Home for the Holiday

Shane and I drove the long 12 hours home to Portland a couple of weeks ago for Labor Day to see my new nephew Cade and hang with the family. Ryan and Jessie were out of town so it was a bummer not to see them. Most of the family was together and Nichol flew in for a few days a well.

Cade Michael Holwege

I have a new nephew!! Aaron and Angie welcomed baby Cade into the waorld on August 16th. I'm so excited!! Shane and I will be making a trip to Oregon next week to see the little guy.

Time to redecorate!!

It's hard renting and not being able to paint. I was getting bored of looking at our boring white, ugly, dirty walls in our bathroom so I ask my land lord if we could paint and he said YES!! I was so excited!! I painted the molding white and the walls a nice antique lace. Magic!! What a difference a couple coats of paint makes. I love it so much I had to share. Our bathroom has a fishing theme. I found this cute shower curtin and pine cone shower curtin hooks on sale. What do you think?

4th of July Weekend

Happy 4th of July

Shane and I went to St. Charles, ID ( Bear Lake) where his sister Heather lives to celebrate the forth of July with his family. His sister Lisa came for Yakima, WA and his parents came form St. George. We were there 3 nights, made home made ice cream, camp out in the back yard and rode 4 wheelers and ski do's all weekend. It was alot of fun and it was nice to be with family for the holiday.

Swollen all over

I woke up Thursday morning with a swollen face, wrist, feet and ankles (I'll blame the belly on that too). I was blowing up like a balloon from all the walking, heat and salty junk food I ate. Shane and I went to Les Mes that night and I had a hard time walking I didn't know what was going on until I looked down at my feet. I have never seen them so fat before.

Now Thats Entertainment

This is what happens when your tired, bored and trying to entertain.

Mr. Universe

Miss America and Mother Nature

Superman

Next Morning Shane decided to shave is beard. For those of you that have never seen Shane completly hairless on his head and face now it your oppertunity. Still hansome as ever!!

Disneyland

Yahoo, finially after 23 years I made it back to Disneyland. Me and Shane and his 2 nephews Benson & McKay left for Spanish Fork to stay the night last Friday with Nichol. Then on Saturday we left for St. George to meet up with his met up with his parents Kathy & Herold and his 2 neices Keylee & Megan. On Sundey we got up early and headed out to Californica. The drive across the dessert was so muggy and hot. On top of the air condictioning I had to keep a bottle of ice water under my shirt to keep me cool. We all made it Anihem around 6pm, went out to dinner at Red Robbin and prepared for our fun day at Disneyland. An early morning rise on Monday we took off for Disneyland. The park has changed so much sense I have been there. First thing the kids wanted to ride Splash mountin so we did that a couple times and my shoes got drentched so I walked in soacking wet shoes for a good part of the morning and into the afternoon. I think I was the one that got splashed the most. Shanes mom was in wheelchair so it made it nice for us and the kids to go and get right on the rides so we would'nt have to wait in the big long lines. After lunch Shane and I went over to California Adventure and went on a few rides there. I had never been so I wanted to check it out for a while. Later we met up with the rest of the crew and had dinner and rode on a few more rides. My favorite ride and the hit of the park was "Indiana Jones". The kids were cute and it was fun to see them excited. At one point we were all having so much fun and I think we were all on a Disneyland high, McKay, the littlest one in our group looked up at me and said, Amy I love so much I think I can marry you. I thought that was cute. We went to Knotts Berry Farm on Tuesday and then back to St. George on Wednesday. Our feet were sore, kids fighting, the heat and traffic, but it was all worth it going to the Happiest Place on Earth.