New Moon Party!

So, if you didn't already know, New Moon (the second book/film in the Twilight Saga) opened on Thursday at 12am... and oh, we were there! Jessica Jensen, Kristin Radmall, and I threw a little party to celebrate the momentous occasion!

My decorating skills are pretty much non-existent, but I did put some candles up the stairs leading to the party.

The Twilighters (minus Katie Simpson who is taking the pic.)

We got to the theater around 10:30pm to wait in line so we could get good seats to our 12:30am showing. It was AWESOME. We were all wearing glow-stick necklaces and totally lit up the back of the theater. We also had fun doing New Moon trivia together. I even started a few chants that some people participated in... Can't wait 'til next year!!

Thanksgiving Play Group

We have a fun group of Moms and kids that get together every week for a little play group. This week we did fun Thanksgiving crafts including...

A marshmallow apple turkey, and...

Pilgrim & Indian stick people (can you tell which face Ada drew?), and...

Indian Hats!




I think Ada's favorite part was her apple feast.




Pow! Penny's Painful and Powerful Punch! It only comes out when she's feelin' a little savage.

an Indian Pow Wow!

We had a great time at Play Group this week. Thank you to Shanna for always making it so fun!

Who is Who??

My parents are always saying how much Ada reminds them of me when I was little. After looking at this picture, I can totally see why... She is my clone. She even makes the same faces as me when I was little! Take a look at this.

That is little Heidi on the left...

And Ada 25 years later.

Wow! I need to find some more pics of me at Ada's age...

Love at Home

It has been a super busy week in the Clarke Home! Baby Showers, Studying, Mutual Activites, not to mention getting ready for the Party of the Year next week.... our Annual Twilight Party along with a 12:30am New Moon movie showing! Yee Haw. (or as Ada would say, Weeee Haw!) But we still had time to just hang out and have fun at home. Here's a few pics...

Ada's hair is CONSTANTLY staticky. She hates it, but I don't think I could ever cut off her beautiful hair.

This morning I set Penny down in her swing so I could go finish up the dishes. Within a minute, she started whining, so I asked Ada to give her a toy... when I turned around, I saw this. Yes... that is basically our whole Toy Box sitting on top of Penny and taking a ride in the swing. It was pretty funny. Isn't Ada a good big sister?

Pretty Penny.


Sometimes I think Ada wishes she were a stuffed animal. The other morning, she got all of her stuffed animals out of the Toy Box and lined them up. Then layed herself down right in the middle of them. It kinda reminded me of that scene in E.T. when E.T. tries to blend in with all of Elliott's other stuffed animals in the closet. She is so funny... I have a good belly laugh with her atleast once every day.

Penny is by far the hardest baby I have ever fed! She stinks at it! This is honestly how she looks after every feeding. First of all, she wont open her mouth, then she grabs and pulls the spoon from me, and when I do finally get food in her mouth, she spits it out - everywhere! I have to like drape myself with a towel because she's already stained a few of my shirts with sweet potatoes and pasta sauce. Take cover! Penn is Eating!

Halloween Fun

This Halloween was Super Fun for the girls! Grandma and Grandpa Neibaur came up to visit along with Uncle Nick, Aunt Rachel, and Grammadella. We had a great time! We started out the day with Cozy's baptism (yay Cozette!), then went to little Nick's soccer game, and hung out with family for the rest of the day. Ada understood more about trick or treating and what it actually is, and let me tell you... she LOVED getting that candy for nothin'! We started out at Aunt Natalie's house for pictures and dinner, then headed over to our friends' Kristin and Brandons' for trick or treating.

Penny begged me to be a penny for Halloween - and for some odd reason it seemed fitting, so we did it! I made her costume out of brown fabric, ribbon, polyester filling and puffy paint - super easy and fun. The only bad part is that Abraham Lincoln totally looks like a black man... Kyle liked it, though. He said it was just a symbolic costume signifying Lincoln freeing the slaves. Anywho - isn't she the cutest little penny you ever saw??

Ada was the cutest little Unicorn in the world for Halloween. Its too bad she hated wearing the Unicorn hood on her head, because it was super cute. I must have bought her costume just a little too small because whenever she put the hood on, she complained of her bum hurting. Yep, her costume gave her a MAJOR wedgie.. in the back AND the front. Sorry, Ada Bug!

The cousins... minus Claire.

Penny. Kyle's mini-me.

Hangin' with the girls. Addyson the mouse, Ada the unicorn, and Sadie the Tink.

Trick or Treat!

Penny, cruisin' in the money!

The Bishop Farms Pun'kin Patch

This year we found the funnest pumpkin patch! It had huge slides, a sunflower field maze, the HUGEST pumpkins I've ever seen just everywhere, and even a train that we all rode on. It was so much fun! We only wish Jessica, Travis, and Connor could have been there with us - next year for sure!

Sunflower Fields, forever....

Cute Cozy, Kaden, Sadie, and Ada. Jessica, I'm sorry Kaden is wearing his Spiderman jammies... you were in the hospital and that was a battle I didn't even want to touch!


Kyle really wants me to grow out my bangs again.... after seein' these pics, i decided its just not an option. Cute, huh?


Pure Cheeze.

The Big Girls.

All Stitched Up

Poor, poor Ada. As most of you already know, our first born is a bit of a clutz. But, we love her so much anyways.

The story goes like this: It was a mellow, sunny Sunday afternoon when Natalie called and asked me to make homemade rolls for our family dinner that evening.... rolls take forever, so I protested - wanting to just enjoy my family and husband (who was actually home). But, just like Natalie would, she kept on calling and demanding that I make them because her chicken gravy just had to have some kind of bread to go with it... I was weak and gave in. When I started making rolls, Ada had just gone down for her nap. She woke up crying wanting to come and help me, and again I protested - this time to Kyle- that she needed her nap and would be super cranky without it. Kyle, the softy that he is, chose not to listen to the wise mother and went and got Ada out of bed to come down and help anyways. So Ada pulls up a chair to the kitchen counter to help when all of a sudden I hear a loud CRASH! I look over and the chair has toppled over along with Ada- blood spewing everywhere! Literally... so much blood. She was screaming and when i picked her up, I saw her skull. Okay, so maybe not exactly her skull, but it was a super deep 1.5 inch gash on her forehead. We rushed her to the emergency room and spent 4 traumatic hours there getting her stitched up. In the end, no rolls, no nap for Ada. Moral of the Story: Next time, listen to Mom!

Ada was probably the farthest from the best patient the ER at St. Mary's has ever seen. We had to wrap her up in a sheet like a burrito and pin her down to get those 5 stitches in. When you ask her about her hurt eyebrow, all she'll tell you is that the doctor looked in her ears. Good thing kids bounce back pretty easily huh??

Five days later the stitches came out, and thankfully it looks like there wont be too much of a scar on her perfect little face. We love you so much, Ada Bug!