tucson and tamales

so you know, with all the pictures i took on this trip... there are an awful lot i forgot to take too :). we were in tucson for more than 24 hours, visiting the taylors (who we haven't seen in a year) and some other friends stopped by from our past (i think we hadn't seen them in more like 4 years!) with their 2 1/2 yr old twin boys (that's right, never even met them before), and i dind't get a single picture of any of them, let alone any cute candids or whatever that would be officially blog-worthy... and we stopped by a wedding reception (gate crashed, actually as we didn't even know it was going to be then til we got there--and in our jeans!) to visit with a few more poeple we used to know from church! but we did have a great time at our little party, and we loved seeing all of you again!
the two pictures i did take in tucson:

nothing like a good batch of tamales to ring in the new year right! and these were fantastic, we were so glad to steal a couple dozen to bring home with us, paul and i have been eating them for dessert for the last two weeks :D

and there's no place like the taylors to find beautiful dress-up clothes! the girls "took turns" with this one, but really afton wore it about the whole time we were there, including playing on the swingset and traipsing through the sand and thorns in the backyard! she's such a tom-boy princess!

thanks agian taylors for letting us come stay with you! and arranging everything so we could do so much in such a short time!