Clark Family: March 2007

Gracia Almendra Sharp

Hello everyone!

I would like to introduce our new niece, Gracia, who was born on March 20 at 6:26pm. She weighed 7lb, 6.5oz. We were able to have a nice little visit with her and her family, and everyone seems to be doing well.

Love to you all,
Steph

Picnics and concerts

Hello family,

Here are some pictures of our first winter picnic this year. It's been too cold or Trev has been on call, and so this is our first one of the year! It was a mild day and Katja enjoyed watching Daddy toast marshmellows!

The other two pictures are of the Mercy Me concert that we went to last week. Aaron Shust was one of the bands who opened and was VERY good. The one picture is of us with the two other couples we went with from meeting here, and the second is Mercy Me in their grand finale song when they released all these pieces of paper with Mercy Me written on them. It was a very nice time and also our first leaving Katja with Grandma Griffin. We all managed JUST FINE! :)

Love to you all, Praise God about Bella!

Liz, Trev and Katja

Praise God!!!

We finally got the results of Bella's most recent HIV test, and we're thrilled to say that it was negative!!! Last time we were told that "her maternal antibodies were waning", and this time they said that she has "no maternal antibodies". This is really great news! I don't have time to post much more than that, but I wanted to make sure to share the exciting news right away! We will still do a final test at 18 months, but she is already 16 months old, so it's really just a formality.
Thanks for praying with us!
The TSF Family
PS - Joanne has started her own blog, if you want to check it out, it's:
www.drumming-for-the-one.blogspot.com

LOTS OF HUGS WOOFS AND PUURS FROM THE CLARK FAMILY IN MEDICINE HAT ALBERTA!!!!

Clark Family Goes West

Hello Family! Since we have been here in Medicine Hat atleast a year, we figured it was time to fill you all in on the updates!!!! We are still currently renting the same house we moved into when we got here. It is a great size for just the 2 of us and our rather large fmaily of dogs! It has a HUGE backyard (which is also great for the dogs) aswell as a fire pit ( we took advantage of that last year and had some of our friends from young adults over)It was a great summer with alot of time spent at the lake waterskiing and swimming with the dogs. We are very fortunate to have beautiful parks here and family close by with access to waterski. HOWEVER it was VERY hot, the hotest day being 93 degrees ferenheit at the end of july! We also of course took part in the Calgary Stampede with all of megs family, which is always quite a big ordeal because they enter their horses in the livestock shows. We have joined the Church family at Hillcrest Evangelical Missionary Church. It has a Wonderful Youth Program and we are both enjoying working 1 on 1 with the teens. It has been really awsome to see them grow over the school year in their walks with the lord and watch new friendships develop between them all. Nathan also got the oppurtunity to play hockey with some guys frm the western hockey league all summer including some guys that moved up into the NHL this last season, infact it seems like thats all we did this winter! PLAY HOCKEY! Its a wonderful thing because Nathan Loves playing and Megan Loves watching him! Also Nathan coached a Bantam House Hockey team (ages 13 14 & 15) with another dad from our church, and lead the team to VICTORY they won the league championship aswell as the playoffs. They are currently in their last tournament of the season where they have played one game and tied. We Spent Thanksgiving with Rach & Austin and the Girls aswell as megans Family and some friends of ours and we spent Christmas in fernie with megans family and this past New Years in banff with friends, so needless to say we got to see ALOT of that white stuff! The weather is starting to warm up here and that means that Lacross season begins soon! We think this is going to be Bentleys ( Bulldog ) favorite time of year, he has shown quite a large intrest in the lacross ball these last few days and gets VERY excited when nathan brings out his stick! He also enjoys skateboarding, so this should be a Fun Spring with him! The Pugs are growing really fast and learning new things, Sugs has learned she can fit through the 2 big trees and if she can get Rocky and Bentley to chase her, than Bentley gets stuck between the trees! its quite funny to watch. We wont be including any pictures of Bruzer, as he has had a recent accident and is not quite *photogenic* he has a few stitches and once they have been removed we will include pictures!

WELL I think we fit ALOT into that one Paragraph.....We will save some more for next time and also include some pictures of our little *family* in this post!