The Mustache Family

Sheesh!  It's been like 6 weeks since I posted.  Life is bonkers!

Anyway, back in July we went to Huntsville for the Guffey family Reunion.  Part of the fun was getting our own mustaches painted on and a photo booth {because for some reason, mustaches are really cool right now}. We also swam, ate lunch, mingled with relatives, and watched an awesome slide show of the Guffey Grandpa brothers from when they were little.  It was a fun time for all!

Q had a pink mustache at first

Cousins Austin, Riley, Sam, and Ben

The T-shirts

The Knolls Sand Dunes

Uncles Shad and Nate planned an outing with the boys to the Knolls.  Shad decided that they were ready for this kind of riding.  They absolutely LOVED it and rode their little guts out.

Sambo and Wilbur

Will needs a bigger bike!

 

Will checking out a deserted car in the dessert...you know in case their are valuables left in it

BS taking a nap while the boys rode around for hours

 

 That night we all met up with them for dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory to celebrate Nate's birthday.  This is what Sambo was doing pretty much the whole time.  He was wiped out from riding so hard.  He couldn't get enough!

 

FaLL BReaK in ST. GeoRGe!

Another Fall break, another trip to St. George!

  Due to this last minute decision and late planning, we stayed a couple of nights at our usual hotel, a night at the condo, and a night with Uncle Denny and Marcia :)  It was great to spend some time with them and catch up.  Their hospitality is over the top!  Thank you!  It was a bummer that Parkinson's were out of town so we didn't get to visit them.

We swam a ton, including a trip to Sand Hollow Rec Center while it poured rain outside.

We met up with our friends the Sunderlages a day and had a lot of fun hanging out and hiking the red rock playground.  While the girls relaxed and went to the art festival, the boys went dirt biking.  On Sunday we took the kids to the Jacob Hamblin home and learned about his family and farm.  And we always go to Judd's and the splash park.  And of course, a few stops at Swig for Mango Mountain Dews, Dirty Dr. Peppers, and sugar cookies!  Fabulous trip!

 

Seth, Will, Sam

Quin and Sage

Sam, Seth, Will

 

Soup and breadsticks at Judds

School Pictures 2013

Aren't they cute?

Snowbird round 2

A few weeks later we were back at Snowbird.  Ahh, it was so great to be back!

More swimming, more hot tubbing, more relaxing, more napping, more eating, more playing.

Hot Tub on our deck

It also happened to be the finish line for the Tour of Utah bike race!  This place was happening!

We took some time to cheer on the winners and watch the finishers.  We have missed cheering for BS at his bike races and this brought back fun memories :)

 

The top 2 finishers of this stage, the one in 2nd went on to win.

True story:

Will lost a molar at Snowbird. For some reason he put it in a glass with some ice and water (which nobody knew at the time). A bit later, BS asked Quin to fix him a drink. She saw a glass of ice water sitting on the counter and gave it to BS.  BS chugged it down.  Later Will went to get his tooth out of the glass to place under his pillow and discovered that the glass was empty.  

Yep, BS had gulped down his molar!

Will did not think this was funny because he gets very excited to get money from the tooth fairy!

Here is the note I found that night under his pillow:

Snowbird round 1

We love this place and look forward to staying here every summer. It is far but close and provides the relaxing get-a-way that we always need come summer.  This year we split our week - going Mon-Fri in July, and Fri-Mon in August. Splitting it up allowed us to spend more time up there because we could break up our work and commitments at home. We were lucky to have several friends and families come stay and play with us!  I wasn't good at taking pictures of everyone but did manage to capture some of the things we did in July. 

School Pictures 2013

Aren't they darling?  And their mine.  And I love them so much.

Too bad Sambo had to wear his uniform :(