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WE INTERRUPT OUR COLORADO RECAP FOR TWO VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGES:

Hi, I'm Liam. Yesterday, I turned three!

Hi, I'm Dash. Yesterday, I turned three!

Let's see a little more of Birthday Boy Liam:

Now let's see some more of Birthday Boy Dash:

Love you two, happy birthday!

Cuter than Cute

Pike's Peak

The reason we could spend a little while in Colorado was because Sean had a couple weeks off to do research. He decided to test a new device that measures cerebral oxygenation at various altitude levels. Which required a trip up Pikes Peak. Oh my gosh, Liam and Dash's expression were priceless in everyone of their pictures.

It's almost an hour's drive to the mountain, followed by an hour up the mountain, so we took a little break in the middle. MY KIDS ARE SO CUTE.

Look how high we were! And we're not even to the top yet. I'm very glad it was Sean doing the driving- some of those hairpin turns, yikes!

On the peak and it's COLD. That wind just whipped right through you.

They are SO happy to be out there. No, their favorite place was in the store.

When we first arrived, I stayed in the car to feed Grey. When we ventured out to find the rest of the family, oh man, Grey did not like that wind. I was concentrating so much on keeping Grey wrapped up, I couldn't even find the store's entrance, so we just stayed in the car.

Liam and Dash came back to the car too and Sean went back out to see the sights. I wonder how many miles away is that horizon.

Purple Mountain's majesty indeed.

At least we all got some donuts. They're a special high altitude recipe or something. I've been up the peak once before, with my parents. We had only been in the state a day or two before we went up, so the altitude was getting to each of us. I remember we were heading back to the car, all feeling woozy and gross, when my dad whipped back around to go get another batch of donuts. They were that good.

Reception

There was a little luncheon after the sealing, then a couple hours before the reception began. Gotta pass the time somehow.

Grandpas have the best faces to photograph.

Except husbands are even more best. Just so handsome.

Sean snapped this of his Grandma and she was bothered by it until we showed her the photo and she said, "oh, that is good." :)

This guy is cousin Mike. Really, he's my kids' first cousin once removed. Liam and Dash called him Michael. And they thought he was the coolest. Probably because he was always making cool explosive sounds while ramming cars together and jumping off the pool table.

I think Mike liked all the kiddos, too.

The decorations were fantastic. A church gym is hard to transform, but it was done!

I think weddings have become infinitely cuter thanks to Pinterest. Oh how I wish there was Pinterest when I got hitched.

Behold, the cake. Isn't it lovely?

That flower, beautiful!

They also had a photobooth where Austin took poloroid-like photos of all the guests which were then put into a fabulous scrapbook. Aunt Michelle for the win!

And Aunt Michelle for the baby watching. It was so helpful to have people help out with Grey, I didn't have to worry about him the whole time I was photographing. (which I was doing for my own amusement, really. Since she had the photobooth, she said, "just take photos if you want." Several hundred pictures later...)

This water dispenser kept Liam and Dash busy at least 50% of the time. I don't know how many cups they filled or how many they drank (or how much they spilled) but it kept them happy.

Also, bubbles.

Worked on him.

And worked on him.

Remember the cake? It was smashed. Into faces.

And then, I left. With the kids. Grey had fallen asleep a little bit (around his typical bedtime) and woken up mad. Mad mad mad. So after Dash and Liam had their cake, the four of us headed home for bedtime while Sean took the photographic helm.

And apparently the reception turned Monopoly themed.

It's an epidemic!

Bradley Boys.

And off they went in their wonderfully decorated car. Nice job bridesmaids!

What a great great day!