Mr. Mobile

First of all I wanted to say thank you all for your nice comments about our last post! You are all very kind :)

Clark is eight months. He's been VERY mobile for the past month now! It's so fun to watch him crawl after Chase and Mallory. He has to be in every room that they're in and he LOVES to be in the middle of whatever they are playing with! Sometimes they like it when Clark plays with them and they laugh and giggle about him chasing them around, but sometimes it bugs them. When Chase spends half an hour building an elaborate train track and then Clark comes along and rips it apart in under two minutes - Chase gets very upset! He tells Clark, "You listen to my words, stop breaking my track, buddy!" Then we have to explain to him that, "Clark's just a baby and he doesn't know better and he just wants to be a part of what you're playing with." But it's fun to see all three of them play together! It's great when they are all entertaining each other!

Clark is all over the place dicovering his own little world! He has been pulling himself up on everything he can. Yesterday he took two steps sideways along the couch. He loves to pull himself up on the bathtub!

And he loves to climb! If we're laying on the floor he always crawls right over and starts climbing all over us. (You gotta love the smile behind the binki!)

I'm pretty surprised that he's as mobile as he is being as big as he is. He weighs 22 pounds! He's been wearing 12 month clothing since he was 6 months old. So yes - he's big, but he's also long. He has the footie pajamas for bedtime and his feet reach all the way to the very bottom. He's going to be tall!

He has already learned that when he wants picked up he reaches his arms up. I don't think Chase and Mallory learned that unitl they were closer to 10 months. He is definitely turning into a Mamma's boy! He cries if he can't see me or if I walk out of the room. It seems like he started the whole seperation anxiety thing early. But he's our last, so we are really enjoying him. I swear the more kids you have the faster time flies! Sometimes the busy-ness is overwhelming, but they sure are fun!

Lessons Learned

Wow! I feel like I don't even know where I should start with all this! Life and the move has had some unexpected twists that have left us a little disoriented. So I guess I should start from the beginning. . . . . February.

(Sidenote: This post is EXTREMELY long! I'm using it for a journaling purpose as well. This has been a very BIG trying and testing experience and many of my personal feelings are expressed. This has been quite the spiritual experience. Just thought I would warn you :) Congratulations if you make it to the end!)

THE IMPRESSION:
A few months ago in February I was talking on the phone to our good friend Abe. He had called to get my dad's information. My dad works in the real estate business and he and Donna wanted to put their house up for sale. I have to say I was devastated when he said that. They are our best friends! I didn't want them to move! I asked him why they wanted to move and he said they wanted to be closer to family. I gave him my dad's info and got off the phone with him a few minutes later. I will admit I did start feeling a little sorry for myself - our best friends weren't going to live around the corner anymore! But good for them I remember thinking; Abe will be closer to his work and they will be closer to family. I was sitting in the office chair after I had gotten off the phone and I had an impression that first of all - came out of nowhere and second of all - caught me off guard. This feeling came over me that we too needed to move closer to family. Both of our parents and my siblings live more on the north side of town. All of my extended family lives on the north side too. My first thought was that it would be fun to live closer to family. Then I specifically remember thinking, "Yeah right Heavenly Father, sell our house in this market! That could take years!!" Houses just aren't selling right now!! But again I had the feeling that we needed to move closer to family. If He wanted us to move, He would help our house to sell. I wasn't sure what His time frame for us moving was, but I needed to have faith. After talking about all this with Craig and some more praying we decided that we should do this. A week later I called my dad and had him put our house up for sale . . . .

UP FOR SALE:
We didn't put a sign in the yard. And we really didn't tell people. We didn't want to have to explain and answer a bunch of questions to everyone that we were trying to move, but the market's bad, blah, blah, blah. We just figured we'd put the house up for sale and whatever happened happened and that was the Lord's plan for us. Some of you might be thinking, "How does your house sell without a sign in the yard?" Our home was listed on the MLS - a place on the internet where all realtors look for homes to suit their clients who are looking to buy a house. Nothing happened the first two months. Then we got a call - someone wanted to come take a peek! I was excited! This could be it! I had the house spic and span and . . . they never came by. I was crushed! I remember praying that night and asking Heavenly Father, "Are we really supposed to sell our house? Is this really what you want us to do?" The answer I got was, "Where is your faith?" LESSON LEARNED: It's ok to pray for an increase in faith.

