Garden City House

I feel so incredibly behind in my blogging responsibilities lately.  So I have definite catching up to do.  Most of this is probably for my own sake - got to stay organized, of course :). 

I have been meaning to put pictures up of our house that we lived in in Garden City for months now and now that we have actually moved I think I will finally post them up. 

We absolutely LOVED being able to live right on Bear Lake.  It will honestly probably be the one and only time in our life that that will happen so we really tried to soak it in.  Our actual address was:  2536 North Bear Lake Boulevard. 

We will be honest - it's not that much of a looker on the outside but for having a four bedroom house a month after being married for just us two - we thought we were doing pretty good :).  Plus the view from the back of the house was incredible so that made up for a lot. 

Here are some pics of the rest of the house:

Our bedroom - complete with our snazzy piano which we LOVE!

Our bathroom - had two counters/sinks - IT WAS GREAT!

The living room

The dining room

The kitchen - LOVED all the space

Our little office space

Down the other end of the house were the three extra bedroom which we never really used and we just let the family we were renting it from keep their stuff in there.  So it was mostly storage for both of us.  

Second entrance/laundry room (but we didn't have any "laundry" equipment :))

Bedroom #1

Bedroom #2 - there were 9 MATTRESSES in here from the family we were renting from - CRAZY!

Bedroom #3

Guest bathroom

And now our finally feature of this house which we were able to call home for four months...

 

Afternoon rainstorms...

 Sunny days...

And especially sunrises...

We loved living here because of the amazing view we had from our back porch.  It was seriously incredible.  I never got tired of waking up and seeing the sunrise over the lake.  It was beautiful.  

I guess for some funny things that made the house a little "cozier."  THE BUGS!  Due to our close proximity to the lake + having almost ALL of our window screens be broken (which prevented us from opening them thus causing us to sit in lots of heat inside) + having the windows themselves not close all the way = LOTS OF BUGS INSIDE.  It was a regular nightly ritual for Mark to walk around the house with some raid killing swarms of bugs in corners, the ceiling and just the walls in general.  The gnats were especially bad at night which caused us to go to be early and never be able to read in bed or do anything for that matter.  It was a bummer by the end but we loved it anyway.  

So here it is: 2536 North Bear Lake Boulevard - we love you!

HARRY POTTER!

This last weekend was a sad end to a wonderful tradition of Harry Potter films coming out.  I have been so excited to see the last Harry Potter and yet so sad knowing that it was the end of some of my favorite movies.

My Dad had the great idea to dress up for the movie showing.  He was in charge of the whole sha-bang!  He made sure that there were no doubles!  We each had to go as our own character.  Dad went as Professor Snape, Melina went as Bellatrix, Megan went as Hermione, Mark was Goyle, and I was Ginny.  My Mom was going to come as Luna Lovegood (which would have been incredible) except for she was not feeling well so Megan's friend Haley went instead.

We ended up going to the 10:30 showing Friday night so we were definitely the only people dressed up but it was still a lot of fun.  I bet my Dad an ice cream cone that he would have people asking him to take pictures with him and you can bet he was the life of the party.  People were just loving him and it was a hoot to watch.  One lady even screamed when she saw him from the corner of her eye.  It was great!  Loved the movie - love my family.  It was a great memory.

I can't seem to get any of the other pictures uploaded - but they were pretty great!  I guess you will just have to imagine! :)

Clegg Family Reunion

Last week we had my family's reunion.  I guess it was a little bit of a flop in that it added up just being my parents and us but we still had a TON of fun.  We went up on the fourth of July to Island Park and had a blast.  We stayed at my Uncle Wayne and Aunt Lucy's cabin and had so much fun just relaxing and basically doing nothing.

My Dad and Mark set up a sheet and projector for some snazzy movie watching and we did a whole lot of that.  We caught up on a lot of movies and played a lot of games.  We taught my Mom and Dad how to play one of our favorite games - Ticket to Ride and just relaxed.

One afternoon Mark and I borrowed my uncles I think it is called a can-am or something (I am sure I will be made fun of for that one) and it was a lot of fun.  I think Mark and my Dad were definite fans.  But we went around the park and Mark and I went and checked out Johnny Sack's cabin.

