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This summer's been great so far...I went to Arizona last week and it was so much fun...I took a ton of pictures for everyone to see too! Josh's oldest brother Neil got married to Kelly and the whole family went down there for it. It was so much fun and I definitely never wanted it to end! I got so much closer to Lizzy, Dawn, and Kelly and I can't wait to marry Josh now. It was definitely a week that I'm never going to forget. Getting to meet all of Kelly's family was great too, her dad is awesome and I loved meeting Meg, her maid of honor. We talked a lot and are keeping in touch which is so cool cause she's friggin awesome! For the most part we just sat around the pool all day hanging out with the younger kids and then at night we would sit outside out hotel rooms, drinking beer and whiskey and talking until 4 in the morning. Then it would start all over again at 6:30 in the morning. Everyone was dog tired the entire time, but everyone still had a great time soaking everything all in. The trip did have one major downfall and that was that I lost my engagement ring. We think that I lost it while I was in the pool and someone else found it and took it because after about 3 hours of everyone searching for it and maintenance in the hotel looking for it too, we still couldn't find it. I probably bawled my eyes out for 6 hours straight and my eyes were so poofy that I could barely open them. But overall everything went great and I loved it down there and I pretty much want to move out west somewhere now and I'm pretty sure it wouldn't take much to convince Josh to move out there as well! Here are the pics...just to warn there are a bazillion of them!
Here's a pic of the clouds from the plane....so gorgeous!
This is at the airport, the first few cacti that we saw...
Josh's mom, little sis emily, and little bro Gabe
huge cactus!
Josh's older brother Nick, little sis Liz and little brother Joe being silly at the airport
The next few pics are from the hour or so car ride from Tucson to Sierra Vista where we spent most of our time
This big Dinosaur statue was outside a McDonalds and I couldn't resist getting a pic
The weather on our first day was crazy...it rained and dropped to about 55 degrees outside...when we looked to our left this is what we saw....
But when we looked out to the right it was like this...
Eventually everything turned bad and there were a ton of lightning bolts and thunder
The result was these two beautiful rainbows...
The next day it was nice out so Lizzy and I went picture crazy and took a ton of pics of the view out our hotel...
We also got some pictures of the local wildlife:
Room 109: better known as the Party Room!
This is what I needed to do...
Silly boys, Josh's little bro Gabe, and Neil's son Ayden
So much fun!!!
Pool time:
I love Emily...she's so cute!
Josh's Sister-in-law Dawn with their youngest son Simon
pretty much the cutest baby you'll ever see!
Josh's older brother Nate about to do a cannonball in the pool
HUGE Splash!
Time for the reason we all went down there: Nehemiah James and Kelly Ann's wedding!
The church:
Josh's Mom and Dad
Unfortunately some of these pics are blurry, but here's Neil
Best Man, Nate, and groomsmen, Nick, Dave, and Josh
Bridesmaid Liz
Bridesmaid Emily (Kelly's sister-in-law)
Maid of Honor Meg
Ringbearer Ayden and flower girl Emily (my camera died after this so I don't have any more pics of the wedding :()
Me and Lizzy, she looks beautiful!
They look so happy!
I love these two pictures!
Time to cut the cake!
Father-daughter and son-mother dance
The Garter
Since most people weren't single, they drew couples and the couple had to re-enact their garter throw and Josh's parents got picked!! :)
Me and the man of my dreams!
Me and Neil
Me and Kelly
Me and Meg
On Saturday most of the Tallents went back to Michigan and Nick and I drove Meg to the airport...on our way there we stopped at Saguaro National Forest
The next day we went to Tombstone Arizona and it was pretty cool!
Simon went with us and got a ton of attention for being so cute!
Finally we went south to go through the mountains and we climbed to the top of one after driving on scary roads to get closer to the top
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The mountain behind me is in Mexico...the closest I've come so far!
There's all the pictures that I took...if you actually looked throught them all you are awesome cause I know there's a lot!
Here's a pic of the clouds from the plane....so gorgeous!
This is at the airport, the first few cacti that we saw...
Josh's mom, little sis emily, and little bro Gabe
huge cactus!
Josh's older brother Nick, little sis Liz and little brother Joe being silly at the airport
The next few pics are from the hour or so car ride from Tucson to Sierra Vista where we spent most of our time
This big Dinosaur statue was outside a McDonalds and I couldn't resist getting a pic
The weather on our first day was crazy...it rained and dropped to about 55 degrees outside...when we looked to our left this is what we saw....
But when we looked out to the right it was like this...
Eventually everything turned bad and there were a ton of lightning bolts and thunder
The result was these two beautiful rainbows...
The next day it was nice out so Lizzy and I went picture crazy and took a ton of pics of the view out our hotel...
We also got some pictures of the local wildlife:
Room 109: better known as the Party Room!
This is what I needed to do...
Silly boys, Josh's little bro Gabe, and Neil's son Ayden
So much fun!!!
Pool time:
I love Emily...she's so cute!
Josh's Sister-in-law Dawn with their youngest son Simon
pretty much the cutest baby you'll ever see!
Josh's older brother Nate about to do a cannonball in the pool
HUGE Splash!
Time for the reason we all went down there: Nehemiah James and Kelly Ann's wedding!
The church:
Josh's Mom and Dad
Unfortunately some of these pics are blurry, but here's Neil
Best Man, Nate, and groomsmen, Nick, Dave, and Josh
Bridesmaid Liz
Bridesmaid Emily (Kelly's sister-in-law)
Maid of Honor Meg
Ringbearer Ayden and flower girl Emily (my camera died after this so I don't have any more pics of the wedding :()
Me and Lizzy, she looks beautiful!
They look so happy!
I love these two pictures!
Time to cut the cake!
Father-daughter and son-mother dance
The Garter
Since most people weren't single, they drew couples and the couple had to re-enact their garter throw and Josh's parents got picked!! :)
Me and the man of my dreams!
Me and Neil
Me and Kelly
Me and Meg
On Saturday most of the Tallents went back to Michigan and Nick and I drove Meg to the airport...on our way there we stopped at Saguaro National Forest
The next day we went to Tombstone Arizona and it was pretty cool!
Simon went with us and got a ton of attention for being so cute!
Finally we went south to go through the mountains and we climbed to the top of one after driving on scary roads to get closer to the top
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The mountain behind me is in Mexico...the closest I've come so far!
There's all the pictures that I took...if you actually looked throught them all you are awesome cause I know there's a lot!