The Competitions Continue

This past week we baby sat Nicole's Cousin's kids while they went on a cruise. It was a lot of fun and a learning experience for both of us. Nicole took them to the park almost everyday and watched a lot of Barbie ® movies. Most of them were requested by the two year old boy. Clayton felt his pain because the poor boy is out numbered by girls. His favorite bedtime books were Purplious and Fancy Nancy. Clayton tried to help him out by playing ball and wrestling; the little boy is surprisingly coordinated and extremely vicious. Her cousins also gave us a bunch of cute baby clothes and toys from their last baby. We are so grateful for all the stuff people have gotten us for the baby.

(From last week)
Clayton's mock trial competition was a lot of work. He was lucky to have a great partner and they both argued really well. There were 120 students competing for about 30 spots. Clayton was excited to be selected for the board. Next year he will have to coach teams for the mock trial competitions held at GW. Nicole got to be involved as well. Nicole demands that we include part of the feed back from the judges; they said that Clayton's closing argument was "excellent" and he even convinced the other team that they were wrong. In all fairness Clayton did get some excellent advice from his mock trial coaches. She played the part of an expert witness on journalistic ethics. She did great, in part because she taught a class on it in relief society... Just kidding, she minored in communications and had taken some journalism classes. She did get really snippy with the opposing team because she thought they were mean. After it was over, we went to our favorite Chinese Restaurant, Chinatown Express.


Clayton is busy applying for internships. This weekend he also had the Journal Competition. For those of you wondering the journal competition is essentially taking a 75 page Supreme Court opinion and condensing into three pages of 12 point Courier New font. It was really challenging. We are looking forward to the rest of this week Clayton has spring break and we are taking a short trip to the East Virginia Coast. We are going to spend the rest of week getting getting ready for the baby. We found a great video that Clayton should have seen earlier it is advice from law students to their sixteen-year-old selves.


Some of the ladies in our ward are throwing a baby shower for Nicole on March 20th about 2 weeks to baby time. We are grateful such a great ward.

Baby now packs quite a punch and really enjoys kicking, especially when Nicole is trying to sleep.

Shout out to CalDon's cross-country team for being featured in a web advertisment you can check the video out here. Its pretty cool it a 5k festival of colors, with crazy people that run even though they are not running from a T-Rex.

Shout to Amanda and Barret who are moving to LA. Amanda got hired to sing for the LA opera. Now we can have an East side, West side feud.

We are also keeping Nicole's Grandpa in our prayers. He fell last week and is in the hospital.