Saturday, October 21, 2006

Wow, what a month we have had so far! I feel like everyweek we are having a party or partying. I must love October. We celebrated Emmet's Birthday with a little shin dig at our pad. I think everyone had a fun time and the kids digged the hats!


Paul made a very snazzy lego cake for Emmet. Emmet's B-day them was Bob the builder and so hense the Lego's (you know Bob build's and you can build with Lego's. I know it's a stretch).



Both Parker and Emmet got to enjoy Paul's hard work, each feasting on their own little Lego cake. As you can see here Emmet is really going to town on this bad boy. All in all, it was a fun party and I can't believe Emmet is a year old now. Boy does time fly!




We like to have an activity as well as a party for our kids for their birthday, so we decided to take Emmet to Lemos Pumpkin Patch. It is a really cool farm with pony rides, train rides and other fun stuff. Our friends the Ross' came with us to join in the fun. Getting there was not that easy. I guess we didn't realize how pumpkin crazy people can get here in San Fran. It took almost an hour of bumper to bumper traffic to get to the pumpkin patch. And yes everyone was going to Lemos and the surrounding pumpkin patches. It was crazy but we still had fun.


You can see Parker riding a pony. I think he could have ridden ponies all day. Do you think they give those ponies breaks? They didn't seem to happy at this place. I'm always freaking out about abuses towards well just about anything, so don't mind my ravings!


Here is Parker playing amongst the pumpkins. Parker call pumpkins, pumpkin patches. I've tried to correct him of this but to no avail. We really think it's cute though. Since going to this pumpkin patch, I have been educated on the many types of gourds there really are. Have you ever seen one shaped like an acorn. Well, they exist!




Paul took so many awesome pictures of Emmet and Parker together. So we couldn't decide which one to put on here but we like the scarecrow on this one.
Parker
is always ready to pose and here he pleading so much to get his picture taken he's anxiety ridden!

Sunday, October 01, 2006

Having fun in the sun at Solvang. These are pictures in the Hans Christian Anderson park. The kids had a nice little stop here.










San Diego was a blast. Here's a picture of Parker with Shamu or some Orca. They ahve seven. We are still not sure which one is Shamu and we think there might be a cover up or something and the real Shamu has already died or is relaxing on the beaches in Florida enjoying


retirement. Either way, they put on a great show. They are beautiful animals.



The other great Sea World is the dolphin exhibit. We had a chance for a cheap $1.50 a fish to fead the dolphins. It was well worth it though. What an experience! Here's Parker getting a nice touch on the noggin.


Shamu stole the show for all of us but a close second for April was the Beluga whales. They were like something out of a fairy tale. Mysterious and magestic. I liked the shark exhibit. SCARY!!



Our first night we stayed in a little town called Solvang, just off the 101 at about the half-way point from San Francisco to San Diego. It's a little dutch tourist trap but the fudge was incredible (Rocky road fudge was our favorite).

Right on the 101 near Solvang is a little town called Buellton. It claims to have the best split pea soup in the world so we stopped in to see if they were right. I think they were right, April wasn't so sure.


Old town San Diego was another stop on our trip . We first stopped at the church's museum commemorating the mormon battalion. We watched a movie depicting the journey and telling the hardships they endured. They help found San Diego, were the first to find gold at Sutter's mill and blazed the first wagon trail over the Sierras.

Old town also sports some great mexican food and we ate at the best. The coyote has been voted the best mexican food in San Diego. It was great food.


Another fun stop was the San Diego mission. It was the first of 21 missions founded by Fryar Junipero Serra in California.