Thanksgiving Turkey Bowl

I didn't take any pictures of Thanksgiving dinner (whoops) but we had a great morning at our turkey-bowl. It was cold, but sunny. Leah and Josh brought doughnuts and hot cocoa. Melissa made sure everyone played. The little kids had a lot of fun at the playground. We're excited to make this a yearly tradition.

Mom made us warm up to prevent injury

Touchdown!

Intercepted!

Go team!

The 2009 babies:
Holland Gutke

and Jules Micah Cano

Labor Day Extravaganza

This was our third year going up to Lomia as a family. Thanks to everyone (and hot showers, toilets and a full kitchen), we had a wonderful time. Now that's what I call camping!


The Gutke Family campers

Masoner von Trapps. "One bottle of pop..."

Talent show dance

The blackjack tourney
We thought the Chinchilla was real cute the night before...

Then we realized it had been reeking havoc all night long.

A hike up the mountain

A short walk for us

Baby Holland

Lucy and Lizzie...Friends in the morning...

In the afternoon...not enough pink playdough

Rough riders

Why is a freezing cold canal fun?

Shuttle run during the fitness test

The spectators

Melissa and Cesar taught us a funny Argentine dance

"A chu chi Wa Wa Wa..."

Dance party...

Thriller

Work it...

Camp shuttle

The Perez-Spencers

A perfect Mallow

For Gabe and Amber

Everybody (including me) keeps saying that Franny is looking so much like Eleanor these days. It's her mouth and teeth that really look like her. She was cracking up one day and I took these shots to see if I could capture that "look".

I don't know if these do it, but you'll see when you come to Logan.

Some Spring pics

First of all...piggies! Fran's hair is finally long enough for girlie hair styles! I'm so excited and especially happy that she hasn't been pulling them out (yet).

Here's my cute little baldy back in December.

Second, Marilyn is such a fun Grandma and bought Franny this cute rake to "help" out in the yard.

She really likes being outside in the dirt.

So helpful.

Here is Julia's little Micah. I need to post a better pic of his face. He's so handsome.

Franny's getting some good practice for August.

I remembered that I had some pictures of Lucy and Franny when they were about the same ages as Franny and Micah.

And here is Holland at 6 months. I really popped from 5 to 6 months! I'm already 7 months so I'll post in a few days. This pregnancy is really flying by for me.

Easter Fun in Cache Valley

We had Easter at Leah's house with Adria's, hers, Melissa's, mine and now, Julia's families. (I don't know why this is underlined) The meal was great. Luckily, the storms subsided on Sunday for everyone to have fun outside.

Here are the kids getting ready to run...

We practiced hiding and finding eggs on Saturday, so she kind of got it.

Here are the "babies" sizing up each other's loot

Here are all the cousins sans Elle and Seb in Baltimore. But we did get to talk to Gabe and Seb via web cam for a while. Super fun!

I don't have any footage, but somehow, after the hunt, we all wanted to see how well we would fair at stunting. Jake and his fiance, Tori, took turns doing basket tosses with the grand kids. I thought it didn't look too hard, so I decided to try. I would've made it, except Tori and I started laughing so hard and I almost wet myself (and the stunters). I haven't laughed that hard in a while. Mostly because Melissa was trying to do cartwheels, round-offs, and a back bend.

Franny the Easter Bunny

And last but not least, here is my 5 month shot of baby Holland. I should've posted this ages ago, but I took this right after Micah was born, so I forgot about it. I'll have another one soon because I'll be 6 months!