SOLD:
A month later still no one else had called on the home and no one had come to look. It was a Thursday night. My dad called and said he had a buyer for our home. I thought he was joking. No one had come by to look. Why would anyone want to buy a house they hadn't seen? The buyer was from Budapest - yeah, across the world. He wanted the home for an investment property and he wanted to pay cash for the house. He was going to pay our asking price which we were very excited about. We were going to come out a little ahead on our home!! When we heard that this guy wanted to use it for an investment property we asked him if we could rent back from him until we found another home to move our family too. He said no, and he also said he wanted us out in 12 days! Talk about feeling kicked out! But we were ecstatic that the house had sold. My parents immediately offered for us to stay in their home. They are empty-nesters and have 3 open bedrooms so they said we were welcome to come and stay until we could find a new place to live. LESSON LEARNED: I want to be that kind of a parent one day. (Thanks for the great example Mom and Dad!)

THE CATCH:
Here was the catch. Since the buyer was paying cash for the home he didn't have to qualify for a loan - making it possible to close on the home in the 12 days. We were supposed to close on June 4th and the buyer wanted us totally out of the home on the 4th! But Craig had a week long business trip that he had to leave for on June 1st. He wasn't going to be back until the 6th. We had to be out before then. So that kind of threw a wrench in everything - we had to move out before Craig left and before the home actually closed. Talk about scary! What if the buyer backed out and our stuff was already out of the house? Moving out before the home actually closed! Yikes! We did pray about this decision first. It felt right to move out of the home and scary as it all was we felt very much at peace that this was the right thing to do. LESSON LEARNED: Sometimes leaps of faith are required. It's part of the test.

THE MOVE:
We moved out on May 31st - the day before Craig left on his business trip. We got most of our stuff put in storage. What wouldn't fit in storage went to Craig's parent's garage (thank you Marc and Treesa!). And we went to my parent's house with basically our clothes and our toothbrushes!!

UNSOLD:
June 4th - our close date - came and went. Craig got back from his business trip and the house still had not closed! It was hard to communicate with the buyer and he had to get a power of attorney because he lived across the world! So things were taking longer than expected. We were on pins and needles waiting for the house to close! I swear I plead with the Lord every night that the house would just close so we could stop worrying. After EVERY prayer I always got the same feeling, "It's all going to be ok." At this point my faith had been stretched to the max, and it was starting to wear thin. But if Heavenly Father says it's all going to be ok - then it's all going to be ok.

Last week my dad (our realtor) got an e-mail from the buyer's realtor saying that the buyer had backed out. The buyer no longer wanted to purchase the home. No reason why not - no explanation - he just backed out. I cried. And I never cry!! But I cried. Many times. I was angry. Does this man in Budapest realize that he just kicked a family with 3 young children out of their home? We did everything he asked us to. We moved out by the 4th, we left the house clean, we signed all the documents. We did everything he requested - and then he backed out. I was livid! How does he sleep at night knowing he did that to a family? Oh, the things I would have said to him had I seen him face to face! LESSON LEARNED: People don't always follow through.

I must admit I felt abandoned by God as well. He said "everything was going to be ok." To me, this was NOT ok!! Did I miss something somewhere? Did I do something wrong? What IS going on? I truly felt that I had put my trust in Heavenly Father. And we were left with nothing but a very expensive and time consuming move that got us nowhere!! (My attitude had become very poor at this point). (Yes, I have since repented.) :) I was left thinking, "Ok Heavenly Father, where do we go from here?" LESSON LEARNED: The Lord's version of "ok" might be different than our version of "ok". Isaiah 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways . . . as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

DECISION TIME:
Craig and I laid out some options in answer to the question "Where do we go from here?" Option #1: We could move back into the house, yeah it would be a pain after all that packing and moving, but we could do it. Option #2: We could rent the house out. We owned a rental property before a few years back so we know the drill with having renters in our home. It's stressful and can be a hassle, but it's an option. Option #3: Let it go into foreclosure. It's definitely a trend in this housing market!

We very quickly decided that we didn't want to do option #3. We didn't feel right about letting the house go. Everyone's situations are different and everyone has their reasons for letting a house go into foreclosure, but at this point we felt that that option was not a good one for us.

