Asa's Mission Call

This post is for the Clements' fam. Here is Asa opening his mission call. It will almost be like you were actually there! :-)

(P.S. For everyone else out there reading this, Sam's brother Asa just received his call to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He will be serving in the Massachusetts Boston mission.)

Splish! Splash!

Bath time with two is twice as fun!... and twice as wet. :-D

3 Bs

On my side of the family, there have three girls born within the last year...and all of their names begin with B. Well, we finally got them all together and took a picture. Here there are back at the beginning of June.

Brooklyn (10 months), Baylee (8.5 months), and Brinley (5.5 months)

For those who know my family, Brooklyn belongs to Jared and Kristin, and Baylee belongs to Lacey and Evan. My brother Justin and his wife Shelly are also expecting a girl. Her due date is just a couple days after Brooklyn's first birthday. I think her name is going to start with an E, though.... :-)

Brinley's 1st Haircut!

After months of procrastination, it finally happened: Brinley got her hair cut!

Aunt Kristin cut it on June 2nd. Brinley now has bangs. :)

The before picture:

Brinley did a great job--as did Kristin, of course!

The after picture:

Sam's 30th Birthday

Here's another post from long ago. The day Brinley and I came back from Utah was Sam's 30th birthday. (Holy cow...that sounds so much older than it really seems!) I wanted to do something special, so I told him that we'd go out to dinner at a restaurant of his choice with his family. Meanwhile.... I was secretly scheming and setting up a big {SURPRISE} party for him. With much help from our nearby family (thanks!), I was able to pull it off, even though I was out of town. Sam was totally surprised! I am so glad that I was able to do this for Sam, and am very grateful to all the friends and family who came to wish him well on his big 3-0!

More than anything, I am glad that Sam was born and that I'm the lucky girl who gets to be married to him!

Ben's Graduation

You might be asking yourself, "Where the heck did Kelsey go?" I've been asking myself the same thing. Nevertheless, I am back now and hopefully will have a firestorm of posts coming to catch up on everything that I've missed. Here's a post from a long time ago. The tardiness is for good reason, though, as I had to get the pictures off of my brother's camera.

Way back at the end of April, I had the opportunity to attend my little brother, Ben's, graduation from Brigham Young University. He graduated with his bachelor's in Economics. I went with my parents and took just Brinley with me. It was very weird being without Levi, but he did great from what I hear. Each work day I was gone, he went to a different cousin's house while Sam was at work, then got to hang out with his dad at night. Brinley also did well on the trip, considering how much time she spent buckled into a car seat...poor thing.

While we were in Utah, I got to see my childhood friend, Brianne, whom I had not seen since I was 9 weeks pregnant with Levi. It was so much fun catching up with her and introducing her to Brinley. I can't wait to see Brianne again!

Mom, Dad, Ben, A. Carolyn (Dad's sister), U. Blaine (Carolyn's husband), and A. Joyce (Dad's sister).

Me, Brinley, and the Grad

Isn't that a beautiful orange flower I picked out for Ben?

Wahoo! It feels great to be done!

Ben ringing the Victory Bell.