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July Part 2

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 The rest of July was good. Picking up from where I left off that Monday I took Curtis to physical therapy and his ankles seem to be getting better but he still can't run yet so I hope he continues to make progress before XC starts. Nancy and I then took Anna to lunch for her birthday and the girls danced and we had the Kinneys over for dinner to catch up with them. It was really fun to talk about Sicily since we had just been there and we enjoyed hearing all of their crazy stories. We're glad they are back! Tuesday I hosted Inklings and taught a piano lesson and went to book club, which was really good. I had enjoyed the book and we had a good discussion and even though I drove home in the craziest thunder storm, I made it safely. The rest of the week I went to the gym, kids had youth activities, more dance, more PT, the Wiests came and swam with us one day and we took the Cox kids to the pool another day. Then on that Saturday we did family pictures with Bethany. We got done ...
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July Part 1

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 We got back and the next few days were all about getting back to work for Josh and grocery shopping and laundry and paying bills for me. Brandon was pretty mopey our first day back and I think it was because Debbie had spent so much time with him and I was busy getting back into life and didn't entertain him every moment. Curtis did his second driving time with an instructor and I took him and Emma to the doctor and it was just all the things. For July 4th I really wanted to go to DC but then it was going to be so hot and there was security and you couldn't bring anything with you and then there were storms predicted and then I found out the president was going to be speaking and also Michelle didn't want to go and my kids didn't want to go and the fireworks weren't going to be until 11pm. I think we were still pretty tired from our trip (and honestly the last two months) so we ended up doing nothing. It was the lamest fourth of July ever. We slept in, Josh made pa...
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Last day in Rome and traveling home

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Sunday morning we got off the ship pretty easily, even though it was early, but then the problem was that we had to wait in line forever to get the shuttle to the train station. Then we had to wait at the train station for awhile before our train and then we had a pretty long train ride into Rome. It was four hours from the time we got off the ship to the time we made it to our hotel, which was right near the train station. It actually was an apartment that we rented from an older gentleman who was so kind and met us there and showed us all around. It was a cute little place, which actually felt huge after the ship, and I only regretted that we weren't staying longer.  After the guy finally left we freshened up and set out for our walking tour of Rome, courtesy of my niece, who served her mission in Rome. She had given us a bunch of recommendations and Josh put them together and led us off. We started at the church of St. John, which had awesome statues of the 12 apostles in it and...
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