Gubler Family Reunion

My dad's father's side of the family has had a Gubler family reunion every year for like 50 years. So for as long as I can remember, I have spent the first weekend of August with the Gublers... usually camping in the mountains. This year was actually Mitch's second time coming to the reunion... which is quite the accomplishment! I was sure that after the first one, he'd turn and run away haha. The family is a little crazy, so the reunion is an interesting event for first-timers.... actually, they're interesting no matter how many you've been to :) Anyways, the reunion was held up on Kolob at the community center, which just so happens to be down the road from my mom's family's cabin. My immediate family and grandparents decided to stay at the cabin where we had a toilet and shower. Good choice!! The cabin isn't very big though, so Mitch and I slept in our tent out front. It was pretty stinkin cold, but it was lots of fun. It was great to see all of the extended family (even though I don't know 75% of their names or really even who they are since there's about 250 of us). We love camping and love family traditions, so it was tons of fun for me and Mitch to spend a weekend at the Gubler Reunion!

My nephews Blake and Payton on the 4-wheeler with Uncle Mitch

Our family's cabin (it's kinda hard to see) ... and that's our little tent out front... cozy huh?

This is the view from the road in front of our cabin. I love it!

Some horses we saw on our 4-wheeler ride

The reservoir was really full and beautiful like always

One of the views from our 4-wheeler ride on my grandpa's property

My cute niece Brooklyn!!

My cousin Noah was the happiest when he was just chillin on the 4-wheeler by himself :)

We would drive around every evening trying to spot deer

Lady Antebellum Concert!

On July 22nd, Mitch attended his first concert!! haha it's actually kind of a sad excuse for a first concert, but it was pretty good actually! Due West opened for one of my newest favorite bands, Lady Antebellum. The concert was held on the field of the Sunbowl here in St. George. First of all, it was INSANELY hot... so that kinda sucked. And we also didnt' realize that everyone would be sitting on the field, so we didn't bring chairs. We ended up sitting on the cement stadium seats, but it turned out to be a good spot. I hadn't heard much of Due West's music, but they were really good. Of course, I loved getting to hear Lady Antebellum play all of their fun songs, plus some others' songs! It turned out to be a really fun night!

Waiting for the concert to begin

Due West on stage

Lady Antebellum on stage

Pine Valley

A couple weeks ago, Mitch and I decided to visit Pine Valley on my day off. We went drove around for a while, then went on a hike, and then ate our picnic lunch. I had never been there before, so it was a fun little trip :)

Mitch and I on our hike

Eating our lunch... Mitch will LOVE that I put this picture on here haha

I loved this old church in Pine Valley!

I thought this was really pretty

Angel's Landing

About a month or so ago, some of my friends from work decided to go hiking in Zion's. We woke up early to try to beat the heat, and hiked up Angel's Landing. It was still pretty hot, but it's GORGEOUS up there! I did the same hike last year with my cousin, but it's still shockingly beautiful when you get to the top of the hike. Everyone should do it at least once!

On the way up...

Kaylecia, Me, Taleesa, and Jamie hiking up "Walter's Wiggles"
aka the worst switch-backs EVER!

Taleesa, Kaylecia, Jamie, Ashley, and Me

One of the views from the top

4th of July

For the 4th of July, my mom's family always had a little reunion up at our cabin on Kolob. One of the little traditions is that the boys (and sometimes a few girls) go shooting. They shoot clay pigeons off a ledge on some of my grandpa's property.... and they've sort of made a little game/competition out of it. Anyways, this was Mitch's first year shooting with the boys and he did great! He doesn't have much experience shooting, but he actually won the game a time or two!

My brother Curtis getting ready to shoot a clay pigeon...

My nephews picking up shot gun shells for a penny a piece..

Mitch


My brothersTyler and Curtis, Mitch, and my nephew Blake

Tyler, Curtis, and my dad

Mitch and Tyler

My nephew Blake brought his BB Gun and shot at a target while the big boys shot their guns

A little elbow grease can go a long way!

As I mentioned in the previous blog, Mitch and I like doing projects together. When we got married, my sister in law MJ gave us her old kitchen table and chairs. We decided that we wanted to refinish them... so after A LOT of sanding, we repainted the legs and stained the table top and seats of the chairs. It actually turned out WAY better than I thought it would and I really love them now!

This is what the table looked like before....

And here is the finished product!

This is a bench that's supposed to go with the table... but we use it by our door to put our shoes under :) Maybe one day when we get our own house, it'll actually be with the kitchen table haha But yeah, we refinished this too. Better, right?!

Andy's House

Mitch and I enjoy little projects... so we decided that we should paint our doghouses. Of course, the colors had to be Braves colors! Mitch also had the great idea to put Andy's name on her house... using the Braves "A" as the first letter in her name. We didn't worry about making them perfect, but they actually look a lot better than they did before :) Anyways, here are the before and after pics!

This picture is a little old, but it shows the doghouses... plus Andy likes to jump on her house and look into our bedroom window! Kinda creepy huh?

So this is the before....

And the after!! Don't mind the dead grass....


It actually turned out better than I thought it would! haha