Our second thought was, "Let's just move back in." We figured all of this packing and moving stuff could have just been a trial to see if we would do what we felt we were directed to do. After all, maybe this was our Zion's Camp! We were sent away from home maybe it was right to go back. Maybe there were a few more things that needed to fall into place before we actually officially moved closer to family. Maybe this part was just a test. But this is the cool part - both of us in our personal prayers felt VERY strongly that we were NOT to move back to Goodyear. That is not where the Lord wanted our family at this time. At least the Lord was keeping Craig and I on the same page!

So we were left with option #2. We decided to rent the house out. We told my dad we wanted to list the house to rent the night of June 9th. The next morning on the 10th he laid our rental paperwork on all of the leasing agents desks at work. Letting them know that our home was available to rent. Our house rented in two hours! TWO HOURS! If that's not a sign from God then I don't know what is! It's almost like Heavenly Father wasn't even going to give us a chance to think about moving back in! Everything had fallen into place. LESSON LEARNED: Heavenly Father is truly in control.

So now here we are - living in my parents home. If God wanted us close to family we sure are REALLY close to family!! I still have not quite figured out the reason we are supposed to be close to family. I have concocted a 100 different reasons why in my mind. Maybe Craig will get a job transfer out of state and we will end up raising our family far away, and this is a time to be close to family before we leave? Maybe Craig will lose his job and we'll need some help (sure hope that's not the case!)? Maybe something bad will happen whether it's an injury or a death in the family and we'll need family's support or they will need ours? Or maybe it's something positive like we're just supposed to live on this side of town and raise our family over here? Maybe we're supposed to move back to Goodyear in a year when our renter's lease is up, but for whatever reason we have something to learn over here? I have no idea.

For now we are letting the "waters" settle. We aren't going to jump head first into buying a home right away. We've looked in a couple neighborhoods at some affordable houses, but we just have the feeling to wait. Maybe the house we are supposed to live in isn't for sale yet? Or I don't know, but we have the feeling, for now, we are to wait. LESSON LEARNED: Patience is a virtue!

This has all been a very difficult experience to go through. My faith has been tested more than I ever thought it would be! The biggest lesson that I think I have learned overall has been that the Lord has a plan for our family. Even if I'm a little bit "in the dark" about what the plan is - He has a plan for us. He has only revealed to us what we have been ready to know. He hasn't given us the big picture. Thus far it's been revealed to us one piece at a time so that our faith has grown in the process. They say that we grow through our trials - let me tell ya - we're growin' like crazy over here!! Hee Hee!

Here's to hoping the renters pay on time - heck, pay at all - that they don't trash our house, and that they don't kill the grass. Who knows, maybe the market will turn around in the next couple of years and we'll end up selling the home and getting a lot of equity out of it? Maybe we'll end up moving back in the coming years? Doesn't the unknown just kill ya sometimes?!!! :)

And congratulations if you actually made it through this whole post. You deserve a prize - SERIOUSLY!!

Tagged (2 times)

So I haven't blogged in awhile. In the words of my friend Nikki, I just haven't felt like it. There's really no reason, I just haven't been feeling up to it lately. However, I have just reviewed everybody else's blogs and they are all so cute! You all keep up so well!

Donna and Sarah tagged me - a long time ago - so I figured today is the day I am getting around to it! Not much else is going on around here that needs to be blogged about anyway. So you can stay and find out some random facts about Holly or be on your merry way with more important things!!

FIRST TAG

Name 7 Weird or Interesting Things About Yourself:

1. Food is a great place to start! As far as food goes, if I have a weakness it's Double Stuf Oreos. WOW!! I am in love with Double Stuf Oreos. Every time I go to the grocery store and I pass the cookie aisle I literally have an internal struggle. Should I get them? Or not get them? It takes every ounce of strength to not put them in my cart! I would say I lose this internal struggle at least twice a month and I give in and buy them. I dip them in milk - then I cry when I see that I have gained 2 pounds the next morning!! Those cookies have 70 calories a piece!!

2. I am a morning person. I love to get up early. The house is quiet, everyone is sleeping, there's no one to bother me. I like to exercise and read my scriptures before my children get up. I feel physically and spiritually ready to take on my day. Of course I am human and I do take my day or two to sleep in, but for the most part I am up early. Because of this habit I am also an avid nap taker!

