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!

Oh, blogger, how you frustrate me. I don't know why these pictures are doing what they are doing, but they wouldn't upload and I added them in a different way.

Anyway, until Brian can help fix this:  I am working on transferring the pictures from Mom's photo albums since the paper is disintegrating. I have finished one album and am getting ready to start album #2. Very time consuming, but fun.

Hope bought herself a go-pro helmet so she can video her riding adventures.

We celebrated Hope's 15th birthday with a chocolate cake and gifts. She had a hard recovery from her wisdom teeth surgery, but is happily eating all things again.

The other picture is from when Sherrie Linderer was visiting Colorado and went to our church so she could see friends from our (mutual) former church. The little girl in the picture is her granddaughter.

A Few of Hannah's Breckenridge Pictures

Some of Hannah's Pictures from Doug and Shanan's Wedding

Breckenridge on the Fourth of July

Continuing in our annual tradition, we went up to Breckenridge on the fourth of July.

Of course, our first stop is Starbucks, the best one ever.

Jessalyn, Hannah's "Thorn" roommate, came too.

The professional chalk drawings were impressive as always.

Didn't know you can go all 3-D with chalk!

Goofing around. Hannah and Jessalyn took lots of pictures.

The baskets of flowers are always gorgeous. Trying to get people to pose, however, is not always easy.

And here we have Hope, who decided to fly this year. There is no way you would find me doing this.

Watching Hope doing crazy things.

Family photo in our Old Navy Flag Tees. Because of course.

Pictures Snagged From Allison

Doug and Shanan's Wedding

On Saturday, June 25th, our nephew Doug married Shanan here in Colorado.

These are Brian's pictures, so hopefully Hannah's will be much better since she was the official photographer.  This photo is of Doug, Shanan, Harlan and Rhonda.

This photo is of Doug's family- parents, sister Allison and her husband Brandon, both sets of grandparents.

And pretty much the same photo again..

Brian taking selfies with his older brother Marty.

Then nephew Brandon jumps in. Brandon is an amazing slack liner. He has recently taken up the unicycle and is continuing to amaze us with his skills.

The Bride and Groom with Harlan and a neighbor (not sure of his name).

Hannah took lots of photos.  Cousin Allison is also an excellent photographer and she helped Hannah.

Brandon and Allison have been married for two years.  He does the incredible slack lining, she takes the amazing photos.

Leaving the church. 

At the reception with Uncle Harlan.