Colorado was wonderful. Boy was it nice to be back. Back to old friends, the mountains, and to be involved in one of my closest friends marriage. The whole family traveled to CO last week. I am going to try to summarize the trip so as not to be up all night!
Neither Pete nor Jamie slept all the way there, or all the way home. In fact, Jamie didn't sleep the whole first day we traveled and were in CO. Yikes. Pete took a snoozer in the car on the way down to Colorado Springs from the Denver airport. Nice.
Pete and his toys, I mean, distractions. Good for a while, not 2 1/2 hours.
Pete always gets to sit in the pilots seat and play with the controls. They see him, he says hi, and they invite him up. Here touch this, move this, push this button. It's so weird they let him, want him, to do that. 
The first day we arrived, settled into our friends house that we were staying with, then saw my long time friend Beth and her family for dinner that night. Let's just say I have a few extra pounds now to exercise off. We were fed so well! Like Kings and Queens. I loved every minute of it. 
P. and Jamie early the first morning sitting on our friend's beautiful deck overlooking Pikes Peak. 
During the week P. worked on some of our houses, Erin and I had lunch, we visited the Navigators and spent a lot of time at the house to make sure the kids got their naps. Didn't always work but we had to try.Erin meeting Jamie for the first time.
Dinner at the White's house.
Hanging out with the Bradleys. Boy do we miss all our friends. And we have such wonderful friends there. 
Thursday the bridesmaids and Erin had a spa day. We had a treatment ourselves and treated Erin to a wedding pedicure and manicure. Boy was it fun to spend a day with just some girls, girl talk and doing girl stuff. 
The bridesmaids at the rehearsal. We had so much fun together even though we had never met. The rehearsal went smoothly and we were well prepared for the next day.
Rehearsal dinner at the Sunbird restaurant. What a wonderful, fun night. 
Erin and I on her last night as a single lady.
Getting our hair and makeup done at the salon on wedding morning. 
Getting ready for the big moment. I am so happy for my beautiful friend. She deserves all the happiness in the world. 
Getting hitched. The wedding was perfect and the reception was a lot of fun. I was so proud to stand up for her in front of all of her family and friends and watch her marry Jeremy. What a beautiful day in every way.
We squeezed a lot of things into the last couple of days. We saw more friends, went to Garden of the Gods and had to get ourselves back up to Denver to fly out on Sunday. Besides the wedding one of my favorite memories was taking the kids to Garden of the Gods. It is one of my favorite places in the world but sharing it with my kids made it even better. 
My little rock climber.
And another view from the back deck. I never get tired of these mountains. 
And here we are waiting for our flight home. Again, no one slept and it was frustrating but that's just my kids. And even though they don't sleep, they are so good. You would never know it. We got home really late and I am pretty sure we are still not back on a schedule of any sort yet. But that's ok. 
We were blessed to be able to go to Colorado and blessed to be part of Erin's wedding. We are blessed by all the friends we still have there after being away for 5 years. We are so thankful for our friends who let us stay with them all week and put up with our noise and mess. And to all our friends who had us over, fed us, took us out to eat and gave us sweet, thoughtful gifts. Colorado is where I met my husband and now we have a wonderful life with two wonderful children. And it's not a bad place to visit every once in a while. Update: Pete didn't need stitches, needs to be on a liquid diet for 2 days and will need pain meds so administer as needed. Gotta love emergency rooms. All that info 4 hours later. Goodnight.
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