Graduation weekend was a dream! Saturday we moved out of our house. It was so crazy! We had so many people show up to help and then all of my family was there helping too. It was awesome. We had our whole house loaded up in about 45 minutes.
Sunday we went to church for the last time. That was bittersweet. I already miss those wonderful people so much.
After dinner we tried to go check out Red Rocks but there was a concert that night. Lots and lots of people smoking and tailgating. So we got out of there and went over to the Ken Caryl area by Dean and Jolene's house. It was a blast! It could not have been a more perfect evening. There was a huge storm about to hit Red Rocks, but luckily it missed where we were further down south. We hiked all over and then sat and chatted while the kids played on the play ground.
Carson and Kyle hiking up the boulders.
All the cute little cousins hanging out! We are going to miss the Sellers!
I told Carson he really had to work it in order to get those BYU girls to like him. Kyle rocked it pretty good too! ;)
The kids were all in Heaven. Abby and Jules kept finding wild flowers to pick and bring to me.
The best picture you can get with 12 kids...
Aunt Halee is the sweetest!
Then Monday we ran the Bolder Boulder. Saturday and Sunday we were all getting antsy to get to Arizona. We wanted to move into our new house and everyone else wanted to get home. But we had all signed up to run the Bolder and Boulder so we were all sticking around. We got up super early Monday morning and drove up to Boulder. Kelly stayed with our girls and Halee and Tragdon. We found a good parking spot between the starting and finishing line and hung out for a few hours. We went to a little bakery for bit and then when it warmed up we headed to the starting line. There were SO many people! They were starting a wave at the starting line every couple minutes. Each wave had about a 100 people in it. We slowly walked with out wave closer and closer to the starting line. And then we all took off! It was the funnest race I have ever ran! The energy was incredible. There were spectators the entire way. People that live in the neighborhood and different companies had set up stands with food and entertainment the entire way. There were bands all over the place. Lots of belly dancing (we all could have done without that!) and tons and tons of great energy! My mom and dad had taken off a the beginning and I spent the entire time trying to catch up to them. I finally caught my dad about mile 3. But my mom ended up finishing about a minute before me! It was easily my fastest 10k ever. I ran about an 8:45 the entire time! Through the hills and the heat and the elevation. That was huge for me! Kyle did AMAZING! He had never ran 6 miles before and he rocked it. Everyone did so well. The race finished in the University of Colorado stadium, and let me tell you that was the coolest thing ever. Thousands of people cheering you on and big loud music! You had to run almost all the way around it to the finish line and I was sprinting. I felt like I could fly! It was such a huge high. I ran into my mom right after I crossed and then every few minutes someone else would cross and we all met up at the top of the stadium. What an incredible experience! We were all saying that we have to come back and do it again!
All of us at the starting line
Me and my mom at the finish line!
All of us at the top of the stadium!
It was the perfect end to the perfect weekend. It was the best possible way to say good bye to Colorado. What a perfect beautiful place we were blessed to live in!
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