Our 2yr anniversary!

Heres a quick glimpse of Hot August Nights

This was one of my favorite

This is a Shelby, Ellenor, just like the one in Fast and Furious

San Francisco!!!

Iv'e always wanted to go, it's like a big lego city. Everything is stacked on top of eachother. We took the subway there. Adam was very paronoid about the big city folk, but I thought It was very adventurous! Although we probably contracted some sort of disease on the bus

Here we are smiling, before we walked through the Tenderloin District. Our hotel people told us we could walk to our hotel from the Civic Center subway stop. So we started walking, and kept thinking we would soon leave the "creepy part" of San Fran. It smelt like pee really bad, all the store names were written in Chinese (I think), windows were boarded and seriously creepy people were starring at us as they leaned against the wall drinking out of brown bags. I was in a skirt and Adam was wearing a polo, flip flops and pulling a rolling suitcase. We were asking to be mugged/raped. Adam was dying! He finally found a cab and about threw the lady who was in it out so we could take it. As if the BART subway wasn't bad enough on Adam's anxiety

In front of Alcatrez

We were in San Francisco for like five seconds but got to see Pier 39, and Crookedest Street.
(Oh ya, we went to Hooters that night for dinnner, it was the cheapest place around. Happy Anniversary! ha ha)

Six Flags: Discovery Kingdom!

This was the next part of our anniversary trip. The wooden roller coaster behind Adam was our very favorite.

Shes riding the dolphin!

Kinda looks like Acorn

I got to feed them!

This was our second favorite, a straight shot up and a straight shot down!

Summer Fun with the Friends and Fam!

So after two fantastic weeks of vacation in the homeland, we returned home and unfortunatley had to go back to reality. It's always way worse to go back to work after vacation, I went back to nights too! And Adam went to a week long event, Hot August Nights. He's there from 10am-10pm Sunday-Saturday. Talk about a welcome back. But vacation was WONDERFUL and we were greeted by our girls when we got home who were very happy to see us and our suitcase.

The two week advanture started off with a bachelorette party for Amy and the next night an engagement party for Terra.

This is Terra and my other childhood bestfriend Brittany. It was so great to see them!

And the longtime tradition of camping at Fort Stevens begins!

The first day we went to a private little beach with all the kids. Me and my dad went canoeing with the little ones.....I hope somebody has a good picture of that

Jacqlyn playing in the sand (Ecoli invested sand as Judd would describe it! haha)

Blake and Jacqlyn

The sisters

We don't have many pictures all together, I was very excited about this one!

Harrison and poor Cade, running around like naked mad-men!



Mom and Adam got really into a puzzel

Me and my beautiful nieces!

We went to the Astoria column and the kids threw little wood planes off the top, very exciting!

All nine of my nieces and nephews!
This is a picture by my request, of course me being the only one without kids, I thought it was an excellent idea. About 6 pictures later and lots of moms yelling for good
behavior, this is the best picture we got.

The Zoo we call camping

Grandpa and Luke

Can't go without smores

Luke looking ever so cute



Uncle Adam and Blake

Danielle, grandpa, mom, dad, Jacqlyn(under the black blanket) and me just sittin, another camp favorite

Savannah, Blake, Haley and Tyson at the "secret" spot Adam and I took them to at Coffenbury Lake


This is what bath time for the little ones looked like.
Camping was fantastic as usual. It was so great to see all my sisters, my mom and dad, grandpa, cousins, aunts and uncles, and especially all my nieces and nephews. I wish I could be there to watch them grow!

Amy and Blakes Wedding!

The bride and I de-boneing Salmon for the big day

We did a little fishing ourselfs on the Columbia River with some friends who grew up in Cathlamet, WA- the home of the bride and where the wedding took place.

Adam, me, Katie and her parents stayed in the cutsest little cottage on the River. Katie is a college friend and lives in LA, it was great to see her.

This is one of the bride and grooms gifts- the Aqua Skipper. The Gifter was gladley testing it out for them. Very funny!

After all the preperation (left those pictures out) the big day finally came. Adam and I were both in the wedding. By the way this is the couple I made the WSU quilt for.

