A giggly girls night

My good friend Melissa is getting married this month, so last weekend we threw a bachelorette party for her in Spokane. My theory on bachelorette parties is that they should be as fun, girly and immature as possible. So needless to say, we played lots of games involving what looks like male genitalia and I made Mel a head band as you can see in the picture below, that has two silver "things" on top, pink fur and a veil.

For appetizers we had little smokies to snack on with penis shaped pasta salad.

The first game's goal was to get the hotdog in the top of the gatorade bottle, heehee.

The next game involoved a butternut squash, nylons and an orange. The goal was to push your orange to the finish line first by thrusting your dangeling butternut squash! This game was halariously funny!
The winners got chocolate in the shape of, you guessed it!

After all these fun festivities, we went to sushi and went dancing-with Mel wearing the head piece!

Hey, when else is it ok to do these things....or is it ever!?!? hee hee

Emma's Wedding

Mr. and Mrs. Chris Miles!

Adam's cousin got married in Redding, CA on May 9th. The wedding was beautiful and it was great to see all of Adam's family again and meet some I had never met before. We had a blast!

At the rehersal dinner, the night before, Adam and Uncle Harold manned the BBQ

Emma's step dad, Casey performed the ceremony at a beautiful park along a river

I happily took beautiful baby duty

The little ones were soooo cute. These are cousins Scott and McKenna

We missed Gary!

This is "the crew", some of Adam's aunts, uncles and cousins from out of town that stayed at the hotel together. We really had a great time.

The next day (mother's day) we went to Weaverville, where Margo and her siblings grew up. We attended the church they grew up in and visited the gravesites of their parents and Adam's cousin Scott.

Adam and Margo in Downtown Weaverville!-Cute little town

Rock-N-River

I did my first 1/2 marathon on Sunday, the Reno Rock-N-River. It was a rainy day which bummed some people out, but I thought it was quit refreshing.

And were off!!!

The coarse followed the Truckee River and went through some really nice neighborhoods, mostly trail and flat. No in between pictures but it was a very pretty coarse.

This is the final stretch......


I never quit caught up to my pace person (my solemate)

But I met a guy whose solemate I was, so the race was on

This is not my actual finish picture, but me and my new friend sprinted into the finish like champs! (of coarse I must mention I beat him. hee hee)

Mmmm, free massages afterwards

I got an award!

I placed third in my division. Yay!

Like the great #1 fan he is, Adam sat out in the rain and waited for me. What a good little hubby!

Megan's Bridal Shower

Megan (on the left) is getting married in June, so last weekend she had her bridal shower!!!

Of course it had to be done, the toilet paper bride game.

Kaylee Won!

It was a fun day. Kaylee and I had a little girl time on the way over to Susanville, CA. I ended up staying after the party and helping Megan with her invitations while Adam and Megan's fiancee were fishing.

Mom and Acorn

Aren't they cute!!!

Acorn loves the fireplace!

This is why we usually don't let them sleep with us, cause instead they sleep on us!

Me, Kaylee and Laura


Just a pretty church downtown

Adam and I on the Wine Walk

Softball- Team: Stimulus Package

I got invited to play on a coed softball team by a girl from work. Last Wed was our first game. I was really nervous, I didn't play in HS, only a little intramural at WSU. I told her this and she still wanted me to play. Adam actually played baseball in HS and for like two seconds in college, he was very good and knows a lot. So on the way he was prepping me and giving me pointers. He failed to REMIND me ( I swear I knew I was just nervous and caught up in the moment) that you cannot run through third, or second base, only first. So I did this naturally and was kind of embarrassed but Adam said that nobody saw except the base coach who was screaming at me to stop. Adam even went as far to tell me that I "actually" did really well and he was impressed. I didn't do as well this week, but nobody did, we lost. But I still am proud of myself, off to the batting cages this weekend. I like picking up sports that are new to me. I played soccer in college a few times too and to my surprise I was good, it made me happy. Adam, who never played either, was pretty good too even though he hates the idea of soccer and said he would never play, he's so funny! But next week Adam will get to sub in and play with me, very exciting, I hope he wears his little baseball pants, hee hee. Oh, and when we get our cute little softball team jersey's, I will take a picture and post it!


Apparently I like to put old pictures up, but speaking of intramural sports, this is a funny picture of our WSU competitive coed dodgeball team. This is for real and we were very serious as you can tell from Adam's face. We were Champions that year I must mention. You have no idea how competitive dodgeball can get!

This was our not so serious team! We just played for fun at the Stake Center in Moscow, Idaho.

I have no pictures of our softball, football, volleyball or basketball teams, but I think the eighties dodgeball team pic is all you need! We had WAY too much fun in college.

The asparagus sweatshop

A friend and I really enjoy canning, this is another late night activity of ours. We can Pickeled asparagus, her grandma's recipe.

Everyone at my work LOVES it and asks for jars, so I knew when we started we would need a lot! I don't know how may pounds we bought but between the two of us we had about 25 bundels or $80 worth the asparagus!We ran out of vinegar and had to run to the grocery store, so on our way out I gave Momma some hugs....she likes to hug back.

As the night went we got a little goofier, really feeling like sweat shop workers, canning is a very warm long process.

Yes, this is a mirror image of the kitchen you saw in previous pictures, my friend Laura is also my neighbor and we had to use her kitchen too to make the pickeling sauce because our canning pots were sooooo big we had no room on my stove top.

And the completed project, a total of 45 jars!

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