Summer Summary

Hello all. Its been some time since we last posted (again). We have had quite a fun-filled summer. Here's the quick summary. In June Abby's family came out to visit and we spent a few days up in the Breckenridge and Winter Park areas riding trains, shopping, hiking, and sightseeing. We also went to a Rockies game.

Getting ready to shop in Breckenridge

At the Continental Divide

Leadville Train

Paul and Dad working many long hours on this puzzle back where we stayed.

Winter Park Ski Resort

We went back to Iowa over the fourth of July weekend for Paul's younger brother's wedding, for which Paul played his trombone. It was a quick trip, but it was great to see some family, albeit for a short time, and the Iowa landscape again. We are also happy to report that we finally made it round trip between Iowa and Colorado without a breakdown - all it took was a new car!

Abby teaching neice Alyssa how to tie bows on the chairs to help decorate

All of our neices and our ONE nephew.

Before the wedding

Paul played next to his brother, Matt, in the brass quintet

The happy couple

We celebrated our birthdays after that. Paul is now 28 and Abby 26. We combined our celebration dinner and went to Olive Garden.

In August we went back to Iowa again for Abby's cousin's wedding, in which Abby was a bridesmaid. Again, it was a quick trip, and we wished we could have seen family more. We enjoyed staying with Abby's grandparents and Abby was able to even get away with some of the girls from her mom's side of the family for a quick afternoon. Paul got to visit some college friends in the area while back. We also got to see a lot of cute babies! Paul finally got to meet the Mulligan twins, who are very happy, giggly, fun babies. We also saw Paul's friends Lindsay & Zack's son Ethan and Paul's niece, Gracie, when we stopped for the night in Omaha at Bess and Bob's home. It was incredibly hard to leave so many people we love so much.

Cousin Melissa helping Abby with her nails for the wedding
Abby's mom's side of the family having some girl time
The beautiful bride, the bride's sister in law, and cousin Abby
She was GORGEOUS!
What a fun day!

We spent our 2 year anniversary in the car driving west back to Colorado. YAY!!!... well, at least we were with eachother ;-) We are planning to get away this weekend to officially celebrate...as if driving through Nebraska wasn't enough!?!?

We have been taking Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University through our church this summer on Tuesday nights. We have enjoyed both his humor and his stories of insight and practical wisdom on how to be financially successful - getting out of debt and building wealth, and giving like no one else. Its been a great help to us, and we highly reccommend it to anyone!

Paul also finished summer Greek, and is now staring down the barrell of another school year. He has one more year to go, and will be graduating (Lord willing) next May. No, we don't know exactly what we're doing after that, but God will let us know in his good time.

So, thats the summer summary from the Hoveys.