3. I have this thing with my feet being dirty. I don't like it! I always have something on my feet. Whether it's shoes or socks or those fluffy slipper socks (those are my favorite!) I have to have something on my feet. I don't like being barefoot because then my feet get dirty or I step in something on the kitchen floor and I can't handle it! Yeah, long walks on the beach - those aren't for me! Sand is the worst! My feet are filthy after walking in the sand! Half the time I wash my feet before climbing into bed.

4. I hate laundry! I more than hate laundry - I despise it! It's never done. You can do any other house chore and it can stay "done" for a little while, but laundry is never done! There are the piles that need washed, the piles to put away in drawers, the piles to hang up in the closet, the pile that needs ironed, and so on. I've tried doing one or two loads a day and I've tried doing it all on one day and I've tried not doing it at all. Nothing works. There is always something that needs laundered! Every time I end up doing a whole bunch of laundry at once I suggest to Craig that we move to a nudist colony. People that live in nudist colonies aren't there because they like being nudie - they just plain hate doing laundry. The only thing those people have to wash is their bath towel. I could live with that.

5. I have a bicornate uterus. It's a birth defect. There is a wall that runs down my uterus that splits it into two sides. Or sometimes doctors refer to it as two horns. (Ha! This Mormon has horns! Hee Hee!) The right side of my uterus is actually bigger than the left side. I have carried all three of my children on the right side. Yes, my stomach does look lopsided, especially in the third trimester. But you can't tell unless I don't have a shirt on. Unfortunately, this wall that divides my uterus in half also divides my birth canal in half. Some women who have this type of uterus - their wall is flexible and will allow the baby to center over the birth canal to come out naturally. We tested the "flexibility" of my "wall" with Chase and found that my wall is not a flexible wall. Chase ended up being taken via emergency c-section. And my other two kids were born c-section as well. Doctors are c-section happy these days, but having a bicornate uterus is actually a true reason to have a c-section.

6. I am smaller now than I was in high school - by four pants sizes. I was teased and called "Fatty".

7. I am not a good conversationalist. I am not a good conversation starter. I always worry about what to say to people. I'm always worried that I have said something to hurt someone's feelings or that they took something I said the wrong way. I am quite shy and prefer to be "wallpaper" in big groups of people. Unless I'm around people I have known a long time or that I know really, really well.

Ok, so now that you know all my weirds here's tag #2.

SECOND TAG

Google your answer and post the first picture that comes up:

What is your favorite food?

Double Stuf Oreo's


What is your age?

25


What is your middle name?

Davis (it was my maiden name)


What is your college major?

I don't have a college major right now, but I do want to go back to school when all my kids are in school. I would love to do something fitness and nutrition oriented.


What is your favorite vacation?

This was a no-brainer. Disneyland! I am a kid at heart!


What is a bad habit of yours?

I am very impatient. To a fault!







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What is your pet's name?

Craig is allergic to anything with hair so we just have fish. I think there are 6 fish in the tank and none of them have names. We just flush them down the toilet when they die so we try to stay as unattached as possible :o)


What place would you like to visit?

I have always wanted to visit South America/Central America and see the Indian ruins. You know the Temples that the Mayan Indians and other types of Indians built. I know that there is an LDS cruise that takes you down there to do tours and things. I have always wanted to see those sites.


Where would you like to live?

I would love to live on a ranch in the mountains.

Clark's Half-Birthday!!

Clark turned six months old back on April 11th. I know I'm a little late in posting, but I wanted to post his 6-month pictures too. (We just got them back). He is such a happy baby!! Regardless of the fact that he is cutting three top teeth all at once he hasn't been too fussy. This last week he has learned how to get up on his hands and knees and rock back and forth. Yesterday he moved one knee forward then took a face dive into the floor! So he's just gotta figure out that his hands have to move too. He'll be crawling all over the place real soon!! I know a lot of parents dread their kids crawling/walking, but I love it! They're happier and they can entertain themselves. You don't have to carry them around all the time. I get so much more done!! So I can't wait!!



He weighs 21 pounds. He's a tank! I get some good exercise carrying this kid around! What a cutie he is though. He has been such a blessing in our lives. I love my Clark :-D

Sweet Face


I just LOVE his face in this picture!!


Hands and Knees

You Might Be A Redneck If . . . . . .

Your brother is also your brother-in-law!
If your sister-in-law is your sister-in-law on both sides of the family!
You see the same people on both sides of the family get togethers!

