Our Great Expectations: So much fun these days

Well, we have been super busy. I think we've been to Portland about 3 times since I've written last, not to mention put our house on the market (TO RENT), and both the kids are growing like weeds. I seriously think if I put some weed-be-gone on them, it would stunt their growth. Plus, I've been doing a lot with my Fly a Kite Photography site. Sometimes it makes me want to pull my HAIR out!!!

I might have to back up and put some pics up of San Fransisco from when Chuck went. I don't want to focus JUST on the things me and the kids do!! That's why I asked him to take my camera and take pics. Not just so they'd take up room on my our computer, but so we could share them. Not many of our family/friends have been to San Fran, and it's definitely a different kind of city...yes, different. :)

So, I'll try my best to describe what these are pictures of. :)

These, I think, were all taken from the cable car. The hotel they stayed at was at the very end of one of the lines, so it was super easy to take. But the cable car in San Fran is pretty expensive. It's $5 from one end to the other, each way...yikes!

This is Lombard Street, duh. Not too busy when they went apparently

This is down on the wharf. There's lots to do, but very touristy. The guy "playing" the violin wasn't very good, Chuck said. Then, of course, the famous sea lions. And the last pic is the trolley. They have lots of different types of public transportation, they have the city bus, the trolley and the cable car. I THINK they might have an underground as well. But we never took that and Chuck didn't either.

I think this is Ghirardelli Square. It used to be the site of where they made the chocolate, but they don't do that here anymore, it's at a different site. Now this area is just a shopping area, but Chuck said it was pretty vacant. I never went there when we were in San Fran a couple years ago.

Down near the water. And that last pic is of someone swimming in the bay!! It's the first of MARCH!!

These pictures are of where the guys had their review sessions and then the last few are from their hotel. Pretty swanky, both places...I missed out!!

The Golden Gate bridge...love this place, it's so beautiful!

Alcatraz!! I didn't get to go here. If you want to go here, purchase tickets online IN ADVANCE!!! They sell out quickly!

Well, after Chuck came home his dad came out for a long weekend. Poor guy was sick almost the whole time! Aaron and I went to Del's a local farm store, to see if they had something I was looking for and they had baby chicks!

Ooops, just reposted what I posted last time. Oh well, you can't get enough of Aaron and baby chicks :)

Here's a video...Aaron got Memory for Christmas from Aunt Dana and Uncle Andy. So we broke that out about a week ago. We don't do it like you're supposed to, we look at the pictures and try to match them up. He's not patient enough to keep them turned over. Once he flips one over he wants to keep flipping them all over until he finds the matching one. It takes him long enough just to look at them like this.

Sorry these are so fuzzy, I needed to clean my lens BADLY!!! This is what the kid did during church one night!! We have been trying new things to keep him busy or distract him during church, so we put him in the little room where Chuck is so he could watch a movie. Bad thing was that he wasn't in Chuck's line of sight and somehow he found a green marker. He ROLLED his sleeves up and drew all over himself...ey ey ey...

And we took an impromptu trip down to Portland to check out a house and then put in an application...that was a long day. But we stopped at three different parks throughout the day so Aaron could play and I could feed Delaney. Here he is rockin' it out on the tire swing.