B-day gifts

My wife is the best!! She has good taste, I think. She got me this great shirt and a number of other awesome gifts, such as new Reef flip flops. In all, I had a wonderful birthday, thanks to my wife, my family, and friends.

The Chantrys

Matt and Joy Chantry - they live 3 doors down from us and have become great friends of ours. Matt and I get up at 6:00 am every morning (Monday-Friday) and hike up the mountain for an hour and a half. It's a lot of fun.

The Campsite

This isn't my perfect idea of a campsite, but it's what the girls could handle. Joy is exhibiting how she felt that whole week - with a cold. The fire is just gettting going. We cooked up the best tin foil dinners I have evern eaten. I did a great job on them, if I do say so myself.

Fishing

The fishing on Payson Lake wasn't near as good as it is made out to be. We fished that Monday night for 2 hours and then 2 hours in the morning before we left on Tuesday. I caught a total of 3 fish - none much larger than the one in this picture. Still it was fun. Matt was skunked - ha ha ha. We love to fish and usually spend our time fishing the Provo River, a Blue Ribon trout river. This fish here is nothing to what we catch in Utah lake and in the Provo River.

Blowing out the Candles

MMMM....Carrot Cake. My wonderful wife made me my mom'c recipe of carriot cake with cream cheese frosting. It is sooooo good!! Here is the one candle. They figured it is the only candle I could handle blowing out. They should know I have much more air in my head than that.

Adam's B-Day

Well, back to Payson Lake. This time, for Adam's B-day (August 8) and with our friends, Matt and Joy. Here, Matt and I are sitting on a large log in the middle of the lake. We pushed/paddled the dumb log all the way across and back. It was fun - further than you'd think. We measured on a mapping program and found it was about 1/2 a mile. Well, Matt and I could both benefit from more exercise like this.

Henry J.

This is our ultrasound of our new rookie, Henry J. Clark. This was back at the end of May. He's due October 12 - coming up soon!! Both Amy and I had grandfathers with the name Henry, which is why we are naming him Henry. The J. is a little longer story. You see....J. is just an initial. When I (Adam) was born, there were three patriarchs of the family still alive - my two grandfathers and one of my great-grandfathers. Their names were Henry, Hamilton, and Herman. I was given an H. as my middle name in honor of all three. When our son, Henry, is born there will be only two patriarchs still alive - My father Jim and Amy's father, Joe. So...we are giving him a J. in honor of them both. Nice how that all works out, eh?! Well, anyway, that's it.

The Garden

This was part of our garden back at the beginning of June. The Snapdraggons are second year plants. They bloomed nicely last year, but there werre only like 3 plants. Now there is a bunch, as you can see. They bloomed so nicely this year. The begonia plant at the left of the snapdraggons has now taken over in a huge way and is producing beautiful purple flowers. The snapdraggons have been since cut down. Some plants from last year have way over produced this year and while they look nice, it made our garden kind of mss-matched in places. Each year we try to add a few perennials to make it look nice. We have to give them till the second year to really see what they will grow like. We have had some really beautiful blooms this year and lots of hummingbird visitors, which Amy loves. You can see the small brick (tumbled brick) border we put in this year too. We like to garden. Too bad it's been so dang hot this year. It's been a rough year for containers outdoors.

A Day at the Lake

Well, here we are at the Lake - Payson Lake, to be more exact. This was actually like 2-3 weeks ago, but oh well...you can see how pregnant Amy is. She's the one on the right...ha ha ha. That was a good day. A good Friday afternoon activity. We hung out on the grass there and Adam swam across the lake and back. It was fun. Amy had a hard time getting in the water (it was a little chilly, but not bad at all). She has a very odd philosophy about cold water. She 'eases' in cause it is too cold and shocking. WHAT?!? Anyway, her inching in causes for her body to be reshocked each inch. Finally she went all the way under...and that was about it. We hung out on a log in the lake for a bit. It was a good day.

Here We Are!!

Well, this is us. Adam and Amy Clark. Aren't we a cute couple?!