Grandma & Boppa

While I was at YW Camp, my parents watched my two little munchkins in San Francisco. They went to parks, watched Toy Story 3 on the big screen, frequented Whole Foods and ate Mcky Donalds on the Wharf. Sarah and Will LOVED hanging out with Grandma & Boppa. I'm glad my mom pulled out her camera at the park. I love these pictures!








Thanks again Mom & Dad for watching my babies. I'm so lucky to have such great parents that I didn't have to worry a minute about my kids while I was away.

YW Camp 2010

Just got back from another AMAZING camp with the AMAZING Young Women of the San Francisco Stake. I'm 6 for 6 with attending girls camp since we moved to SF 6 years ago. I feel so blessed. It was super fun to go this year with Cyndi as the director. Even with a wedding in August she was able to pull off another super spiritual, crazy-cool camp.


This year I got to be Head Cookie. (AKA in charge of the kitchen staff.) I have to say, I need to write huge thank you notes for all the kitchen people from the previous 5 years. It's a lot of work! Thank goodness I was blessed by the most AWESOME kitchen crew EVER. I couldn't have done it without you Jessie, Ana & Angela or the plentiful number of extra helpers. We had super yummy food - lots of fruits and veggies. I was happy that my garlic alfredo sauce turned out for the pasta bar and it was fun to share my mom's homemade Cafe Rio tomatillo dressing when we had taco salad.




I loved having Rog come up on Friday afternoon. Roger has also been to Camp Lehi 6 times in 6 years - the first 2 years he stayed the entire time! Oh how I love my Rog. He is such an amazing support and help for me.


And where would we have been without Bishop Lesley and President Carter? They have also been 6 for 6. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!


Although doing the COPE course is always tons of work, it is sooooo worth it. Thanks to our huge crew of helpers! We had a blast seeing girls jump out of a tree, walk across a fallen log, zip down the zip line, do the trust fall, walk on cables over a stream ... Oh so much fun! I even took a turn on the zip line and did my crazy sporadic screaming. AAAAHH... AAAAHH... AAAAHH... AAAAHH... all the way down. Totally impressive. :) The courage the girls exerted on the course was phenomenal. Jumping out of a 50 foot tree isn't an easy feat. I'm so proud of our girls!


I love girls camp and my amazing girls. One of my favorite quotes for the week came from one of Misty's incredible devotionals. I don't remember who she was quoting, but the quote is "Heavenly Father loves his little girls." I think that sums up camp entirely.

Girls Camp (A First...)

Addendum to Hillary's post about Girl's Camp:
It's true, I had a great time despite the fact that I was only able to attend the last day. Since this was my sixth time to girls camp, it's becoming more difficult to reach 'first' milestones. However, this year I was able to accomplish a 'first' thanks to my little buddy pictured above on the notecard. This year marks the first time I have ever been bitten by a tick. Yes, while driving home from camp I wondered what was causing my irritating bump on my leg. I discovered it while we were unloading the camp gear in the camp shed. Many suggestions were given on how to remove it but Jim McManis and I decided to use his cool tick removing kit. We pulled it out quite easily with this tool that looked like a cross between a toe nail clipper and pliers. You may be wondering why I have such a large scab (picture taken one week later) on my leg if the tick came out easily. It's because after we took the tick out Jim decided to prob a bit further to make sure we didn't leave any tick parts in my leg. Well, after hearing my flesh crunch a couple times I told Jim I had enough of his probing. My leg was sore and tender for a week, not from the tick, but from having my flesh pinched. I kept the little bugger as seen in the photo below. I do need to give Jim props for successfully removing the tick without resulting in Lyme disease.

Can't wait for next year's girls camp!

World Cup @ the Civic Center

I've been enjoying catching a bit of soccer at the Civic Center's live showings of the World Cup before jumping on BART to head to work.

Happy Father's Day Rog

You are the best daddy ever. Thanks for all that you do. We sure love you!

Tea Party

We had our favorite twin friends over for a late-night tea party. It was so fun! We can't wait for another date :)

Choo Choo

We had a spontaneous morning and headed to the East Bay to visit Tilden Park's super awesome train. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it when William says, chugga chugga chugga chugga CHOO CHOO.

LDS Family Night for the Giants

We love going to the ball game! GGGOOOOOOOOOOOO GIANTS!!!

Last Play Date

Come back and visit soon. We sure love you.

Window Kisses

William is 19 Months!

