swimming, road trips, fireworks, family, games, and everything else

Here it is at last. My June/July summer post!

First let's start with a cute picture of Emma:

Ok, now a picture of Emma doing her two favorite things:
Watching movies with her dolls and raiding the pantry for food.

Ok, now the real post :)
In June we went to Paige's dance recital,

had lunch with Grandma and Grandpa Thurston,
Thomas started PA school!
(Sorry no picture. Just imagine him sitting at a desk in a classroom staring at a computer for like 10 hours straight...everyday...)

we celebrated cousin Porter's 2nd birthday,

and started hanging out in the pool!

Then in July, Emma and I went on an Idahoan adventure :)
We took a road trip up to Idaho (with a pit stop in Provo) with Grandpa Thurston

We stayed in Provo for one night to pick up Parker in the morning. While we were there we just had to take a cruise around BYU campus, and we 'accidentally' ran into Parker at EFY. Then we had dinner at Cafe Rio. yumm.

Once we got to Idaho it was all fun and games at Grandma Thurston's house

We celebrated 4th of July with lots of family and food. Emma had fun with her patriotic headband :)

We went bowling with the Lambert Family and I scored my personal all-time high score of 123!

And to end off the 4th with a bang, we had our own personal fireworks show in my grandma's backyard, compliments of my cousin Jayli
We had a blast the rest of the week:

BBQ in the park with the Lambert Family,

morning walks/jogs with grandma and grandpa, more bowling, lots of frozen yogurt, and yummy food.

We headed out to Twin Falls one day to visit with some cousins,

and eat more frozen yogurt (at Kiwi Loco),

and went swimming in Oakley with the Gibby's at the end of the week,

We also played lots of golf (the card game, not the sport. Please, do I look like I golf? Not a chance) the entire time!

On Saturday we made the long drive home after spending 8 wonderful days in Idaho. It was time to come home though...I missed my hubby too much :)

Since we've been back, Emma has learned to walk in high heels...Haha she likes to walk around in these purple princess shoes and she's pretty good at it!

And she has her very own chair that she loves to climb into and sit on :)

We also had Tia Rosa's for dinner with my dad and Parker one night....mmmm...

And a week ago Thomas had his White Coat Ceremony to be officially inducted into his Physician Assistant program at A.T. Still University. He looks so studly in his white coat :)