These redneck jokes are from the mouth of my brother Jason! Jason met his wife, Natalie, when he was in high school. She waited for him while he went on his mission and they got married 3 months after he got home. Natalie has a younger sister, Heather.
Meanwhile my cousin Spencer who lived in Utah moved down to Arizona. Spencer ended up meeting Heather and they ended up getting married (This made Jason's cousin his brother-in-law!) Natalie and Heather have a younger sister named Kim. Jason and I have a younger brother named Cameron. Cameron and Kim of course knew each other through our family's close relationship - and church. Cameron and Kim started dating 3 months before his mission. Kim waited and they got married 6 months after Cameron got home. (Jason's brother is now his brother-in-law, and Kim, his sister-in-law is now his sister-in-law on both sides of the family.) Did I lose you there? It's really not as difficult as it sounds and I MUST add that no one who married each other is blood related. And talking to the photographer who took pictures of the wedding - she said things like this happen more often than you think it does. Where brothers marry sisters. She said it makes taking the wedding pictures easier because when you switch both sides of the families in and out for the pictures it's nice that half of the people stay there! So it's a little on the humorous side. My brothers say they often crack jokes about it and Jason says, "I married Natalie first!" We have one more brother left and they have one more sister left. But my brother is on a mission in Thailand and he does have a girlfriend who is waiting for him. And their sister is still in high school so she is probably at least a couple years away from marrying!! Anyway, as I promised earlier, I finally got my hands on some of Kim and Cameron's wedding pictures. Their photographer was eight months pregnant when they got married and she ended up having her baby a month after the wedding. So it took her awhile to get them their wedding pics back! They got married back on January 5th. Their Temple sealing was first thing in the morning and it was gorgeous! It was a beautiful day! Kim looked absolutely stunning in her dress! And my brother was handsome as ever! We had a luncheon at my parents house after the sealing - and then Kim and Cameron went to go "pack" for their honeymoon before the reception. Hee Hee! (Didn't we all "pack" or go "take a nap" before our wedding reception on our big day?!)(Sorry guys! I'm just teasing!) :o) The reception was nice. I LOVE wedding receptions! The music and dancing, seeing people you haven't seen in years, the memories it brings back of my own reception, etc. And I loved Kim and Cameron's wedding song. they picked "Beyond the Sea". I'm not sure which version they had played, but my favorite version is sung by Kevin Spacey. It fit them perfectly because Cameron served his mission in Hong Kong - an ocean away - and the song talks about a lover waiting for him beyond the sea. Great song!
As with all wedding days, it was fun, but long, due to the fact that we have three young children. They didn't get naps so by the time the reception started they were starting to fall apart! It was a great day and we are so glad that Kim is now a member of the family. Aren't you jealous of her red hair?! It's natural too! I can't wait to see what color hair their kids will have! I got to be a bridesmaid for the wedding. I was grateful she chose me for that. Since I don't have any sisters of my own it was nice to feel included that way. (Thanks Kim!) I'm so glad they got married in the Temple. It's so comforting to know that we are all sealed together. Our family links remain strong and unbroken that way. I love you Kim and Cameron!

It's Been SIX Years!!!

Yesterday was our sixth wedding anniversary! I seriously cannot believe it has been six years. We have been through soooooo much together. I am so grateful for Craig. He has been a big support to me. Especially the last four years. I have either been pregnant, healing from a c-section, or been trying to get pregnant the last four years of our marriage. And let me tell ya - I am not a happy camper when I'm pregnant! I am so grateful he has put up with me through it all!! We've made it through some pretty hard times together. We've also made some great memories! I have never laughed so much with anyone else as I do with Craig. Here's to forever!!

Some of my favorite things about Craig are:

1. He rubs my back almost every night. I don't even have to ask.

2. He comes home from work happy everyday. There are really only about 3 or 4 days that I can remember him coming home in a bad mood in our entire marriage. He walks in the door with a smile and a jolly laugh everyday! I absolutely LOVE this about Craig!

3. We like to share a bag of popcorn when we watch TV together after the kids are in bed. When there are only a few handfuls of popcorn left he stops eating and lets me have the rest. He knows I love the half-popped kernels and he lets me have them!

4. Craig is good at talking to people. He is a great conversationalist. I love that he always knows what to say to people. He makes people feel important and even when people are being stupid he has a way of telling them - without actually making them feel stupid. (I don't know if that made sense or not).

