Wedding Festivities

I finally thought it was time to post some pics from the wedding.  Steve and I had the best time we could imagine and can hardly believe all the fun and fun stories that resulted from the wedding!  Thank you to all of our family and friends for making our wedding so special.  I could post millions of pictures but I think these will give a broad representation of the fun from rehearsal dinner through the wedding.  All of these are pictures that we got from our lovely friends and family (thank you all).  I will post professional pics soon.  Enjoy!


Pedicures prior to the rehearsal

Rehearsal/ Rehearsal Dinner

Bonfire after the rehearsal dinner

Getting Ready

Boys getting ready

The ceremony

What a wonderful disaster my flower girls were.  Couldn't have been cuter or more real!

Walking down with my dad

My beautiful bridesmaids

The handsome groomsmen

Russ singing!

First Kiss!

Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey

The Reception

First Dance

Honeymoon pics and professional photos will be up soon!

Summer Hikes

Steve and have made an effort to dust off our hiking skills and build our quad muscles.  We first headed up to Tiger Mountain and did the West Tiger #3 hike which was about 6 miles round trip and VERY high.  It was a tough hike with no reveal at the end so we were a bit disappointed.

Next we headed up to Whistler where the weather was a bit disappointing since it rained the majority of the weekend BUT we were able to get out for a beautiful hike!  We hiked to Garabaldi Lake.  It was a fabulous hike and beautiful!  I definitely recommend it.  It was 18+km round trip, maybe a little long for our liking but the views were phenomenal.  Enjoy the pictures!

Ballard Locks

Steve and I thought it would be fun to explore some of the sites in Seattle that one or both of us has never been, we started this off with a trip to the Ballard Locks (I had never been).  Steve gave me a lesson on how it all worked and we watched it put into action as many boats passed through on a very sunny day.  Then we walked over to the fish ladder and encouraged the salmons to make their journey into the lake from Puget Sound.  Enjoy pictures below!