Crusin

A few weeks ago we headed to Galveston to take off on a 7 day Caribbean Cruise with some of our closest friends, the Cherry's!!! We had an amazing week and made many memories that will be unforgettable. Getting back to "real life" has been a challenge, so luckily we have a ton of pictures to take us back!!! Don't worry, I'll only post the light-version of all those photos!!! Here are some pics of our first few sailing days!!

The Ship - Carnival Conquest

Getting ready to take off from Galveston

Sam taking it all in!

Enjoying a lazy day of laying out in the sun

First pic before getting on the boat

All dressed up and ready for dinner

Grandma's 80th birthday!!!

A few weekends ago we went to Amarillo to celebrate my grandma's 80th birthday! It was the first time the WHOLE Thomas family had been together in awhile, so it was really great to see and spend time with everyone! My mom threw a Looking Totally Fabulous at 80 butterfly themed party that turned out great!

The birthday girl and Mel!

Butterfly cookies

Grandma and all her kids - Mike, Dave, Rick, and Heather

Grandma and the grand kids

Releasing the butterflies - Grandma's dream!!!

Julie, Aunt Jennifer, and Caitlin

Mi Familia

Mom and Mia

Having fun on the lake
Captain Mike

Sam and I

(I think I am totally smashing Sam!)

Caitlin and James

Sam and I

Richard showing us his skills

(I tired to jump later and it didn't exactly look like this!)

Kurt & Julie

Back in Time

I am going back in time since I pretty much skipped all of June!!! This is a bit of a picture overload, but at least we'll be all caught up!

We'll start off with Girl's Weekend 2010!! I am WAY behind on this since this was technically the last weekend in May!! For our annual girl's weekend 5 of my girlfriends from college and I went to Lake Jacksonville. We always have such a great time relaxing and getting caught up and this year was no different!! I love each of you girls more than you will ever know; thanks for another great weekend!!!

Magen, Sarah, Mandy, Ashley, Megan, and Amy

We also celebrated my birthday this month. Although it started out a bit out of the ordinary (on crutches...don't ask!!) it ended up being a great week of celebrating!! We started out with a cookout at our house with close friends and family, and ended with a night out to see Wicked with my wonderful husband!

The girls at the party
Amy, Mel, Hillary, Mandy, Emily + baby, Diana, and Audrey

Richard and Jennifer with Mia highly enjoying a cupcake!!!

Audrey & Michael

Caden in the fountain

Diana and I in our new aprons!!! I hardly ever get a chance to enjoy one of my creations, but I dug right in this time since it was my birthday!!!!

That next weekend we traveled down south to visit our good friends, Megan and Ronnie, in San Antonio. We had a great weekend spending time with great friends....went to Sea World (I might or might not have been wheeled around in a wheelchair!), spent time in down town SA, and spent a day in Gruene, TX!!! Thanks for a great weekend and yummy food guys!

Shamu!!!

Feeding the dolphins!

At the beginning of the month we hosted a shower for Emily and baby Snelling (actually born yesterday!). It was a wagon themed shower and turned out very cute!!!

The Hostess: Amy, Diana, Mel, Mandy, and Hillary

All the pregnant mamma's!

Now we are all caught up!!!!

4th of July - LBJ Lake

To celebrate 4th of July we went with a group of our closest friends to LBJ Lake. We had a blast!!!! Great friends, great weather, great food, and A LOT of FUN!!!! I'm pretty sure we did it all in one weekend - we wake boarded, surfed, tubed, played volleyball, played wiffle ball (some glass might have been broken, but no one was hurt!), went to church, got too much sun, and ate a lot!! It has been extremely hard to get back to work this week, but it was all worth it. We are so blessed with this group of friends that we not only get to have fun with but grow in the Lord, challenge each other, and hold each other accountable. We feel so honored to call each person a friend and hope that these friendships last a lifetime! This will be a picture overload because our professional photographer, Amy, took some great pics (this is just a few of the 600 that she took!!!).

The group (minus two) waiting on the fireworks

Sam and I (supporting our Texas teams!)
Amy & I being launched from the banana
(must always hold the nose!!!)

Amy & I - Perfect form!!!

Me surfing

(I was never able to let go and just let the wave take me; next time!)

Sam - wake boarding

Amy, Amber, and I

This is the life!!!

Amy & I

Me - wake boarding

Trent getting some air!!!

Jeremy getting some water

(he really was very good for his first time!)

Hanging on!!!

The Girls - Diana, Amber, Mandy, Amy, and Hillary

(t-shirts and pants = too much sun the day before!)

Sessler's, Hadley's, & Maenius' enjoying the fireworks

Jeremy, Brandon, & Sam
attempting the banana Jeremy & Brandon
Brandon

Having a drink while surfing!

The Whole Group

Montoyas', Hadley's, Sessler's, Maenius', & Calahan's

The guys before golf

(I can't remember which two-some won)

Chilling!