Fall Breckenridge Trip

Abby is leaving this week for Hawaii, so she wanted to get a good dose of fall in before she left. So, we took our fall excursion to Breckenridge in September instead of October. It looks like, barring any snowstorms this coming week, that the peak color will be next weekend.  We still saw a lot of gold, although the trees actually had a lot of orange and some red this year, which we have never seen before in the Aspens. I thought only Birch did that. 

The second photo is one Brian took with the tripod, using it like a selfie stick (idea provided by Jacob). We were laughing in the photo because a group of young adults were walking by and commenting on our set up - "That's one hard core selfie stick!"

Abby's Birthday and Garden of the Gods

• We all went down to Hannah's place in the Springs for Abby's birthday. While we were there, we took some photos at Garden of the Gods. We are hoping at least one of the photos will turn out for our Christmas picture, since Abby will be leaving in two weeks and won't be home until February. 

I'm not a big fan of the whole posing thing where people are all over the place like in the second photo, but my photographer children think it is great, so there it is. I'd rather us all sit or stand together, so old fashioned!

Afterwards, Abby chose to get burgers for her birthday dinner. She had opened her gifts at Hannah's place earlier and since Abby has been sick for the past week (on the mend now), she chose not to have a cake or dessert due to the sugar. So, Jacob got a strawberry milkshake and shared that with the non-ill members of the group!

Getting All Pinteresty in Breckenridge

Abby is hoping to sell some of her scarves as a fundraiser for her time at YWAM, specifically the airfare.  While up in Breckenridge last week with a friend (Abby was her photo assistant for a family reunion), her friend took some pictures for Abby to add to her Etsy store.

I'm not crazy about the intense color saturation and don't think it is always a good color representation of the scarves.  Hopefully for her fundraiser it will be alright.

They certainly had fun and Breckenridge is a great place for pictures.

You can look fashionable and have a wonderful time walking around the streets and peeping into the shops.

You can check out her shop "Sweetstrings By Abby" on Etsy now for a limited time.

A Few Pictures From Jacob's Graduation

With Mr. Ong, the founder of the school, whose wife had to call from England (where they were last month) to advocate for Jacob.

It was certainly a bittersweet ceremony for us, knowing what we had to do for Jacob to receive the diploma that was rightfully his.  Jacob decided a couple of days before that he did want to participate in the ceremony, so Hannah was already scheduled for work and couldn't come. But the five of us celebrated Jacob's hard work and marked this milestone in his life.

Just Catching Up

Well,  the latest pictures are having trouble leaving Hannah's camera, so I thought I'd upload a few older ones for now.  The photo above is of a birthday cake made by Abby.  We are getting mighty fancy around here!

As the final (we hope) snow melted, we had our creek back, complete with ducks and frogs!

When I saw this picture, I knew that Hannah and Andrew were destined to get married. Can you see that look on her face?  I've never seen that before...

Visiting Hannah and Andrew in Manitou, shortly before the internship ended. Hope always complains that Manitou "smells weird" - there are a lot of marajuana smokers down there (ahem) and it smells a lot like that...

Pictures from Hannah and Andrew's internship graduation ceremony. It was held in the Summit Ministries building., where they spent a lot of time this past year.

Abby, the budding photographer.

The happy couple.

The happy group.

Happy Hope and Sapphire.

The view of Manitou from Summit.

More Pictures from Hannah Price Photography!

This picture is obviously not taken by Hannah. This photo credit is for Abby.