The wedding was in Amy's backyard on the Columbian, it was beautiful. I got to walk with the cutest groomsman!

The beautiful bride and her daddy

With a ceremony on the dock

Me and some of the college girlfriends



The first dance

Adam trying to dance with all the ladies

We all loved seeing eachother and had a great time!

No fun fishing

Adam and I attempted to spend a nice day together fishing on pyramid Lake, however we lost 3 lures within 6 casts, spent over 25 dollars on day licenses and a storm started coming in 30 minutes after we made the 45 minute drive. So much for a fun day of fishing! :(

The storm!

But we did get some good miniture golfing in later that night, which didn't contribute positively to Adam's day.......I won.

An introduction to our neighbor Dave

This was an acutal conversation Adam and I had with our neighbor Dave, whose a mathmatic genious. His girlfriend is coming into town to visit the next day

Me: So are you gonna clean your house and stuff for Rosa
Dave: Should I?
Me: Well ya, at least vaccum
Dave: oh....do you guys have a vaccum?
Me: Yes Dave, and you can borrow it
Dave: Are they really expensive cause I don't wana break it
Me: Dave, your not gonna break a vaccum, all you do is turn it on.
Dave: but i dont know how to empty the bag and stuff. How do you turn it on?
-So i show Dave how to turn it on
-Dave comes over a few minutes later
Dave: how do i make it do that angle thing?
Me: What?
Dave: like to make it go under things?
-Adams explains how to make it do the "angle thing"
-So Dave finishes and brings the vaccum back over.
Dave: How do I know if it worked?
Me: The floor looks cleaner, or there's dirt in the vaccum container
-After kind of standing there for a minute he says
Dave: So what do you do about like the bathroom and laundryroom floor? (which is tile)
-Adam and I look at eachother and smile. I already start to get up and get him a broom
Adam: you sweep it
Dave: what about a mop?
Adam: you have to sweep first Dave
-So Dave borrows a mop and a broom. Again he comes over unsure of what he has done and gets Adam. He was afraid the mop might have actually "pushed dirt on to the floor" because the kitchen tile still looked dirty he said. Adam explained to him that the tile is varigated and suppose to look that way.

Dave is very special, we have to help him out a lot. All he eats is hot pockets and frozen pizzas (after we showed him how to use the oven, no joke)

Melissa's Wedding!!!

Melissa's wedding was this last weekend in Bremerton, WA. Melissa is my good college friend.

Before the wedding, shopping had to be done of course, so us girls set off to diligently shop as you can see. (people actually wear these!!)

Here is the bride and her bridesmaids at the rehersal dowtown on the docks near the ferry landing.

The rehersal dinner was very fancy, at her soon to be mother-in-laws place.

On the way home me , Amy and Kali found big hats in Mel's truck, so of course we found much delight in them

Unfortunatley Mel has some pretty crusty friends and the next morning we went running and met Mel at the beauty salon......

The beautiful bride and her crusty friends!!!!!

Melissa had a very cute little flower girl.

We eventually attempted to clean up

This is a really neat picture. Melissa is looking down from our hotel room window at her ceremony set up, you can see all the chairs (thats only half, it was a very big wedding) and the harbor view.

And the night begins


This is all of us college girls....together again!!!! Coming from Spokane, Silverdale, Portland, Reno, LA and Birch Bay. Very fun and exciting!


It was a beautiful fancy wedding

-I love my girlefriends very much and we had a blast. Unfortunatley you get together a bunch of 25yr old girls, recently married or soon to be and I get home and recieve this text message from a poor confused husband: "What the heck happened to my wife! She came home from the wedding and now all she wants to do is have babies. Can you talk some sense into her!"

Tubing down the Truckee River

The other weekend we went tubing down the Truckee River. We have wanted to do this ever since we got to Reno but never got a chance last summer. Apparently this is what people around here do.

I almost died at least twice until my friends all laughed at me and told me that you should NOT ride on your tube head first on your belly.

It took us about 4 hours to get to the end, or downtown. One person parks at the beginning and another downtown. Lots of fun, but we came home with lots of bruises!