Rocky Mountain Molly

Well I've been slacking in the blog department, but I have an excuse; we've been out of town since Thursday. Molly had her first road trip and boy was it a doozy! We drove to Salida, CO for my brother's wedding. It's about a 14 hour drive one way, not counting the frequent stops one has to make when traveling with a 3 month old. Molly wasn't too keen on spending that amount of time in her car seat, she really only has two states of being while she's in it, pissed or asleep. The good news of course was that the time spent out of the car seat was golden. We ate at fast food joints, even went to a grocery store and a sweltering outdoor mall without incident...she was just grateful to not be in her torture chamber.

The weekend was great, the weather was awesome and the wedding was beautiful. Molly seemed glad to be getting a new auntie (aunt Stephanie) and kept quiet during the wedding. I know I mentioned the wedding was beautiful but seriously, Colorado is so amazing and the location in a pasture with great views of the surrounding mountains was just perfect. I also enjoyed their vows here's just a selection: Chris: "I promise to love when you're right, and when you think you're right" Stephanie: "I love you for your philosophical mind, and in spite of your philosophical mind" also perfect. We we are glad to have Stephanie officially in the family and we are all eagerly awaiting the Moore-Young quadruplets! hahaha!

On Sunday I had a great birthday which involved awesome walks with Molly and Jonny that didn't end with us all in a exhausted sweating ball on the floor. That evening my family surprised me with a birthday cake and a hearty singing of "Happy Birthday". I even blew out all 29 candles. I owe a great big thanks to everyone for making my birthday so special.

To finish out the blog, I thought I would share two of my favorite stories from the weekend:

Chris and Stephanie's friends who hosted the wedding have a little boy named Sage. At one point during the reception, I was in their bedroom nursing Molly. Suddenly the door bursts open (I'm covered so I'm not overly concerned) and in walks Sage. He sees me but isn't really phased, so he walks right on over to their bathroom where his potty is waiting for him, strips and then does his business. Then, without putting his pants back on, he picks up his potty and takes it out of the room with a big smile on his face. I guess he then went to show everyone what a good job he had done, too funny.

Here are Molly and the champion of the potty, Sage.

The next story was from today on our way home. We had stopped in Gila Bend at McDonald's to give Molly a break and right after we ordered, a bus load of teenage boys showed up. A group of them sat down by us and immediately started in with the annoying teenage chatter such as the douche on the bus who was reading a book (he had never even finished a book before) a girl with fat tits (or possibly phat tits, I missed the context) and my favorite, a girl who was sexy except that she was missing a tooth. I'm not making this up. So amidst all their chatter I hear one of them talking about about beautiful baby eyes and I realize that he's talking about Molly. I turned around and he repeated to me that my baby has beautiful eyes. He's right of course, but I know it must be true if a teenage boy notices...this probably means future trouble for us, better oil up Jonny's shot gun!

Here are Molly and Jonny enjoying the scenery and great weather before the wedding. I'll probably do a quick post with more wedding pictures soon since I haven't seen my Mom's pictures yet. Mom probably has some good Molly shots since she finds everything that Molly does absolutely adorable, so stay tuned for more exciting Molly Mac!