Pirates and Giant Pumpkins

Once again, the Giant Pumpkins have come and gone. This is my 5th festival working with the Parks and Rec Department and I have to say it was one of my favorites!! The theme was "Shiver Me Pumpkins" and people really went all out with the theme. On Saturday I got to work in the Produce area again and see all of the pumpkins weighed and all of the huge produce. This year's winning pumpkin weighed 1684.5 and the gentleman that won went on to win again a week later at the Half Moon Bay weigh-off with his 1,704 pound pumpkin. Crazy!! And just to give you an idea our festival pays $6 per pound for the winning pumpkin. Then Sunday I worked the Entertainment area, and got to see some pretty cool stuff...like fire dancers.

The Regatta, pumpkins turned into boats.

So happy to be done entering in all of the information!

Giant Pumpkins!!!

Entering info

Sunday, after the festival was over, so happy!

San Francisco Giants

After we went to a Giants game for our birthdays we decided we wanted to go to another one! Shawn found out from his boss that his company had seats. Well let me just say company seats are way better then seats you would get regularly, and bonus, they give them to you at face value, instead of the crazy prices that you get online. We had such a good time and I'm so glad that my husband is into sports and that we can enjoy them together. He even bought me a Baby Giraffe hat. The clubhouse area was super nice, had lots of cool memorabilia stuff and Peanuts characters. It was such a fun game and Shawn and I always have fun together, hopefully we will get to go to more SF Giants games next year!

The Bonds Visit!

The Bonds came to visit us over Labor Day weekend. We had a great time with them!! We went to the Sacramento Zoo, Fairytale Town, San Francisco (no pictures) and Six Flags (no pictures). Which I feel really bad about the Six Flags one because Brian got picked to be one of the volunteers during the dolphin show. He had to play karaoke with the dolphins and the crowd decided that he lost, so he got SOAKED!! It was so great to see them!! Amy and I got to have some girl shopping time and the boys got to hang out, have sushi and see a movie. It was so much fun and we can't wait to see them again!

Brian and Broc at Fairytale Town

Brielle on the tractor at Fairytale Town

Thumbs up!

Amy, Brielle, Broc and Brian at Fairytale Town on the throne (I don't think Brielle liked it very much)

Orangutan

Brielle and Broc at the Zoo

Broc with the Zebras

Brielle

Zebras (One of my favorites!)

Giraffes (My other favorite!)

Kangaroo (Brian went to Australia for work quite a bit and told us that out there they are everywhere, just hanging out...pretty cool)

Some pretty bird

Creepy looking bird

The flamingos (They actually had a partition up to give the flamingos "privacy" for mating season, it was pretty funny.

GIANTS and San Franscisco

We had a really hard time deciding what to do for our birthdays this year. Last year Shawn really outdid himself with a scavenger hunt, surprise visit from my best friend and a camera that I had been wanting...oh and the skydiving that my mom got for us! So this year we wanted to do something fun, but didn't really have any ideas. Leave it up to Shawn to come up with something to equal last year! A Giants game and 2 nights in the city. It was even more exciting when we found out that Brent and Teresa and the gang would be coming as well....and that they would be buying the tickets as their gift!! We had such a good time! I got off work at around 1 and we headed down to the city. We met with Brent and Teresa down in the lobby and went and picked Byron and Christina up at their hotel. We ended up just taking the Caltrain down to the game, with driving and parking we just decided it would be easier. We got to the game without too much trouble. The game was a lot of fun! I'm really glad Teresa brought extra jackets and a blanket...it was pretty cold!! I loved our seats because we could see the bay bridge, all of the buildings and the bay.

One of my favorite players is Nate Schierholtz, so Shawn made sure to get a nice close-up!

One of the most popular players is Pablo Sandoval, of course everyone has those Panda hats on, I'm not really that into him, but whatever.

Cute picture of the Newlyweds, Byron and Christina, and Brent in the background!

Dylan and Eric with the view of the bay

Us...you can't really see Shawn's shirt with him sitting but it say's Fear the Beard...Brian Wilson!

Teresa! She kept trying to get us to scoot down since the people next to us never showed, the boys eventually moved down there!

The FIGHT! I can't remember which inning it was, I know that it was later one of the pitchers from SF accidentally hit one of the Padres batters, well evidentally they thought it was intentional so both benches completely cleared and they were seriously fighting forever!!

This picture is really blurry but it's funny because you can see that the Beard (Brian Wilson) even came out to see what was going on...he's a little crazy, but we love him!

I would have been really disappointed if Brian Wilson hadn't pitched and we got really lucky..at the very end they brought him out!

After the game overlooking some of the city

The group, minus Brent and Teresa

The rest of the weekend was so relaxing. We got up Saturday (we actually slept in!) went to Half Moon Bay, so pretty there, and just walked around the town. We had lunch at this amazing restaurant called Pasta Moon, if you're ever in the area you have to go there!! Then we came back to the city, had some dinner and just relaxed. I told Shawn we definitely need to do this at least once a year. It's just so nice to get out of town and have time together where we're not worried about school, work, life, anything!! Thanks Shawn for such a great weekend, and thank you Brent and Teresa for a great time, we had a BLAST!

Cali

So the day I got LASIK we also got something life changing, another dog!! I know, we are crazy!! We babysat other dogs and Hurley always has such a good time and is so sad when they leave...so we decided it was time for him to get a sister. We had been looking around for a while and the perfect opportunity came when a guy that my mom worked with was talking to my mom about his boxer. He got her from some friends and just didn't have enough time for her. So was scheduled a meet up and at first I wasn't really sure if it was going to work. She was a little bit bigger then Hurley and didn't seem too sure about what was going on. After a few minutes they started "boxing" and we knew they would be fine. It's been an adjustment having 2 dogs, but man they are both so happy, and I think I can say that I now love Cali just as much as I love Hurley!!

I got this picture on my phone a while ago...I swear it's not posed!

Cali has this weird thing that she "sits" on Hurley. You tell her to sit and she will go sit on him, we have to remind her that Hurley is not her bed! Shawn was working on the yard and got this picture, he sent it to me at work he called it "Dog Pile".

This is the two of them after a long day of playing. After we got Cali Shawn and I went to Sam's and got a great deal on these beds...we had to have matching, and they really love them, as you can tell!

Byron and Christina Lemon Wedding

On June 3, 2011 Byron and Christina got married in the Sacramento Temple! They have been dating for quite a while and Christina got baptized last May. She waited for Byron while he was on his mission in Argentina for 2 years. They got engaged last year and we are thrilled for them to finally be married. Christina is so great and I consider her a sister! They had such a fun reception and Shawn and I were so happy to be a part of their big day.
If you look at the last picture of the reception area you will notice that they used lemons in vases, get it Lemon (haha, I know I'm so funny!) My grandma lives on 20 acres and has a ton of trees. One of her many trees is a lemon tree. Shawn, my grandma and I cleared that lemon tree. I wish I had taken a picture of the car after we were done picking all of the lemons and filling it up, it took up the whole back area and then some. But they looked wonderful at the reception and it definitely made me want to grow some fruit trees in my backyard, they were so much bigger then the ones you buy at the store, and did I mention, free??