A day at the Fair

We headed to the Giants "urban" fair near the ballpark with the Eggert girls and had a blast. This is a picture of all of us on the "Dizzy Dragons".Madison was a little hesitant at first but once she saw the "carni-queen" (Makenzie) in action... there was no turning back.Here's a picture of the two of them going down the slide.. which they did about 50 times that day... great way to wear them out!This picture says it all about Makenzie, the "carni-queen" she was the only one riding this roller coaster that most kids wouldn't even go near. She rode it by herself at least 10 times... and it was classic to watch her face.. the girl has no fear!
Madison's two favorites were the slide and these boats that she got to ride in all by herself.
Mark met us there and stole the show by winning elephants for Madison and Makenzie by knocking down the bottles. It was a little bit of a scandal because you couldn't win two prizes in one day... but Mark talked his way into two elephants and everyone was happy... except maybe for Jack who also wanted one.

A few random events...

Jack hit 20 months and like clock work has become obsessed with "choo-choo's" so we decided to take him to one of our favorite family spots in Tilden Park.. the steam trains. He loved it, so I am sure we will be going back quite a bit in the next few months.On Thursdays, my mom takes care of Chloe and we usually like to meet up in the morning and do something fun together. This last Thursday we headed to the Randall Museum and it was so cute to see these two checkin' out the views. Chloe is thoroughly impressed with all Jack's knowledge of the city.

Sprinkle dinner for baby Fish #2

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aWith each new addition we get a little smarter... so for Jen's sprinkle shower instead of doing something during nap time where maybe some kids joined in... we finally got smart and did a dinner and night out on the town. Jen picked Zuni Cafe as her choice of restaurant. This is us right before we left the boys and our kids at my house for the night.... all smiles..at least the mommies were!!
We were really lucky to be joined this time by our dear Aunt Judy who was visiting from Atlanta. She has been such a big part of our lives and we were glad she could join in the West Coast fun.
This was Mom with all her girls.... and check out the fun "diaper cake" that Julie made. Remember if you need cute ideas or helping planning your next wedding, shower, or party check out www.JBDEvents.com
We had such a fun night... and even Jen who was 36 weeks pregnant was not going to pass up a night on the town with her sisters. After dinner we hit "tipsy pig" the new hot spot in the Marina and then on to Nectar, a fun wine bar with a stop for Eileen at All-Star donuts in between. The funniest quote of the night came from Julie... she was being hit on at the bar.. and the guy's pick up line had to do with how nice her purse was... in which she quickly responded "it's my diaper bag". classic, needless to say he moved on quickly after that.

Welcome Home Grammy and Poppo

My parents enjoyed a two week cruise around the Mediterranean for their 35th wedding anniversary... and although it was only 2 weeks you would have thought it was 2 years given the excitement of all the grandkids and their big girls too. We decided to all surprise them at the airport so at 6p on a Thursday... we all caravaned to SFO to surprise them with a sign and balloons. Quite the effort but it was all worth it... as you can see!! The kids could hardly wait, no actually they couldn't wait, to see what surprises Grammy and Poppo had brought back from their adventures.This picture below is nothing short of a miracle given it was dinnertime, bedtime, etc. but as you can see it was happy faces all around to welcome Grammy and Poppo home!!

Way down yonder in the strawberry patch

Today we headed down to Davenport, near Santa Cruz to do some strawberry picking. It was only about 90 minutes away and it was the perfect day with a warm breeze and the sound of the ocean in the background.
I highly recommend this activity it was so much fun and the berries are all organic with no pesticides so you can eat them while you pick and as you can see Jack was a huge fan of the eating not so much the picking.Madison, on the other hand, was a big helper to Oma with the picking... but don't let her intensity in this picture fool you... she also ate her fair share!!It was all in a good day's work.... we had such a great time... looking for the sweetest one, the biggest one, etc

This is Jack and Madison looking over our "loot" and deciding who was going to pull the wagon back up the hill.
Looks like big sister got the job... We ended up picking about 15 pounds of strawberries... so I think we will be having smoothies, jams, and anything else I can think of to make with them for a long time!! Good times and we pledged to make this an annual summer outing.

4th of July

Where's Jack?

By now you might be wondering "where's Jack?" well have no fear.. he is here and eating of course. I had my appendix taken out... so there were a few weeks where everyone enjoyed some "special treats" Here is Jack.. insisting on his own baguette.. he is such a sucker for some good sourdough

We all live in a yellow submarine...

Well not really but we listened to this great song as we dropped Madison and Opa off for an adventure on a submarine.This was down at Pier 41... before the tour.
The adventure ended (as all good ones do) with some ice cream. Thanks Opa for a great day!

Long overdue update....

A bit of the fun we had in June... including Maddy/Daddy day at the Giants game.
There were a couple big highlights... Lou Seal signing her baseball...
Running the bases... with a new friendBut probably the best part (besides the hot dog, cracker jacks and ice cream that she suckered Daddy into letting her have) was the new pink Giants hat that she proudly wore to sharing at preschool the next day.