Traveling Teens

Emilee was SUPER lucky to have one of her dear friends from Idaho fly here for a week long visit. Ali is one of our favorite friends too, so we loved having her!

In the car we hopped and we did our best to show her the Texas sights! (Nope, Carter was NOT in the mood for a pic that day lol!)

We started with Galveston.

The girls struck a few poses...

The boys and I walking out toward the end of the jetty

Trev with a silly 'CHEESE'!

A trip to Houston wouldn't be complete without visiting NASA...and posing as an astronaut!

Ali...

Trevor...

Emilee...

And Mommy and Carter in front of the flag on the side of the rocket booster. Carter was just enamoured with the flag for some reason and insisted on a picture with me. Cracks me up...some days he refuses pictures and some days he's dying to be in them!

(Uuggghhh please forgive the two next sideways pictures. I've just fought for over an hour with these. They are technically right-side-up but blogger keeps turning them and I can't figure out HOW to fix it. So at the risk of this post never getting up, you guys will have to just turn your head for these two lol!)

We also took Ali boating. This was really special for us as Ali unfortunately missed Emilee's boating party last year in Idaho so we were super excited it worked to take her out while she was here. We gave her a shot at wake boarding, cruised around for a while and then watched the fireworks with her.

And as the title to my post alludes...there were multiple traveling teens last month. Ali traveled here to us...and then we sent Emilee back to Idaho to visit her other friends for a week. This is a shot of the plane she left Houston on.

I didn't end up personally with any other pictures of Emilee's trip...but in a couple of sentences I can assure you she had a blast! This was her first time flying alone, but she did great! She's flown many times before so we were confident she knew how to handle herself (but this was still a "yikes, she's growing up" kind of event!!) Oh and of course Daddy made sure she flew first class so she got the royal treatment on all of her flights! In Boise, she got to spend five days with her friend Kaitlyn...and they went to the mall and the waterpark and movie theatre and tons of other places while seeing bunches of old friends. Kaitlyn's mom was awesome running these two girls hither and yon for every social event under the sun, and Emilee had so much fun! Thank you "L" family for taking such great care of Emilee!! We miss you!!!