Another Week Almost Gone By

This week has been busy. We celebrated Matt and Stephanie's Birthdays on Wednesday, July 25th - Matthew's actual birthday - by eating out at Cheesecake Factory. Brad, Me, Stephanie, Matthew and Kayla all had a good time. We will celebrate again on Sunday with Dinner at Mom's.

Brad is getting ready for the Stake Encampment up at Kolob. They almost did not get to go there because of fires but this past Sunday they had a meeting and they all prayed for rain to come down and put out the fires. The woman who runs the website for Utah Fires reported that they were not expecting rain but the next thing they she knew - rainclouds rolled in, the heavens opened and rain came pouring down on the fire and put it out! She said it did not rain much anywhere else but there. I guess the Lord wants these boys and their leaders to experience what has been planned for them. What a blessing! We will be leaving in the morning to take one of the trailers for the cooking crew up and come back. Brad and the boys will all leave early in the morning on the 30th. I hope to have some pictures to post after he gets back.


For now - here is a pretty picture of Kayla!

July 23, 2007

This past week was so busy I can hardly remember what we did. On Tuesday night we had a camp dinner for Young Women to recognize their participation at girl's camp and to watch a slide show of pictures from Camp. It was fun to go since I did not go to camp and see some of the pictures.

Heather and Quinn came on Friday and stayed until early Sunday morning. I had fun shopping with Heather, Kayla and Matt, while Brad and Quinn took my brother (Kerry) and went shooting.

We had our weekly dinner at Mom's and it was great as usual. We all watched the finale show of The Next Food Network Star and the lady I was hoping would win won!

I created a power point presentation for my Lesson on Sunday. It was fun to work on since I am just learning how to use the program.

Well - that is all for now!

Our First Post

I thought I would start a blog since keeping a journal has been a struggle for me and I fail to put in writing what is going on in our lives! This is the first post to the Brad and Alane Clark blog. I am hoping that people can check here to keep up with what is going on in our lives.

We recently finished fixing up the front yard by taking out the remaining trees in the front yard. Last year (2006) we took out the olive trees. There were two of them and they were messy and huge. This year we took out the 2 40 year old pine trees that were next to the driveway. Brad rented a manlift and Steven steered it while Brad cut branches. At one point Steven climbed out of the lift and into the very top of the tree. It is 65 feet high! Yikes. Over three stories high in the air and Steven is balancing on the top branch. It was a good thing I was not home. Matt helped throw branches in the dumpster as well as Dave Huntsman and his wife Mary. Also Dave's son came and helped. Dave cut the branches on the ground and took all of the logs he wanted away. It was great to have their help. You should have seen when the trees came down with such a thump.

Brad's mom and step-dad flew in to Vegas after being in Indiana to help Brad's brother during an illness and she even got into the manlift and went up.

Now the yard has three new trees and some bushes and rock. No grass. The backyard has nice grass for the dogs.