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.