Baby bump, baby moon

 Last month, Sam and I took a trip (post-vaccinations! Wahoo!) to the Southwest for a little "babymoon" (which is apparently a Millennial thing to do). 

[#pregnart. This was . . . around 30 weeks? If I remember correctly?] 

[hanging out in beautiful sedona]

We spent time in Arizona (Sedona and the Grand Canyon) and in New Mexico (mostly in Santa Fe). Neither one of us had been to the Grand Canyon before, and we were both glad we drove the distance to see it. (I can now understand why my parents--after traveling with 5 kids in Southern Utah to visit Zion's National Park--ultimately decided not to drive further south to see the Grand Canyon. It is out of the way, and I can understand my parents not wanting to add another half-day to our vacations.) 

The Grand Canyon truly was awe-inspiring (Sam even teared up a little bit when we got to the first viewpoint), and we enjoyed driving to different look-out points (I was not going to be hiking the Grand Canyon or riding a mule at 7 months' pregnant--there might be some women who do hike the Grand Canyon, and more power to them, but I was good with just walking and looking around). The scale is hard to describe; Iphone pictures don't do it justice. (And I'm sure the perspective is just as amazing from inside the canyon.) 

[my eyes might be closed in this picture? and for some reason, that makes it even better.]

[someday we will tell our son, "oh, you've been to the grand canyon." and he'll say, "but i can't remember it!"--or something along those lines--but we will insist, because it's true, but also to annoy him.]

Other highlights of the trip included seeing red rocks (I just really love them), the Chapel of the Holy Cross, Santa Fe, good food, and staying in a proto-earth ship. I

[inside the chapel of the holy cross]

[and the chapel of the holy cross from the outside]

[santa fe welcomes you]

[also, chimayo, new mexico was lovely.]