Our Wedding Website

Up and running, still have to do a bunch of work on it, registries, etc.

https://www.theknot.com/us/joe-christensen-and-steph-titus-sep-2015


Here is a preview of the engagement photos. My (randomly from MSU) roommate Sung took them for us, they turned out great! We just used my yard in Scottsdale

it was overcast all day then the sun came out right before the shoot = squinty eyes

we went to Papago Brewery in South Scottsdale for the rest of the pictures

awwww

Decisions, decisions, they have a great selection!

I'm a lucky guy :)

Grilled Cheese Party

They had a grilled cheese party at my house on Friday night. It was a great idea, everyone brought different cheeses, bacon, bbq pork, avocado, and lots of other yummy ingredients.

burnt garlic butter on this one, sooo good :)

Canal Converge - Scottsdale

We met up with Steph's Grandparents for BBQ downtown Scottsdale then walked down to the art exihibit. It wasn't that great, mostly vendors and the rain didnt help. But we did find a beer garden that had one of Steph's favorite beers from Chicago, Two Brothers. Also learned they opened a new location in Scottsdale, random!

angry pig?

Domaine Dupage :)

I had to "investigate" the brewery yesterday(03.08.15), went for a bike ride to check it out. They made a new kolsch for the AZ location, really good!

Whiskey Row - Prescott

We stayed at this historic hotel, maybe 115 years old? It had a lot of character, we both loved the old elevator :)

Whiskey Row, the whole block was full of whiskey bars, almost all of them had live music on Friday

The courthouse was across the street. No, we did not drink whiskey and get secretly married :)
But we did joke about it!

Watson Lake - Prescott

Steph got in last Thursday night, she had two interviews on Friday morning then I took the afternoon off and we went up to Prescott for the weekend. First stop was hiking at Watson Lake. There is a 5 mile loop around the lake but it was super windy so we just explored around the northern end.

windy

Steph loves the sun!

I was inspired to go up there by this picture:

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7506/16136896687_4f7879a3d2_k.jpg

I want to go back when the water is lower!

Shootin' in Flagstaff

Erik had a interview with Dan's company on Monday, I offered to drive him up from the PHX airport.

We didn't have anything to do Sunday morning so we went out to the "pits", an old gravel mine about 15 miles outside Flagstaff.

dan made sure to go over safety, finger off the trigger

was kinda cold (50F haha)

stretching

cool gun, old swiss army rifle, ~0.50cal? He has the bayonet for it too!

It was a pretty cool spot, lots of little nooks in the area with people shooting. Reminded me of Rockport in Alpena...

Camelback

Did this hike after work last Friday, another tough / steep one! About 1300ft of gain in a mile hike. I made it up in 40 minutes, not too bad! Side note: don't dirnk lots of coffee before hiking, I almost puked haha

 it got dark very quick, forgot my headlight so i used my phone flashlight. Ended up leading the way for three people behind me

random - in n' out! This was Erik's first request after the airport. Now Steph wants to go on Thursday

Steph update: Three interviews this week! She is going to Albuquerque tomorrow for a interview (work from home position), then has two more in Phoenix on Friday morning. I'm going to take a half day then we're going up to Prescott(little resort town north of phx) for a night. 

Busy weekend, also going to see her Grandparents for dinner on Saturday. My roommate is photographer here, he is going to do our engagement pics on Sunday before she flies out.