Arizona Adventures

The weekend after New Year's we went down to Arizona to visit Amy's homeland. Sean got to see why it would be great to have an excuse to travel to Arizona every winter- you can go hiking in January in shorts! Oh, and Amy's family is pretty nice too.

Hiking Sabino Canyon

Taking pictures of Sabino Canyon.

Hiking A "mountain" above ASU. Sean laughed thinking how weak and puny that A is compared to the Y of HIS alma mater.

Miscellaneous Adventures

At the New Year's dance at the state fairgrounds.

At the Nutcracker ballet. We couldn't get to the first showing because of snow, but they were nice enough to offer us tickets for the next week.

Being attacked by sea life at the Seattle Aquarium.

Sean gets friendly with some sea stars.

Christmas Adventures

Our original plan was to spend Christmas at Amy's house where we had set up the Christmas tree, but on the afternoon of Christmas Eve her power went out and it started snowing again so we spent it at Sean's house instead. We loved that our first Christmas together was a white one!

The view down Sean's street. Not possible to drive on, but we did take a walk to visit Sarah and Leah at their parents' house.

Our second snow child. We've already forgotten his name, but he sort of looks like a baboon.

Amy sporting her new Christmas hat. And the aftermath of opening presents in Sean's front room.

Sean playing with his new toy helicopter.

Amy got two stockings full of gifts this year.

But Sean's stocking was bigger.

The tree we had to leave behind because Amy's power went out.

Snowy Adventures

The last few weeks of December Amy discovered that contrary to what everyone said before she moved here, it does in fact snow in Seattle. And when it snows, the whole city shuts down. Both of our cars were snowed in for several days, but we were able to get out and have some fun, as evidenced by these photos.

It may not be driveable, but it's still useful.

Amy survived our snowy walk.

This was Sean's idea, and he taught me how to make a good one- you've got to jump in.

We found a snowy playground and had fun like when we were kids (well, like Sean was a kid- Amy didn't grow up with snow).

Sean did my hair. Aren't my pigtails cute?

Our first child. Steve the snowman.

Don't we look cute all bundled up?

Poor SLiK. His bum bum is cold.