5. He's a cry baby! And I mean that in a totally positive way! He played college football - he's a tough guy - yet he cries over everything!! He cries in movies (even action movies), he cries at TV shows, he cries every week when he gives his Gospel Doctrine lesson, he cries when other people cry. I wish I had his sensitivity.

6. He loves me. I know that he loves me. He just has a way with me. He is always worried about how comfortable I am in life. He always asks if there is anything he can do to make my life easier. He makes me feel beautiful - even when the makeup's gone and the hair's all undone. He makes me feel good about myself. He just loves me. :o)

Dreamy isn't he?
I love you Craig!!

What's In a Name?

I got tagged twice for this so I figured I should finally sit down and post on this! I know a lot of people have done this and it's been fun to hear why everyone named their kids what they did. We are so blessed to have had 3 babies to name. With my condition it's truly a miracle that we have ANY children, let alone 3 HEALTHY children!! So here are the what's and why's of our kiddos. I also included my favorite professional picture and a snapshot of them.

CHASE THOMAS





Growing up, my brothers and I used to play at our cousin Nathan's house a lot. Nathan had a friend named Chase who was over there all the time too. He was kind of a crazy kid, but I always thought he had a cool name. When we found out we were having a boy, I ran the name by Craig and he really liked it. So since I picked the first name I told Craig he could pick the middle name. He wanted to name him Chase Rodney. WOW! RODNEY!! No offense to anyone out there with the name Rodney, but I just never had that in mind for one of my children. So I convinced him to pick something else and he came up with Thomas. I'm not too big on Bible names either, but Thomas was way better than Rodney - so it became Thomas. Which is perfect now because he is obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine! However, had I known that naming my child Chase would literally mean that I would spend my days "chasing" him around the house, in public, or wherever we are I would have named him Sitting Still. Sounds kind of like an Indian name doesn't it? :O)

MALLORY JADE





We had a very hard time naming Mallory. When I was 18 weeks pregnant with her we went to go find out if she was a girl or a boy at an ultrasound. We found out she was a girl, but we also found out that my body was halfway through the laboring process. Thanks to many priesthood blessings and modern-day medicine she is here today. We were hesitant to name her because we weren't sure if she was going to make it or not. Looking back I think we were trying to stay unattached to her because of how scared we were of losing her. At the end of the pregnancy we finally finalized a name for her. I had read a book - don't remember the name of it - but the main character's name was Mallory. I took it to Craig and he said, "Mallory? Like on Family Ties?" That show must have been before my era because I have never seen an episode. But he liked it so we went with it. We tried to come up with a middle name, but it seemed like nothing fit. I ended up getting one of my friend's wedding announcements in the mail. We were in the same ward for years growing up and she was a great friend - and her name sounded good next to Mallory. So Jade it was!

CLARK TYLER






Clark was actually going to be Corbin for the longest time. We called him Corbin for months while I was still pregnant with him! But Craig and I kept saying, "We love the name Corbin, but it's just not clicking!" We couldn't seem to find anything to "click" as we discussed names. So I finally just asked Heavenly Father if there was a specific name he had in mind for this child. I know that happens in the Bible - Heavenly Father has a certain name that He's wanted a child to have. So I questioned Him, and a couple of days later, we were watching Smallville. The show about Superman (Clark Kent) in his teenage years. The thought ran through my head, "How about Clark?" At first I thought, "No, it's too old fashioned." But a few days passed and Clark still kept coming into my mind. Meanwhile, I had a brother who was on his mission at the time in Hong Kong, China. I had written him an e-mail and had asked him what he thought of the name Clark. I was blown away by his response! When he answered my e-mail he said, "Holly, it's weird that you asked me that because the other night I was laying in bed and the name Clark Kent just popped into my head. And I started thinking about Superman." He said he thought the name was a good name. Wow! So my brother who's on the other side of the world has had a "Clark" impression too! I felt strongly that Clark was this child's name. Then I had to get the guts to bring it to Craig because I was so sure on this! He ended up loving it! He wanted to name him Clark Kent Kurtzeborn. (He LOVES Superman, but I told him there is no way we are doing that to our child!) I said no to Kent. And he suggested Tyler. Which is also his middle name and his mother's maiden name. There was also an Apostle named J. Reuben Clark. Clark was a good name!

I tag Sarah H., Crystal T. (I know he's still in utero!), and Amie W.