a wedding and memorial weekend.

Memorial weekend was spent at Talya and Stuart's wedding.  Talya is T's little sister.  She's beautiful and sweet found the perfect guy for her.  Stuart is a gem and we're so excited he became part of the Kussee family!

They were so happy coming out of the SLC temple, I don't think either one of them stopped smiling the entire day!

Talya made a beautiful bride.  Simple elegance and brilliant beauty!

We got to spend the day with a lot of family and friends.  Grandma Gutierrez flew in for the wedding and we got to spend the whole weekend with her!  I love it when we take pictures of T and his brothers.  Even though T is six feet tall, he's the shortest of the Kussee brothers.  With any luck, our kids will get the height genes from the Kussee side of the family.  Along with their great hair.

We finally got around to buying some new suits for T the week before the wedding.  We picked out a summer gray suit along with a dark brown/gray suit.  T was in desperate need of some new suits that weren't fit to him pre-mission.  If you ask me, my favorite is his new gray one.  He's one attractive husband in it!  

After a day full of photos, good food at both the luncheon and reception, and the hot sun we all dropped into bed and slept late until Sunday morning.  For the first time in a long time, I actually napped during sacrament meeting!  

Monday morning brought another day of boating for the Kussee family.  We left early to fill up with gas and head to Willard Bay.  We started up wrapped up in sweatpants, hoodies, and towels to protect ourselves from the frigid air.  It eventually warmed up and we baked our skin to our hearts content.

Papa Kris usually mans the boat along with T's brother, Kole.

It was the boys men that got out on the lake this time around.  All of them wore wetsuits, except my crazy husband who dived in to the cold water in just his swimming trunks.  

After his last surf on the wake, T ended up slicing up his knee.  Good thing the water was cold enough to keep it numb.  We cleaned it up (good thing little brother was there with his first aid experience!) and Tanner bandaged him up.

Little brother and the little sister vegged out the boat and ate half of the snacks.  Though T and I had our share!  There's something about boating and being out in the sun that makes you starving.

I think this is one of the few pictures we have of Tyler and Morgan.  It's rare to get pictures of T and his siblings lately.  

We need to work on that.

And just to prove that yes, I was on the boat, we took a picture to prove it!  Nasty hair and all.  

Although the sky does look pretty spectacular in this picture of I do say so myself.  

Pretty awesome weekend if I do say so myself.  Great family, good food, eventful weekend.  

Along with a painful sunburn that even got to my eyelids.  Now my eyelids are flaking off in big ol' chunks and I look like I have dandruff in my hair.  That should make for some interesting last day of school pictures tomorrow...

A Tidbit About T's Family

Let me tell you one thing about T's family.

They LOVE boating.
Especially T's Dad.
His latest and greatest interest over the past couple of years has been wake-surfing and T has taken to it quite well. He's mastered the basics and is into more of the tricks now.

I love watching it (who wouldn't when your husband is as athletic and attractive as mine?).

And so, for my wonderful Father-in-law's birthday this year, we went boating!

T manning the boat for a bit.

Basically a picture to show that I DO actually go boating.

Kole and Airyn's adorable puppy, Kooper. He's the cutest little thing with quite the fun personality. We love him to death and are happy he's the newest member of our family.

Overall, it was a great weekend and it was fun to visit with family for a while during the BBQ. We love you, Papa Kris!

Thanks For Coming Labor Day, We Had a Blast

Labor day weekend was an eventful and incredibly wonderful weekend. T and I spent most of the weekend up in Fruit Heights with his family. Which is always a blast.

Always.

I'm just grateful that I married into a family who knows how to have fun. And that's no joke. T's dad is always joking about something or other which was one of the main things that made me feel comfortable when first being around their family. His mom is usually laughing at something or another, I don't think the woman knows how to frown. It's not in her genes! T's siblings definitely all have their own personalities, but when you get them all together, they're quite the sight to see.

I have also officially gone from being the tallest in my family to the shortest in theirs, which hey, I really don't mind. T's Dad always tells me that some of his favorite people like his mom (she's my height) are short.

The short jokes are growing on me too, once upon a time I gave a kid a black eye for telling me I was too short to play basketball and there was no way I was getting picked to be on his team. So I gave him the black eye, played on the defending team, and showed the kid up. No worries, I'm long over that streak of beating people up. My teacher's always loved me, I even got the Hope of America Award in grade school- so don't think too less of me, I hope our kids don't get my stubborn streak.

Onto what we actually did this weekend.
I ramble.

Sorry.
We went to the Bountiful temple and supported Airyn as she received her endowment in the temple for the LDS church. It was beautiful and Tyler and I were so happy to be able to attend! And I had my first experience eating in the temple cafeteria! Even cafeteria's are better in the temple- T and I had sandwiches and split a slice of chocolate pie.

Mmm Mmm!

On Labor Day we woke up to yummy waffles and fresh nectarines and blackberries. T's family has a genius way to eat waffles. They put sour cream on them instead of butter. Sounds weird? Trust me, I was appalled when T's Dad started slathering sour cream on my waffle the first time. Then I saw the light once I took a bite of delicious waffle, sour cream, fruit, and buttermilk syrup yumminess. If you've never tried it, you're missing out.

Seriously.
Then we got to out on T's Dad's boat. I still have yet to get out on the water, but Tyler loves every second he gets to spend wakeboarding or wakesurfing. He's becoming quite good, I only wish we would have had more time over the summer to go visit his parents so he could have practiced more. I wish we could go up more so we could visit with his family. Onto the only picture I could find of this weekend (compliments of Tyler's Dad).

My husband is a stud in a wetsuit.

Just saying.