We recently went to the Tracy Aviary at Liberty Park in Salt Lake.

Bailey is getting impatient waiting to get her picture taken with the Owl.

It was worth it.
Her favorite activity was watching the bird keeper feed fish to the pelicans.

Also, a couple of nights ago we went to a mission reunion with my second mission president. Here we are with President and Sister Hansen. We had a nice time and got to hear about their latest mission to Germany. They were called to travel around Germany and record testimonies and personal histories of LDS survivors of World War II. There were some pretty amazing experiences they shared with us. If I remember right, he said they recorded around 380 such histories, and since they have been home 10 of these church members have passed away. Hopefully these records will one day be available for all of us to learn about.

Million Dollar Shot

I saw this link on Yahoo! that a Utah golfer entered into a contest where you pay a fee for a chance to win a million dollars by hitting a hole in one. Obviously the odds of doing this on that specific shot are against you, but he did it! It was pretty amazing.

Here is the youtube link too.




What is funny is that I had no idea before I clicked on it who the person was. The headline only said "Utah man" hits million dollar hole in one. As I watched it, I realized that this guy is actually my (semi-distant) relative. If I remember right, his Grandpa is my Grandpa Gutke's brother, Worth. That means his mom and my dad are cousins. Does that make us second cousins? For anyone that thinks this is a fake shot (people on the youtube comments point out that the ball briefly exits the screen) my dad and grandma have confirmed its truthfulness.

For the record, I have hit one hole in one in my life and it did not earn me any money. In fact, I remember before the round some random guy got put in our group to make a full foursome. He asked us if we wanted to play for money. I declined. My friend figured the guy didn't know what he was getting into and agreed to take his money. I think the terms were something like $2 a hole, double for birdies, and 4x for an eagle. And the money from the previous hole carried over if there was a tie. I had a few birdies too and shot either a 31 or 32 on that set of 9 holes. I think I figured out that I would have won close to 40 bucks if I had joined the two of them.

U - S - A !! U - S - A !!

Update 3: More family shots

I didn't really get any pictures of Bailey with just her Healy cousins. Here she is with her cousin. She gets to play with her a lot now that she is the closest cousin to us. You'd never guess that she is 6 months older than Bailey (unless you knew that she was less than 2 lbs when she was born)

More fun with her Healy cousins.

Update 2: Family Reunions

This is part 2 of the 2 month update of what we did this past summer. We had two family reunions and got to see both of our families. This is probably the main reason why we decided to move back to Utah. We like our families and it has been nice to see them a lot more than we have the past few years. With the family reunions come family pictures.

Reunion 1 was with Jessica's family:


Reunion 2 was with my family:
Notice how lopsided that picture is with all of those girls. Thank goodness that the newest Gutke, Holland, is here to try to even things out.

Lots to catch up on

Well, it's been a long time since we last made a post. We'll spend the next while trying to catch up on all that we have been up to. About 1 1/2 months ago, Bailey had her blessing in church. Here she is in her dress.

Stay tuned for more updates...

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