Some quick updates

Wow, it's been a while! I thought I'd throw in a few major life events (or, at least, major for us) that have happened since our last update.

1) A couple new nephews were born on the Peterson side. I'm awful with dates (I know, I'm a terrible uncle), so all I can say is that Hyrum Duncan Peterson was born at the end of August to GarBrit, and Franklin Clyde Peterson was born to AnnTy the first part of October. Moms, dads, siblings, and babies are all doing well.

Franklin

Hyrum

2) Faith and I celebrated our one-year anniversary on October 7, and, lucky for us, got to see some world-class entertainment by one of our favorite performers, Brian Stokes Mitchell, in celebration. He happened to be in town for BYU's Homecoming Spectacular and it was spectacular! He sang Make Them Hear You from my all-time favorite musical Ragtime, which he was in the original cast of. Brilliant!

Our nosebleed seats for the Stokes Mitchell concert. He's standing center stage, backed up by the BYU Men's Chorus.

3) We went to the annual gala for the Empress Theatre where we were presented with a couple of awards for our work last season. Faith got Best Actress for Maria in The Sound of Music, and I got Best Music Director for Little Women. Also, my sister Kylee was there and won for Best Ensemble Member in The Music Man. Yessir, it was a fantastic night to be a Clark!

Go Clarks!!!

4) I (Jake) was able to interview last week for a full-time position in my department at work...finally! They've postponed making the announcement until Monday the 21st, so we should definitely know by then if we're fully-benefited. Cross your fingers!

5) After months of anticipation, we FINALLY found out the gender of our baby, due April 15. The result?

Note: We do not own this balloon. Yet.

We still haven't picked a name, but have come up with quite a few that we like. We're super excited! We'll post ultrasound pictures as soon as we show our immediate families. We got some good shots of the baby's profile, as well as one crowd-pleaser of his foot. Stay tuned!

That's about it for now. There's more than that, but that's what you get when we get lazy with our blog. Hopefully we'll be better about that, but who knows?