San Francisco

We went to California for a few days last week which was
so fun. Joe and his brother Jackson got invited to go to a builders
convention by one of their distributors i-level. Here we are at
dinner with Sky (middle) who works in Boise for i-level. This was in Union Square. We ran into a huge heart so I had to
get a shot of it. Joe's a jokester so the first shot was a funny one:)

Of course the real picture he was uninterested in even paying attention!

We stayed at Hotel Nikko which was really nice and this is

the view from our room.

I don't even remember what we took this picture for, but the

guys made Rachelle and I stand in the middle of the street to

take it.

We took a boat out to see the Golden Gate and Alcatraz. The whole

trip was pretty chilly, but this ride was especially cold. Luckily they

had blankets for us to use.

It's amazing to me how bridges work and that they can hold so

many cars and not colapse. This one has a very long span without

anything holding it up, crazy.

We decided to walk down to pier 39 to get some dinner.

We had to take it all in so we did a lot of walking all day and night

just to see what was around.

We walked by a small night club that looked fun so we went in to see

and it was aweome because there were two guys sitting at a piano and

you just went up and grabbed a piece of paper and wrote down a song

and they would try to play it and sing the song too. I got a shot of one

of them and he was making a little face at me. They were so good

though. I think Rachelle and I enjoyed a lot because we both play

the piano so we know how hard it would be to do what they were doing.

This was at Fisherman's Wharf and this guy is known as Bush man.

It was hilarious. He's a guy who hides behind this hand made (bush)

and he just scares people that are walking by. He gets tips to scare

people! He was really funny too. He would scare a girl and then

yell out to her boyfriend or whoever and say "I bet you haven't got

her to scream like that before!" There were people lined up and

down both sides of the street just watching him and seeing who

he would get next. We watched him a good 20 minutes both times

we saw him. Even tour buses were stopping by and telling who he

was-he's a landmark!

We ended our trip at Fisherman's Wharf with a nice lunch at In and Out

before we had to go to the airport. Can't get any better than that!

I wish I would have had a camera going at the airport when we got home.

I've only left the kids one other time over night so I was just itching to see them. Joe's mom watched them for us while we were gone and since we flew right into Twin she brought them to the airport to see us get off the plane. I could see them when we landed and Macy just kept on waving in the window. As I got off the plane I just started to wave and I couldn't wait so I just started running for the door. As soon as I got in the door Macy came running into my arms and was squeezing me so tight over and over. It was the best homecoming ever! I reached out for Brady and of course he was looking for dad. After a good couple of minutes Macy finally looked at me and said, "where's my daddy?" Then we traded kids and started it all over again. Man, I love my little ones. It was a fun time away, but so good to get home and be together again.

Breathtaking

Isn't this just so pretty?! We went to the perrine bridge a
couple saturdays ago to let the kids walk on the bridge. They
thought it was pretty cool.

Such a great view. Here we were waiting for some parachuters

to jump.

The kids were amazed at how high up we were.