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All through college, my partner in crime was my friend Kristin. We were the laughing too loudly too late, closing down the coffeeshop, rewriting song lyrics, running around 24-hour stores late into the night/early into the morning, mostly innocent sort of trouble-making duo. I was so happy she came to visit me and Andy this spring. We took her up to Sedona and the Grand Canyon (oh, how horrible to have to go back to these places every first time friends come to visit us here…) and here’s a few photos from her time here.

While the rest of the country is cold, admittedly I’m enjoying the moderate weather in Phoenix, where we don’t have to worry about defroster settings on our cars or pipes freezing overnight. Being from the east coast, I do miss the cold every once in a while. So, when Jared, Ray and Allison came into town in late February, we did a 2-day trip up to Sedona, Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon.

While Laura was in town in February, she and I went to check out First Friday events in downtown (see thispost), went to some kind of delicious chocolate festival and walked around Bobby’s Rock at the base of the Echo Canyon trail at Camelback Mountain. We had our cameras and although it was too early for really nice light, I found a nice spot for some portraits of my good friend.

We checked out the Phoenix Art Museum and I especially enjoyed the lighting inside and outside. Below is the side-effect of something unofficially called “no flash corner.”

There’s also a cool exhibit I always have to go into when we go to the museum. It’s disorienting and very peaceful at the same time.

Andy and I weren’t able to get back out to Colorado to see her family and her baby until just a few weeks ago. If you’d like to meet him now (as opposed to whenever I work through photos from Feb-Nov and post them here!), Andy just shared his photos on his blog.

I’ve spent considerable time today working on a backlog of photos I’d had sitting on my laptop for months. I used to be so much better about this, posting pics from trips and friends’ visits within a week or so of when it happened. So without further delay, here’s part one of my photo update! This is from when my good friend Laura came to Phoenix to visit for a weekend. Andy had left for the Southern Short Course photojournalism workshop that weekend and it allowed for a lot more girl time. We didn’t stay up late braiding each other’s hair and eating Twizzlers like we did in high school, but nothing beats time with awesome people who you’ve known so long they’re just family.