A Surprise trip to Utah

So about two weeks ago we had to make plans for a quick trip to SLC. Garrett's Aunt Christine passed about sort of unexpectedly after a long time of complications with diabetes. And Grandma Annie (Garrett's mom) made the trip from Spain to be at the funeral and spend a few extra days with all of us. We left on a Friday and drove all night to get there. It was a loooonggg drive, but we made it and were so very glad that we did!

Here are all the Clegg kids and mom. It was sad that Rick couldn't have come home. You were missed for sure! But only a year left! We can't wait!

We spend the entire weekend at the cabin. We spent most of the time riding bikes! The kids LOVED that. We also ate some great food, stayed up way too late playing games and laughed and laughed! It is so fun to have 10 of 12 grandkids (Ally's two boys and husband couldn't make the trip up from Dallas) running around and playing together.

Brady and Cam heading out for a bike ride.
All the kids getting ready for our Sunday morning bike riding session.





Matt brought his slack line. He tied it between two trees and pulled it as tight as he could. The challenge is to try and balance all the way across. It moves up and down and sideways. It was soooo hard. The dads and Zach were out there for a couple of hours messing around on it.

Our "Tough Guys" posing for the camera.
Whenever we head to the cabin Garrett ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS has to stop in Evanston and buy fireworks. We did some on Sunday night in the daylight though. We have so many young kids and the summer days are long, so we improvised. The kids didn't care at all. We had them watch from the back of the truck.
Gorgeous setting!



Sophie and Annie Kate. These two are so.dang.cute together!

We spent the rest of the week in Utah slowly saying good bye to family members...one on Monday, two on Tuesday and Grandma on Wednesday. The kids ran through the sprinklers, ate otterpops and I even took them all to get a hair cut.

We had a fabulous time. Thanks for hosting us Hillary and Rob and thanks for coming to the US Grandma Annie!

Kindergarten Graduation

Grace graduated to the 1st grade this week! She had an amazing kindergarten year and her teacher was fabulous. Here she is with Mrs. Orcutt.
Here is Grace posing for her picture that will hang on the "Very Important Cougar" wall in the school hallway. She was chosen to be a "VIC" for the month of October. YEAH Grace!

She has learned to read this year, as well as math, spelling, music, computers, and how to ride her bike without training wheels! I can't wait to see what next year brings!

MUD

Our first nice day of the summer was here and we took full advantage of it and busted out the pool! But the kids had another idea of what to do with all that water and dirt...make MUD pies out of themselves!

Grace's swimsuit is supposed to be white.

I have some pretty crazy kids!!!

Our Memorial Weekend

We had a great Memorial Weekend! It was pretty crappy weather for the most part, but in between rain the sun shone in small amounts and we made the most of it for sure!

We started off the weekend at the little 9hole course by our house. It was crazy, but fun! The kids need to learn better golf etiquette for sure, but it's a start!

Then we did house work/yard work for most of Saturday and Monday.

But first thing Monday morning we headed up to one of my favorite places to hike, Twin Falls. Our kids are getting older now and it's so much fun to be able to do these kinds of things with them. We also brought the dog and she was in HEAVEN.

The kids stopped almost everyone who had a dog and asked to pet it. It was hilarious. And of course Brady slid down part of the path on his bottom. We were all muddy and tired and hungry by the time we finished the 2 mile round trip hike, but we had fun and will for sure do it again this summer!

This girl is all or nothing...she pretty much hiked the trail twice. She would run up so far ahead and then come back and join us to walk it again...and it was mostly uphill. Needless to say she took a 2.5 hour nap later! She would stop and say "take my picture here, this is a good place." And then pose for the camera.
One of the two waterfalls you see on the hike, hence the name; Twin Falls.

Such great buddies! LOVE these kids so much!
Can you tell we just rolled out of bed?

My baby is growing, growing, growing...doesn't she look like a little girl? She is so cute and sweet!
All boy this little one...doesn't care about getting dirty or falling down...full steam ahead!


We really had fun golfing...but the kids were more concerned with the bugs and stuff inside the cups then actually putting their ball.




Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend! We miss you all and are always wishing we were closer!

Daddy Date

So Garrett has been really great about taking each child out for their very own daddy date once a month. The kids LOVE it! They do all kinds of things, but each date involves a treat of some sort for sure! This past week was Grace's turn and Garrett surprised her with her own set of junior golf clubs and they went and played a short (45-50 yd) 9hole course. It took them about an hour and they had a BLAST!