Sunday afternoon we decided to take our visit with McGavin down to Gardner Village and just walk around and feed the ducks.
When asked to comment about the day, Mandy said “it was nice”. I guess that pretty much sums it up:
Later that evening we went to Colton’s Dad’s house for a ghoulish dinner! We had witch finger breadsticks and a witches brew that was pretty good. He’s always cookin up something good. It must be Halloween time.
We've been wanting to get some family pictures for some time now especially with our little man. The fall leaves were so beautiful that we decided to head up to Mueller Park Canyon in Bountiful to take them.
Danielle, Colton's sister, was gracious enough to come and help us. We drove up the canyon and found a few good spots. This is how they turned out:
So we headed up to Snowbird this past weekend to take advantage of Oktoberfest! It was something Colton and David wanted to plan to get the family together. We even had a special surprise! Colton’s sister Brooklyn returned a day earlier than planned and came up to meet us. Brooklyn and her husband Kyle will be leaving on Tuesday for a 7 week tour of Europe to celebrate their graduation last year. They both worked in summer sales so now they have all the free time in the world. We are extremely jealous.
Anyway we had a great time at Oktoberfest and the food was delicious! It runs on Saturdays and Sundays from 12:00 to 5:00 I think and it goes until October 9th. If you haven’t already you should definitely make the trip. And at 3:15 the huge Alphorns perform on Hidden Peak! PROST!
So every Sunday Colton picks up his disabled brother McGavin and we take him out for a few hours. Our visits are short but we sure do love spending time with him. We usually take him to a park and walk around and just relax. McGavin loves going for rides in the car and being with family.
Last Sunday we had the entire family join us at the park for a picnic and we had a lot of fun together. Jewelya and David brought everything for sandwiches and we even had a good family soccer game afterwards. Good times!
We were invited by Mandy’s sister Molly to take advantage of the BOGO week at Lagoon and join her and our nieces and nephews for an afternoon of fun! Lagoon is just so expensive that this is about the only time that we go each year. We had a great time and Desmond did pretty well just hangin around. Mandy’s Dad also accompanied us so it was whole family affair. Man are we exhausted….
So while the family was all in town we arranged a family photo together of the Mather family. Our good friend Jeff Hodges traveled down from Syracuse to take the photo for all of us. They turned out great, except for the fact that it was very hard to capture a photo with everybody smiling at the same time. Colton performed another one of his Photoshop miracles as he spent hours swapping heads in order to get the perfect family photo. Good times!
Before (Above) After (Below) I know it doesn’t look like it but there are 10 heads that have been swapped as well as a mysterious arm.
Desmond’s big day had arrived and we were so happy that all of our family could be there with us. We had family fly in from Colorado, Massachusetts, and California to be together. It was a very special day. In fact it was a very special weekend because on Saturday Danielle and Bryan were married and then on Sunday we had Desmond’s baby blessing.
Colton’s mom had saved the outfit that Colton was blessed in back in 1986 along with some photos and gave them to him for his birthday. We thought it would be fun to compare so the other day we dressed Desmond up in that same outfit. Stylin huh?
