We've Got Orange Fever

Jeff and the girls are big fans of the SF Giants. I, on the other hand, really don't care much for baseball, or any other sport for that matter. I enjoy going to a live game, but please don't make me watch it on television.

Last Saturday I actually watched a little bit of baseball on tv. It was the ninth inning of the sixth game and I was in my bedroom reading. Jeff guilted me into going back to the family room to watch the end of the game. Even to me it was an exciting, nail biting end to the game. Jeff was pacing the floor until that final out. My only regret of the win -- now they are going to be bugging me to watch the world series with them.

Oh, the things we do for our family....

Phoebe Buffay The Barnyard Song

Yesterday Robyn came home from kindergarten telling us all about cows -- about how cows have four stomachs and no top teeth (who knows if any of it's true; I've never been that interested in cows). It was all really cute but as I looked over at Jeff he's turning red and laughing. I couldn't figure out why he was laughing until he said, "The cows in the meadow go moo." That's when I started to laugh.

That's seriously one of the funniest Phoebe songs from Friends!

My other favorite song is the Grandparents song. Too funny!

Fall Break Brings Grandparents

The girls had a week off from school so I invited my parents to come from Maryland to visit with us.

The first half of the week there was just Robyn at home. Annalise had the opportunity to go to Disneyland with her friend's family. We asked Grandma and she said it was okay for her to go.

Annalise brought back mouse ears for Robyn. Robyn was excited to see her but she was even more excited about getting the present!

So I dragged my parents around the Bay Area. One day we spent up in Sacramento and another day we headed up to Davis. The picture above was taken in Sonoma. We went and saw the Mission San Francisco Solano which was originally built in the 1820s. It was a beautiful day and we stopped off at the Sonoma Cheese Factory and bought some delicious fudge.

The last day they were here we headed off to San Francisco for a rather unusual tour.

We took a tour with Ride the Ducks. We toured San Francisco first by land and then by sea. We've been to SF before but it was fun to see it from the duck truck.


We drove started at Fisherman's Wharf, and then through North Beach, Chinatown, Union Square, South Beach, etc.

After driving through the city we drove into the bay. Here's how the city looks from the water.

San Francisco Giants Stadium

Robyn's favorite part of driving the "boat." The captain let the little kids each take a tour sitting on the captain's chair.

All of us (me taking the picture) after the tour. I'm not sure how long the duck whistles are going to last. They can be rather annoying!