Stay-cation

It's truly amazing how many cool things the Bay Area has to offer for kids and families. As a special treat, we spent a week stay-cationing and doing our best to take advantage of those local spots.

Tuesday: SF Ferry Building Farmer's Market (our first taste of Blue Bottle Coffee - YUM!) and The California Academy of Sciences.




Wednesday: Fort Funston with Lola :) The boys caught a few wind-free moments of snacking in the car.



Friday: Charles M. Schultz Museum in Santa Rosa and picnicking at The Larson Family Winery (no pictures...that's how great it was - we forgot to take pictures ;)).

Wild Strawberries

Adding to our list of summer adventures, we joined the Podesta Family for some strawberry picking in Davenport. The kids had a great time in the fields ("one for the mouth, one for the basket, repeat") and we ended up with enough berries to make some super yummy jam and frozen yogurt.

Breaker, breaker

As a belated birthday present to me, my cousin Aaron took me for a private, aerial tour of the Bay Area. We flew from Oakland, over San Francisco, up to Santa Rosa where we stopped for a late lunch and then back to Oakland just before sunset. It was a little scary at first, but mostly excited and beautiful, and super awesome to see my airplane-loving cousin in action. :)

the pre-fireworks show

The Fourth of July brings many all-American favorites into play: the eating of Dad's hat, the sharing of Otter Pops, and of course, the landscape littered with pretty ladies.