Randy Quarles and family

Randy is a managing director at The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm in Washington DC, where he's helping lead a group investing in financial institutions, especially providing capital to troubled banks. He is on the LDS Church's Public Affairs Committee, is a High Councilor for the Washington DC Stake, and in his spare time he's a pilot, skier, pundit, voracious reader of history and philosophy, and Cub Scout Den Leader.

Hope is the CEO, and co-owner with her siblings, of the Goldener Hirsch Inn, ranked by Conde Nast as one of the 100 best places to stay in the world and by Zagats as one of the two best small hotels in the United States. The restaurant at the hotel is perennially ranked as either the very best or among the top handful in the state of Utah. In her spare time she is a trustee of the University of Utah, an advisor to Governor Huntsman on higher education issues, and a mother of three active kids.

Young Randy (9) is an avid sportsman (basketball, tennis, skiing), budding paleontologist, absorbed reader (non-fiction only, please), and conscientious big brother to Spencer and Hope. He's entering Form C (the 4th grade) at St. Albans in Washington DC this fall, but his heart is at home in the West, where he spends holidays and summers swimming, playing tennis and horseback riding with his cousins.

Spencer (7) is our mechanical engineer, building ever more complex structures out of bags of Legos (this month, it's a 4 foot long scale model of the Imperial Flagship from Star Wars), our compassionate conservative (he recently initiated a long discussion on the best way to fund universal health care for pets), and our future NASCAR hero (having recently taken first place among the Tiger Cubs at the Pinewood Derby, and third place in the entire pack, after his brother took second place among the Wolf Cubs last year). This year he stretched himself by graduating from Dollar Mountain in Sun Valley and going skiing with his dad and brother on Baldy for the first time.

Hopie (just turned 4) is our future celebrity, as she likes to come downstairs to breakfast in the morning wearing her pink pajamas, long pink bathrobe, and pink sunglasses pushed back up on her head saying "Today I feel just like a movie star". She has her mother's energy and enthusiasm, her father's sense of humor, and her brothers' love of family. She starts pre-K in the fall at the Beauvoir School where her brother Spencer will show her the ropes just as his brother Randy showed him when Spencer arrived 3 years ago.

Fuzzy is a 7-month old Coton de Tulear from Madagascar, who is rapidly making progress in training us all to respond to his every command.