happy turkey day from mia clove

yeah. what SHE said.


TRANSLATION: "don't eat me! 'cause i am sick. i sneeze, i throw up, and get runny noses. that's what you will get, too."

KETCHUP: so many great clove family photos in one post

no posting for a month means catching up. which i dislike.
so we'll do the condensed version, hit the major highlights, call it good & move on.

in the past six weeks we've....


gone to sadies with a fun group of kids:

 & continued working on our "wood" coffee table book:

the parentals escaped to one of the most beautiful places on earth for rbc's 42nd birthday:

where they checked and, YEP. STILL IN LOVE:

we rocked out with one of the coolest bands on earth:

& dave grohl reinforced my theory about a not-so-hot guy turning SMOKING HOTwhen he knows his way around a guitar and a microphone:

we dressed like cats for halloween:

as well as hippies:

& a sweet little strawberry:

we embraced some crazy on the daddy-daughter date:

& chuckled over the continued creative spelling stylings of our mia:

(TRANSLATION: "hi, my name is mia. i am building a house for my family. it is going to be SASSY.")

but the best part of the past six weeks was having our grandparents return home to us:

thankful thursday

things i am thankful for this week:



**beautiful weather for a motorcycle ride. and a buddy who wants to get in on the action:

i think we look so natural:

**the fact that i may or may not have (allegedly) BEAT somebody in a game of words with friends who may or may not (allegedly) be in the photo above.


which might just be my greatest achievement, ever.


i place it right above marrying russ and birthing my four children:






**mia's fantastic spelling skillz:

(TRANSLATION: "this is an ice cream. it is strawberry. it is yummy.")




**that the 80's dream is still kept awake & alive by my 13-year old's school:

(on the downside, she came to me and described this outfit as "from the 60's". dislike.)

**baby libby's shopping skills.

she went right along to las vegas to search for a homecoming dress, and she couldn't have been any sweeter. or cuter. i think she might possibly be the actual cutest baby in the world.

here she is just chillaxing in the dressing room amongst the 400 dresses we tried on:

**when i find random old photos on russ's cell phone that i've never seen.

like these:

**that the good 'ole candy bar card never really goes out of style:

7 lessons learned from madame tussauds wax museum

7 lessons learned from our trip to madame tussauds wax museum:



1. using the president's personal phone line is really no big deal:

2. stevekemp is still the world's greatest photo bandit:

3. ALL THE LADIES want to get married to george clooney:











4. george clooney tends to be a bit handsy.  (but i really didn't mind.)

5. lindsay lohan is still not a great role model for the young girls:

6. mia ONLY wanted her photo taken with girls:

(thanks, kamwee for your awesome photography skills)

7. the dads really only wanted their photo taken with girls, too:

thankful thursday

things i am thankful for this week:



**the loose tooth that FINALLY came out at the pool last saturday:

i tell you what: that baby was holding on for dear life by the thinnest of threads. the only way she was letting it go was the fact that her cousin showed no fear 2 minutes earlier and lost her first tooth to jody's expert hands:

the tooth fairy was quite busy that night:

**a kitty that makes me laugh when i see i've passed my "FOMO" (Fear Of Missing Out) right on to him:





ahhh, mahhhhhtin:

**once again, i want to express my thankfulness as a mother of four girls to the young men out there that are still asking to dances.


and in a clever way, at that:

katie is psyched to go to homecoming with taylor h.~

we went to the olympic park in park city

one of the new things we experienced this year in park city was the utah olympic park



coming up the hill we could see the ginormous ski jumps and were just a bit awestruck:

the main agenda was the zipline. we opted for an all-female run and fared pretty darn well:

having proved at lagoon that she was a gnarly adrenaline junky ready for the next thrill, mia sailed through like the seasoned veteran she'd become:

she also decided that once was NOT enough, so she went for round two:

my favorite part of the afternoon was watching the freestyle aerial show.
the skiers, which seemed to be on the MUCH younger side (am i getting old? hmmmmm.) would ski down the jump up to 60 feet in the air and perform acrobatic fantasticness before landing in the 750,000 gallon splash pool:

super hardcore: