Our Summer in a Nut Shell!

  Well our summer was quite the adventure. We got enough traveling to last a lifetime... ok not really but certainly enough to last awhile. Our adventure started when my sweet baby nephew Ethan Everal Roberts was born weighing 7lbs 5oz. He was born on July 17th. The next morning Aaron and I left Rexburg and headed to Nampa to meet the newest member of our family. What a special time that was. We were in Nampa for a week and a half getting to know our nephew Ethan better, and spending quality time with family. We did lots of fun things while there, among them were floating the river, going to the sand dunes, going to a water park, and going to Wahooz (go-carting, laser tag, mini golf, etc.). Needless to say we had an amazing time there.
  We then headed to Fort Collins, Colorado with only a week left before the wedding. That week was spent getting last minute things done for the reception and wedding, and spending quality time with my soon to be in-laws. On Thursday night I was able to receive my Endowments. What a wonderful experience that was. Afterwards we went out for CiCi's Pizza. Friday we had a dinner with all the Thompson's who had come for the wedding. We ate at Red Robins. While there I practically died choking on a cookie, and then I locked the keys in the car and it took an hour before Aaron, my dad, and the boys were able to get it out, thank goodness the Lord was watching out for us and we were able to get it out. We got to bed around 12:30 that night. The next morning was the big day. After all the nightmares I had about being late for my own wedding or missing it entirely I made sure I got up early enough. I awoke at 4:30 and had plenty of stress-free time to get ready and primp myself up. Aaron got up around 5 knowing I wanted him to get up early. We were both ready by about 6:30. After a quick goodbye to the family Aaron and I headed to Denver. Once there we ate breakfast at 'The Original Pancake House'. It was delicious and a perfect start to a perfect day. We left there about 8:00 and were at the Temple 45 minutes early. We walked the temple grounds and enjoyed the alone time before we got married. About 8:50 we called our families because we couldn't help but notice they didn't seem to be there. Aaron's family didn't answer the phone. My family was running about 15 minutes late (as expected). So without our escorts we decided to just go in. Upon entering we saw Aaron's family. They must have gone in when we weren't looking. My family showed up shortly thereafter. At 10:00 Aaron and I were married for time and all eternity. It was a beautiful wedding.  After the wedding the photographer took pictures and then we headed to the luncheon at Olive Garden. Surprisingly neither of us were too hungry so we just kind of snacked on our food and saved the rest for later. After the Luncheon Aaron and I took our things to our hotel, and then took a 45 minute nap (it seemed far too short). We then went to the perfect reception. The weather was perfect that day and so was everything else. Sadly my sister Chantelle couldn't make it due to having just had a baby and still recovering, but she was there in spirit all day long:). After a perfect day we drove off into the sunset and lived happily ever after. Lol just kidding.
  The next 2 days we drove from Colorado to Corpus Christi Texas where we had reserved an apartment on the beach. It was beautiful. I got to swim in the ocean for the first time ever. The water is more salty than I could have ever imagined!! We had a fun and relaxing week there on the beach. Our last day there we went jet skiing on the ocean. Let me tell you we caught some pretty good waves. I think we got like 5-8 feet of air a few times. It was a blast. We went out to Joe's Crab Shack and both tried crab for the first time. We both like chicken better lol. We also caught a jelly fish wish was pretty awesome!
After that fun filled week we headed to Arkansas to visit my family, and old friends. Lucky for us it cooled down while we were there so it wasn't too hot. I had fun showing Aaron where I came from and seeing good friends again. My Aunt Mnisa and her kiddos visited that week so we got to see them too. Her kids grow so fast!! Wednesday night I had a second perfect reception in Lonoke. My mom and the branch ladies worked so hard on it and it was so beautiful. simple, elegant, and country. I couldn't have imagined it that good in my mind. Everything that week was amazing.
  Friday morning Aaron, Kayla, Snuggles and I headed for Colorado. Kayla got to spend a month with my family which was both exciting and tiring I am sure. We drove 16 hours in one day. That was a long drive. The next morning if you can believe it we went hiking. That was tiring but fun. We definitely made some memories. We thought it would be faster to climb up the boulders themselves rather than following the trail. Silly us... Bouldering can be hard at some parts. We had four false summits which means we thought we had reached the top four times before realizing there was more boulders behind those ones. Lol we sure were glad when we finally made it to the top. The rest of the weekend was quite relaxing.
  Monday morning Kayla flew home and Aaron, Snuggles and I drove to our new home in Rexburg. We moved in that night and Chantelle, Zach, and baby Ethan drove down the next day to help move in everything else. We are now moved in to our new house and we love it here. Snuggles LOVES her new home and is loved unconditionally day in and day out. We got Aaron's track changed so it is the same as mine now. So we will be on track January-July and off track August-December. So until January we are both just working. We are also taking a few online courses which start on Monday along with our new job training. We work together at Bernett (A survey call center), same hours and same days together every week so that should be fun. We couldn't be happier together. Everything has worked out quite wonderfully!!  Thanks to everyone who was a part of this wonderful summer!
Oh and one more thing. This last weekend we were able to go to baby Ethan's baby blessing which was beautiful. He is an amazing baby. I just love him more and more each time I see him. Well that's all for now! Until next time!!

Woohooz

We just got back from woohooz! It is a place where we played a ton of laser tag and go-karts. I enjoyed going in the double go-kart with Emily. She would look behind us and tell me where to go so the other riders couldn't pass us. I have enjoyed getting to know Emily's family better. We are having a great time together. The marriage is almost here! We are super excited.

Well only 22 more days until we get married!! This next month is going to be the bestest month ever!My family is on their way to Idaho right now! I haven't seen them since Christmas so I am soooo excited to see them. Aaron and I have just been finishing up last minute things to do before the wedding.  Four days and then we head to Nampa for my moms family reunion and to see my sister and hopefully her new baby, and the rest of my family:). Aaron and I finished getting all of our cleaning supplies we needed for our new house. We also bought some food storage for our house like flour, rice, and sugar.  We got our Living Ordinances reccomends so now we are set to get married. Aaron has three more finals and then this semester is over! I packed up all my stuff and I am ready to go! We started watching a new show called Prison Break. Its pretty good. I figured out how I am going to do my hair for the wedding so thats a relief. We will see Aarons family in 2 weeks and we are excited to see them! Aaron can hardly contain his excitement to do all the fun things planned in the next few weeks. I on the other hand am just excited to see my family and meet baby Ethan!! After all this excitement we get married!!! We have been waiting our whole lives for this moment, to find that person who completes you, to lean across that alter and promise forever, and if you can believe it that moment is almost here! I still feel like a kid! I only graduated high school last year! And I am getting married. Crazy I know. Well Aaron is on his way over so I better go look in my fridge for something to make him:P. I love that cute boy so much! :) Can't wait to marry him! My family is almost here I can hardly stand it! =D

Hair cut!

So Emily is going to be the best wife ever. She gave me a haircut yesterday for the first time. She had never given a haircut before. She did a great job! We also went to the drive-in and saw Brave and Madagascar 3. Brave was better than Madagascar 3.

July is here! A little over a month until our awesome wedding!

I have to say that this week has been awesome. On Monday, Emily and I organized our storage unit. We wrote down everything we have so we know what we need to get still. We went to the D.I. and found me some $7 tennis shoes (my other ones were smelling quite interestingly). We also found some awesome pictures and frames for our apartment of the Savior. Anyway, the 3 biggest things we still need are a T.V. stand, a couch, and a table. We also went to Rexburg Rapids that is a pool with some slides. We both got a little burned. (Emily likes getting burned). However, I got burned more than she did. Next time I am going to use sunscreen (I thought I was stronger than the sun... guess not:). On Friday night we had a game night. It was just an awesome week. Yesterday, we played Lego Harry Potter (don't tell anyone that Emily played with me because she is embarrassed of playing a video game with me, she shouldn't be though because it is a Harry Potter game and she loves Harry Potter, but, she loves me more than Harry Potter because I am real and Harry Potter is not). We then went to get Ice Cream and we watched a movie at the cheap theater: "What to expect when you are expecting." We both enjoyed it and it made us excited for Zach and Chantelle's baby to come in a few weeks. I applied to be a Peer Adviser here on campus and for part of the application process I had to watch a Pathway program video. Much to my surprise, Emily's Sister, Chantelle was one of the stars of the video. I thought it was a little funny, she did a good job though. There is a little over a month until mine and Emily's wedding. We are so excited! It will be here before we know it and then it will be over and we will be husband and wife forever! Isn't that great! I will get to spend all of eternity with the most beautiful, kind, gentle, funny, spontaneous, frugal (at times), smiley, happy, wonderful, spiritual, lovely, determined, hard-working, awesome, cute, cuddly, caring woman in the Universe! Guess what her name is! It is EMILY LYNN THOMPSON! Soon to be EMILY LYNN THOMPSON VERNON! I like the sound of that!

Dear World,
I would just like to let everyone know there are 39 days until Aaron and I get married for time and all eternity. Satan sees how close we are to making eternal covenants with our heavenly father. He seems to think it quite funny to make life hard for us. Well News Flash satan, Aaron and I have been waiting our entire lifes for this day. We are not just going to throw eternity with eachother out the window. Nor are we going to put it off. So if you know what is best, you would back the heck off. Aaron and I are going to get married on August 4th, 2012 at 10:00 am in the Denver LDS temple for time and all eternity whether you like it or not. If you knew what was best you would move on. We are doing everything we can to keep the spirit with us at ALL times. We have been reading 4 chapters of the Book of Mormon everyday, we made it to Alma today!! We have set up very strict standards for ourselves, we even wrote them down and gave eachother a copy, promising not to break any of the rules under ANY circumstances. Guess what else satan? I have been going to the temple almost every morning, thats 2 hours where you can't even reach me. Guess what dude, I've been listening to gospel music too. You know what all this means? It means that the Holy Ghost is with me helping me and protecting me from evils like you. So this is a personal letter from me to you telling you to back off because Aaron and I are going to make sacred covenants with the Lord in 39 days, 11 hours, and 43 minutes. Get over it. Jesus won, you lost. Its about time you realized that.
-Emily

It has been a bit since I have blogged. It has been quite busy for these last few weeks. We went to Utah for Emily's bridal shower a few weeks ago. Last weekend we went to Nampa to go to Chantelle's baby shower.      I have been busy with school and work and getting ready for the wedding. It is only 6 weeks away! I am very excited to marry the love of my life for time and all eternity in a little over a month. We have our apartment all set up and everything is ready for us to move in on August 22nd. Our apartment is going to be awesome and it won't be full of dirty dishes! We finished watching Avatar the Last Airbender together and now we will have to find another show to watch.

Last week my little brother Cory, and my friend Nathaniel came up from Coloroado to visit us. We went to Applebees with them, played games and just had a great time. We went to Bear world and saw some bears. We even fed Cory to the bears! (Just Kidding). I went to the dunes with Cory and Nathaniel and we jumped and rolled off them and we got sand everywhere.

Last night we went to Idaho Falls for Bobby Steven's Birthday, then we ate cake at their place and stayed up too late. Needless to say it was hard to get up for work in the morning. It was nice of them to invite us.

We have been slowly stocking up on stuff for our new house and we have even gotten a few wedding presents already. We got Emily's Pots and Pans set that she wanted yesterday with help from a few bridal shower gifts. Life is great! I just love Emily so much, she means the world to me and I love her and I love trying to make her happy. She means the world to me and she is the best!