Tennyson/TJay Wedding

We traveled up North on I-25 for Tennyson's wedding in Sheridan, Wyoming. TJay is an avid golfer and had planned a golf tornament the day of the wedding, but unfortunately the weather did not cooperate. Kerri, Emily, and I toured around the small town instead.

With the weather at 40 degrees and rainy, Tennyson and TJay were forced to host the wedding under a tent. Tennyson looked beatiful & didn't appear to be affected by the cold weather. It's too bad we didn't get to see the Powder Horn Mountain Range, but everyone had a great time at the wedding and made the best of it.

Colorado Relay

Here is Greg leading us off on the First Leg

Derek ready to run! !
My team Blister Blasters competed in this years Colorado Relay, and ended up WINNING by over 1.5 hours.
This relay consist of 170 miles, 10 runners, 2 vans, 2 volunteers and no sleep.
The route goes from Idaho Springs to Gleenwood Springs.

Start times are based on how fast your team 10k times average are. If you are not very fast at all your start time is 5am, but if most of your team is able to run a faster time you are able to start later in the day. My team consisted of faster runners, so we were able to start at the last wave at 10am.

As it turns out we could have started the relay even later, because we ended up finishing at 5:40am the next day.
Here is Ben doing the last minute details for the relay. Every team needs a sign on the back of van that says "Caution - Runners on Road"






Ben getting ready to run down Guanella Pass.





Andy running up Guanella Pass

Crested Butte

Kerri's friend Elisabeth flew into town from California. The day she arrived, the four of us headed up to Red Rocks for a hike (inluding Punto). The weather was nice and the food & margs at The Morision Inn were tasty.

The next day we left the house around 10:30 and made our four hour journey to Crested Butte. Once we arrived, we met Ben and Solomon at a coffee house in town. We were all tired of being in a car all day long, so we decided to grab something to eat. After we all had our fill we agreed on a general place to go look for a camping location and as you can see from the picture above we found a great spot near a stream with wonderful views.

If you look past my Explorer you can see the mountian that all of us hiked up. Ben and I originally thought that we would be able to climb this mountain in 45 minutes, but as it turns out the hike took us around 2 hours to get to the top. Kerri, Liz and I hiked while Ben ran all the way to the top.
Punto is ready to go run.

Here is Solomon enjoying the sun.

Wedding Date

Here are some details for those of you who we are lucky to have join us in Cabo.




This date of March 30th is special to me because this date grandma Brenkert's birthday, and close to the date of the Bud and Barbara's Anniversary.


The date of our wedding is going to be Friday, March 30, 2007.


Kerri and I are planning on traveling to Cabo between the dates of March 26 - April 2nd.
The flights are currently around $400 on Frontier Airlines from Denver to Cabo on these dates.

Kerri and I have picked Las Olas as a home base for lodging. If you are interested in staying here, please call or email the contact below to reserve a room. Los Olas is not a hotel, but a condiminium complex with each unit individually owned. This location is on the water and only 20 minutes away from downtown Cabo. There will be transportation provided from Las Olas to the Sunset Da Mona Lisa restaurant on March 30th. Check out Sunset Da Mona Lisa.

The average price to expect to pay per room is:
1 bed - 135/night
2 bed - 225/night
3 bed - 325/night


All rooms have A/C and a full kitchen. If anyone would like to room together the two or three bedroom is an option.

Contact:
Michelle Quimby - ReservationsRobert Quirk owner/brokerCabo Homes And Condos-Las OlasTel:
Toll Free: 1 (866) 321-CABO (2226)
Las Olas Condos

Due to the popularity of this time of year please make your reservations ASAP. We will be staying in Building "B"/ under McCormick/Daniels wedding.

Other information:

As of January 1st, 2007, everyone will need a passport to enter Mexico. This is a recent change, as in the past you could enter with just a birth certificate.

We understand that some people will want to bring their children to Mexico. Please keep in mind that we will not be having children at the ceremony or reception. Our wedding coordinator can recommend babysitters if this need arises.

Other lodging options include:
1) More affordable: The Tropicana Inn. This is a quaint hotel w/ a pool in San Jose Del Cabo (roughly 40 minutes from downtown Cabo & 20 minutes from Las Olas).
2) Less affordable, but absolutely stunning, Fiesta Americana. This resort is along the corridor with Las Olas.

Please feel free to call Kerri or Travis if you have any questions or concerns regarding lodging, flights, whatever.

Cabo Wedding

We have been through a lot trying to decide on where to have our wedding and we have finally made our decision, and the decision is Sunset Da Mona Lisa.

We will have both the ceremony and the reception here at the restaurant.

