Field Trip to the Grocery Store

Clara's preschool class got to go see all the departments in a grocery store. The kids had so much fun and so did I!Clara has the best imagination ever. She found a walnut (our neighbors across the street have a walnut tree) and part of a bird's nest - which she thought looked like a blanket. Clara cared for her "baby walnut" for days. She would put it to bed, wake it up, feed it. It was pretty funny.Here Clara is "wearing" my hair. Clara loves to play with and stroke my hair. One night I decided to use my hair like a wig for her and Clara loved having long hair. Jeremy thought it was funny enough to take a picture.

• We were driving home when Clara saw the moon out the car window. She must have been watching it for a while because she said excitedly, "The moon is coming with us!"

• Clara got to bring home a helium balloon from her grocery store field trip. The next day, the balloon was on the floor - instead of floating in the air. Clara said, "Oh no! The balloon lost it's power!"

• Our DVD player was acting weird this week. So I opened it up and looked inside to see if I could tell what was wrong. I was able to fix it and put it back together. When Clara's movie was working again she said, "You're a great fixer, Mama."

• It's pretty rare that I get to shower before Clara gets up in the morning. I always tell her when I'm going to take a shower so that she doesn't freak out too much when she notices I've been gone for more than 5 minutes. So one day I said, "I'm going to jump in the shower now." Clara said, "We don't jump at home." I'm glad she's been listening to where she can and cannot jump!

Extension

We found out that Jeremy got a 1 year extension on his job. Along with that came a very unexpected raise! We are so happy to know we have employment for at least another year!

Not too much else has happened this week, so I'll just dive right into the funny Clara moments for the week. I have to add this picture of Clara. I put it on my other blog, but I didn't have any new ones of her and this one makes me laugh so hard I thought I might as well have it in both places.

• I looked down and noticed some food on my pants, so I said, "Oh no, I spilled." Clara, who I didn't even know was listening said, "That's ok Mom, sometimes that just happens."

• Clara is always trying to figure out how new words fit into her world. Clara was listening as Jeremy was telling me a story and in it he explained how in Spanish, El Papa means The Pope. Clara piped up and said, "Like the bear!" We were a little confused until she explained, "Like Po, the bear."

• We were eating ice cream with some friends and Jeremy told them that Clara was a fan of ice cream. Clara responded, "I'm not a fan!"

• Jeremy and Clara always have the craziest conversations. One day, Daddy and Clara were naming lots things that would be funny if they fell like rain. Clara said, "If it rained fruit snacks, then we could buy them from the sky."

• In the same rain conversation Jeremy asked Clara what would happen if it rained trucks. Clara said, "Then they would bonk our heads."

Exciting Week

Clara was able to attend a field trip to Provo's airport. It was so much fun for the kids to see all the different airplanes. They even got to see a helicopter land and an airplane take off. I still didn't have my camera back from the shop, so I'll have to put pictures up when I get them from friends to took some for me.I got my camera back the same day as Clara's field trip and I have been having so much fun taking pictures with it. I am very impressed with the service. They even updated our software for us, so the delay is MUCH faster than what it used to be. We LOVE having our camera back.

Friday we got to hang out with a few friends from the ward where Jeremy and I met. The bishop's wife graduated from UVU and they had an open house for her and invited all the old college students to come. We love that family and love getting together with them.

My brother picked up the key to his new apartment Sat morning. If you are wondering why I would care about that at all, his new apartment is in my same complex. We are going to be neighbors and I couldn't be more excited.

After my little brother got his key and VERY briefly looked inside his new apt, we drove to Twin Falls to see my niece get baptized. Clara was so excited to see Adanya's baptism and to see her cousins Jed and Hyrum. Isn't my sister's family so beautiful?We had so much fun playing with them all weekend. Clara loved all their dress up things.And we loved getting to play games. Clara also got a Strawberry Shortcake blanket while we were there, which she loves! Thanks guys. The trip was way too short as we came home Sunday after church.

When we got home, I was talking to some friends and they mentioned that Osama bin Lauden had been killed. I was shocked. We turned on the news right away to see if it was really true. Words can't describe the feelings I had as the news sunk in. I didn't think this day would ever come. I'm so grateful to so many who put their lives in danger to be able to bring justice to those families who lost loved ones 9 1/2 years ago. I'm still slightly in shock.

• Overheard as Clara was playing with a stick: I want to go to the glass slipper ball. You can't because you are a stick, not a glass slipper.

• Clara went to the temple grounds with me when I took 2 girls who are between the ages of 8 and 11. As soon as we got to the temple, Clara said, "The temple is HUGE!"

• As we were all walking around the grounds, Clara kept saying to those 2 girls, "Follow me girls!"

• When I told Clara she was cute, she said, "No I'm not, I grew up!" (Apparently only babies are cute.)

Easter

Happy Easter! The Easter Bunny comes on Saturday at our house. He came when we were all sleeping this year because of how crazy our Saturday was. It was so much fun to see Clara so excited when she woke up and we told her the Easter Bunny had come to our house. She ran around so fast we didn't get very many good pictures.After Jeremy left to go to work, Clara and I had some time to kill before we needed to leave. She decided to take her Easter candy and make it "snow" all over our carpet. Clara and I were able to meet up with some friends at a local grocery store that was having an Easter celebration on Sat. The Easter Bunny was there and Clara was so excited to get to meet him. When we finally met up again as a family, we headed to Kohls to spend some Khols cash that had been given to us and that expired that day. Jeremy found this hat and tried it on. Clara then really wanted to wear it and even asked if we could buy it. We bought her some play-doh instead. She played with it for hours. She had us help her write her name and then she wanted us to make a Clara. If you notice, the play-doh Clara has a flower in her hair just like the real Clara.On Easter Sunday, we headed to Jeremy's parents' house for dinner and the annual Easter Egg Treasure Hunt. Clara had so much fun running after the other kids. She really didn't care they beat her to all the clues. It was a happy day.

• Sunday morning before church, I told Clara the Easter story and explained to her that was the reason we celebrated Easter. I showed her pictures of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, on the Cross, and then resurrected. We then talked about what resurrected means, and explained that even though the Easter Bunny is fun, we should think about our Savior during Easter. She listened quite well (better than I thought she would anyway) and when I was done, she said, "That was a great story. Thanks Mommy!"
  

• Conversation with Clara: Me: "You are a cutie pie." Clara: "I'm not a pie!" "You aren't? Well then what are you?" "I'm a crazy kid."

• Clara LOVES Tinkerbell. One day, Clara came up to me with a very worried look on her face and she was flapping her elbow frantically. When I asked her what was wrong, she said, "I can't hear something, because I don't have a bell in my body like Tinkerbell does. I want to have a bell in my body!"

• Clara and Jeremy have some very funny conversations. Clara mentioned to him that she was hungry or something and Jeremy said, "You can eat a computer." Clara: "No, try again." "You can eat garbage." "Keep trying." "A phone?" "Try again." "Fruit sacks?" "You got it!"