Ok so I'll try to keep this short and sweet however, we have done a lot this summer and it is going to be incredibly hard. First to let everyone know Ryan and I went home to Arizona for the whole summer!! We decided that since I just graduated and Ryan needed to study for the LSAT we would go home and enjoy our families the entire summer while our lives allowed us to. We headed out to Arizona at the end of May, right after school ended.... and ready for the exciting part...WE DROVE HOME! We decided to take the southern route and see some of the southern states we had never been to. We went through Virginia, North Carolina, South Caroline, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico..ending up in ARIZONA!! We took our time and stopped along the way to see Savannah, Georgia which was gorgeous, and New Orleans which was so much fun. During our time in Savannah we spent our time downtown going inside all the little shops and visiting many of their small art galleries. We came across an artist who's work I fell in love with and sadly to say we lost her card, but we will find her again :) At the end of the day we found ourselves eating pizza and nachos (I know a weird combo but hey what do you expect from me :) ) at a little restaurant right on the river. We loved our time in Savannah and really want to visit again, hopefully next time it wont be pouring down rain when we have no umbrella :) New Orleans is quite the place. We spent most our time at the French Quarter, which consisted of a huge street full of expensive antique shops, art boutiques, fancy clothing stores and my favorite a custom southern hat shop ;) you know the ones you wear to the Kentucky Derby ;) They were so fun, so pretty, but soooo expensive and the people who make them...man are they snooty. The street parallel to this fancy street though is the rowdy, and crazy street with all the bars, sex shops and souvenir shops. It was fun to see, but not a place I would want to be around for Marti Gras :) The city was so much fun though. Music is always playing and it has a great energy. Ok so enough about our road trip back home....
While we were in Arizona for the summer here are a few things we did: Swam almost everyday; Sunbathed with Kenzie & Jordy; Sunbathed with Melly and all her roomies; helped my parents move into their new house; went to lots of movies with my Mom & Melly; went on shopping trips with my Mom, with my g-ma, and with Mel and my mom; went out to breakfast quite a few times with my mom; went to Lake Tahoe with the Hursts & Holmes, went to Salt Lake for the Park City Celebrity Golf Tournament, stayed with Tanner and Heidi Ainge in Utah, went to Idaho with my parents and Ry to visit my sister Hannah and her family, lots of going out to lunch, helped celebrate Kenzie's b-day; helped celebrate my niece Lexi's 1st b-day, hung out with some of our friends, and Ry did a lot of studying for the LSAT. It was an amazing summer full of family and that is exactly what we wanted. Our 2 big events were Lake Tahoe with Ryan's family and Idaho with my family and they were perfect trips. In Tahoe we went boating everyday, we were right on the lake, we spent our time on the pier swimming, in the house playing card games and riding bikes into town. In Idaho we went tubing down the Boise River (one of my fav. memories) with my mom, dad, ry, han, lance, chase, blake and livie. We spent most our time just being together, laughing, wrestling with the kids, going out to eat, going to the snow cone shack, driving around the neighborhoods and going downtown. Both were amazing trips that we didn't want to end.
We didn't want this summer to end, but wether we liked it or not we had to get back to our lives in DC and move forward so we can one day be were our families are :) It was so hard to leave but all we know is that we are trying to find ways already to make another summer like that happen again.
HERE ARE LOTS OF PICTURES OF OUR SUMMER!!! ENJOY!!
4 comments:
Wow! What a trip! Looks like you guys had a lot of fun!
OOOOOOOOo you are in so much trouble!!!! I CAN NOT believe you were here ALL SUMMER and didn't let us know!!!! KENNA! You could have met our little baby girl and seen how Braxton has grown and we could have gone on double dates and hung out together!! Ok so it looks like you were busy, but STILL...ggggrrrr..(giving you the evil eye.
I have never seen anyone fit so perfectly into the family they married into like you do! It is so cute :)
What a super fun summer. Excited to know where you will end up for three years...maybe NJ...hee hee.
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