Arizona Trip

KZ, Brandon, and I went to Arizona last week for our friends Paul and Megan's wedding, which was in the Phoenix area. We got down there a day before the rest of our friends, so we were able to drive out of the city a little bit to see some AZ scenery and take a little hike. I know you are thinking "hiking in AZ in June?" but the temperatures were really mild while we were there. It was only in the high 80's and low 90's most of the time - still warm, but very tolerable.

I never tired of looking at all the cactus!

Unfortunately Brandon's awesome hair in this picture is due to a breeze rather than my styling efforts.

I volunteered to carry Brandon during our hike since I don't get as hot at KZ. This is the first walk we've taken with him riding in the Ergo Baby Carrier on my back. He loved it!

Isn't that hat great? Unknown to us, Brandon decided he'd had enough of his hat at the top of our hike, so he disposed of it. We realized he was hatless about 1/2 of the way down the mountain. KZ got a little extra exercise running back up to the top, but the hat was salvaged.

Another pretty view from our drive.

Here we are at the wedding. It was held at this beautiful country club, and the weather was absolutely perfect.

How would you like to take your wedding pictures right there?

Here are most of our friends from Michigan at the wedding: Bryan, Brandon, Andy, Erica, KZ, V, Sarah, Blain, Erica, and Trevor.

The couple 2nd from the right (Blain and Sarah) also have a baby who is 6 weeks younger than Brandon. We had a babysitter come to the wedding location and babysit both boys in an empty room. It worked out perfectly. Both babies went to sleep easily in pack 'n' plays.

The other baby is named Trevor. Here are some pictures of the boys meeting and playing together for the first time:

This is their first meeting, which didn't last too long because it was naptime for Brandon, and he started doing this:

SQUAWKING! This is what he looks like mid squawk. Have I mentioned that I don't have a quiet baby? He's pretty talented at screaming at the top of his lungs when he is bored, or doesn't like something. This is part of the reason why my later flight from AZ to SC was so terrible. He doesn't like to be held or sit still, and everyone on the plane knew it.

This is later that same day. We brought a pop tube as a present for Trevor since Brandon loves his so much, but Brandon was not really happy about Trevor having it. Brandon kept stealing it (much like he did with his little buddy Lucy in the previous blog post), making poor Trevor just whimper pitifully. Trevor is quite a bit bigger than Brandon, so we kept warning Brandon that Trevor is going to remember this and retaliate one day...

Standing practice with the daddies.

Can you see the pained expression on my face? I'm holding over 40 lbs. of baby! God bless the mothers of twins!

Here is Brandon holding Brandon.

We took the babies down to the hotel pool together. See Brandon checking out Trevor's float?

Brandon has his own float, and he had the best time in it! He loved the water! It was a night and day change from the fearful and hesitant baby we took to our neighborhood pool a few weeks ago.

He splashed with his arms constantly. I don't know where he gets all that energy!

We decided to see if he likes Trevor's float:

As soon as we put him in it, he leaned back and got this relaxed look on his face like "ahhhhh, this is the life!" Then he proceeded to cross his feet. He laid like that for several minutes! It was so funny. Needless to say, he took a really long nap that afternoon.