Summer Ceramics

Sophie was interested in doing some ceramics this summer, so Mike got the idea to invite any grandkids that would like to come over and join her. He found out how to make clay whistles, and the kids made some very creative ones.   Jack came with his friend Alex and they had a good time.

Tatia's daughter Penny came a couple of times with Sophie

Savannah also came one day

Libbe and Gabbie came another day.

Mike had a lot of fun spending time with these cute kids.

Katie was at Oakcrest all summer, so Mike made her a couple of whistles.

 

Cline Family St. George trip 2026

About a month ago, I was talking to Kathy, and she told me about this trip her entire family was going on in St. George.at the Desert Color Resort.  It sounded so fun, I texted my kids and amazingly enough, we found a date and a house that we could rent at the same resort.  It was perfect for our family, it had 8 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, such an awesome place!

  We had a great time!  It had a swimming pool that is 2 1/2 acres long.  HUGE!

The weather was hot, but it felt fabulous in the water.   

We had 4 kayaks

and 5 paddle boards to keep the kids entertained.

Zac's favorite thing to do at the house, was play ping pong.  I can't even count how many time he would come up to me, grab my hand and say, "Grammy, do you wanna play ping pong".  I can never resist that cute kid, so we played a lot of ping pong!

There was lots of relaxing and visiting

and lots of henna tattoos

Zac LOVES hamsters, so Jamie did a hamster tattoo on his belly.

A fun Oreo challenge to see which flavor of Oreos we thought was the best. Jamie brought, double stuffed, Reese's, lemon, mint,, and dark chocolate.  We tried them all, then voted and the Reese's Oreos were the winners.

We did air clay projects and they bedazzled all kinds of fun things.

We did the cutest puzzle

We cooled down the hot tub and enjoyed that.

The kids LOVED riding around in the golf cart

We enjoyed pickle ball early in the morning or in the evening.  

It was such a fun trip!  Together is the best place to be!!!!

 

Mike turns 70!

What a fun party we had to celebrate Mike's 70th birthday!  We met at Jordan Ridge Park in South Jordan for a yummy dinner of hoagie sandwiches, chips, salads, watermelon, cupcakes and ice cream. Then we headed over to the most amazing pool that we rented for the evening!  It had an awesome water slide, and cliffs to jump off of.  I was so impressed, that the first thing Mike did when we got to the pool, was climb all the steps to the water slide and go down!!!

If he could do it, I had to do it too!

Everyone had a BLAST!

The boys spent almost the entire time jumping off the cliffs or going down the slide.

Jack

Parker

and even tiny Zac LOVED it and went off the highest cliff!

Logan learned how to do a back flip

Oliver also did awesome flips!

The girls loved it too!

Gabbie

Savannah

Even the dad's got into the action

Jamie

Jordan diving in

There's no where better to be than a pool when it's HOT outside.

Thanks to Lani for being our lifeguard, no one drowned or even got hurt, Hooray!

It was definitely an evening to remember.  I can't even count how many times Savvy said to me," This is the best party EVER! "   I would totally have to agree!  We were so grateful to everyone that came and helped make it such a special day!  Mike and I decided we want to make this a tradition.

I totally forgot to get family pics before Krista's family left. They had just gotten home from Moab where they hiked in the heat, so I got a picture from their trip to include.

 

FINALLY! Boys Christmas mini vaca

These boys are soooo busy!  It took forever to find a couple of days they were all available to do our little getaway.  It finally happened, and it was worth the wait.

We met at 10:30 Tues. morning and headed to the movies.  Our theater does a kids movie at 11:00.

After the movie we hit Cafe Rio for a yummy lunch.

Then off to the Clark Planetarium for some fun.  This is one of their favorite places.

A little moon walking

It was so fun to see Tatia there with her littles and her mother in law and sister in law.  I was so glad she was there, she found Zac when he escaped from us. 

He had gone back to the kids play area.  He was only gone a couple of minutes, but it was TERRIFYING!

After the Planetarium, we headed to the hotel.  We took our bags up and changed into swim suits.  They swam in the pool and enjoyed the fun water slides for a  couple of hours.  Zac and I did a dinner run to Panda and Wendy's, (gotta keep everyone happy)  The big boys talked us into letting them have their own room.  I had to book 2 rooms since they didn't have any that would sleep 7.  They were right next door to each other, but NO connecting door.  I was planning to sleep on the sofa sleeper, but they assured us they didn't need me.  They promised to keep the dead bolt and the other lock, locked and they did great. (I think that was one of their favorite parts of the trip.)

We stayed at the Staybridge Hotel, and they had an amazing breakfast!  Waffles, bacon, eggs, all kinds of fruit, yogurt parfaits, muffins, bagels,all kinds of breads,and cereal. Most of these crazy boys picked cereal!  After breakfast, we checked out and dropped Mike off at home.  We headed to Splash Summit.

What a fun Water Park!

Jordan and Jamie met us there with Savannah.  We had such a fun day, I was going on the water slides with them all day,  so I didn't have my phone with me to take any pictures. ( Luckily I could steal a few from the internet.)  Jordan ran to Dominos, and got us 3 large pizzas which we devoured.  You can really work up an appetite at a water park.  I'm so grateful that everyone got along so well, the big boys all adore Zac and make him feel like he's one of group.  What a fun trip!!!!