Viddy has a Job!

After interviewing with three companies, and getting 3 job offers, we finally took the third job offer in Baytown, TX (outside of Houston). Viddy will be doing organic chemistry research with ExxonMobil. We are pretty excited about starting a new chapter in our lives but very sad to be moving even further away from family.

Minnesota

After Mexico we drove to Utah to stay with Viddy's parents until we found a job. There was a vacation planned to visit the areas where Michelle served her mission so we invited ourselves to tag along. It was pretty awesome. We went to the Mall of America in Minnesota, got cheese in Wisconsin, visited Mt. Rushmore, the Bad Land, and other national parks on the way home.

Mexico

After we were done partying in Utah we went back to Tucson and actually did a little work... shocking, I know. We packed up our house and moved everything into storage in just a few days. Then we were off to partying again, this time in Mexico with a family in our ward and their extended family.

This is on the back porch of the house we stayed in.

I know that you can't really see it at all, but this is Viddy taking the little kids out on the ocean on the kayak.

One night when we were there we had a shrimp boil. Even though I am not a huge fan of shrimp I had a good time eating the potatoes, corn, and sausage. Viddy enjoyed all the shrimp he wanted.

Memorial Day and Family Pictures

Continuing our vacation extravaganza, we went up to Utah for Memorial Day. Since this was the first time that everyone had been together for a couple years we took a family picture. I have to say that we are a pretty good looking group. 

Havasupai Round 2

We were invited to go to Havaupai with some good friends in our ward this summer and we couldn't pass up the opportunity, especially since Viddy had graduated and I took a leave from school, we had all the free time in the world! It was a blast. 

This is just half of us, we also hiked in with another family in our ward.

The Paige and Joseph... we are sure going to miss them.

This was on our hike to the Colorado River. We never got all the way there, but there were some really pretty waterfalls. If anyone ever hikes down to Havasupai I would highly recommend hiking further into the Grand Canyon, because it is beautiful.

On the way in with all our gear.

John and Lizzie also came and made the trip even more awesome. 

This was in front of Mooney Falls.

Even though we just went there in August of 2009 so much had changed with the landscape and water falls. We had a lot of fun hiking it again.