We are starting with the end of our trip and moving backwards in these pictures.

On Memorial day, the eve of Katie's birthday I took her horseback riding. It ended up being her favorite part of the trip. Her horse Vegas was well tamed since she was a beginner, however whenever Larry (My horse) and I tried to come up to the side of Katie and Vegas, Vegas would catch up to the wrangler and his horse and he would tell me the horses weren't used to that and to fall back in line. The horses were trained just to follow each others butts, which was a little too slow and boring for me but I love making my girl happy. It was so fun to watch her ride with this perm-a-grin on her face. Whenever the wrangler wasn't watching I would turn Larry in circles or have him eat some mesquite to buy some time then I would gallop back up to the line, that way I could still get some entertainment out of the riding experience!

What a cute little couple! Happy 24th Birthday Baby!!!

The city we rode in was called Mayer, it's 15-20 minutes outside of Prescott Valley. It was a perfect day the rain clouds stayed to the east of us and pure 80 degree sunshine came down on us, it was great!

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This is a shot of slide rock in Sedona. Katie and I had a blast jumping off rocks in the 60 degree water and sliding down the natural rock waterslides. We also loved watching all the kids and families interact and play it was very peaceful and fun.

Katie made her first fire... When we got to our campground spot we only had about 45mins of light left so I had Katie set up the air mattress while I started blowing away on this coal and once the tinder was almost ready to burst into flames I had Katie take over; she was able to get the fire roaring in no time. Then I made tin-foil dinners and we roasted starbursts.

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Devils bridge a 3 mile hike that suprisingly Katie went on and didn't even complain. I wasn't allowed to cross the arch/bridge all the way, but I was ok with that. My daredevil days are over. I'm a family man now!

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This shot was taken after Church in the same neighborhood just down the street from the Sedona chapel. Pretty crazy to think you could have such a view right outside your church building.

Silly Katie

Sexy Katie

OUR NEW YUKON!!! ISN'T SHE GORGEOUS, OH THE VIEW TOO OF COURSE. WE SLEEP IN THE BACK OF THAT SUCKER WITH PLENTY OF ROOM TO SPARE.

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TALAQUEPAQUE, is the name of this joint. It's a nice square/plaza that has some shops, resturants, and a church. We ate at this amazing mexican place and Katie had the best fish taco ever and I had the best machaca burrito ever! NO LYING, The El Ricon was amazing!!!

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A nice little senic shot for ya.

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Maya's 30th b-day at The Cheesecake Factory. Horray, Maya! Then she left for Greece and we left for Sedona early the next morning!

Life as we know it...

Well, Chad and I got called to be WARD MISSIONARIES! It'll be so fun to be in a partnership and serve together! We really love the Falcon Hill ward. We are even giving talks on Sunday about missionary work--holla! We have SO many new pictures from our new camera BUT we seem to have lost the cable to download them to the computer...haha so until then, you'll just have to imagine us having a grand ole' time in AZ! Only three more weeks of school for me and then I get to play with my new nephew Kade all summer. I hope to find our cable soon so we can post some new pictures but until then, life is wonderful and we love it!

MSW Man!

I can't believe a year barely went by it feels like I've been married for years and got my degree way back in the day. Crazy. Were missing my sweetheart in this pic, but she couldn't make it she had her own High School graduation to go to. lol...

Go Dad Go

Surfing the carpet last year at my graduation! He's still got it!

Thai food

The Metz Kids

I love my sisters!!! I'm so blessed to have amazing siblings!!!

New Job!

SO I scored a Kindergarten job for next year at Benjamin Franklin! I'm SOO excited to go back to Kindergarten! Third grade has kinda worn me out! Only 21 more school days left...not that I'm counting or anything...:) This weekend we are going up to Snowflake to go to the temple and "camp" in our new YUKON!! It's SO nice to drive in and it's so roomy--now all we need is some babies to fill it up. Chad teaches Seminary for the last time on Friday and we'll find out if he gets the job on that day, too. We just called callings in our new ward, too...I'll let you know on Sunday when it's "official"!! :) We are LOVING married life and love being together all the time. It's the best! (Minus like 10 pounds that I've seemed to acquire during the last month of marriage!)