our last vacation

as people. in a few months we become parents & the world changes as we know it. so we flew to colorado to visit our friends ted & sarah! number 45 on my 101 list: done again!

it was a great trip! exactly what we needed. we were there for four days & had lots of fun adventures- well the kind my lil belly would allow, and lots of great food. i really do enjoy that town- i've officially added it to my list of "would like to live there one day" places. ted, you can stop squeeling now :)

this will be over a couple different posts- because they need to send me their pictures. we did other fun stuff that i have no proof of- like roller skating- which took both bryan and i awhile to get back into the grove, but we well, we survived it. no broken bones!!!

here's colorado:

the beautiful flat irons.




a small town that is known for it's abandoned cars & other stuff.


they took us to the rocky mountains, which neither of us had ever been before. we did a little mile long hike & played in the snow.


my coat would barely zip! but sarah let me borrow her ski one so i'd stay toasty.


sarah & ted in a blistery storm :)


i had a hankering to make a snow angel!


i really like the feel of this one...


* Herds of tiny pine beetles are munching away at Colorado's forests, turning the evergreens a sickly red and destroying large patches of trees. Cold snaps -- which, in mountain terms, mean about five nights of minus-30 temperatures -- usually kill off the native beetles. But winters are warming, and Henson and others said they worry the beetles can't be stopped.

The beetle infestation "has reached epidemic proportions as a result of climate issues," said Kyle Patterson, spokeswoman for the Rocky Mountain National Park.*

so visit here soon!!!

in she goes...




we hiked around a frozen lake, it was very beautiful.


ted jumped off this here boulder- without hurting himself! and now he has a cool facebook pic!


more to come, promise!

thanks for having us guys, we are now ready to turn our lives over to responsibility ;)

shuey.

let me start by saying it's been a crazy month. an exciting way for me to end the year, for sure. today at four is my last wedding scheduled for 2008. let me say it again, shuey.

i spent a week in vermont for sueanne & roy's wedding and a week in kentucky for emily & craig (coming soon). then my life got a little exciting. emily's wedding was on a friday & my next wedding started at 11am the following day -but in phoenix. i admit to being a lil nervous- but i figured it was the first flight out & a straight one at that, no weather predicted & it was southwest who, is the only airline i trust, period. i also had a fabulous photographer, jill, on call in case i needed her to cover until i could arrive. thanks jill!

but, let's back up to vermont. it was such an awesome week! very relaxing and quiet. i got to read a whole book, my sister's keeper, very very good. i met some talented local photographers, one of whom, brent, helped me with the wedding in stowe & was a lot of fun to hang out with. we figured out that he'd been in c u b a about a week before i had. strange, huh? the wedding was sooo much fun. sueanne & roy looked amazing & stowe couldn't have been more beautiful.

so, i flew out tuesday night & arrived around 11 am. a little tired because i'm not very good at sleeping on planes. picked up the rental car & left the airport not really knowing which way i needed to go... i love doing that. i love having time to do that. i finally stumbled upon burlington, my favorite city. i checked into my hotel & then drove to middlebury, a small town about 45 minutes away. it's got the cutest lil downtown & about 5 stores i can count on every time, to have something i'll lust over. i played around with my medium format camera which sadly i think needs to become a mere decoration. it suffered a bad tumble awhile ago & messed up one of the lens & the three rolls of film i just took to get developed were all blank :( can we please have a moment of silence as we mourn this beautiful camera...

but here are some pictures i took on my digital.











i had about an hour before my flight left on sunday so i found a cute lil park by the water & swang. is that a word? swang? anyways. i love that feeling.


burlington is the town i was meant to be born in. full of earth friendly, laid back, cool people. that put their kids on leashes, but still.


















my good friend, carolyn, came to visit me from silver bay! we had so much fun hanging out, eating yummy pizza & enjoying a few drinks. we watched the vp debate with a lil disappointment that it wasn't more entertaining. i had planned on giggling & instead was shocked at how mediocre she had done.


& then here's a few from stowe, a very cute ski town.
















i think next year i want to visit it in the winter- it would be breath taking covered in white.
until i can visit you again, vermont :)