Family Reunion- Dallas

We flew from NY to Dallas to attend the Teuscher Reunion. Brian's next oldest brother Nathan and his family live outside of Dallas. And now, as of this belated writing Eric, Brian's youngest brother and his family will be moving to the Dallas area after school. We do enjoy seeing everyone, as the opportunities to see each other are limited.

Andrew attempting to get two pennies out of a pair of nylons

Brandon sucking up skittles with a straw.

Matthew stacking 6 dice on a popsicle stick in his mouth

Brian and Steph sliding ziti onto a spaghetti noodle.

The whole family

Matthew trying to figure out if he's got a real jelly bean or a Bertie Botts Every Flavor Bean

The Teuscher Grandkids

All our shirts were numbered with the order in which we joined the Teuscher Family. Brian was 7, Steph 17, Brandon 20, Matthew 24, Andrew 28 and Zachary 31. 34 was born in December and 35 is due in June!!

We attended a Rough Riders Game! Brian caught a foul ball and the boys got full from the all you can eat hotdog buffet and we all swealtered in the humid evening, but everyone came home with smiles. Zach and I came home early with the other little ones and SIL's and had a delightful time visiting in the A/C hotel room!

Blessed be the name of MagiQuest!! Every waking free minutes were spent on this game. One of the large resort hotels in the area has a infrared wand-wizard treasure hunt up and down seven floors. The boys were instantly hooked on completing ruin tasks and were insistant they complete all before we left. For being inside, we certainly got our workout climbing up and down seven floors of stairs for HOURS!!

Rudy's BBQ for lunch one day.

Pool battles. At one time we had close to 30 people in the pool at one.

The real hit of the reunion were survival bracelets.Uncle Nathan kindly instructed and helped the kids make numberous bracelets.

Computers and work. It never ends.

Teuscher Family. After indoor soccer. Missing 3- Eric, Heather and Hadley.

New York part 2

 Roasting hotdogs, marshmallows, cooking breakfast, etc.. you name it and they cooked it in the fire pit on the hill.

 Finding a great love for the workbench

 Andrew was the only one to venture further than the bottom branch, and he would have kept going if it wasn't for his paranoid mother who thought he might fall out of the tree.

 When did he grow up?

 Seriously, Andrew- we can not keep the boy clean!

 We took the train into NYC one VERY HOT AND HUMID day.

 Ground Zero

 Trinity Church- I loved the ornate carvings in the front door and old head stones in the cemetary. It is always amazing this church sits right in the heart of Wall Street, yet it is quiet and peaceful. Unfortunately, noon mass was being held, so we couldn't take pictures. The boys were somewhat facinated by the events taking place in mass, but somewhat surprised there was a commonality in mass and our Sacrament Service.

 Fedral Hall on Wall Street

 The Church is making a large media push in NYC, this is the billboard in Times Square. There were many smaller ads on the tops of the taxis.

Getting punchy on the train trip home. We were all exhausted- the humidity zapped us- but we enjoyed our day.

New York

 From Brandon's camera at Port Jefferson.... We always love to see what huge yachts are docked at the piers. Apparently this one spent a few penny's on gas!

Waiting at DFW....

 I flew out with the boys for a week or so, Brian flew out to spend a few days with us and then came with us to the family reunion in Dallas. Each of the boys had numerous pictures of the airports on their camera's. I guess as we get older the novelty of flying wears off.

 Grandma and Grandpa set up the basement for them to sleep. What an inspired decision! We all know how late the boys sleep in! It was pitch black and quiet and they managed to sleep until 8am most mornings, which helped everyone's moods be much more pleasant!

I put this photo in because it's funny to see myself now and the picture of me when I was 12-13 right behind.

Birthday TimeEither Brandon or I celebrate our birthday when we are on vacation, it happened to be mine this year. The boys made their own pinata, since they didn't like any they saw, made some great water balloon games to play and sent me on a treasure hunt up and down and up and down the stairs. We ended the evening at the beach- it was low tide at West Meadow which means you can walk out a good 1/4 mile from shore. There are plenty of sand bars to play on, crabs and fish galore to catch, and easy waves to enjoy the boats on. We stayed until the sun dipped behind the horizon- peaceful and gorgeous.