Went to Detroit and saw 'the world's largest tire', the hotel, and the airport, a lot of the airport. :)

Some quick photos of san antonio!

Visiting!

Flowers at sapsucker woods/lab of ornithology!!

(The birds are too fast for the phone's camera!)

Lansing town trail

The whole trail was flowing with overflowing creeks, buy the sky and sun were out and beautiful!

It looks like joey found a swanky neighborhood!

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It begins..... The emptying of shelves!

Que guapas, mom and margarita!

Dogs! Visiting us!

We went berry picking with the bazbaniaks, joey's sister and her husband, mike.

Osprey nest and site of the first cookout of the year in late June

This was part of a hike over the weekend, my favorite trail!

Aha! We figured out why comments disappeared.... ...

Aha! We figured out why comments disappeared.... But not how to bring them back! Hopefully we will find a solution soon!

We discovered how they get out for their evening strolls.

As promised, a blog update!

We are planning on getting legally married this summer before I (joey) goes to Argentina, so that we can be each others' emergency contacts, legal decision-makers, etc etc. when we head to Argentina later in the year. The legal process is just going to be a formality for us, and we don't want any sort of celebration or ceremony.

For our real marriage, which we want to celebrate with you all, other family, and friends we are tentatively planning for next summer or fall. Though we are going to keep working at the details, we imagine it will likely be tough to plan a marriage while in Argentina, so we are thinking it will be impossible for us to have a wedding before August 2015, and are thinking more about September or October (because August is so hot everywhere!).

Location has also been a big discussion for the past few weeks.  Ithaca is an unlikely choice, since it may be difficult to get everyone here. At this point we have a few locations in mind as possibilities: Chicago, New Orleans, San Antonio, or possibly somewhere just outside of SA. Since our friends and family are spread out across the country, we would like to find a place that is fairly convenient for as many as possible (meaning a good airport!). At this point, San Antonio has a slight lead over the other places, since we imagine that this is the only place that's really accessible for the the Mexico families.

As for actual ceremony details, we have lots of ideas but few nailed down.  We haven't come up with a guest list, but believe it will be a small ceremony (fewer than 100 people). We are considering having a portion of the ceremony outside, maybe moving the party inside, but that will likely depend on the month/location (for example, New Orleans in August = not outside).

Anyway, that's the report for now.  We'll reporting as we consider things, narrow things down, etc.  If you all have ideas/suggestions/questions, we can use the blog as a forum for those things, or we can just chat about it next time we talk to you all, of course.

Love!

joey and elisa

Most disappointing 'Mexican" food ever.

Hiking at Labrador pond!

We got a package from the avilas which included this!!! (Thanks! :))

And the house!

FLOWERS at the house where we are staying!

No one has ever seen elisa shop at/for jewelry. Ever.

updates!

Alright, now this blog will be wedding plan watch, 2014.
 Hi claire and dave!

 Here is what we have so far....

 Schedule:

Weekend of may 10 and 11: we are going to brain storm what we each want then share with each other....no report out this week.......also, looking for a ring that fits!!

Week 2(17 and 18) we will have a great long exploration and come up with general components we would like...still thinking about things, sorry no report out!

Week 3 (may 25th ish) we will have general time lines and will be ready to report to others. I will still be posting notes and pics here, though, along the way!

There is a lot of snow in auburn... A lot.

There is a lot of snow in auburn... A lot.

At a major league indoor soccer game in syracuse!

At a major league indoor soccer game in syracuse!