Happy New Year!

We just wanted to take a moment and wish all of our family and friends a blessed and joyous new year in 2009. We've been blessed with so many happy memories from 2008 and look forward to sharing many more with you in 2009. We hope everyone had a peaceful and enjoyable Christmas and we look forward to talking to all of you soon and trying to visit with as many of you as we possibly can in the year to come.

Love,
Michael and Megan

Arizona

And now for a long overdue entry on the rest of our little trip out west. After a few days in the Los Angeles area we drove over to Arizona. Our first stop included a visit with friends Diana and Jason (as well as their cute little daughter Grace). All of us made the drive up to beautiful Sedona for a relaxing day, neither of us had ever been there before and we just found the red rocks just gorgeous.

The next day, Megan and I headed further north to the Grand Canyon. It was my first trip tot he canyon and I was beyond excited. Even with all the build-up in my head, I was still blown away by the enormity and beauty of it. It was definitely a highlight for me!

We spent our last few days in Phoenix with good friends Amy and Ed and their adorable twins, Moses and Lancey. We had such a nice time getting to spend time and see all our friends in Arizona. As an added bonus, we also got to have lunch with Megan's Uncle John, which included a VIP tour of the Arizona Biltmore, McCain's election day HQ, the day before the election. The trip couldn't have been more perfectly planned.

p.s. For anyone out there who is kind enough to check on this blog periodically, we apologize for the lack of posts as of late and promise to do a better job in 2009 :)