My dear friends Nate and Julie had a baby months ago! They live in Arizona. I had planned to go down for the baby blessing, but do to a change in our family vacation I was not able to go. I was SO excited to plan this trip with some of my closest friends from college.
We left Thursday early evening and drove to Vegas where we spent the night and left early the next morning for Phoenix. It was so fun to see Nate, Julie and sweet baby Cal! Friday was spent catching up and playing some Xbox kinect. Nate and Julie also treated us to a great BBQ. It was amazing to sleep the entire night! I had no kids of my own with me and I didn't hear Cal at all! What a good baby he is!
Saturday we spent the morning eating Julie's AMAZING breakfast and hanging out before heading out for some shopping, dinner and stopping at the ever amazing Tempe Town Lake.
Michael and Al at dinner.
Al and Ash at Tempe Town Lake. The first place we went was so NOT impressive. When we went to the other side it was much more attractive. Too bad it was SO COLD!!
Isn't he the sweetest!?! Ash with Cal right before he had a BLOWOUT!! Way to welcome Ashley to parenthood Cal!
Sunday we went to church (experienced one of the weirdest sacrament meeting talk moments also) and then headed back to Nate and Julies to pack and bid them farewell.
From there we took off and headed to the Grand Canyon where we camped for the night. BRRRRR!!!!
Sunday was Michaels birthday also. We stopped on our way to the Grand Canyon and ate at Salsa Brava on Route 66. Pretty good food!
For some reason I just imagined the Grand Canyon to be very warm. This was NOT the case! There was snow on the ground where we camped. I perhaps slept about 3 hours that night. It was so freezing and my back was not agreeing with a thin camping pad.
The Grand Canyon sure was GRAND.
The watch tower.
It's amazing to think that tiny river was the cause of all of this!
Sweet Al, my date for the trip!
This trip was SO needed for me. I adored being Becky for a weekend! I read like I haven't read in years. I relaxed and didn't worry about anything. It was so much fun to laugh and talk about lots of great college memories. I loved listening to the Format in the car and feeling like we were back in time 7 years.
I feel so grateful to have the friends I do. They make me laugh. We are all very different people, yet it just works. They accept me for who I am. I am so grateful for the people they married and how well they fit into everything.
Thank you Nate and Julie for housing us and letting us take up one of your weekends. Thank you for letting me hold your sweet little guy! Thank you for being you and for being so sweet (Julie) and for being so Nate (Nate).
And it was so exciting to come back to these sweet faces! I sure do LOVE these kids! They make me SO happy!!
I am so lucky to have the family I do. My parents, KC's mom, and my sister all helped out and watched my kids!
Thanks so much to the sweetest, SWEETEST husband EVER! He stepped it up and went above and beyond to make this trip possible for me. I sure do LOVE that man!!!
