Busy Bees

We got back late Monday night from our summer vacation. It is easy for me to take a day or two off here and there, but difficult for me to take off large amounts of time. That caused us to take a short trip to Utah and Idaho for a family reunion. I was very glad to go because it has been five years since we last went and I used to go every year for many years. Unfortunately we left our camera bag in the car of Marisa's mother when she took us to the airport so we didn't take very many pictures. We did manage to pull out our little camera when we went to visit my two best friends from high school. We have all had only boys that now total 8! With varied nap times, crying times, etc we never got all eight together for a picture. We really wanted to so I guess we will have to get together again soon :)

Here are some pictures of old, married, tired, over parented, 30-somethings remembering the good old days and playing some dice games...


Sorry, Chris. That is the best pic I had of you...


The two babies were interested in seeing another of "their kind."
Here are 62.5 percent of the kids. Both Chris and our seconds kids are very similar in hair cut, size, personality, etc. It was pretty funny.
After hanging out with family and friends in Utah we headed to Victor, Idaho for the reunion. The city has changed a TON. It has gone from the small little farming community of a couple hundred to million dollar movie star home hideaway with all the spill over from Jackson Hole.

We did the reunion this year at a lodge and it was great. They had a huge swing that made the adults feels like little kids because you could go so high and swing so far out. They also had a very steep and fast metal slide. So much so that we didn't want to let Beckham go down by himself. Marisa once took Trevor down and Beckham was going to wait for her to come back up and take him down. As she got to the bottom and turned around she saw her crazy son coming down behind her. He did pretty well so we started letting him go by himself.

Here is a video of my cousin Zach going down the slide (technically second cousin since my dad and his grandma are siblings, but due to age similarities we have always felt like his parents were our aunt/uncle and their kids were our cousins). We had a great time playing around the lodge and hanging out with family. I am looking forward to going again next year.

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- It was A LOT steeper than it looks...

Now that we are back there are many things making our life even more busy. We have to make some serious decisions about a house we could potentially move to, finalize the prep for next week's scout summer camp that I am over and do some more space planning for the dental office so that I can get the plans to the city in September. When they are finalized I'll post them.

We are happy to be back in the great weather of the PNW. We went to the Seattle Street of Dreams and fell in love this this house. The home we are looking at ourselves will be craftsman style so it was nice to see several of the homes there be craftsman as well for ideas on what to do with the one we are looking at.