summertime

Wow I can't believe that it's already the end of July! That means school is less than a month away (little tear)..... but we've had so much fun so far this summer! School got out on June 1st - teachers had to stay until the 2nd and I had some teaching hours to do on the 3rd so my summer didn't start until the 4th really. Poor James has been working his pest control job this whole summer but he only has about one more week!!!!!! He's taking some time off before his master's program starts so he can prepare himself : ) But since summer began we've been pretty busy having lots of fun!

On June 6th my little 11 year old brother flew into Houston to visit us! He flew all by himself to come - what a big kid he is! It was seriously the best time we've had all summer long. We did so much stuff with him since it was his first time coming to Houston to actually visit - he came when we had our open house here after we got married. The day after he flew in James, Connor, Steven and Christian (James's brothers) and I drove about 4 hours to San Antonio so we could go to the Six Flags there - Connor LOVES Six Flags and has a season pass. We left early in the morning on the 7th and went straight to Fiesta Texas. It wasn't busy AT ALL and we pretty much walked onto everything! We had finished all the rides we wanted and gone to the water park side and everything by around 6 or 7. So we left to go to our hotel that my awesome father got us right on the river walk in the city. The next day we went to the Alamo and hit up some other attractions like the Guiness book of Records Museum which was very fun! Then we left back for Houston.

While in Houston we did a lot of other things too! We went to Schlitterbaun one day, went mini golfing another day, swimming a lot, and made sure to take him to a real Texas BBQ place of course! We also went bowling, helped Janice with some "remodeling of the kitchen" work (Connor helped her strip some of the cabinets), and one of the best things of all we went to the Houston Space Center. By the time it was time for him to fly back home our wallets were empty (and then some hah) - but it was all worth it we had SO MUCH FUN and enjoyed every minute he was here

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The rest of the summer James and I have been trying to get our apartment in order, enjoy our family time with Wilson : ) and just relax. Right now we are living in our apartment and our in-laws house while they are in Utah. We are watching the house and their dog while they're visiting family in Utah and Idaho. Yesterday I just got back from cheer camp... yep cheerleading camp! I went to camp every year in high school, but his time I was a coach and it was soooooooooooooooooooooooo fun! You know your a cheerleader when you can have fun as a coach at cheer camp - anyone else would just want to poke their eyes out I'm sure : ) Brought back a lot of memories but I am really enjoying being a coach, this is something I dreamed about while in high school so sometimes I still have to tell myself its real. We have a lot of new cheerleaders on the team this year, but our squad did so well at camp it was awesome! We even had one of our seniors get asked to join the staff for next year - a very special award. We won the game time top team competition and got the spirit stick everyday. It was a really fantastic week and even though I am completely exhausted I can't wait for next year! Poor James was all alone while I was gone though, his family is in Utah and I was away at camp, and our good friends are out of town as well : ( Thankful for an amazing husband who works so hard for our little family

Practice starts back up again on August 1st. James will be relaxing and enjoying the rest of the summer. Then school starts on August 22nd (teachers go back on the 15th). So summer is almost over but hopefully we'll be able to squeeze in a few more fun things before then!

AND.......... Rob (James's brother) and Kayla and Boston are moving here in a little over a week so that will be so much fun yay!!!!!!!!!!!