Clark's Birthday

 Clark hates celebrating his birthday, so it's always low-key, but I figured everyone deserves to be embarrassed with a song and some candles. So I surprised him a week early at a family dinner.

 My mom is the best at taking birthday pictures, and he knows it, so he refuses to let his cheeks puff out. Nothing better than a shot of blowing out candles, but oh well. One of these years he'll forget to keep a straight face :)

 He blew out all 30 candles and then 1 re-lit itself.  

Here's the second cake without candles!  It was soooo lemony and delicious!  Thanks for helping me make 2 cakes from scratch mom!!  And of course thanks to Kristen for giving us all the fresh lemons used in this cake!  It's a Martha Stewart recipe, but instead of 2 TBS of lemon juice I used 15 TBS because that's the way I roll.  And what's the point in a lemon cake if there is no lemon filling? So we made a lemon custard for the filling.  It was tart and sour and divine.

He couldn't stay too mad at me since there were lots of leftovers (a whole cake). Happy Birthday you old fart!

Mom's Birthday

For my mom's birthday I painted a picture of her mom. This is a picture her dad carried in his wallet. I can easily see why! She's gorgeous! 

I'm so glad I have an amazing mom! Besides being just as pretty as her mom was, she's strong, consistent, and funny. Three of the most important qualities to have. I am forever grateful for the example she's set for me on how to live the gospel. 

I don't know much about my grandma since she died when I was 4 yrs. old, but I know she must have been amazing because my mom is amazing. My limited and favorite memories of my grandma are her tuna fish sandwiches, her homemade popsicles, the way she's break graham crackers length-wise, how she'd turn her hand into a brontosaurus, and her countless ways of keeping us entertained every time we went to her house.