1. Church with Emily and Family
2. A wonderful children's sermon
3. The beach!
4. Driving from Santa Cruz to Half Moon Bay on 101
5. Heading home!
6. Not pictured: Picnic lunch at Natural Bridges State Park, seeing four monarchs at the monarch grove (it was too warm for them to cluster), walking along the stone ledge between the cliff and the ocean, flying home through Eugene, the most amazing light/rain show on the 20 minute plane ride from Eugene to Portland
1. Catching up with Melinda (friend) at Esther's German bakery
2. Cool stairway
3. Shopping around Los Altos with Grandma
4. 5. 6. & 7. Cliff Drive at Sunset in Santa Cruz
8. Playing the Snail Game with my little relatives and cousin-in-law, Dan
9. Bedtime for Molly!
10. Not pictured - a lovely lunch with Jennie & Paul (my cousin & her husband), packing up, visiting the PEO thrift store with Grandma, driving to Santa Cruz, soaking up little kid cuteness, hanging out with Emily and Dan after the kiddos had gone to bed, discussing Dan's most recent press releases (He's pretty famous ;) ), finishing off the day with a Jeeves & Wooster
1. Out to pastries/German breakfast with Emily and the kiddos
2. Ella and Stephen sleeping on our drive to visit Dana
3. Dana's beautiful home with a built in fish tank
4. Wonderful middle eastern cooking - Tabuleh, stuffed squash, eggplant and grapeleaves, almond cookies
5. At the school park with Winnis, Ella and Stephen
6. Not pictured - visitng a Japan Daiso store (awesome), Beth and Dana comparing notes on living in/near the Middle East and speaking arabic, staying up late looking at pictures of Beth's adventures overseas
1. Waiting for my flight
2. San Francisco Airport!
3. Pomelo for snack (a huge asian citrus!)
4. Beth & Stephen
5. 6. & 7. A walk around Los Altos Hills and some of the amazing homes there
8. Ella making her own pizza
1. My old school
2. The play yard. Where I learned foursquare and square dance.
3. My old kindgergarten class room. I had the same teacher my mom did!
4. My aunt & uncles house (formerly my grandparents house)
5. Baby Matthew
6. John has five teeth missing!
7. & 8. John and Anna with artwork
9. Baby Matthew awake
10. Not pictured: Walking, hanging out with Emily & Beth, Ella and Stephen (pictures are on my camera!), Uncle Ward & Aunt Nancy, and dear Winnis (Beth's mother in law)
1. San Francisco
2. Visiting Scott's (Beth's husband) Grandma Lily, or NiNi in her lovely 3rd floor home
3. The amazing view from her home in the Sunset area of San Francisco. It faces due west.
4. On the left hand side there's a slightly darker patch of blue between the ground and the clouds. This is the ocean!
5. NiNi is an accomplished Chinese artist. She teaches classes and showed us some of her amazing work.
6. Another of NiNi's paintings.
7. Heading down to the street to go to Golden Gate Park
8. Ella and Stephen feeding the duckies
9. Beautiful bridge in the distance
10. Ella! after dropping off NiNi and now onto Uncle Rick & Tia Vero's home
11. After a full day of visiting, out to dinner at an Afghan restaurant with grandparents
12. Not pictured: LOTS of driving, good conversations, listening to Scott and NiNi speak in Chinese for a couple of hours, admiring NiNi's house and paintings, eating a real Chinese lunch, a lovely visit with Uncle Rick, Tia Vero, Olivia, Lillian and Bella (I guess I was having too much fun and I forgot to whip out my camera phone, I have lots of pictures on my regular camera though!), more driving.and writing down where some of Grandpa and Grandma's artifacts/nicknacks came from.
