…but we have Fishin’! That is kind of crafty, in a way, sort of, right? Nah…well, it is the excuse I have for no finished projects again this weekend. We traveled to Denver for J.’s cousin’s wedding.

The girls were amazing troopers since we got up at 4:30am on Saturday morning to catch a flight. Spent all of Saturday exploring Boulder and having dinner with family and were back up and on our way to Estes Park for the wedding by 9am on Sunday.

(Yes, we had to do a little creative double-buckling to fit us all in the car! Shhh…you didn’t see that!)

Anyhoo, Colorado is so beautiful. I think I could totally live there someday.

And the wedding was incredibly beautiful, too.

But it was in a bit of a fishbowl, so it was really windy. Uncle Jeff had to loan Addie a hoodie…

And Daddy found a jacket for Em….

After the wedding we had a few hours to kill and we found this little trout farm and the girls really wanted to learn to fish. So Daddy and Uncle Jeff, in their wedding attire, helped the girls experience fishing for the first time.

Em got really good at casting…

And got close to the worms…

But Addie landed the first fish (with a lot of help from Uncle Jeff!)…

How big was your fish, Ad?…

Exaggerated like a true fisherman, it was a bit smaller….

Finally Gracie snagged one, too…

She was less enamored with the fish once they were on dry land…

And then…I expected some tears when they started cleaning them. I heard Addie say to the guy at the fish counter, “Don’t hurt the fish!”

But neither of them budged while they conked the fish on the head and gutted them. And we haven’t had any nightmares, so I guess my city girls still have a little country blood in them.

After our tough day of fishing, we bellied up to the bar and swapped fishin’ stories…

Stopped by the rest of the party…

Tried for one family photo documenting us all dressed up – and this is what I got at the end of long weekend, on our way back to the airport…

And that is how you do Colorado, a wedding, a fishing expedition, and a reception in 48 hours. In case you were wondering.