Steven and Shannon 092509

Everyone;

 

This is what happens when the digital camera stays charged and within reach--more pictures from Steven and Shannon.

 

Thursday afternoon we decided to blow off friday football practices and go to Idaho for a quick 24 hour trip.  It was a blast.  First the excitement of entering Franklin Idaho and see the the "Welcome to Idaho" sign.  It always gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.  Then we stayed up late and talked to Grandpa and Grandma Clegg.  After crashing on the front room floor and sleeping until 9am, we had yummy waffles with choke cherry syrup!!  with butter melted in it!!!  Can you tell by the exclamation points how good that tasted?  I hope so. 

 

Then we went for a hike up the canyon with Joe and Kai.  I took Shannon up the "jeep trail."  Joe and Kai followed bare foot until we about reached the top.  Then they sat down on the road and waited for Shannon and I to climb the rest of the way.  The view was spectacular so i had to take some panaromic pictures of my home valley.  The weather was great.

 

We went to the flumes, but the water was too low for shooting.  So we headed to Don and Greshen's.  What a beautiful home and yard they have.  I never can resist exploring around their back yard and looking at all the cool little areas they have---tree house, buildings, sand pit, barbecue pit, storage shed. 

 

Then we drove over to lava hot springs and soaked for an hour before eating some Thai Food (very yummy).  After that we headed home. 

 

Yesterday, Jordan and Tyler won their football games.  The weather perfect.  Shannon took Allyse to the BYU game while me and the boys stayed home for Tyler's game. 

 

That's all for now.

Ben Cleggs

Hey Everyone,

 

The latest update from Hyde Park.  It is Sunday night and we just finished up another busy week.  Piano for five kids, Marching Band, Volleyball, Gymnastics, Flag football, Cub Scouts, Mutual, Achievement Days, Karate, Home coming parade, Canned 48 quarts of peaches from our trees, 7 quarts of tomatoes from garden, Dinner for Home Coming group date, and Dawsen and I went down to the BYU game.   Janet has to take credit for 99% of it since I have been pretty busy with work.  She does a great job keeping the ship running smoothly.  .  That is not to say we don’t have the occasional (What? You have not practiced once and your lesson is tomorrow experiences).  Suzie and Sharon are here for a couple of weeks and they brought the dog.  It is a good reminder to us why we will never have a dog.

Wyatt had his first date and had fun,  even though it was Friday afternoon and he still had no Idea ( At least he was not telling us) what they were doing, where she lived, what her phone number was, where they were eating, and if they were buying flowers.  As Janet helped him work through the logistics he kept muttering under his breath that he would never do this again. With the complexity of these big dance dates, I can see why kids just want to Hang Out.

 

Dawsen and I went down to the BYU game Saturday afternoon.  We stopped by Pete’s but he was not home, so we sampled some of his tomatoes (you need to do some canning Pete).  We met up with Megan at half time and then skipped the rest of the game since it was pretty obvious what the outcome would be.  I got to see Megan’s place, and we ate at the Creamery by her dorms.  She walked back with us to the stadium just as the game ended.   She had a date she had to get to, so we said goodbye and she drifted away in a river of blue shirts.  There are some parts of this parenting thing that I definitely do not like. 

 

Meanwhile back at the ranch, Janet made dinner for Wyatt and his homecoming group.  She dusted off the fine china that has been sitting in the cupboard for 20 years, and polished up the silver (Most of it was tarnished pretty bad).  It turned out really good from all the reports. We love and miss you all and pray your doing well.

 

Picture Legend,

Wyatt doing his drum majoring thing in the parade.

Wyatts group at dinner.

Brooklyn with her short haircut.

Brooklyn doing some sort of abstract art involving fruits.  

 

Peter's Week

Good weekend! Yard work which is always therapeutic (BTW, apples are on and falling to the ground if anyone wants some...Anna and Steve made apple pie from them and showed me pictures on Skype).  Then went for a nice bike ride.  Was going to go to Kimmie and Roberts on the bike trail but one of the bridges was out so I had to turn back.  Still did 38 miles...such a pleasant day for it.  Steve and Alyse stopped by after BYU's game and good to catch up.  I got to see Brandon, Ashlee and little Talmage for about a minute as they were headed to feed him.  Today, I started for Frank's to see the kids but on the way there was a major traffic jam (looked like someone had dumped a bail of hay was all but had all lanes shut down) and the Melissa called to say she and the two youngest were at Grandma Kathe's so I went back as I needed to collect Friends of Scouting money.  Anyway, the highlight was when I walked in, Sophie gave me a big hug and then so did little Andrew before he hurried off to bed.  We looked at the pattern for Sophie's Halloween costume (she's going to be Tinkerbell) and wondered how Frank is going to get Gavin's R2D2 costume made!

