First Soccer Game

Katherine has been in scouts and 4H for a long time. However, over the past year, she has become disinterested and spent the summer trying to figure out what she'd like to do this year. Soccer and karate. Really? My non-sports-minded kid wanted to do sports? So, we started with soccer. Her first practice was Sept 2 and her first game was the 10th. They played well, especially given that they'd only had 3 practices. They held their own in the first half, but lost 5-2 in the end. They were just flat worn out. That happens when you only have 13 players. That equals very little time to rest.

Katherine did a great job. I could tell that she was new to the game and sometimes had that confused "OMGosh, where am I supposed to be" look, but her teammates were great and called instructions to her. And her coaches are awesome and always have feedback.

She had practice again last night and again on Friday and then game two on Saturday. I'll post a few pictures here, but if you'd like to see all 180 (this is culled down from the original 675), you can go to http://photobucket.com/soccer1.

Family Vacation - Aug 2011

This year, we went to Topsail Island for 5 days and then on to Myrtle Beach to play tourist. At topsail, we went swimming and paddle boarding and kayaking. We took long walks. Enjoyed the sun, And simply relaxed.

Then we went to Myrtle Beach and played tourist. We went shopping at the outlet mall, we saw the Carolina Opry show, we had a play day at the pool and finally, we went to the water park.

Busy, Busy Summer

We had a very busy summer this year. Kimberly was gone all summer working as a life guard at Camp Graham GS Camp in Henderson. She loved it. Her camp name is Sunfish and she is having trouble adjusting to Kimberly again!

Rebekah went to YW camp, was the March Hare in Alice in Wonderland, went to Stake Youth Conference, and then to EFY. Although she spent the summer with us, we never saw her!

Katherine went to YW camp and the GS camp. She has decided to stop GS and 4H (except for the camps) and has moved on to Soccer and possibly karate. We shall see!

Keith and I went to Myrtle Beach while all the kids were gone at camp. It was a nice trip and I loved every minute of it! I even went parasailing!!

Catching Up - Sort of

Here it is, 16 months after my last post. So much has happened. I kept saying, I'll get to it, but I never did. And I tried to upload some pictures to show a snippet of what you missed, but blogger just wouldn't cooperate. So, here is a list:

Summer 2010

Rebekah was in Jungle Book
Corey (Keith's youngest daughter) married Mehmet
I got called as seminary teacher
Kimberly spent the summer as a camp counselor
Katherine was old enough to go to YW camp

Fall 2010

Seminary started and I began teaching Doctrine and Covenants
It snowed in November
Keith and I went to the Lowe's house in DC for Thanksgiving

Winter 2010-11

Christmas was wonderful
Matthew came home from his mission - that was a wonderful day full of happy tears

It was brrrrr cold
Kimberly started at CCCC
Rebekah was in Macbeth

Spring 2011

Rebekah turned 16 and took friends ice skating
Katherine turned 13 and took friends rock climbing
Kimberly turned 19 and didn't do anything very special!! lol
Kimberly acquired a new boyfriend named Bradley Johnson. (Still dating today)

And now I will start anew and give you actual posts for the summer months!

Want to buy some blueberries?

Katherine is selling blueberries for her 4H. They are $6 per plant in a gallon container. They have been grown at a nursery and are healthy plants. Here is the information given about the plants:

Blueberry Bushes

It is recommended t hat more than one variety be planted. This creates cross pollination to ensure maximum yield and an extended harvesting period. These three-year old plants are sold in 1 gallon containers. All varieties are Rabbiteye type and are hardy in Zones 6-9.

Price: $6 each

Varieties:

Brightwell: Early to mid-season ripening.
Medium-large light blue berry, sweet flavor
Upright, vigorous growth, consistent producer

Climax: Early ripening
Medium size berries; sweet flavor
Upright growth with intense green foilage
One of the very best for harvesting

Columbus: Early to mid season ripening
Excellent fruit size; good color
Good yields
Needs a pollinator

Powder Blue: Late season ripening
Medium to large size fruit, darker blue in color; sweet taste
Upright highly productive plant; good foilage

Premier: early to mid season ripening
large, light blue, good quality fruit; excellent flavor
highly productive, upright growth, good foilage

Tifblue: mid season ripening
medium to large light blue, good quality berries
vigorous upright plants hold up well until last berries are harvested
triblue rates as teh best ornamental for fall leaf color


Katherine also has bluebird houses for sale. These house are front opening. Each house has a metal mounting bracker, allowing easy mounting on 1" metal pipe, tree, or post. Price: $25 each

If you are interested, contact me at teribclark@gmail.com

Learn more about planting blueberries at www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-8207.html

Rebekah Turns 15

Rebekah turned 15 and received the Christus Award for seminary. This means that she learned all 100 scripture masteries in one year! We are very proud of her for getting up every morning to do this and making the commitment to learn all 100.

For her birthday, she went with me (mom) to see the National Tour of Wicked at the Durham Performing Arts Center. It was an amazing show. Then on her actual birthday, she got a card game from Katherine and a Taylor Swift CD from Kimberly. She also got a strawberry daquari - virgin of course - and was nice enough to share with her sisters. For her cake, she got a cheesecake swirl brownie.

Kimberly turned 18

Kimberly has had a big couple of months. She turned 18 in April, got her Personal Progress Award, Graduated seminary, and got a summer camp job! Her big birthday gift was a camera and a necklace. The girls got her PJ pants and a shirt. She had strawberry pie as her "cake".



We are very proud of her seminary graduation. Going to class at 6:30 am for 4 years is really an accomplishment. This year, she even won the Christus Award - a special award from our stake for learning all 100 scripture masteries in one year!

Her final project for her personal progress was to make a quilt. She had to put in at least 10 hours but probably put in closer to 50! The finished product was well worth it.

And finally, Kimberly will be a camp counselor for Camp Graham GS camp from June 1 to Aug 1. She is very excited to be at camp and is looking forward to her summer.

Katherine turned 12

Katherine turned twelve and moved into Young Women's at church. She is loving it and can't wait to go to YW camp later this month. For her birthday she got Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader for the Wii from Kimberly and Rebekah, and a pair of capris and some lanyard from Keith and I. We also fixed up the tree house out back.

Coming Soon: Romeo and Juliet!

Kimberly and Rebekah (yes, I did say Kimberly, too) auditioned for a part in Romeo and Juliet for Temple Theatre's Winter Conservatory program and both got parts. They've been busy rehearsing all month and will have performances the last weekend of Feb and the first weekend of March. If you live around here, you really won't want to miss it!