Playing Catch Up

I have been slacking on the blog lately. We have been busy with finals, work, and Clark's Grandma's funeral. Here are some pictures of the family from the funeral.

Pierson Family

The Girls

Clark and Me

Clark with his brothers

It was a very nice funeral and of course the musical number started me crying. Something about music that always gets to me. Then all 10 grand kids got up and said a memory of their Grandma so that made me cry too. However it was nice that Brad was able to fly in from Japan and that Brett and his family were able to fly in from Colorado. All the siblings were there and we had a lot of fun spending time with everyone.

Sometime during our busy schedules we were able to get our Christmas decorations put up. Our tree is HUGE. We didn't realize how fat it actually was until we got it into tour tiny apartment. It barely fit in the corner. Our living room is full of Christmas decorations since that is really the only place we have to put things. I have to use every flat surface we have. It is very festive at the Pierson home! Clark also put the lights up outside again, and did his Christmas tree of lights on the outside of the building!

We also went to the festival of trees again! We saw some really cute trees. Angie did a tree this year and so Clark's dad decided to put a bid down hoping someone would put an even higher bid down. Well no one did and he ended up with the highest bid.... so The Pierson family bought the tree they donated! I don't know if that has ever happened before, but it was our favorite tree anyway! Angie has a good friend whose little niece had passed away from a tragic accident about 2 weeks before the Festival of Trees. She was about 18 months and she was outside in her yard playing while her dad and uncle were digging a hole for the trampoline and she was accidentally run over by a truck. After her funeral Angie and Carolyn were out shopping for items for the tree and they found all of these adorable little socks, and they had the idea to dedicate the tree to that little girl! The picture isn't very good quality since I took it on my iphone.

Also my cute little nephew Jack turned 1 on December 5th! We were able to go to his little birthday party at my sister Allison's house. He loved his cake, especially the frosting and all the balloons in the house. I was holding him when I first got there and his little hand was pointing to all the balloons, and he was jibber jabbering. I didn't get any pictures but you can go to my sister Adrienne's blog to view some pictures.