San Francisco Day Trip: Architecture
Posted in FAMILY on Mar 31st, 2011
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San Francisco Day Trip: Japantown
Posted in FAMILY on Mar 30th, 2011
I had been to Chinatown and expected Japantown to be similar. I was surprised to discover how different it was, and not in a bad way. Japantown does not have the open markets, or the ornamentation on the buildings that Chinatown has, but the cool Japan centric shops are set within three or four small […]
Day Trip San Francisco: Aqua Forest
Posted in FAMILY on Mar 30th, 2011
Whenever Grandma Margaret is in town, it’s a given we will head for San Francisco for a day of re-visiting old haunts, and exploring new ones. Uncle Paul joined us for the day as well. We decided to go to Japantown first. Just outside of Japantown, we spotted a neat store to explore. So glad […]
Down Time with Margaret
Posted in FAMILY on Mar 30th, 2011
The weather was nasty last week. Stormy, rainy, windy, icky. We were homebound for a few of the days, and spent the time watching videos and playing games. When there was a break in the weather, David offered to watch the boys so Margaret and I could get out for a while. We went to […]
More Birthday Festivities
Posted in FAMILY on Mar 30th, 2011
After attending church service Saturday night, we went to Red Robin for a celebratory dinner. The place was jam packed and crazy! The Sacramento area police departments teamed together to raise funds for the Special Olympics. They placed envelopes on the tables to collect money, and also provided back up help for the Red Robin […]
‘R’s 7th Birthday!
Posted in FAMILY on Mar 30th, 2011
Sigh. My baby is 7….bittersweet 🙂 We have a tradition where the birthday boy gets to pick out whatever they want for breakfast. ‘R’ chose Lucky Charms, Cheesy Eggs, Sausage, and Cherry Yogurt… We had a friend of the boys stay with us for the weekend, and we made sure it was a fun time […]
Guitar Lesson
Posted in FAMILY on Mar 24th, 2011
Police Theme Birthday Party
Posted in FAMILY on Feb 7th, 2011
Before you say it, I know my son’s birthday was in December, but we are just getting around to having a little friend’s party for him in February! It’s tough sharing the holidays with your birthday! We held a small party for ‘A’, with a couple of his close friends. The theme was police… We […]
Reno/Tahoe – Day Six
Posted in FAMILY on Jan 25th, 2011
Sigh…that time has come. Time to go home… One last lovely view… The fam and ‘T’.. Tiffany and me… “Excavating crystals…”
Reno/Tahoe – Day Five
Posted in FAMILY on Jan 25th, 2011
Second day at Northstar…the boys to their classes, and the adults to the slopes. Our friends Crystal and Eric, joined us for lunch, then skiied with Terry. WOO HOO!! After a full day of skiing, we enjoyed some warm beverages by the fire, then went to Mikuni for a wonderful sushi dinner. Our long time […]