If you are reading this, you are a true friend, as most people I'm sure have given up on this blog! I have a few excuses, but this explains it best... We are on a cross-continental tour, on my way to a new home in Chicago, currently in week 8 of it. In May, I left our home in Utah for good with our two kids to go up to Calgary, Canada for my sister's wedding. My husband came with us, but went back and packed up the house while I stayed with the kids and visited Calgary and all my loved ones there for a while. (While we were there my Dad got a blood clott and all my family was sick ): Trey joined up with us for a bit in Idaho at my sister Brooke's a few weeks later and now I am back up in Canada, in Osoyoos B.C. for a few weeks until I come down to a training course for Hypnobabies on July 15th (My 30th Birthday!) and finally fly "home" to Chicago. All together I think the trip is 2875 miles of driving and a total of 4900 miles travel in 2.5 months wit...

Every industry seems to have retreats and/or training sessions where people learn how to do their jobs better. Motherhood is one of the most important professions in the world, raising the next generation, yet training and retreats are not a part of the experience for the most part. Of course we can read books, but nothing compares to getting together with 1o0 other people in the same profession as you, learning together and from each other about how to improve. Well, Power of Moms provides this kind of training and I just went this weekend. It was at the Eyres home and it was Amazing! The Eyres started Joy School, are authors of dozens of books, travel the globe doing conferences about parenting, and just wrote another amazing book 5 Spiritual Solutions to Everyday Parenting Challenges . Since meeting Saren, who started Power of Moms and who is the eldest daughter of the Eyres, I have become hooked on learning all about this family. They are incredible and inspiring. Anyway, ple...

What a magical thing it is to not have children for a week! Trey and I walked around holding hands, eating wonderful food and doing things we couldn't do with two kids on our We went to the Mexican Riviera! Cabos San Lucas a We took surf lessons from the former Mexican Champion! Trey is a Master Body Surfer! My saint of a sister spent a week like this! I wish someone could have been there to document the craziness (Well, to help actually, but taking pictures along the way (: )

I saw this today and had to do this post ... The Clark Travels since leaving Valparaiso, Indiana a year and a month ago... View Larger Map Yes, that is over 23,000 miles - with a new baby and 2/3 year old! Not to mention the travels Trey has done without us, including New Mexico, Washington DC, The Congo and now TAIWAN! Yes, we moved to Utah, but did we really live here? Well, we won't be as of next month! We are moving back to Chicago so Trey can finish his MBA at the University of Chicago! No, it gets better though (: Over the next 3 months we will be going to Tennessee, Georgia, back to Utah, up to Calgary, over to Osoyoos, down to southern California, and then we will go to Chicago where Trey will have been for a month and a half without us. View Larger Map That my friends is over 8800 miles between now and July 20th! Dang, I've been reading all these other blogs that have such great grammar structure - I'm realizing mine isn't very good :( It's been a l...

Our dear friend Kevin Xu passed away this week from Cancer. Trey was en rout to Taiwan, hoping to make it in time to say goodbye when he passed. He is there right now with the family and visiting with all his other wonderful friends there. Candy and the 3 kids are in our thoughts and prayers right now. I can't imagine how difficult this is for them! She is strong and has and incredible amount of faith and support, so I am grateful for that. I am so glad I was able to get to know him when they came to stay with us in November. He was one of the most gentle and good men I have ever known. Having lost Judy, all I know is death of a close loved one, taken too early in life is devastating in every way. I still don't know what helps. All I can do from here is pray.

Is it bad that I am SO frustrated that my poor little girl is sick? I feel selfish in my frustration - but how far does this sacrifice and love of a Mother have to go sometimes? I have been stuck in this house for 3 days, canceling one big event after another while I clean up throw up, do laundry, and basically run around in circles trying to keep Jude entertained and away from a moody Brooklyn all day and try to prepare for events that I keep having to cancel in the end! So far I missed the mission call opening of my Mission President's daughter and good friend - She got called to MY mission and it would have been SO awesome to be there! Then yesterday I had to cancel the CTR7 Easter Party I had planned and had 5 dozen eggs in my fridge and tons of candy and balloons for and now today I couldn't go to my POWER OF MOMS retreat! I had been looking forward to it for literally 3 months and then last minute couldn't go! On top of it all, I haven't been able to work out ...

We got back from one of the better weeks of my life a few weeks ago and I am just getting around to blogging about it - but sent the camera with all the photos of it with Trey to TAIWAN- a whole nother story... Trey and I left the kids with my sister for a week and went on a cruise to MEXICO! It was the most freeing, relaxing, fun week I have. It was the first holiday we have had where I was not pregnant, recovering and without kids since before we had kids and it is one of those situations where you don't know how good you've got it till it's gone. Don't get me wrong, I love my children - hopefully that is obvious from my blog, but as my sister who just had a baby just pointed out, having children is like learning how to be handicapped. learning how to do everything with just one hand, not being able to just jump out of the car and go into the store without a whole ordeal, basically being hindered in 90% of your activities in some way. It is also completel...

she is so cute! My BFF from since I was a baby Kel came to Utah! I love being around her! I helped our babysitter with her biology project - Cake Marshmallow Fondant is useful in so many ways!