Visitors!

Sometimes I feel like I'm a lottery winner.

{Not completely of course...there are still 2 sisters not living in Texas....ahem}

In June, my parents moved here.

Then after the reunion....Emily moved to San Antonio, a mere 5 hrs away!

Cha-ching!!!

So, being so close, Em was able to come and visit us 2 weekends ago {and she's coming up again this weekend, yay!}. And she brought her Jed....it was awesome to be able to meet him!

And since it was a special occasion...I talked everyone into PF Changs. Yum.

 Oh James....

Thanks for making these pictures hilarious.

Our baby sister, Hannah, babysat the chirren's for us....so we were able to go out to eat as adults! For those of you with kiddos, you know how NICE it is to enjoy a meal without the kids...no matter how much you LOVE them;)! 

 After dinner....the queen of tie dye helped me make some shirts!

She brought all her cool dye and we had some fun!

 I love this picture....

She's here!!

Yay!
After she got here and unpacked, we went and ate steak at Texas Roadhouse and rented some movies. I hope I don't bore her to death ;) hehe. In other news...Aube got an impromtu haircut. I guess I need to be more diligent in making sure sucker sticks get thrown away.

I've been busy.

To say the least.

Em gets here TOMORROW. It's insane to think that after all the planning and whatnot....it's TOMORROW. YAY! I can't tell you how happy this makes me...it only takes one! And then the REST of the family will be on it's way to moving here......HEY! A girl can dream, can't she? Ü

And really...I guess I haven't been THAT busy. Well, not cleaning-busy anyways (sorry Em). I tend to not clean my house (ever, haha) for when my side of the family comes. I straighten up, make it look nice...but nothing like when James' family visits (Oh, that was CLEAN, Saha?). Not that they judge me or anything...they would love me with a messy house. My OCD-tendencies won't let me just do nothing.

Speaking of James' family...tomorrow morning, I get to take James to the airport...where he will fly off to Vegas for the weekend for Kari's baby's blessing. Am I jealous? Yes. So much so, but not enough to want to buy 3 more airplane tickets at $300 a pop. But I'm sure he will have a fantastic time this weekend, kid-free, lucky duck.

The reason I call my life "busy" right now is mainly because I'm 4 days away from the Primary Activity I'm in charge of. Before she was released, the previous 2nd counselor was a guru at putting these activities on...she was so organized and had great ideas to boot! So, after she was released and we switched up the duties for the counselors, I was so excited to be in charge of activities...I knew it wouldn't be easy, but man oh man. It's the details that are killing me...but I'm thrilled and I really hope the kids like it. It's called "Follow Him in Faith Campout" not really a campout...but we are going to decorate with tents and a fake fire and have SMORES! And a CAVE...man oh man. I'm stressin' like crazy and my face is all broken out like I am 16 again...but what can you do. If I didn't stress and write 12 TO-DO lists a day, I'd forget something!

Tie Dye'n

I've got so many little tidbits left to post...so I best get goin'.

One of the (many) things I was excited about during this trip was a chance to tie dye with Emily. Over the last couple of years she's become quite the tshirt artist...her love of color rivals my own Ü. So, before we went to Idaho...we got out the color.

We opted out of using the gloves (seen above)...they kept falling apart on us. The result: Tie Dye Hands. Fun, yet very hard to get rid of Ü.

They just look so purdy....all wrapped up and blending.

The final result (some of them, anyways). Please excuse Dad in the background...though he does give you something to focus on, so your eyes don't go blind from the screaming color in this photo.

Thanks Em!!! You rock!

For Aunt Emmalee

It must run in the family....