The Clark Blog

Our good friends, Wendy and Nolan (the other Clarks) are expecting baby number 2 in October. Shelley helped the girls plan a combo baby shower for Coleman and birthday celebration for Karsyn. So we packed up the SUV and headed to the Woodlands for fun and festivities. For those of you who love to bake or need baked goodies for a party, check out Krystle Thorn’s blog SmittenSugar. Krystle is a good friend of Shelley’s and made the cake pops and airplane cupcakes below!

This was one of my favorite party pics of Shelley, Avery and Wendy.

Avery, Wendy… and Barbie.

While mommy helped setup the party, daddy helped by keeping Baby Avery happy…

Later mommy gave daddy a break and posed for a quick pic.

All of the party girls…

The Clark Boys and the little Clark Girls!

Adrienne and Baby Reese Sicinski pose with me and Baby Avery.

Karsyn’s B-day party had lots of goodies…

Including “cake pops” by Krystle Thorn @ SmittenSugar

And “airplane cupcakes” too!

Avery got really mad when we told her she couldn’t eat a cake pop…
It’s tough being 5 months old!

Towards the end of the night, Daddy and Avery were mucho tired…

Rock the bump!!! Shelley and Wendy are going to the Britney Spears concert in Dallas later this month, so Shelley bought Wendy a concert T.

Thanks to everyone for throwing a great party. It was really cool seeing the kiddos interact with each other, and we’re looking forward to the next big event!

Avery, Friends, Shelley, Steven

This weekend, our new friends and future neighbors, the Bazin family was checking out progress of their home in Bellaire. They own the lot just two houses away from ours, and the construction workers were busy pouring their foundation. We happened to be outside preparing to run errands, so as luck would have it, we were able to meet for the first time! Todd and Leslie have a beautiful little girl named Lauren who was born about 2 months before Avery. It was really cool to see the kiddos interacting with each other.

This pic turned out great. Avery looks like she wants to join Lauren in her stroller…

Future same street BFF’s???

Best of luck with the new construction guys. It was great meeting you and really looking forward to hanging out “full time” early next year!

Avery, Family, Friends, Shelley, Steven

It’s true. I’ve been intentionally slacking on the blog just to see how many emails and phone calls I would get to post more pics. Well, my inbox is full so mission accomplished! Hmmmkay, all kidding aside, we at the Clark household strive to keep our readers happy with fresh material. And since we’ve had several different visits from the grandparents over the last few weeks, I’m making a bulk post for all of your digital needs. Let me know if you guys need higher rez for prints etc. My originals can produce 8×10 prints if necessary.

This is one of my favorite shots of Avery with Mamaw Scott…

Another favorite of the girls out by the front porch…

Someone tooted in this one…
They all blame each other, but who looks more guilty???

Grandma and Grandpa Clark also came to visit… no tooters here.

With all the tooting going on, Avery figured out how to play “pull my finger”. She’s so smart.

She tricked Grandpa Clark too!

Grandpa Scott came to visit as well…

I really like this one…

Aves gets the royal treatment with her rice cereal…

Yup… our little jokester pulled Grandpa Scott’s finger (errr thumb) too!

And to finish the post, a pic of daddy showing Avery how to stay in great baby shape!
This is how we practice her crawling position…

Avery, Family, Shelley, Steven

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there! Everyone will be pleased to know I finally found our camera and charger. The camera was hiding in a backpack (which I had already searched several times), and the charger was in my swim bag… soooo not sure about that one. LOL. Anyway, we took some great pics today, so feels nice to actually have something to post on the blog! Ps… Avery hit the 3 month mark on June 11.

Me and my baby girl on our new front porch…

You can’t quite read it here, but her shirt says “Daddy’s little stinker!”

And what’s a Father’s Day celebration without Grandpa!!! Dad says I’m stealing his thunder, but I’m pretty sure Avery is stealing the show!

Grandma Clark was able to make Avery laugh for the first time a few weeks ago, and she got her to do it again today! Aves likes having fun with her grandma!!

Avery, Family, Shelley, Steven

Soooooo it’s been a long time since our last post and I don’t really have a good reason – other than we are going through the absolute craziest time of our lives!!!! LOL. We finally moved in to our new home this past weekend. It took 2 full days, 2 big trucks and 8 movers to get us relocated, but we’re finally here! We are currently living in a jungle of boxes and doing our best to clean and organize. We recently got phone, tv and internet hooked up, so at least that feels normal. The week before I was in California on business, got home at 1:00am in the morning late Friday and had to meet the movers in Cypress at 8:00am. Yeah baby!!

To top things off… I’ve been taking all kinds of pictures over the last few weeks for our blog, but I don’t know where the camera is, and even if I did, I don’t know where the charger is for the “special” Sony battery it takes. I started taking pics from mom-in-law’s camera, but managed to lose that for a few days and then found it behind my laptop screen. Like 10 inches from where I work every day.

So the only pic I have right now is our first dinner on the back patio… before we actually moved in and before the final cleanup took place. Hope to find my camera and post a bunch more pics soon!

Avery, Family, Shelley, Steven