seattle photobooth

i could get addicted to this.

4th of July Bally-hoo

Independence Fun with Sonlight Fort Collins. Tubing the Poudre, shrimp boil, Fat Bat, Erica's amazing cheesecake flag, fireworks, more fireworks from the neighbors. Good Times!




Cliff Jumping with Katie, Tim, and Tres. Why should a rattlesnake stop the fun? Nice form Tim!

Katie is a bit of a show-off.

Rob imitates Katie.

Hannah does her own thing.

Tres swims like a champ for a lab with three legs. Tim swims good too, and he only has two legs.


Intense badminton in our backyard with the cousins. You want Jon on your team...or Brianna.


Rock it out Finn.

Rock it out Jake.

seattle, minus rob

rob worked at camp in pagosa for the week while i spent a long weekend in seattle with my mom, rachel and amanda. only a day after getting back from southwest colorado we took off for the pacific northwest. luckily the weather was wonderful. we enjoyed lots of wonderful food and beautiful views. some of my favorites: the fish ladder where we watched the salmon jump up the steps in their journey to spawn upstream, beecher cheese, the salmon bisque at pike place chowder, the freemont market, getting pictures in the old school photo booth in the cowgirls bar, all the wonderful fruit and flowers at the market, and of course seeing mt. rainier.

back in the car

after our road trip we had a few days to weed the garden (my tomatos were still alive!), mow the lawn, do laundry and repack before getting back in the car. we drove down to cortez where we had a great time at katie and tim's wedding. it was so great to have all of my family together–i think every one of the cousins were there. on sunday we met some friends in telluride for the bluegrass festival. yay for hippie dancing!

Oregon Trail

We had quite the adventure to Oregon at the beginning of summer. We loaded up our little Toyota pick up and headed west. We were pleased to find out that we actually followed the Oregon Trail most of the way. We encountered some hardships just like the pioneers. Our camper shell was leaky. Here are some other pictures of our trials and tribulations.

We finally arrived in Hood River and the beautiful Columbia River Gorge. We explored breweries, waterfalls, and Mount Hood. The most important thing you can do in Mount Hood is go get some Marionberry Pie from Bette's Place. We didn't just buy a piece, but the whole pie. See if you can find Waldo in the next picture.

Hannah wears 5 layers because it is cold. Onto Portland where we stayed with John, Cris, Maddie, and Ben. Ben's musical about Portland was awesome! We also played guitar, wii, saw some of Portland, and enjoyed hanging out with the Portland Breshears. The Vancouver Kerns joined for some fun too.



A must in Portland is VooDoo Donuts. I highly recommend the Maple Bacon Bar. Nothing like a few strips of bacon on a long john.


We went on to the coast and is was dang cold. 40 degrees, raining, and 40 mph winds. Yuck. We got token pictures at Haystack Rock and enjoyed indoor activities like exploring cheese factories and more breweries.

We headed home through Bend and onto the Sawtooths in Idaho. Man, Idaho is so overlooked. It was gorgeous and we found some killer hot springs. We want to go back and explore some other time.

Our final stop on the way home was at the Grand Tetons. Unbelievable. Most people were crowding around to take pictures of Mooses (Meese?), but we just kept taking pictures of the breath-taking rugged peaks.

Great trip. We're signing off with our trademark jumping pics.