Maria's Wedding

This summer has gone by in a total blur!  Evan had some evaluations to do before preschool started.  He missed the first two weeks of school this year because we went on our long planned vacation.

We drove out to Phoenix the end of August for Rick's sisters wedding.  We originally planned on stopping three nights each way, and getting home on the fourth day.

Picture by Maria's Photographer.  She did a fantastic job.

All of us looking in this one.

The whole Chappell family all together.  What a great picture. 

But on the way out, we got to Albuquerque (our stop for the third night) before 3:00, too early to check into our hotel.  Instead, we powered through and got into Phoenix that night.  It was totally worth it, because we got an extra day with Rick's family before the wedding.

The time on the road wasn't too awful.  In fact, it was actually pretty good.  Sadie wasn't completely on solid foods yet, so we had to stop every three hours to feed her.  Evan does not like going potty in public though (this excludes Target restrooms;  I guess we're there so often it's not considered a strange place any longer).

Rick and Sadie together.

Reception area set up at the church

Another look at the Cultural Hall

Evan trying to figure everything out. 

Uncle Brad fast asleep in the car on the way back from the temple.

Rick and Logan out to eat after the sealing

We got pupusas one day while visiting!  So good.

Aunt Glenna asleep at the same time as the boys. 

Logan was in a bad mood for the first part of the reception

The quilts as gifts for Maria and Scott.

It was so lovely spending time with family.  Rick and I went to the temple together, which we haven't been able to do for a while.  We ate yummy Mexican food and In-n-Out, of course.  The boys also got to spend a lot of time with their cousins, which is always nice.

We got back a day early as well.  We enjoyed a lot of fun---and the heat wasn't too bad to handle, either.  Probably because it's dry.  I mean, living in humid places makes everything so much stickier.

But this past summer in Ohio has been pretty cool, so it was almost a nice change of place to go somewhere a lot warmer/hotter.

Anyways, we're glad that Maria and Scott live so close to us in DC.  Sarah lives there too, so it's very nice we now have more family in the DC area and so close to us.