Saturday was a fun day with Bailee and Braden. They hung out with Grandma and Grandpa while Mom, Dad, and Malia went to Boise. They brought all their snow gear and had fun climbing the remaining snow piles out front. We tried to sled down the backyard slope, but the snow was too dry and the sled kept stopping.
Bailee gave me a recipe before Christmas to make called Applesauce Muffins that she downloaded from one of her favorite sites. We decided to make it and they turned out yummy! Bailee and Braden helped measure all the ingredients, stir the batter, line the tins with cupcake papers, and then fill them with the batter. They decided to add some craisons, too. The hardest part was waiting for them to bake and then to cool before we could eat them.
We found some fun Valentine activities to do that I had saved that were left over from Primary Achievement Days. Bailee loves to do projects and made these adorable Valentine boxes. We also like to go through old Friend magazines and we cut and pasted stories on popcicle sticks.
Braden likes to play legos and always creates some great things with the legos from the toy closet.
We had a "picnic" style lunch in the living room while we watched Scooby Doo cartoons. The yummy muffins were a great treat. It was a really fun day and we hope to do it again real soon. Not to leave out our sweet Malia, we had Cam's family over for Sunday dinner and I couldn't resist taking a picture of her enjoying the raspberry jello salad.
You can see on the Clark Family blog the good times we had with Rock Band and Guitar Hero. For our Christmas dinner we all ate favorite Clark traditions such as Dale's sweet and sour pork and parmesan cheese ball; Mary's pudding salad and gingersnaps; Sarah's spinach dip, crackers, and relish tray; Collette's broccoli salad; and my little smokies in Habby Too sauce, sugar cookies, and another cheese cake. Grandma tended the grand kids one night (thanks Dale, Chad, and Collette for your help) while all the parents went out to dinner together. We cut out old Christmas cards, put puzzles together, and watched a movie while we munched on popcorn. I am already thinking about next year's plans for Thanksgiving as that is the winter holiday when the family will all be together again.
2008 has brought us many new things already! We purchased a new Dodge Caravan that Collette says is the color of the ocean when it storms...go figure! Actually, I think the technical term is steel or gray green. We have already transported some young single adults to the Boise Temple in it on January 5th. They were all excited to watch a movie on the DVD player, but every time we went over a bump, it shut off. (That was repaired the following Monday!) I have missed my Montana and it will be nice to transport all the HabbyToo stuff, too. 
2008 has already brought us some snow, too! We measured 6 inches that fell on Tuesday. We watched it fall and shoveled every few hours to keep up with the accumulation. That is the most snow we have had here for about 10 years. My piano lessons didn't come and they even canceled the ball game at the high school....yea, we haven't dealt with snow for quite some time!
