout! Also the other night--Sunday night, the girls had New Beginnings (as opposed to Old Endings) which was very nice. Jess was to sing a solo, but she has this nasty cough that she can't get rid of. Instead of just not doing it, she got up and poetically read the words to the song :) then she bore her testimony. My girls are great! I am so proud of all the kids and don't know what I ever did to deserve them. Heavenly Father must love me a ton!!!

.....to grandmother's house we go

Dave took the kids up to Huntsville to stay over night Friday night. They slept all night in the igloo! Sat morn Matt had to work so when he got off, we drove up to grandma's. Huntsville got a grant to improve the ice skating rink that they have in the park every year and it is awesome!!!!!

It is huge and they put a set of stadium lights in so you can skate at night. It is the cutest ice rink I've ever seen. I took Porter, Heber, Jack and their cousins Nick and Preston. I put my skates on and as I was trying to balance while 'walking' out on the ice, Jack informed me that I looked like a stork on skates. Kids will always tell you the truth and make you feel so good about yourself! He told me that if I didn't want to look like I was so bad, that I should just go and help Heber skate. I took his advice. Thanks Jack!!!!

No 'kid'ding!! (totally cheesey I know but I couldn't resist)

This all happened yesterday (either I'm a slacker, or I'm slightly busy) anyway, just a normal day filled with the usual duties. After school, we were all just hangin out in the kitchen watching Jess pick out her clothes for this 70's roller skating party she was going to. Brandon (not her boy friend--her mom doesn't think she has one :)) was up from college to take her. By the way Brandon, I think you're awesome! Jack came running up to the sliding glass door yelling. We went over to see and he was holding the cutest little baby goat! Suprise! We wondered a few days ago if we were going to have any little goats, but pigmy goats always look pregnant to me so we didn't think much of it. It is sooooo cute! Nancy Drew went out to investigate and found another one! We were so excited--it's the little things!

Matt had a bball game that I totally missed! NMF Matt tried to make me feel better by saying that he didn't play very well anyway. The kids went with Dave up to Huntsville to sleep at grandmas. They called me last night and told me that they were sleeping in the igloo. They had a TV in there and everything! I guess we'll see if they made it out there all night!

Building Character

Late start and early out--why?????? Today we just babysat, cleaned (tried) and cooked (somewhat). Matt had a basketball game against WX. They barely lost by one point!!! I hate those games! Then off to Jack's game. He had a few points and blocks but they also lost. But instead of winning, they 'built character'. Tough--we'll get em next week!!! Even though they didn't win, they are still such good-lookin, nice boys and that is a bigger win than anything else!!!

Yum Yum

For FHE last night Matt gave a wonderful lesson on endurance. He told the story of when Nephi broke his bow and although everyone else was complaining, Nephi never did and trusted that the Lord would bless them. He'll be an awesome missionary! Jack then added his testimony. Porter conducted. Dave took the boys to the gym to play bball then we baked and decorated Valentine cookies.

On my way!!!! (to where?)

I am a model!!!!! It's something that I have always wanted to do, and checked into it when I was 17, but didn't have the personality for it then. I thought it was too late because I'm such an old woman now--but it's not! I am modeling in a fasion show for Dillards in SLC in April. I'm doing the runway thing and am totally nervous!!! Then just the other day, I met with someone at McCarty's in SL who booked me as a model and wants me to be in her book that she is writing. So my first photo shoot is in 2 weeks! I am so excited! It's perfect because I won't be working all the time, I'll work for a few hours here and there and make some pretty dang good money!!

Thank you soooooo much Doug for sacrificing your Sat morning to take all the photos! I love you!!!!

Snow Way!!!!

It is still snowing!!! We weren't even able to go to Stake Conference today. I woke up this morning and the south window in my room was totally covered in snow! Crazy. The kids have been enjoying it, and even though it is the Sabbath, they are having fun spending time together. Do you like my justification? Jess got Eli (marshmallow man) all ready to play outside. It took her about an hour to find all his stuff (or whatever would work--you'll see what I mean:)), after spending about a half an hour putting it all on him, he played outside for about 5 min! She was so sweet to do that for him. JESS, porter, and jack (uppercase tells who did most) created Wanita the snow goddess in the frontyard for all to see--so many people drive down our road! She is beautiful!!!