Arizona trip, wedding, pool party

We went to Arizona this past weekend. It was a LONG drive. We left on Friday the 30th, and took a wrong turn on our way down, which made our 8 hour trip into a 10 & 1/2 hour trip. Poor Carla was so good, frustrated, but still good. We stayed at some people's house who we don't know. They were exceptionally nice, and accommodating. The next day was just plain hectic. We went went to the wedding, but the marriage license wasn't there. It was two hours away, so, two and a half hours after the sealing was supposed to start it actually did. We were video recording the wedding so we were there forever, then we all went back to the place where we were staying and Aubrie, now Radigan, changed out of her wedding dress. We then drove almost two hours to the reception in Payson AZ. I helped get Aubrie re-dressed, did her hair and her makeup and recorded the ring ceremony and the reception.
It was a long day which ended with a long drive, another two hours, to Phoenix to stay at my cousin, Michelle's house. The next day was her son's birthday. Zach and Knighty played with him in the morning. They were having so much fun! They we went to his birthday pool party. It was Carla's first time being in a pool and she LOVED it! I dunked her for the first time and she had so much fun!



While the birthday boy was playing in the pool when his little floating devices came off his arm and he started to drown. His Mommy, my cousin, jumped into the pool and got him out. It was amazing to see her run so fast and jump into the pool. Thankfully he got there in time and the little one was okay. Am I ever glad for maternal instincts. We then drove back the 12 hours. We left at 8:30pm and arrived at 9am monday morning. On the way back we got a flat tire and a nice man at the tire store opened early and fixed our tire. It was so nice of him. We were able to finish getting home exhausted, but safe.



Tia Mima, with Carla! It was so nice to see her. I hadn't seen her in 8 years.