May Was Kind of Blur

After we listed our home, it sold in just 4 short days with an offer above our asking price! Crazy, right? The market seems to be a little insane right now. Thankfully we were already under-contract for the new home that we wanted to purchase. Now it was just a packing and waiting game until the loans and closing dates were ready. Whew!

During that wait my parents came to visit us from Seattle. The weather was beautiful so we placed all of our bikes in the back of my husband's pickup and off we went to the park to play and ride bikes.

Elizabeth finally became brave enough to let us take the training wheels off of her bike. Little does she know that my husband bent the training wheels up so much that they were never even touching the ground when she rode her bike anyway.

It's been a long time since my dad has ridden a bike. It all comes back quickly doesn't it?

When my parents come out they always insist on having a mini photo session with their grandchildren. 

My friend, Mandy, talked me into running the Bolder Boulder, so I signed up the week of the race.

What a rush! I've never run a race before and this one was a big one. There were about 50, 000 runners in this 10K, along with street bands on the corners, belly dancers, neighbors offering beer for going on their slip n' slides, and food and water were given all along the route. I placed 76 in my age and gender. It was so much fun!



Since Mandy convinced me to run, I convinced my friend Laura to run with me since I've never run a race before and she has run a few marathons, plus she just had a baby, so I thought maybe I could keep up with her. After the race a beer was waiting for us along with another friend, Brian! Since this was old hat for Brian, he ran in an earlier heat and then tied his personal best! I think it was a great running day for everyone. 

Did I mention that the race just happened to fall on Rachel's 11th birthday?

We celebrated with my parents, a few friends, and Thai food, cherry cupcakes, and homemade ice cream!

At the end of May I photographed a wedding for a dear, sweet family friend. It was my first wedding and now I see why wedding photographers charge so much, and why I don't want to be one. I had a great time photographing the wedding, but I definitely don't want wedding photography to be in my future. 

We've known the Besel family since we moved to Colorado almost 10 years ago. Their children used to babysit my children and now they're all grown up, graduating from high school, college, getting married, and getting real jobs in the real world. Yikes! Where did the time go? Aren't they a beautiful family? I can only hope that my children turn out as kind, sweet, and well spoken as the Besels.

Party Time

Last Friday Anna turned 2, but we celebrated the week before when Elizabeth turned 3. Last week was an insane week. It felt like we spent at least half the week in the car driving all over Colorado or just sitting in rush hour traffic.

Friday was a bit hectic since we had a wedding to attend. This little girl was just happy to be out of the car and able to run wild all over the place.

David was equally as happy. Did I mention that he was in the wedding? I'm just glad that he was wearing mostly black, so that while he was running around like a monkey he wasn't getting too dirty before the wedding started.

This is what happens when you ask him to smile for the camera. He's a total clown.

I decided to leave our house 2 hours before the wedding was actually scheduled to begin because my luck hadn't been too good earlier in the week. It was a good thing I left early because we ended up making it to the wedding just half an hour before it was supposed to begin. Nuts, right? I thought it would be a good time to get a family photo, perhaps for a Christmas card, since we were all nicely dressed.

However, my efforts proved to be a bit futile. Where did Rachel go? Hey, David, look at the camera. Oh, well.

I was in charge of getting these two cuties down the aisle. Aren't they adorable?

I think David is helping her drop her flower petals.

Here's my Lutheran Stud working his magic, doing what he does best, preaching some law and gospel.

David's getting a little tired of standing around. Can you tell? 

Hmmm. . .what's going on here? The traffic was pretty loud. I could hardly hear a thing.

Here's the cutest little flower girl ever. I think she was tired of standing around too.

Man and wife!

The cutest flower girl and ring bearer ever! Seriously. Aren't they just the cutest thing you ever saw? Now let's go party!

Okay, maybe this little one comes close to being the cutest thing you ever saw. We got to the reception tables and there were suckers that matched her dress. Does it get any better? I had to let her have it. After all it was her birthday.

I snuck in a few after wedding shots of everyone. See the girl on the end there, not smiling? That's Kassidy. See the look on her face? That's what happens when she's forced to wear a dress. See her dress? It's pretty cute isn't it? Well, I've been told that it's going to be my dress now. Yay! Now I just need a place to wear it. I love hand-me-downs.

Here's the wedding party. Oops! I cut Kassidy off.

Then my husband tried to sneak in on the end and I cut him off too. Good times!

I attempted another family shot. I have a feeling we're never going to get this done. It's a good thing Christmas is still a few months away right?

Here's the father of the bride, Ken, with Rebecca. It was time to party!

Margie, mother of the bride, decided that we needed to sing to Anna since it was her birthday. She was just finishing up her Italian dinner.

They even brought her a little birthday present. What a perfect day to end a birthday and a wedding. Everyone just crashed on our way home. It was a long day, but so much fun!