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!"

Late Summer

Once again, blogger is not allowing me to upload pictures as before. Grrr. Anyway, slacklining  has become a new obsession this week. We need to get a set up in the back yard (no trees, that makes it hard) which will let us extend the line all the way.  In the front yard, we don't have a very long space to walk over.  I suppose we will be taking this to a nearby park eventually, like real slackliners do. We should practice enough so that we will not embarrass ourselves in public first!

Hope's First Horse Show

We had no idea what to expect since horse shows and things like that are far from our experience so far.

We got to the place around 3pm, but Hope didn't do her riding for almost three hours.

Next time we'll come better prepared with food and water and perhaps iPads to play Candy Crush while waiting.  There was no internet service way out there!

Out of the five events Hope participated in, she took home fourth, fifth and sixth place ribbons. She loved having a whole day to ride the horse, Tucker, and to have a whole day to *talk to other girls about horses!!!*

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.

Hope and Jacob's Snapchat Fun

What we do for excitement around here.

Allison's Photos

As mentioned in the wedding photos of Doug and Shanan, our niece Allison and her husband Brandon have a pretty exciting life.

This is Brandon slack lining like a normal person.

And this is what he does for fun on the weekends.

Allison is the photographer.

She slack lines like a normal person.

So cute!

When slack lining over mountains gets boring, there is always the unicycle.