We headed south on a trip to Colorado to see family and for my cousins wedding. We left Wednesday afternoon and drove straight through to Rocky Mountain National Park. As we approached the mountains, we saw that the trees were a beautiful collage of green and red. As we neared, we noticed that they were not red, but dead! Beetles have killed about half of the trees on the west side of the park. 
A view from Trail Ridge Road.
We stopped at a scenic overlook to take a picture. We thought that we would get a picture of the two of us. A kind woman offered to take it for us. She said that she took two, just to be sure she got a good one...
uhhh....thanks.... 
Jason falling off the cliff.
Jason jumping off the cliff.
A small herd of bull elk. 
My cousin Alyssa, Barry, and their boys live just outside of the park. That was our next stop. We spent Thursday evening and the night with them. Lots of relatives were there for dinner.
Here Tristan, Andrew, and Brayden all entertain Wade.
The boys...Tristan, Wade, Carson, Brayden, and Andrew in the front.
Friday our brakes started grinding. Jason went and got them fixed while we went to the Butterfly Pavilion. This is Rosie the tarantulla. 
Tristan liked the tropical fish.
Beautiful butterflys
The boys and I, mom, Scott, Lynette, Ainslee, Chase, and Kylie all were there. 
Aunt Lynette and Tristan
Tristan is a little bee in the honeycomb.
Next we went to the hotel where we would be staying and went swimming. We met up with Garrett and Dad there.
Ainslee and Uncle Scott
We went to a BBQ in the park for the rehearsal dinner. It was catered by Famous Dave's!! Yummy!! Tristan was exhausted and fell asleep holding the volleyball. 
The next morning was the wedding of Shane and Nikelle. I didn't get many pictures of the wedding. It was too hot to think about much of anything. 105 degrees, and it was an outdoor wedding with no shade. Fortunately there was a tent for the reception, so at least we were out of the direct sunlight.
This is my brother Gar-Har.
Nikelle and her dad.
After the wedding, we went back to the hotel to enjoy the air conditioning and the pool. Here's Estee!
The two Tristans.
I got to see several people that I haven't seen in several years. Elmer and Lindsey Lehman and their two boys. This is Elmer with Carter. 
And my friend Summer, sister of the bride.
I didn't get nearly enough pictures of all of the relatives, but here's Aunt Joyce, Uncle Anders, and Taylor
Saturday night we went to Scott and Lynette's for the night, and we went to meeting with them in the morning. We left from meeting to head home. Mom came back with us, and she did most of the driving!! We saw some cool rocks going through Wyoming.
This beautiful sunset marked the halfway point on our return trip. We got home in time for Jason to work on Monday.
5 comments:
Your cousin's dress looks very familiar:) Glad to see you guys had a good trip. Will we see you at Oly 1?
Hi there. Thanks for the pictures from CO! Was curious how it all went. Too bad it was so hot. Imagine we'll hear more soon when everyone is home again. Hi to Mom Lepak!
COOL!! we use to drive up trail ridge road a lot when I was young. so your related to nikelle, summer and ryan? wow! we went to elizabeth this year, so we got to see a lot of old friends.
Lookee who I found! Sounds like you're having a good summer. And now you're a married, busy (busy, busy, busy!) momma to boot. Fun to take a peek at what's up with you after all these years. For reference, I'm Heidi P.'s sister. You came and stayed with us a long time ago. ;)
HI! Nice pictures! Especially the one of Summer! What a dork!
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