Saddest Day EVER!

My nephew Pierce passed away unexpectedly on August 26,2026 from a pulmonary embolism.  He was such a creative and amazing man.   In his short 40 years, he lived more than most of us will if we live to be 100.  He spent so much time on incredible vacations with his sweet family, his wife Stacy, daughter Adelaide 13 and son Jackson 10.  Just in the last few years, he took them to Australia,  spent 2 summers in Hawaii, one summer in New York, a trip to Europe in the spring, not to mention all the other adventures they went on.  Stacy, Pierce and Adelaide all said he was their best friend, as I think everyone who spoke at his Celebration of Life party did. It just shows what an amazing guy he was.

Pierce was on the actor Ryan Reynolds, Creative Art team and he wrote the nicest article about Pierce.  Here's a few of the things he said.   The Hollywood star described Pierce Thiot as a “shining light of creativity, kindness and hard work” and said it was “impossible to imagine the world, let alone our company” without him. Thiot had worked at Maximum Effort for almost five years and was involved in some of the company’s biggest creative projects during that time. “He was beloved,” Reynolds said. “We adored and admired Pierce. He was generous with his time and love. He gave the best hugs.”  

Pierce's favorite color was purple and he LOVED tie-dyed shirts.  Stacy requested that everyone who came to his "going away /celebration of life party wear one of those.  Josh had the idea to get together and make tie dyed shirts to wear. We had done it with Robynn's family when our kids were little at Big Bear park in Sandy, so that's where we did it.

 He invited our family, Tatia's family and Stacy's family and friends. 

 There ended up being 62 people! 

Tatia brought tie dye supplies

and Josh brought supplies for reverse tie dye.

Everyone had a great time being together and thinking about Pierce and what an amazing guy he was.

The shirts all turned out incredible and so different.  Here's a few of them.

Josh and Merijane made delicious S'more bars, Krista made yummy mint brownies and I brought otter pops.  It was such a special night.  Adelaide told Merijane, that her dad would have LOVED it.

We had to take a picture for old times sake by the bear.

Just a few days before Pierce died, he was biking with his best buddy Andy, and he told him that when he died, he didn't want a sad funeral.  He wanted a party, and that's exactly what he got.  They did his going away/celebration of life party at the beautiful Timpanogos park. They put an invitation on Instagram and had over 700 people attend.  They had pizza, snow cones, giant pretzels, mini cheesecakes and fun sodas.  It was amazing.  Most of the venders were friends with Pierce and donated the food.  

Robynn had the idea to make Pierce Party Mix and between her, Lani, Tatia and I, we made about 500 bags of it to pass out that night. (Skyler made the cute tag for it)

One of their friends made Pierce tattoos that they passed out for everyone who wanted one.

Ricky and Jake were asked to speak along with some of Pierce's friends and coworkers as well as a comedian, (which Pierce told Andy he wanted)

Stacy, Adelaide and Jackson all gave a beautiful tribute to their dad and husband. 

There was a gorgeous sunset

that went from yellow to pink.

The weatherman had predicted rain, but it didn't start raining until shortly after the program was over.  It was an amazing event that I'm sure Pierce approved of.  He was such a great guy and we will be miss him so much.  The fact that there were probably at least 700 people shows how many lives he touched.

 

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.