Time to Reconnect

I see him everyday.  We connect everyday, over coffee.  Why do we need to go away alone together to “reconnect”?

Maybe we didn’t NEED to go away together.  But it was awesome to have him all to myself again!

Here’s our cute, little, beachy-looking room.  We didn’t see much of it, though.  We were big-time tourists, averaging walking 8 miles per day.

Here’s the view from our balcony, where we did manage to find time to have a drink a couple nights.

The weather was perfect for us:  mostly sunny during the day, fog coming in at night and hanging around in the morning AND COOL.  Highs in the low-mid 60s every day.  Beautiful!

Walked across the street from our hotel one night to a little restaurant called Pescatore, where Foursquare bought me a delicious mushroom pizza for dinner!

I remembered clam chowder in a sourdough bowl on just about every corner, when I was in San  Francisco 17 years ago.  I remembered it because it’s yummy and warm – and apparently it’s always cold in northern California…  So the first meal I had was:

Walking, walking:

This was the view from the Google Glass office: 

The view was impressive, the office was very cool and trendy, the staff was very happy.  It was a completely fun experience!  And my honey was in Heaven – he got Glass!

It was a LONG walk to the Google office and that was our first day there.  Having flown in that morning, we were pooped.  We were thrilled to find a bike taxi to take us home!

More walking:

Chinatown:

I had never been to Chinatown before.  It was very cool.  Absolutely felt like you were no longer in the United States.

Sadly, we found out that people trying to ride on the trolley are mostly a rude bunch…  So we made sure to be super nice to everyone!

Fog hung out over the Golden Gate the whole time we were there.  But it made for some awesome pictures!

Got to sit in the studio audience at a taping of TWiT (This Week in Tech) in Petaluma, CA.  A side trip for Scott, but I really enjoyed it too.

We had to have a car to get to Petaluma.  Here she is.  The only time I was afraid for our safety was when Scott had to walk back from the car rental place, at night, alone.  I waited, almost holding my breath, until he got back to our room.  I’m not sure why I was worried.  The next day we DID witness a person getting robbed, but that hadn’t happened yet…  Premonition?

Hallie’s Diner in Petaluma makes pretty good food, and is a VERY cute place.

I was very surprised to see how huge this place is.  This is the Palace of the Fine Arts at The Presidio.  It’s really a beautiful thing!

Lombard Street is always fun and beautiful!  I’d hate to live there, though.  I’ve never seen it NOT bumper to bumper.

On our last day, we rented this little (mostly street legal) go-cart to tour around.  It was GPS guided and took you on a tour of the most visited places around town.  We easily could have made this last all day, but we only had a few hours.  It was really fun! (but ALMOST too cold.)

Pilot’s Row:

Sea Cliff:  (Robin Willams and Sharon Stone live here.)

I really could have used a couple more days there, but I’m so thankful for the time we had together, reconnecting.  We’re still fun.  We haven’t lost it, baby!

A Moment to Think

First off I want to share some happy, happy news:  all Will’s medical tests came back normal!  The dizzy spells are most likely growing/hormone related.  The doctor feels strongly that the spots on his brain are an old injury probably from his traumatic birth.  There shouldn’t be any complications from an old injury.  We will follow up in a few months with the pediatric neurologist just to be sure.  We are so happy and relieved!

We’ve been filling our days lately,  that’s for sure.  We took our first REAL camping trip with our new camper over the Fourth of July weekend.  Joined up with all our cousins in Colorado and we had a blast!  Can’t wait for us all to get together and do it all again in September!

LOVE this picture of mean, big, tough Justin and his baby girls:

My ever-fearless cousin, Debbie:

She was only happy when she was eating and sleeping:

All of girls were happy in this picture:

My Dood!

The kids found this poor little pine tree and decided it was a teeter totter…  They had so much fun and nobody thought about getting the sap off their hands and bottoms until it was too late…

Dood is HUGE into archery!

My gorgeous man!!!!

We’re going to try to fit in a mini camping trip, just the four of us in August – but we already have so much going on.  I’m not sure it’ll happen.  We have a outdoors-home-projects day we want to do in August (paint the fence, paint the garden shed, re-fabric and rock a front flower bed) and we want the boys to go to Guh and Umpa’s house WITHOUT US in August for a week (so that we can thin out and store some of their things that, so far, they’ve been unwilling to part with). We’ll have to wait and see what the Daddy’s work schedule is going to turn out to be before we can make any plans…

When we got home from our fabulous camping trip, the new flooring arrived!

We replaced some dated, worn out laminate with real wood:

I’m very happy with how this turned out!

This is the boys’ study, looking way more grown-up than it used to…

This is my office, with a lot less stuff in it.  It was becoming very cramped and cluttered and I was feeling kinda like a cave woman.  Now I love my space again!

The living room looks twice as big, having been decluttered and furniture reinvented and of course the new carpeting.

And now the house is all put back together and the fuzzy girls are happy again:

It was a lot more work than I thought but I was happy to do it.  It’s so clean and new and beautiful.  You can’t tell from this picture, but our little tootsie-pop is now wearing a doggy diaper all the time.  She can’t be trusted since she started taking a mild diuretic for congestive heart issues.  She doesn’t like the process of putting it on, but doesn’t seem to mind it much the rest of the time.  We have to pin it to a sweater in order to make sure it stay on.  She’s so tiny and her hair is thin, she seems to really enjoy the sweater!

So this week Scott and I will be going to San Francisco for a few days.  We’re very excited to be having a fun trip, just the two of us.  We both love San Francisco and this will be the first time we’ve been there together.

Can’t believe summer break is half over already.  Where is the time going?