Back in Tucson!

Much has happened in the last year+ of our lives. Most importantly, we welcomed our daughter into the world. 

Flash forward 9 months and here we are. We have relocated ourselves back to Tucson to be closer to family. The "Tucson Travelers" are back in Tucson!

Our priorities and goals shifted with this little beauty! While we are back in T-Town we plan to take many trips down to Mexico. We also have a few day trips around Tucson we would like to cross off our list. I will try to begin posting our outings and adventures again as we take them!

Here is a little peak at our daughters first trip down to Puerto Penasco. We will be heading back this week so stay tuned for more adventures in the near future. 

Zion Adventure

Mid April the husband and I decided to head down to St. George and Zion for the weekend. It was my first time to both locations so I was super excited about this adventure! As you may have read in my last post, we are expecting, so this was also my first big adventure as a pregnant woman. I was just entering the second trimester and am learning new things about being pregnant daily. The big one I learned on this trip is you start to loose your breath long before the weight is put on. The first set of stairs I climbed had me gasping for air! That being said, we stuck with some short and basic hikes while in Zion. Luckily, it was enough to keep us busy all day and we were still able to get some pretty awesome views. 

The most exciting view was from Canyon Overlook Trail. It was a pretty short hike (about an hour round trip) and not very strenuous. The best part was that I finally got to take the picture I had been planning out in my head. We used this as our baby announcement with friends on Facebook. 

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Awesome view! Shane got a little spooked when he said I got too close to the edge.. I was a good five feet away but he wasn't into it! Haha I don't blame him. It looked like a pretty intense drop down from the view point.

Fun little bridge to cross over on Canyon Overlook Trail.

Weeping Rock

Enjoying the view

More weeping rock

Tree over the trail

Riverside walk.. we really enjoyed exploring along the river

Beautiful View

Making friends with furry caterpillars

Always an adventure with this guy

As always :)

Touched the water and it was freezing. We plan to go back again in a warmer month (this was April).

Crazy to think people climb these every day!

Zion is great because it has a Bus that takes you to the different trail heads and stops. It's a nice little Air Conditioned break from the sun!

We also made a pit stop by Snow Canyon State Park. They had some pretty awesome Sand Dunes that we were not expecting to see.

It was super soft and beach like so we kicked off our shoes and took a stroll.

Prefect end to a pretty awesome day. Until next time!

Wedding Time

Planning a wedding was a challenge for me. I am not a big party planner to begin with. We decided to go to our friends and family instead of making them all come to us. We planned to have our wedding in Florida and a mini wedding in Tucson a few days later. We went with a low key small event in both locations and were very pleased with the outcome. 

Florida Wedding- December 21st

I had my hair done by a local salon and had my friends do my makeup

With my Mom! We actually got married on the same property she was married on just a few years ago! Like mother, like daughter.

The property is owned by a friend of hers. I think they are looking into making it into an actual wedding venue in the near future. Her daughter catered our wedding and owns a local company called Sweets' Bakehouse. They are such a wonderful family and I would recommend them to anyone.

Walking with my Dad

The ceremony

We wrote our own vows.

My turn

The rings

Becoming husband and wife

Husband and Wife

Just a little bit of the family

The brothers!

My wonderful friend Kim pulled everything off so wonderfully. 

Thank goodness I had her help on this!

Guest book

About to eat lunch with family and friends

We had our mom's sign the marriage license

With my Lovely Ladies

Shane and his best buddy, Tom. He came out from Arizona to perform our ceremony in Florida.

Arizona Wedding

We decided to have our little Arizona wedding/reception at the same church when his mother and father renewed their vows. We thought it made for a good location. 

My friend Jimmie took a few photos for us. I am not going to overload but here are a few of her works of art! She is very talented. If you need a photographer in Tucson check out 3 of 3 Photography.

Bride life. Shane's sister did my hair and makeup.

In the Desert!

Rings and things

Shane's mom actually planned and put together the whole Tucson event. She catered and decorated everything. She even ordered some cute custom chocolates to put out. 

My heart in Tucson

Our Tucson Family.

We could not have made our traveling wedding adventure possible without all of the help we received from friends and family. We felt so blessed to have so many hands on board to make this adventure a reality. Now we are on to our next great adventure... Life as a married couple. We closed on a town home a few weeks ago and are excited to announce we are expecting an addition to our family this Fall. 

That should catch us up to present day!