Beam Family Visit

All of Brian's family came to visit over 4th of July weekend.... yup, all 7 of them! (and we were even missing his Brother, Matt)  The agenda was jam packed with stuff.  It was fun to show his family cool parts of Colorado but I wish we would have had more time to just hang out. 

(Warning:  Long post... Lots of pictures)

Day 1: Drove up to the peak of Mt. Evans

Saw 2 sheep (or goats?) get in a fight

Day 2: Went swimming, grilled out at home

Cathey and I have amazing shape-making abilities

I am in LOVE with these cheeks!!

Day 3: Rode Brian's dirt bike, Garden of the Gods (in CO Springs), Played at the park, Bath time

(BUSY DAY)

The Shawnee Family

(Brian's sister Jackie, husband Mark, and baby Ethan)

My favorite!

Day 4: Rocky Mountain National Park

We had such a great time with everyone visiting but we are exhausted!!  Thanks for coming out to see  us!

Can They Be Any Cuter?!....

I don't think so!

I am loving how stink'n cute our niece and nephew are right now!! 

Here's a sample of the cell phone pics we've been getting...

Lorraine, 14 months

Ethan, 9 months

More Visitors

We had more visitors this weekend!  Actually- we'll have visitors every other weekend for the next month or so.  I'm certainly not complaining, though.... I really like being able to stay put for awhile and still get to see friends and family this summer!

Sarah and I interned together 5 years ago and shared an office.  At first I didn't think I'd like her... she was really cute and smart and I was sure she would be snotty too.  Definitely wrong.  We hit it off right away and I had such a fun summer emailing all day (even though we were in the same office), lunch dates every day, and totally getting to know each other.  We've ended up staying in touch and I usually see every 1- years.  She came up for a weekend away and I had so much fun with her!

We spent the weekend laying out, eating out, doing a little shopping.... hiking, vegging, and grilling out... brewery tour and a little more window shopping.

Dinner at Cherry Creek Grill...so good!

Hiking up to Devil's Head tower... the last manned fire lookout.

Pike's Peak... you can see over 100 miles in every direction from the tower

What a hottie.  He's tired of pictures.

Our free samples at Coors Brewery. 

 In case you were wondering... orange slices are ONLY allowed for Blue Moon samples.  Thanks.  Got it.

Moab

We went camping down in Moab last weekend with 4 other couples (and a few extras). It was a short trip- drove down Friday and back on Sunday. We stayed at a 'desert resort'...basically a designated RV park/campground.... Kind of awkward to camp in such a populated place but it worked for us since we had such a large group. The boys spent most of Saturday out dirt biking and some of the other wives/girlfriends and I went hiking around Arches National Park. My favorite part was the campfires each night... there were 4 people who can play guitar and sing (2 of them our in our favorite local country band, Switchyard Social Club) and 2 brought guitars so they would just rotate around playing and singing for everyone... loved it!

Not our truck... but everyones cars/trucks were this packed out

  

Delicate Arch

Our only picture together on the trip

Our good friends, Cortney and Dave

BFF Weekend #2

One of my best friends was in town again to search for a job (PS... if you are an elementary teacher or know one in Denver LET ME KNOW!!).  The agenda for the weekend consisted of my favorite pizza place, going to see Switchyard Social Club again, a rugby game, and going out dancing!!!  I LOVE you friend- hurry up and move here!!

On our way to dinner... I LOVE living in CO!!!!

At the rugby game

We decided last minute to go out dancing on Saturday night, therefore we were a little underdressed (or overdressed, if you will).  This is us in our "mom" outfits... b/c we looked like moms compared to everyone else.

had SUCH A BLAST dancing!!

Seattle

About a month ago I was basking in the thought that we didn't have any summer plans for May or June... we could just hang out, get things done around the house, and catch up on some yard projects.  As of 2 weeks ago, we had 6 weekends in a row of things planned.  Now we're just trying to stay sane amongst all the weekend plans and work traveling during the weekdays.

Weekend one was a trip to Seattle.  Brian had a week long training class for work so I flew up the last weekend he was there to hang out.  We loved Seattle!!  Such a cool city.  We did the normal things like the Space Needle (which was a rip-off...), wandered around the waterfront and market and ate some awesome seafood with friends.  We also went and toured the Boeing facility/assembly line and got to see them making the 747's and new 787's (I AM married to an aerospace nerd engineer).  It was actually really cool to see and we got to see them deliver a plane to a customer (aka the plane take off and "wave" goodbye).  We weren't allowed to take any cameras, purses, cell phones, chapstick, etc on the tour so we don't have any pics of that part but here is the rest of our trip....

We went to an awesome park that had an incredible view of the city... too bad it was freezing!!!

Our awesome waterfront hotel

The very first Starbucks

The best mac n' cheese ever!

My favorite part... tons and tons of GORGEOUS flowers!!!!