Not a whole lot else to say other than I LOVE MY PARENTS - I LOVE MY HUBBY - and I loved the time that we were able to spend with each other.  WOOT WOOT FOR FAMILY! :)

Four Months!

So I realized that I forgot to blog about our third month anniversary.  But that is probably only exciting to us anyway - BUT believe it or not - we have now been married over FOUR MONTHS!  It is crazy.  I can't believe how fast time flies.  To celebrate we had a bowl of ice cream and blew out a candle.  Nothing too exciting but I am very happy that we are so happy.  I am so incredibly lucky to have Mark apart of my life every day and can't wait for all of the fun adventures we still have ahead of us.

Really gross picture but this is us...

Fun with the Girls!

I am so behind in posting things - I will try and catch up. A couple of weekends ago Teresa and the girls were able to come spend the night with us at our house and we had so much fun!  Before we have company over I am always so nervous about what we are going to do with the kids (we don't really have any 'kid friendly' toys except for books) but for some reason it always works out! :)

This is Miriam's "pretty face" - ADORABLE

Ester and Miriam were putting on quite a show...

We had lots of fun just chatting, having a little dance party, coloring and playing the wii.  These may be the most adorable little girls and we were so happy to spend some time with them - and of course Teresa!  We were also able to go down with Teresa to visit Mark's parents and we were able to play with more of the nieces and nephew and go and see Cars 2.  The movie was adorable (we LOVE Pixar movies) and we had fun just hanging out.  We ended the weekend up in Georgetown for a missionary farewell of a couple that Mark grew up with there.  It was a great weekend and I am continuously grateful to have family so close right now and the time that we are able to spend with them.

Ray LaMontagne Concert

This last weekend we went down to Salt Lake to go to the Ray LaMontage concert and it was AWESOME!  Mark had found out that he was coming to Salt Lake and we knew we HAD to go.  He is our favorite artist to listen to - and in fact, he was probably the biggest building block to us starting things off together because he isn't that well known and so when we both liked him it started things going :) 

Anyway, so we decided to go down for the concert.  We went down and stayed with my parents in Draper on Friday and we had a lot of fun (as we always do).  Friday night we had a Father's Day dinner with my parents, us, and Megan (Melina had to work).  It was nice just to spend some time together as a family. 

Saturday morning we woke up early and my mom and I canned some strawberry jam and syrup.  I am so grateful to have a mom that can teach me how to do these fun new things and I hope are all things we can someday pass on to our little kiddos.  But we had a lot of fun and we go done what we wanted to - so it was a SUCCESS!

Mark and I did some shopping in the afternoon and used some of our Target gift cards from our wedding (since we don't have a Target close we have to save up for these times).  We got a new couch cover and some pillows and a pretty snazzy blender which we are pretty excited about. 

Then we headed up to Salt Lake for our concert.  It was at the Salt Lake Library Amphitheater. 

We definitely stayed entertained the WHOLE time.  The music was AWESOME!  He was one of those people that actually even sounds better live compared to a CD.  It was pretty incredible.  Plus the people watching was pretty entertaining - I could have sneaked a picture of everyone and it would have been pretty funny, but I just snook one of our favorites.  Check out those flared tie-dye pants! 

But as I said, Ray was great!  He played 19 SONGS and we loved every single one of them.  He is a talented man.  It was a great weekend!

Sweet Little Amelia

This last weekend we went on yet another excursion - this time up to Boise.  We drove up late Friday night with Mark's parents after we got off of work and stayed till Sunday night.  Saturday I spent the day with all the girls that were up there - Jayme (Mark's sister-in-law), Kay (Jayme's mom) and Darlene (my WONDERFUL mother-in-law).  We woke up early and went to a bunch of garage sales.  I had never been before and it was quite an experience.  It is so crazy how some people's junk is another's treasure.  It was just fun to look around and see some cool things people had. 

Then we spent the rest of the day shopping and running errands.  It was a pretty chill weekend but it was fun to spend some time with Keith and Jayma and their family since we had never been up to visit them yet. 

But the MAIN reason we went was to go to the blessing of Keith and Jayme's adorable new little girl Amelia.  She is so sweet and just adorable.  The blessing went perfectly and it was a great day. 

Here is the whole crew

Keith and Jayme and their beautiful family of girls!