William is such a kid these days. It's so fun being his Mommy. Here are some of my favorites:

* Singing time in Nursery: I LOVE watching William dance around while we sing, "In the Leafy Treetops," "Jesus Said Love Everyone," "I am Like a Star" ... etc. Or when he does the actions for "If You're Happy and You Know It" and "I'm So Glad When Daddy Comes Home." I promise to video Will and Sarah signing the "Daddy song!" It's adorable.

* Pee-se: Also known as please. He even tries to do the sign for it at the same time. Can I just say it MELTS MY HEART every time.

* Books: Ever since we put these bookshelves in Sarah and William's room, William has been so infatuated with books. His favorite right now is "Moo Baa LaLaLa" by Sandra Boynton. I read it at least 3 or 4 times before he lets me go on to another book. He LOVES saying "lalala" (which really sounds like ("nanana"). I can't help myself from giggling every time. It's so stinkin' cute. Sandra Boynton is one of our favorites. Sarah's favorite book for the longest time was "Oh My! Oh My! Oh Dinosaurs."

* Hallway Ball Time: My kids love their backyard hallway. I often open the front door to our apartment and let the kids take a couple of balls out in the hallway to kick around. They love it. I love it. Ahhh. The joys of apartment living.

* Cuddles: William is a cuddler. I love his lovin'. He's especially cuddly when he's tired or has just woken up. His hugs couldn't be sweeter.

* Prayer Time: I love that he can fold his arms. Thank you Papas! (his AMAZING nursery leaders) When it's time to fold his arms, he gives me a big grin and tries to hold his arms together.

* Words: They are coming! His favorites are ball, blocks (read: bauchs), books, please, dada, mama, hot, wow, truck, car and bus.

* Cooling down his food: If something's too hot, he'll say, "hot" and then proceed to shake his head while blowing on his food.

* Begging for kisses: When he sees Mommy and Sarah get their kisses from Daddy, William goes "uh uh" and makes a kissing noise to let Roger know it's his turn.

* Holds his own with big sister Sarah. I love how well they are playing together. This is such a fun stage for our family. He loves being her shadow and she can't wait for him to wake up from his naps each day so they can play some more.

William we love you!

The Mountain Play

We went to our first "Mountain Play" with Sarah yesterday. It was so much fun! Our good friend Kim Jensen played Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls. She was AMAZING! Sarah loved, loved, LOVED the singing and dancing. She is definitely a musical-type and I LOVE IT! Maybe we'll see a play at Tuachan this summer in St. George.


Sarah was definitely worn out on the way home.


She loved riding the bus. It was her first time on a Yellow School Bus. Roger and I remember the seats being so much more roomy!


Thanks again Fumi for watching William. He had so much fun with the boys.

Our Favorite Playroom

We may not have a backyard or a dedicated playroom at our apartment, but we do have a membership to the coolest playroom in the city. We read books, play in the boat kitchen, run up and down the bridge, water the plants, build log towers, say hello to our favorite turtle, crawl into the tree burrow and so much more. We see lots of new friends each time and can't wait to go back again.




We love the Academy of Sciences!

If you're mildly interested

I just did several posts from the past two weeks. They are intermingled with others I've already posted. So if you're interested in catching up with us ...

Farewell Fiesta (June 5)
Habitot (June 4)
Zoo Days (June 2)
Golden Gate Park (June 1)
Go Giants (May 29)
Exploratorium (May 28)

Jordyn & MaKenzie

We sure love! Even when you no longer live 5 minutes away please know you are always welcome to come play at our house. We will miss you guys! Don't grow up too fast.


And we promise to come visit you too!

Catching a Prince

Sarah had her friend MaKenzie over this afternoon for a playdate. In the midst of their playing I overheard them each trying to find and catch an imaginary prince. Ahhh. Little do they know it may take a while to find prince charming. :)

Fiesta Farewell

We said goodbye to too many people this weekend at our annual ward farewell party. This year we had a fiesta. Having a party does soften the blow a little bit, but it's still hard to lose so many friends each year :(

We did have fun with the pinata.




And William loved playing with the toy cars.


The taco truck was fabulous. Well done activities committee!

Afterward, we headed down to the stake center for two special baptisms - Marcus and Ryan. These sweet children are such great examples for my kids. I feel so blessed to be surrounded by such strong spirits.

Habitot

We made it back to the Habitot museum in Berkeley and it was such a blast! For comparison, Sarah was about William's age when we went last time. William LOVED LOVED LOVED going today! (And of course Sarah was in heaven too.)


Grocery Store Checker


Bag Boy & Cart Retriever


My budding artists



Ah the train set. You are on our Christmas wish list. But where are we going to put you?





Mission Control


First Mission


Second Mission



Astronauts shooting the breeze ...