Living the Dream: DAY 3...Yosemite.....Pictures, Big trees and Rehearsal

Again, with the waking up at 5:30 am.

What in the world????? Today, Kip and Brandon are going to go on a photo shoot with Tyler and Ashley Herrinton, the photographers we have summoned from Virginia. Kip met Ashley on the World Race a couple of years back, and we (notice how I include myself in this) have stayed in touch, and Ashley married Tyler a while back, and we all have been soooo super impressed with Tyler's photography herrintonweddings.com that it was a NO brainer asking them to come and snap the big event.

My kids braving the cold for the view

Lacey wasn't about to be left out of one more thing, so she and Tyler got up out of bed, and left with the couple at 6 am, as they hit the road to take some fantastical engagement pictures.

Lacey took some pictures too.... I always love to see the Behind the Scene pictures my crazy daughter takes...... so very wonderfully funny.


Now, wait, HOW are we supposed to stand??

The upside to being up at 6 am on a Sunday is one is able to stand in front of the tunnel view road and take a picture. Normally that road is filled with buses full of Asian people that want selfies.

Oh so very beautiful. I love that Lacey got some of the photographer, taking photography pictures.

This didn't happen that morning, but I ADORE this picture of the rock you have to drive through if one comes in the CORRECT way into the park. I never saw this rock until I was leaving, following people who knew where to drive. It was very very cool.

We had to take one of "these" since Lacey missed the picture taking on Saturday.

I think this should be in a magazine selling deodorant or "Find Love in Yosemite" campaign. They could be rich.

Or how about this suave, dapper fellow? Male model material all the way, don't you think??

Tyler H. was absolutely committed to getting the very best shot, even laying down in the extremely WET grass to make sure that every angle was covered. He is magnificent.

The photographers weren't above showing the short bus couple how to pose in slightly awkward poses that look really great when caught on film. This pic was one of my favorites too.

I think they liked the kissing pictures the best.

BUT, I think my favorite one was this one, though..... So totally them, no touching of foreheads, no awkward poses, just Brandon and his Kip.

And Lacey behind the photographers, grabbing another great picture...

What great fun!!!

They got back to the Cabin about 10:30, and the Halls and their new daughter, Hallie Hall,

were packed up and ready to head to the hills to hike and hike and hike. Brandon threw on his hiking shoes, and so did Tyler, so Hallie was in heaven, had both of her brother in laws, in tow.

If you look really close, you can see three little dots waving from the bottom of the falls. That's them. Yep. I'm glad she has boys to go do things with, she would have NEVER talked any of her sisters, or me into doing that.

On the home front, Lacey drove us over to the Mariposa Grove, so we could look at some big dang trees.

Now that is a tree when you stack 8 people in front of it, and you don't even cover up the bottom. (And thanks to the random man that volunteered to take our picture)

The grandmas were convinced this was a handicapped sign, and none of us wanted them to know any different, so we just let them think what they wanted. They thought they were really funny, posing by the hiking trail "Handicapped" sign.

This represents about a 12 foot ARM spread of girls to show how magnificently huge these babies were!

This picture is captioned "I just wanted to hug my sister who is getting married, in front of a big ole tree"

Hallie had a lot of fun that evening, picking up Kip and showing us how strong she was...

Kip tried to return the favor, and almost dropped her younger, larger sister on the floor.

Here are the moms, just doin what they do....

Then Hallie decided she needed to carry Lacey around.

They were all super cute in their tshirts Kip made for them.....

And we practiced the ceremony a couple of times....just a run through, so we would all know where to sit and such....