Shane's Birthday

Shane turned 25 last Thursday!

Shane on his 4th birthday. Wasn't he the cutest thing EVER?

This card was from Micheline. She wrote on the front in French "A large amount of money awaits you in this card." The funny thing was it was true.

This is our wonderful Micheline. Isn't she so cute? She is a very good friend of ours and we love her as if she were our own grandmother

Johnathan's (Shane's brother) card to Shane.

Lego's X-Wing! Wahoo!

We played some ping pong later and Shane rocked everyone!

Micheline didn't play because she didn't want to have to put Shane in his place.

Work Trip

 Shane had a business trip in LA and was put up in a hotel for the week. I got to go with him and I'm so glad I did. It was so nice to have a little relaxing time by ourselves for almost a whole week. We had lot's of fun together.

This was our romantic dinner at The Cheesecake factory. As the sun was setting, we looked out at the beautiful marina while we enjoyed our delicious (and free) meal.

4th of July weekend

For the 4th of July weekend, Shane and I decided to go to San Diego. We never had a real honeymoon and since this was the last 3-day weekend we would have before the baby would be here, we took one:) We had tons of fun! We went to Sea World on Saturday and unfortunately only took 3 pictures the entire time we were there. This is a picture of the dolphin show. They had some technical difficulties, which resulted in us watching this lady bird hang in the air for about 10 minutes before they finally called the show off. I was kind of funny. We were able to see a later showing and it was really neat.

Shane LOVES turtles! Mainly because of Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles:)

We thought this tree was AMAZING! It's trunk was just made of a whole bunch of branches. It was so weird!

Shane fell asleep at 8 on Sunday and was lying completely diagonal across the bed. I couldn't even sit in it. He eventually moved when I was ready to go to bed:)

We got to drive across this awesome bridge

On our way home on Tuesday we made a little detour to Leogoland! We have really wanted to come here to see the new Star Wars section. We found out that we could get a shoppers pass into the park for just a penny each that would allow us one hour in the park..

Chewbacca made entirely out of Lego's.

This is Star Wars Miniland. They had a whole bunch of Star Wars scenes set up. All of these things are made out of thousands of lego's. It was really neat to see.

Shane's favorite spaceship: The Millennium Falcon

The Hollywood Bowl

This is a lego model of Grand Central Station. Shane use to catch the train there everyday when he was doing his internship in New York.

We had to end with seeing Star Wars again:)

We had to pay $12 dollars for parking but if we spent $20 or more in the park our fee would be waived. So, naturally, we HAD to get a lego set which Shane put together soon after we got home:)

Idaho/Utah

I have really procrastinated this blog but oh well. I went with my family to Utah to take Emma to EFY and then we went to spend the week in Idaho with Kaite's family. We had so so so much fun!

None of our nasal cavities agreed with the weather the entire trip. Andrew, Emma, and I each had several nose bleeds.

We had lots of interruptions on our way to Utah. First we had to stop in Bishop to get oil. The car was acting kind of funny the whole way to Tehachapi. When we got there, dad figured out that we were extremely low on transmission fluid. So it was another stop at an auto parts store.

THEN, right before we got to Ely, our car was acting REALLY funny. It felt like the breaks were locking up all on their own... it turns out they were. We stopped, again, and this is what we found. These are the wires that are supposed to connect to the trailer. They somehow broke and were dragging on the asphalt thus causing the trailer breaks to seize up. We drove the rest of the way to Ely with no breaks on the trailer.

We at least had very pretty scenery to enjoy while we were momentarily stuck.

After going to three different auto parts store in Ely, Dad found what he needed to fix the problem. It was almost 8 PM by then so we camped in Ely for the night.

The next day we decided to take advantage of our unplanned stay and rode the Ely ghost train.

It was really fun. We all really enjoyed the historical ride.

We met up with Katie and her family on Saturday night and spent the day at the visiter's center on Sunday.

Our wonderful cousin's met us there. We had so much fun with them.

Miriam made this beautiful blanket for our little baby girl. I love it so much and can't wait to wrap up my sweet baby with it. I love Miriam! She is always so sweet and thoughtful.

Everyone came to the trailer that night for spaghetti:)

Emma didn't do much better than Lily:)

I don't really remember why they were standing on that table.

I love our Howe cousins!!!!!!

We hiked up to the "This is the place" monument on Saturday with Clark and Amy's family. I know this picture is really blurry but I wanted to show Nicole's boot on her foot. She hiked up that steep trail like champ. She didn't complain once and never even fell to the end of the line.