A Virginia Weding

I had the opportunity to go to my Dad's cousin's wedding in gorgeous Virginia; without my children.
Granted, I had to leave my husband at home too.  I missed him more than I missed the chaos of the three little ones.
I have lived in Colorado for over 10 years now and I adore Colorado. But after seeing Virginia in the fall, I think I have a State mistress.

It was stunning! And the wedding was set inside of a poster.

Groom's Step Mother, The Groom, Me & Mom

I even had the opportunity to go on a date with my Daddy.
Wine tasting at the adorable Unicorn Winery.

Yep! Wine slushies, and they were DELICIOUS. Of course!

The rehearsal dinner was delish (of course) and it was nice to have "adult time" with my parents.

The wedding was stunning and I was so excited to have a reason to get dolled up.

The stunning bride!

My adorable parents.

I might just post a tutorial on how I did my hair.

Looks like we were photo bombed. 

But I love to dance. And dance, I did.

I have decided I look quite odd when I dance.

And with that my dreams of being on So You Think You Can Dance were destroyed.

Fun, none the less.

Kansas City

We traveled to Kansas City for a quick little visit.

We spent a few nights in Colorado Springs visiting my family.

We got home and I spent the day cleaning and packing up…again.

Then headed out for our 9 hour drive to Kansas City for a little family reunion to celebrate James' uncle's 60th birthday party.

It was so fun!

They live on a lake and have the most amazing backyard.
This is their back yard.

This diving board is actually really high, Micah was a champ and went off the board over, and over again the first night. But wouldn't have anything to do it the second day. 

See….looking a little timid.

Fearless.

 How gorgeous is their dock?
And that man?

There was even a kiddie pool on the pontoon boat.

Did you catch that?
Grandma drinking a beer.
I love it!

This is exactly what the weekend looked like.
Just a lot of floating.

So much fun! But we were so happy to be  home. Finally!

And now that summer is coming to an end, it was a perfect way to wrap things up!
I am truly blessed to have great family surrounding me!

Breckenridge

We needed a getaway….badly.
James and I hadn't been on a vacation {just the two of us} since Micah was 6 months old. That was June of 2009.

My parents own a timeshare in Breckenridge, CO and we booked it for an entire week for only $169!
Three of the days my parents and my sister watched the kids for us.
Yes…3 days and nights alone!

We slept in.
We ate out.
We laid by the pool and sipped on frilly drinks.

Our gorgeous mountain views….poolside!

We played sudoku on the kindle…in peace and quite!
We even watched about 2 movies a day.

Bliss.

Then the crew joined us for the remaining 4 days of the rental.
Let the chaos commence.

 Ella doesn't like to share.

My brothers "vintage" lego box saved our sanity.

Our ad for apple juice.
It was HOT even in the mountains.
We had taken the kids to a little fun park, and got suckered into paying $18 to let the two boys jump in a bouncy house. We made them jump for 45 minutes so we didn't feel guilty about paying that much!

I taught Ella how to lounge.

Watching her brothers swim (constantly).

My lady bug loves her water!

Movie night….somebody loves popcorn. {No, she's nothing like me}

Pizza at Fatty's. {That's how I felt when we got home}

{No..the sun wasn't shiny RIGHT in our eyes…}

And the most fun we had was on a Chuck Wagon Dinner.

Of course we were the last to arrive so we had to wait for our wagon to make the trip back up the hill.
But it was worth the wait because we were the only ones to ride it!

Pictures do not do these mountain views justice.

The kids had SO much fun and the food was delicious.
The show was hilarious and really interactive.
Worth every cent for the ticket price.

What a great trip. We only left a day early because Ella is the worst sleeper ever.
But other than that…AMAZING trip.