We got home late last night from a great trip to Minnesota.  We got to spend time with my grandparents at my Grandpa’s childhood home, Sean finally met my aunt Kathy and uncle Lynn, and we were able to stop in to see the Bailey Clan (Sean’s cousins) on our way home.  I’m feeling well rested and ready to tackle all of the work waiting for us here at home!  First though, I have to share Eric and Christina’s wedding from a couple of weekends ago with you… 

Love, joy, tears, laughter…  Eric and Christina’s first moments together on their wedding day were some of the sweetest I have seen!  Beautiful friends, can you get more adorable? :o) 

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Congratulations to the lovely couple!  We love you guys!

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Hey All! 

Sean and I are headed out for the week again.  It seems like we’re never home for long anymore but that will soon be changing!  In the meantime, the northern Minnesota countryside is not the kindest for internet and cell phone usage so if you try to reach us while we’re away, please be patient with us.  We’ll get back to you as soon as we can! 

Thank you so much! 

Have a wonderful week everyone!

-Mel and Sean

The main locations we wanted to shoot in during our trip were the Antelope slot canyons.  We probably should have done some more research before we just showed up because when we got there and started asking around, we kept hearing something along the lines of how the folks in charge would have a 12 year old lead us in…and then leave us to die.

Nice.

Well, we decided to give it a go anyway.

This was our first exposure to the canyon – this and the memorial to the 15 tourists who had died in the 90’s.  Mind you, August is monsoon season for Arizona.  Even better!

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So you keep going and this is the entrance to the canyons.  You climb in through this crack…

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You then climb down a series of ladders (this was from our scouting trip before we involved the dress)…

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and then tunnel you way through this – in a wedding dress.  Tara is my hero.

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So is Andrew because he was this excited about it! :o)

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In case you were wondering, they didn’t even send us down with a 12 year old – they just let us wander down all by ourselves to die.  Was it worth it?  Uh, yah.  Soooo worth it!

One of my favorites from Sean…

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The bump and the tourist who decided Tara and Andrew were quite the attraction…

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and my resulting image…

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…and then one from the sunset on the way home – you know, just for fun. :o)

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The end.