Movie recommendations if anyone is interested....I watched two on Netflix.   One is called Dish and is about this radio telescope in Australia that was used to transmit the first video pictures of Niel Armstrong walking on the moon.  About 500 million people world wide watched but what they didn't know was that there were 5 guys in Australia maneuvering this 210 foot satellite dish in 60 mile an hour winds when it was only designed for 30 mph winds.  Anyway, a good clean flick.  The second was called Kickin It and was about the Homeless World Cup of Soccer where kids who are homeless are taken off the street and play soccer for a chance to be their country's pick for the world games in Cape Town South Africa.  It was more of a documentary but very well done and some incredible life stories in told. 

Anyway, that's it for the week.  Work was again work.  Some brief hope as I learned that the board approved a new round of stock for employees to keep us motivated.  That was followed up by a power outage that took down most of our customers for hours....something that is absolutely unthinkable in the new market we want to enter.  Apparently, the batteries in the backup system were dead so there was no power bridge as we went from main power to the generator.  Why the batteries weren't under constant surveillance is a mystery to me.  I was thinking that the only thing that has made it to production that I had anything to do with in the last two years has been full screen (a minor feature) and I keep reflecting on one of the despair.com posters that goes, "Winners never quit.  Quitters never win.  But those who never win and never quit are idiots!" I think I'm beginning to question my own sanity :-)

Davis Homecoming09

Hola from Davis High!  

 

After some minor dress drama, Jamie was crowned Homecoming Queen, Davis High, 2009.  It was fun escorting her out to the field.  She looked like a model straight from Vogue....obviously she gets that from her mother.  Grandpa and Grandma Francis drove up to watch.  What a fun time.   Also, Brandon, Ashley and Talmage stayed with us last night.  It is pretty fun seeing them twice in one week!!!! 

Birthday Pie @ Hunters

Peter Clegg - sent via Blackberry

The Don Cleggs

We have been busy and thanks to Pete for updating on one of our trips this year. It was a lot of fun and such a beautiful place to see. Would love to go back and see and do more. This last week has been quite a special one. We didn't realize it had come up so fast, though. Grant turned twelve this last Thursday and was ordained a Deacon on Sunday. He has a big job ahead of him, as he is the one out of two Deacons in our ward. He had a friend party and the hit was a pop bottle rocket launcher that Don made. They spent hours playing with it. They taped glow sticks to the pop bottles, and played well into the night. Then Saturday afternoon, Don & Reggie took Grant and some friends up to Bloomington Lake, they had a great time and they reported back that there was a lot of college kids there. When Don jumped off the rope swing, they couldn't believe that such an old man was swinging off the rope into such cold water. We are busy with soccer games. Abigail's team out scores every team they play. The last game she played  was 17- 0. She said, "Mom, I really tried to let them get a goal." I appreciate her ability to have good sportsmanship. I(Greshen) got coerced into coaching Grant's team again this year. He is doing great and was undefeated until the last game. The teams are all evenly competitive this year. It has been a fun year watching them finally develop and use all the skills they have learned over the years. It is a little more quite around the house since school started, although it picks up after school. Emily is excited to be a Freshman in High School and has adapted well. She is in Soda Pops and she starts her school at 7 am. She is a trooper. They get to go on a Cruise for their tour this year. She is busy doing fundraisers to earn money to do that. Don and I are just trying to stay caught up on everyone and their activities.

Dallas/Jacksonville

Hi everyone;

 

Been awhile since we contributed but just had to post these pictures.  This weekend we flew to Dallas to visit Brandon/Ashley/Talmage.  What a blast to be grandparents!!  I highly recommend it to anyone.  Talmage is a live-wire.  Very active and fun to hang with.  Brandon was emailing, taking calls, working on his laptop--all the things that responsible working people do.  It was fun to watch;-)  We took a tour of Cowboys new stadium.  It was Ginormous!  And we also got a rare tour of the Dallas Cheerleaders locker room.  They need some visiting teachers--of course, but from the bigger-than-life size pictures posted above each of their lockers it appeared they all have big, er, uh self esteem. 

 

Shannon and I then flew to Jacksonville after some weather delays at Dallas.  What a beautiful city.  We stayed at the Hyatt Regency downtown on the waterfront.  Yesterday we took a brief trip to Jaxx Beach about 14 miles east of here. The beaches were very clean and water was warm.   I drove out to one of the wards to catch sacrament meeting while Shannon attended her conference.   We missed football games on Saturday but it sounds like Jordan's team won and Tyler's lost to Morgan.  Tyler and another player had the flu so he missed most of the game standing on the sidelines.  That's all for now.