~Dancing Through Life~ - Colorado Trip - The sing-along and the grill

Thursday, July 24, 2008 - Colorado Trip - The sing-along and the grill

The day after we arrived in Estes Park, the rest of the family showed up - there were 20 people altogether, including our family.

With our family no occasion, whether it's Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, or a random get-together, is complete without a sing-along. We had two of these during our week together. I started us off for the first one with my rendition of Beauty and the Beast.

After I finished showing off, we picked songs from the songbooks Mom made (and they were wonderful Mommy!!) We had everything from well-known camp songs like You Are My Sunshine, and She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain, to classics such as Dixie, Singing In the Rain, and When It's Roundup Time in Texas! Well, ok, perhaps these are only classics for our family, but we all had a lot of fun!!!

Everyone singing - from left to right we have Allie, Katie, Greta, Aunt Ann, Rachel, Addie (behind Rachel)Aunt Wendy behind the lamp, Uncle Jürgen, Uncle Chris, Papa and Nana! And this is only half the room!

Now in this picture, form left to right we have Tom (playing the piano) Rebekah, me, Aunt Jen, and then Allie and Katie again. As usual, Mom was taking the pictures.

Here we have the younger generation - Rachel is the oldest, Christopher (in the next picture) is the youngest. They're all sitting with Aunt Ann

Christopher, (with his daddy and mommy) getting his dinner before the sing-along.

Each family had a night to do dinner for everyone else. Aunt Ann and Uncle Jürgen opted for the outdoor BBQ!

Here we have Uncle Kent and Aunt Nicole on the left and as for everyone else... you can figure them out yourself. Tom's the one with the camera.

Can't miss him.

Here we have the cutest 3 year old twins on the face of the earth - Greta and Addie!! Addie had just gotten a very cool lip gloss that she kept smearing all over her lips... after all, what else are you supposed to do about chapped lips in that dry Colorado heat?

Here are Addie and Greta's dad and mom.

Daddy and Rebekah... Rebekah was probably just teased about something. She has that 'I'll look decent for the camera, but I'm seething inside' look.

Me...

That's it for today.. tune in tomorrow for the infamous hike pictures and story... where we lost a member of our family for an hour and a half in the Rocky Mountain National Park!!!

Cheers!

Sarah Beth

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