Looking for Wedding locations in CO

Cabo San Lucas

Imperial Suite
Susan, Nir, Kayla, Ker and I



Rental Beauty







CABO SAN LUCAS

After driving around Cabo for a few days, roughly 300 miles, we pretty much know every wedding location there is in Cabo. We finally chose the Fiesta Americana in the "corridor". This excuisite hotel has a little private villa like room named "TheImperial Suite". Here are some pictures:

The outside shower

Elitches

Kerri and I decieded to go to Elitches for the evening. The day was a little stormy and ended up raining for a couple of hours, but around 7pm the sky cleared up and Kerri and I were on our way to have some fun.

This was probably the best time to go. No lines, great temperature and great people.

We met up with Daffy along the way.

Here we are on the Big Wheel.

City Park

After our trip to the Museum of Nature and Science to see the exhibit, Body Worlds, Kerri and I had a nice walk around City Park. We could not have asked for a more beautiful evening.

EASTER 2006

Today was not just any Easter. I was baptized by my fiance, Kerri. I would say that this day was a very special day for Kerri and I to take part in with my continued apreciation for religion. I was very lucky to have all of my friends and family around to share this moment with me. Of those that were there were; Kerri, Emily, Michelle, Eileen, Mom/Dad, Corey, Chris, Susan, Nir, and baby Kayla.
The church service was at 11:15 and the pastor Ron spoke about the afterlife. After the service, Susie introduced the first person to be baptized, Jacob, then Kim, and then I went third. Kerri was my sponsor ( this is someone that is willing to go up to the baptism pool and ask the question: Do you trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior? I say I do. Kerri then said "Now as your sister in Christ, I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit". Once she said this I went under water, which we later found out represents the buriing of Jesus and as you come up from the water it represents the resurrection.






























After the worship service, my parents, brother, Kerri, Emily, Susan, Nir and Kayla went to have brunch at Le Central. This is a local French restaurant located on 8th and Broadway. We all enjoyed our brunch/lunch and the service was excellent.

















Nir with Kayla:














At Breakfast:

Stanley

For my 28th birthday Kerri surprised me, and took me away for the weekend to The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park. Right away I was intrigued with the idea that this place is really haunted and did my best google matching to find related stories about ghost sightings. I found a lot of hits about this topic and apparently room 407 is the most haunted room in the hotel. I told Kerri that we should request this room, but she wanted nothing to do with that.
We left for Estes Park around 11am on Sat after a nice breakfast and arrived around 12. We were a little bit early for our 4pm check in, so we drove around looking for a place to go hike and I saw this neat mountain that looked like it needed some climbers, so that's what we did.
After hiking we tried to study a little bit by St. Mary's Lake, but it was a little bit too windy for reading, so we headed into town. Kerri bought a gift for her friend that is 3 picture frames hooked together by a string. I bought some Keen sandals which were half off and feel great. We then ate some lunch at Subway and finally made our way to the Stanley Hotel.


The Stanley hotel is very impressive to look at and sits up on a hill side above the town with the famous red roof and white paint. Once we found our way to the entrance we checked into our room 312 and waited for a wedding coordinator to show us around (just in case Mexico doesn't work out). The lady that we spoke to was very nice and informative. The first room that we looked at would be able to hold around 300 people, this is where Kerri's friend Jenny had her reception.
The next room that she took us to was a little bit smaller and has a capacity of 150 people.

After our grand tour of the hotel, we made our way to the work out center downstairs to do a little cardio and lift some weights. This is a very updated gym with all of the latest equipment.

After working out we had to decide on where to eat dinner. We first looked at the menu at the Stanley and noticed that the prices were around 35 a plate, so we asked where some alternatives would be, and a server told us that one of Stanley's good friends decided to build a hotel directly across the town after the two got in a big argument and Stanley's friend said that he could build a better hotel. Anyway the server directed us to that hotel, but when we arrived there we found out that the hotel was hosting a function called fools in love, and kept trying to sell Kerri tickets to the event, but all Kerri wanted to know is if they were serving dinner.
When we finally found out that they were not serving dinner we were then directed to another place called Twin Owls Lodge. Once there we had a wonderful dinner. Kerri and I split a steak and a bottle of wine + cheese cake Yum.
That night was definitely a Stanley experience. Both Kerri and I went to sleep around 11pm and around 2am we were both wide awake b/c with the window open the ferocious winds were making our door bang, the windows were making sounds like they were going to break, and right when Kerri was about to close the window we both heard a sound like a moaning sound coming from outside. We were both freaked out, but once we closed the window and turned on the fan we both felt a little better, and were finally able to get to sleep.

The next morning we had a nice breakfast at a local diner, bought a kite at a flee market, and went for a nice hike. The kite did not hold up too well because the wind was still so strong.