"A bee Clark? It was a big bee!"

From the desk of Darrin:

During my mission I had this inside joke with one of my companions that had to do with the movie "The Santa Claus". It is the part where the main character was turning into Santa and had put on a lot of weight. While he is in a business meeting he tells everyone that he was stung by a bee and then orders all these cookies and hot chocolate for lunch. A lady says "A bee Clark?" He replies "It was a big bee.” Needless to say this past weekend I had my own case of this type of so called "bee stings".

While on my Saturday morning run, I stopped at the last drink stop and had some Gatorade to finish off my run. This was just your average blue Gatorade, the same stuff I have drank time and time again. Well right after I had some I started to run again and felt like my tongue was starting to get some canker sores on it. There was only about a mile from the last drink station to the cars where we stopped. By the time we reached the cars I felt like my face was frozen and it was hard for me to talk. This is a picture taken right after the run.As Darcy and I walked to the car I told her that I felt like I had some type of food allergy happening. She replied by telling me I looked funny, and then once we got to the car she started freaking out because my face was swelling up so fast. I talked her into just going to the store and getting some allergy medicine instead of the ER (which is where she wanted to go). By the time we stopped at the store my left eye was so swollen that I could hardly open it. After a couple of antihistamines, shower, and a blessing from my Dad I started felling better.
(I am smiling in one of the pictures and not in the other, can you tell the difference?) By the end of the day I was practically back to normal. I am still not sure why this day Gatorade was the catalyst for causing this reaction, but let’s just say I haven’t had any since that morning.
This is me, this morning; I really don’t see that much of a difference. I think I can rock it either way.

A Quiet Eve

This New Years Eve we had grand plans of reenacting last year, which we would have done but after talking to the pediatrician and being advised against taking Kale out to the hot springs, we opted for bowling instead. To be honest I was pretty happy with that, the hot springs are always fun but not so much if I am sitting in the locker room nursing a baby alone.
We had a great time bowling and my nephews even came with my mom and dad.

Driving home we stopped for a quick stop to pick up sparkling cider and went home. It was about 8:30pm, we lit some sparklers, gave a quick 2010 cheer and put the kids to bed. I was worried that with no party to go to, or friends/family to entertain we would feel a little put out. As Darrin and I got in our PJ's made a comfy bed on the floor and cuddled in front of a movie I knew there wasn't anywhere else I wanted to be right then.
Cheers to 2010!

Here's Poppy (my dad) loving his Grandkids.

Growing

Here's some recent pics of our new 6 month old. It's hard to believe he is already 1/2 a year.
He's full of smiles (seriously such a great baby), sleeping most of the night 7pm-5:30am, and just started rice cereal, those are the quick stats...on to the pictures.