7 brides for 7 brothers

it's actually really funny to me that that is a reality for nate's family.

7 boys 1 girl and consequently 7 wives. we get together as clark's at least twice a year. it is always fun and quite eventful  usually us wives, well me, look at it as brother time though. 
my oh my nate loves himself some brother time. we've been saying for years that the girls are going to get together and it finally happened this last weekend. additionally it marked brigs first trip.

oh, and did i mention that 6 of us wives had ourselves a baby in the last 12 months?

amazing

my beautiful sil's at dear lizzie

carie couldnt make it :(

first bravo to this lady for making this whole thing possible.

8 kids is a feat by anyones standards but 7 daughter-in-laws ? that's tough..

thank you coleen for bringing us all together

oh alright.... from l-r

(ray 12 mo, cleo 5 mo, sorelle 7 mo, brig 2 mo, savannah 9 mo, abe 11 mo)

and yes, they are all that amazing in real life

anywhere we went was two babies to one mom in the middle

so this was us on our way to dear lizzie

him learned to love his car seat this trip

sad news though.... he's outgrown that snuzzler :(

we lunched and shopped for three hours at that little shop and enjoyed trying to find what we wanted for our "credit" coleen gave us, oh and julianne and savannah entertained us all with their fashion show

our dear lizzie goods
artfully displayed by coleen

my goods

love me some pjs

sissy took these our first morning and i was really embarrassed at the time (we had stayed up soo late and i was soo tired)
i really like them as time goes by though
cause really, i love napping with brig

i think he likes it too

one of the best things about this trip? 

i became liberated!

i am a professional in public nurser and changer AND i'm not so afraid of germs no more.

i actually don't put hand sanitizer on every time i hold my boy

what an amazing trip though.

6 adorable babies, 8 incredible women, late nights, delicious food, good conversation, and a shared love for clark men.

thank you to coleen for making it possible and nat for allllll the planning and organizing you did.

i myself loved every minute.

* side note: during the onesie photo shoot brig was attacked.... well cleo has just barely learned to sit up and it was asking quite a bit for her to stay sitting so long. consequently she slowly drooped until she found a nice resting spot on brig. he didn't like it much and it actually caused a ripple effect of all babies crying which lead to the end of our photo shoot

part I