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 :)

gibberish

So I've been working on my "catch up" post from the last couple of months and I'm trying something new so it's taking a while...plus I have a million pictures so that takes a while too. So I thought I'd do an update post of our little miss Emma in the meantime.

To say the least Emma is a little jabber jaw. She is constantly gibbering in her own little Emma language. It is simply adorable :) And she has quite the vocabulary of real words too. These are some of the words she says (and understands the meanings of):

Hi
Buh-bye
Mama
Dad
No (this is one of her favorite words, unfortunately...)
Uh-Oh
Thank You
Night-Night (for goodnight)
Up
Down
More
Hot (she says this whenever we get in the car)
Book
Bottle
Shoes
Bite (as in 'I want a bite of that')
Bubble
Water (she really says 'wa-wa'...close enough though :)
Eyes
Teeth
oh and she can also say Emma! She says it whenever she wants something...it's so hilarious.

Everyday I am amazed at how much she learns and comprehends. It is so fun to watch her explore and experiment with things. She is such a busy bee - always on the go. I love it. She has also gained quite the obsession with books. She could have me read to her for hours. Of course it never lasts that long because I can only handle reading 'Ten Apples Up on Top' and 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See' three or four times in a row. Anymore than that and I'm ready to throw the book out the window. She is such a doll and I am seriously the luckiest mom in the world to have such a beautiful little princess like Emma.

Hercules

Who knew that Hercules would be so funny to a one year old??




Thomas and I could not get enough of this! We rewound it like 5 times and she laughed that way everytime!

Cabin Fever

We got to spend the last two and a half weeks in our cabin up in Sundance, Utah! It was such a blast. We hung out with friends, shoveled snow, played games (Sequence was the game of the trip), went for walks/hikes, played N64, Emma learned to walk like a pro, hit up Costco a couple times, celebrated Memorial day with friends, went to the BYU bookstore twice, played at the park, Thomas' brother and sister and their families came up, went to the movies, went shopping with the girls, played pool, ate our brains out, watched too many movies, made Amish friendship bread twice :) and did a LOT of lounging around!

Oh, and I got my hair cut! Thanks Emily :)