Mr. Handsome

Here are some pictures that Lisa and Joe B. our friends took! They are amazing! Somehow they managed to turn a cranky boy on a windy day into an adorable little man with beautiful weather! I tell you - they work miracles! THANK YOU LISA AND JOE!

I am going to have to do another post on these pictures because blogger is being dumb and won't upload any more pictures! You will just have to wait in suspense for more! :)

Houdini

Our little man has shown us that he is destined to be a problem solver. He will look at a challenge, think about it for a minute, and then try to master it. 99% of the time - he is successful!

One specific example of this - he always empties this cupboard out, I put it away, then he empties it again. So I decided to tie it closed! I thought I had a pretty good system until....



....he came walking up to me like this. Yes that is the tie, in his mouth!

He also loves to empty out the kitchen cupboards so we put up some chair booby traps for him...but as you can see - he figured that out really quick!

Now that is determination!

Since then we have found a new way to keep the cupboard closed and have bought child gates for the kitchen!

Aparently he is smarter than his parents!

Our 1 Year Old!

I can't believe how fast the last year has flown by! Our little guy turned 1! We had a huge party with all the family (when they were here for Anson's graduation) and Shaef got spoiled! Shaef was so lucky to have both of his grandpas at his birthday!!



When he started opening presents he didn't get very far! He opened the first one from Grandpa and Grandma Clark and he didn't want to open any more!! He loved it sooo much - he screamed when any one tried to take it away or distract him!

We decided to do a construction theme since we were getting Shaef a big dump truck for his birthday! My amazing friend Tammy, was super nice to us and made Shaefer's cake!! She did awesome and it tasted as god as it looks!

It was so adorable, I didn't want Shaefer to ruin it when we let him dive into the cake. I decided to make him his own little cake that I wouldn't feel so bad about him destroying.

This is about all the damage he did....not much so I probably didn't need to make him a whole cake for himself but oh well!

It was such a fun party and I am so thankful for all the people who were able to come and support our little guy!

Posts to come in the next few days....
1) Our little Houdini
2) 1 Year Old Pics

Anson Graduated!

It has been a busy month so instead of doing a marathon post I have a goal to do one post every day for the next few days. We will see how well that works!

Anyway - for one of the biggest events of all....ANSON IS OFFICIALLY A COLLEGE GRADUATE! I am so proud of him! He is not all that fond of school but he finished his undergrad.

We had a big party for his graduation complete with both of our parents, siblings, (minus Jenny, Tanner and Trevor - WE MISSED YOU) his grandparents, and even his aunt and uncle. What great support our little family has!

Now... for our future plans...

The man who doesn't love school - is going to more school!!! :) He has been accepted to Florida Coastal School of Law and we are moving down to Jacksonville, FL. He is very excited about studying Law (even with my Dad trying to talk him out of it) and can't wait to study it for the next 3 years!! I really hope he continues to be this enthusiastic!

I am definitely excited about....

Being with him...

(Pre-view of pictures to come in later post) THANK YOU LISA THEY ARE AMAZING!


and This...



Jacksonville, Florida .... Here we come!