Mim's Jumpers

These are the jumpers that grandma Mim made for the girls for the Fall / Winter season.  We got so many compliments on them at church.  Someone even mentioned them a week later!  Thanks, Mim!

Monuments by Moonlight

One of Tom's birthday gifts was a Monuments by Moonlight tour of downtown Washington, D.C.  It was a really nice evening for Tom and I to get away for a while alone.  We drove down to Union Station, took a cab to a terrific resaurant in China Town then came back to Union Station to pick up our trolly for the tour.  It was a  beautiful night!

Apple and Spinach Picking

We went up to Larriland Farms to go apple and spinach picking on a beautiful Fall afternoon.  Mom had to climb a tree to get to the good apples, all of the good ones from the bottom had already been picked!  We all had such a good time.  The fresh, hot apple fritters covered in powdered sugar weren't bad either.



Silly September Pics

 

Build-A-Bear Gift

Here are pictures from our visits to Build-A-Bear the girls got as gifts from thier Aunt Beth in Arizona.  They had  a blast!!



Sedona's 2nd Birthday!

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Our precious Sedona turned 2 on September 16th! Here are a few of the pics.  She had a little too much help on opening her gifts as you can see.  Since then we've been seeing the very real shift to a full blown 2 year old.  Testing the boundaries and manipulating with the best of them!!  But, inspite of all of that, she's a pleasure to be around.  :)

Our Ballerina!

Getting ready to leave for ballet.

Her little sis had to join in the fun of dressing up even if she wasn't going to dance.

Outside of her classroom at Maryland Hall. It is the very same place I took ballet when I was her age.

Her "knee" socks weren't really up to her knees like the other kids. Poor thing is going to have the same problem as her mommy...long legs that are impossible to find clothes for!!

A Few September Pics

We had good friends, Missy, Jimmy and Baby Noelle, over for dinner.

Who do you think is bigger, Sedona or Noelle? I'm not quite sure.

Random August - September Pics

Posted this picture twice becasue this is one of the first really good pictures Tom and I have had in the recent months.

Sedona and mommy have donuts at the Donut Shack in Severna Park while Lelia was at her gymnastics class. You would never know this from the picture but Sedona decided to pass gass while she was sitting up at the bar...nice, huh?! She wasn't allowed to sit on the bar the following day!

Awe!


Sedona enjoying the hotel bed. We stayed in Wilmington, DE on our way home from Mystic on our way to St. Michael's for Julian's baptism.

Sedona put her shoes on by herself for the first time!! I had to take a picture :)

Decorating cookies. {ahem} I mean, eating cookies.

We've started a family movie night on Fridays when we don't have other plans. Sweets, popcorn and a movie of the girls choice. So far, Peter Pan and Aladdin have both been huge hits!

Uncle Jay, comfortable with his masculinity?

She's all girl!

Lelia is learning to trace her letters and LOVES it! Homeschooling, here we come!

Trip to Kinder Farm Park with the Holdens. We had to leave early because Lelia shut Sedona's hand in a bunny cage door...just another normal day with the Clarke girls!

Lelia chillin' with one of our great friends, Thiel, who is finally back from an intensive Arabic language course in Syria. He is still waiting to bring his wife and son back to the states after thier stint overseas. Rose and Thomas (otherwise known to us as Dreams) are both still in Sudan with Rose's family. Thiel is finishing up some school before they come back. Can't wait to see them too!!

The girls playing with the easle that Mim and Bob gave to Lelia for her birthday.

The girls at Clark's Elioak Farm in Ellicott City, MD...it has so many fun things for kids to do and see. We'll definitely be going back this Fall.