Visitors!

Our first visitor since moving into our new house was Brianna's good friend, Jennifer. They first met as pledges of Alpha Phi Omega while attending Baylor University. During Jenn's trip to Colorado, they spent one day in Breckenridge. There, they met up with one of Jenn's good friends, whose husband plays in the orchestra for the Breckenridge Music Festival. On Brianna and Jenn's drive up to Breckenridge, they stopped at a wood shop which specialized in making bears. As Baylor Bears, they took the opportunity to stop and Brianna posed with the bears. After strolling through the shops at Breckenridge and stopping for lunch at Downstairs at Eric's, the girls joined Jenn's friends for dinner at a fondue restaurant on top of Keystone Mountain. Other highlights during Jenn's trip included a trip to Boulder, plenty of shopping, enjoying the City Park Jazz Fesival in downtown Denver, and stopping at the newly fashioned Kwik-E-Mart at 3rd and Broadway. Matt was especially excited to get a Squishee, created for the Simpsons movie. (If you didn't already know, Matt is a Simpsons fan!). Here are some pictures from Jenn's trip:

Brianna with the bears.

Strolling the shops in downtown Breckenridge.

Posing on the ski lift at the fondue restaurant.

Posing at the scenic stop in front of the Flatirons outside of Boulder.

Matt in front of the Kwik-E-Mart.

Delaware to Colorado

Matt made the move from Delaware to Colorado in early June to begin his new position. Brianna stayed behind in Delaware to wrap things up at work and close on the house. Her trip to Colorado began on July 12th. Fortunately, her good friend and former co-worker, Angie, was kind enough (or is it crazy enough?!?) to accompany her on the cross country drive. They made the journey over four days. Some brief highlights of their trip included:

the Gateway Arch in St. Louis,

the Anheuser-Busch factory tour in St. Louis,

beautiful country sunsets,

and of course, the world's largest ball of twine, in Cawker City, Kansas.

The trip ended in Denver at Brianna and Matt's new home. Some of the stuff had already been delivered by the moving company, and Matt had started to unpack. However, due to poor planning on the part of the moving company, our stuff had to be delivered in two shipments. The second shipment made it before Brianna started her new job. So, the house is mostly unpacked and was ready for our first visitors!

Rainbows

Since moving to Colorado, we have witnessed many amazing storms. Often there is lots of thunder and lightning, a short burst of large rain drops and then a beautiful rainbow to finish it off. Since moving here, we've seen an average of a rainbow per week. We've seen a whole rainbow with a double half visible, and the other day when Brianna was driving home from work, she saw one end of a rainbow, and then was able to see the other half as she got near to home. It's amazing to witness such a beautiful symbol that God created as His promise to never flood the Earth again.