Thursday, May 22, 2008

BIRTHDAYS, BBQs, & TENNIS (of course)

That's basically what we've been up to.
BIRTHDAYS...
First it was Cade's birthday. He was so excited because it was finally "his turn" to have a birthday party. It was a lot of fun and the weather held out for about an hour and a half until it ended the party with a huge dust storm that had all the kids crying. Luckily we got all the birthday stuff done!


We borrowed a bouncy house for the kids

Cade loved it

Opening presents

Cade in the hot seat

All the kids wanted to help

More helping


His Lightning McQueen Cake (don't look too close- I frosted it 20 min before the party started so it's pretty sloppy)

He loved his party, presents, and everyone who came!!!






It was "my turn" next as Cade would say. I feel like I had a birthday month with San Francisco and then being spoiled by family and friends.


Some of my tennis friends took me to breakfast but we were sulking from having just lost a match that we didn't take a pic. But Paradise Bakery is our little spot that we love and is so yummy. If you're there for breakfast get a blueberry scone- to die for!

Birthday lunch at Cafe Rio!

Birthday dessert at Iceberg with some friends from my branch. We started at Cold Stone but the line was too long, so then we shopped, came back to Cold Stone and the line was even longer, so we ended up at Iceberg getting ice cream and also fries, burgers, corn dogs, etc...

Rob took me to dinner on my actual Birthday to California Pizza Kitchen- one of my favorites and then our best friends suprised me by coming over and bringing an ice cream cake! (I was already grubbed out by this time if you can tell)

I've haven't had a birthday cake in forever so I was very suprised. (Thanks Rob and Ange!)


My mom was here during all of this too so it was fun to have her and she helped watch my kids. Rob is pretty much glad that my birthday is over after Sunday when we get together with his family. But hey you're only 25 once and you just have to take it all in! :)



BBQ's...
We've been barbequeing a lot lately due to spurts of nice weather and the NBA playoffs being on. Unfortunately all our neighbor friends are Jazz fans and we're Laker fans so it was interesting when they went head to head. Rob showed up for the barbeque's but then would shun himself to our basement to watch the game in peace. :) (He's very serious about his Lakers)



Rob at the grill which is not often

Check out his new jeans I forced him to buy- him and jeans have been a battle but I won :)

The kiddies

Notice all the babies crammed on one blanket :)

One of our neighbors had the game projected onto the side of one of our buildings so everyone could watch outside. (minus Rob)


Our little neighborhood and branch is so fun!!









TENNIS (of course)...
So we've been playing tournaments for three weeks straight. Well I have and Rob has played with his brother Mike in two of them. I'm getting a little burned out which I didn't think was possible but it's so fun to watch Rob and Mike play again. They make a really good team together. In the middle of all our tournaments was the High school Boys State Tennis Tournament. Rob and Mike coach a lot of the Timpview boys individually and help their dad coach the Timpview team. The team won state and a lot of the boys won individually too! It was a lot of fun to be up their cheering and watching some good tennis.

Monday, May 5, 2008

San Francisco














Rob took me to San Francisco for an early birthday present. My brother and his wife live there so we stayed with them and hung out, went site seeing, shopped, and had so much fun!


So to start off, San Francisco is an interesting place with some interesting people and things going on. Here are pictures of some of the "interesting" things we saw.

Working up a sweat in my hot little outfit (or that's what she thinks)

The Obama sidewalk

The new way to tour the city

Taking my baby for a walk

By baby I mean my dog (I guess this is pretty normal in San Fran)





There were more things that we didn't catch on camera like the 30/40 year old adults who rollerblade through the marina every weekend at night, with glow sticks attached to their clothing and a boombox strapped to the leader.(They were too fast to catch on camera!) And the girl bar with a line out the door we saw while eating at a near by restaurant. My sister-in-law is going to compile a book of pictures of all the "interesting" things they've seen while living there.

OK so here's our pictures...


Golden Gate

Me, Rob, Jonathan, Brooke, and Blake

Palace of Fine Arts (unfortunately it was being restored a little so there was scaffolding on the outside of it)
What it normall looks like

At night



We crossed the Golden Gate and went to the redwood forrest

The trees were huge

Ghiradelli Square

Shopping!! (Brooke and I went shopping for about 7hrs the first day and then went back for more the next)

Macy's at Union Square. All the building were a couple stories high.

The shopping district downtown has all the stores in these huge old historic buildings. The architecture was amazing.

Alcatraz (Our favorite site seeing adventure by far- so so fun)


My little brother Daniel and his finace Cassie joined us.

Taking the audio tour ( we kinda look dorky but the tour was soo good!)

Typical Cell

The infamous escape


My sister-in-laws