What We Wore: Denver For A Day

04/30/2012

What We Wore: Denver For A Day

What's cooler than exploring a new city on the perfect sunny day? Doing it with your favorite people in the world!

That's exactly what our family did last Friday to celebrate Brett's 31st birthday. We have a history of travel/shopping birthdays for Brett.

There was San Francisco in 2008 where we visited the Alameda Flea Market, Rare Device, and a few other fun handmade shops.

April 2009 I was in my first trimester with Ruby so there is no documentation of Brett's birthday and I can't remember for the life of me what we did! Sorry, Brett.

In April 2010 we took a surprise day trip to Arkansas to pick up his birthday present, a Vespa!

April 2011 was a weekend trip to Oklahoma City where we got to enjoy a whole day of exploring by ourselves while my parents watched the kids. It was AMAZING.

This year we made some more fun memories thanks to everyone's suggestions on Twitter and on the blog. If you're planning a trip or just haven't been out in awhile, check the comments in this post!

We were planning on staying overnight before we realized we were so close to home that we could easily enjoy a full day and still get back to our own beds. Staying in hotels is not quite as fun or relaxing with children who won't go to sleep unless you do too. Hehe.

Outfit Details: Dress, Target three years ago. Flats c/o Blowfish. Belt, thrifted. Satchel, ModCloth (similar to this). Wooden glasses c/o Tumbleweeds. Top locket c/o Gleeful Peacock. Middle locket, vintage and thrifted. Bottom locket designed by Elsie for ModCloth (gifted).

Ruby's wearing: Vintage dress, traded. Too small shoes from Target that totally fit in the store. Wooden sunglasses c/o Tumbleweeds.

Sebastian's wearing: Thrifted shirt, gifted shorts, shoes from Target that I let him pick out. He's ready for a summer in Colorado, for sure!

Brett said it was the best birthday he's ever had. I think it had more to do with Sebastian and Ruby being exceptionally sweet to him than all the browsing on Broadway and Colfax. Sebastian's presents to him included a Yoda birthday card, two chocolate pudding cups, and as many turns playing his Lego Star Wars video game as he wants. Like, twenty turns. Talk about thoughtful!

Trips to two record stores wasn't bad, either.

I plan on sharing all the places we managed to fit in in another post with lots of Instagram photos for anyone who'd like to do their own exploring. Thanks for all of Brett's birthday wishes on Instagram last Thursday!

-Rachel

Apr 30, 2012 11:20:33 AM | family, fashion, kids, vintage, wardrobe

15 Comments

This is so cute! It looks like you all had a lot of fun and I love how fashionable, fun and happy everyone looks. Seriously, I gasped with a "Oh, how cute!" when I saw these photos.

Looks like Brett's birthday was a success. :)

Have a great day,
Currie

Posted by: Currie Rose | 04/30/2012 at 11:34 AM

that first pic of ruby is awesome, and you look beautiful! sounds like a lovely day... the perfect day!

Posted by: sarah jane | 04/30/2012 at 11:35 AM

cute mommy!

Posted by: Jessica | 04/30/2012 at 11:50 AM

Haha your kids are totally the coolest!! & you are beautiful, Rachel! You guys look like you had such a great day together! :) Perfect!

Posted by: Holly | 04/30/2012 at 12:14 PM

you guys are so adorable! ruby is growing so fast!!!!!!! happy birthday, brett!!!!

Posted by: jenny | 04/30/2012 at 12:36 PM

Look like you had an amazing time :)
Love the outfit choices too
Jen@madeinminch

Posted by: Jen@madeinminch | 04/30/2012 at 02:49 PM

That looks like so much fun! Happy birthday to Brett! Do you know, I actually live in Alameda and still have not made it to the flea market here?! how is that possible, right?

Posted by: jodi | 04/30/2012 at 05:56 PM

I am from Denver and it makes me so excited to here a blogger I love talk about it! Did you hit up Buffalo Exchange? If not, you better get to it! We have two and they are awesome (most of the time)! Fun fun!

Posted by: Aly F.C. | 04/30/2012 at 07:55 PM