Oh what do you do when it is 4:00 in the morning and it is the third day this has happend, but you can't go to sleep? You read your scriptures, books, write in your journal OR you BLOG..if your answer was BLOG, ding-ding, let me know and I will give you a prize.
Actually, I really want to share all of my pictures from sharing my Spring Break at Ronnas house in San Francisco. For those of you who don't know Ronna, she is my sister, has three children-Luke, Brooke and Caitlynn. Over a year ago she lost a little baby caring it full term, and finding out that the cord was wrapped many times around her little body. One of the main reasons I went there was because it was the blessing for baby Caitlynn-who turned 6 months when I was there. It was so much fun to be around a little baby, I forgot how some babies can be nice to be around.
While I was in San Francisco, I got to see my parents for about 24 hours, Ronnas in-laws had come for the blessing as well and so she had to figure out what to do with all these extra people. She planned exceptionally well, dinners were taken care of by the time we got there, her friend Tonya housed most of the family at her fun-packed house, which included lots of play things for kids, a pool, hot tub, and big sand box at the top of her mountain in the back yard. We are so grateful for her and her hospitality, THANKS Tonya.
Activities included, San Fran Zoo, the new Science and Technology center, which included a rainforest and planetarium, along with a beautiful aquarium. This place was really amazing. Others went to the show Wicked-I sat home and babysat 5 children that I had either met that day or two days prior. Yeah-call me crazy...they were ok, once they were asleep. HAHAHAH.
Then it was my turn to hang out and figure out what to do, I enjoyed walking/running on a trail along the San Andreas Fault-what a breath-taking view. My sister has a running partner and we met up there in the wee hours of the morning, basically when it was still dark. (6:30 a.m.) but it was nice and refreshing for me. We went to Alcatraz-which is one of the coolest places, but we only toured the prison, not the island which I saw was gorgeous. Then we met for dinner to celebrate Ronnas birthday, at this NASTY of a resteraunt in Little Italy, I think it was call Guisseppe's. Actually I had a friend Holly who use to live here in New Jersey come with us, we had a lovely time.
The greatest and most beautiful places I talked my sister in taking me was the Oakland temple. Now let me explain, this sits on top of a hill, overlooking the bay, it has fantastic views of the west Bay, including S.F., the Golden Gate, Alcatraz, and Oakland, WOW, it was great. The view from the top of the temple is what allows you to see all that Heavenly Father has done, and the temple is amazingly beautiful. I took lots of pictures here because the flowers were huge and wonderful. We then continued to Seagal Book, where I purchased a lot of things, including the Down east outfitters clothing line, skirts and lots of shirts. I love them, I wear them almost every day.
But the highlight of my trip was my sister dropped me off at a great scrapbooking store, I was there for a little while and made out with a huge bag full of goodies.
Thanks for putting up with me for 8 days, Ronna-J.R. Luke, Brooke, and Caitlynn.
p.s there are so many pics I am going to add that it will take you a day to get through them all, and my camera actually died two days before I came home, so I don't have any pictures of Alcatraz or Ronnas Birthday....she is suppose to send me those-HOPEFULLY
I promise this is the last set of pictures...you must be so tired of looking at all of these...well to BAD!. I guess when I don't post for a long time this is what happends.
These pics were to cute not to only have one. I was sitting in Ronna's car waiting patiently for her to come back from returning something in the Mall. Well let me tell you, what a mistake that was, we should have went with her, all three kids and I. Instead we were stuck in the van for LIKE and HOUR! OR two OR THREE!!!! (maybe not 3-but it seemed like it.) Anyways, I took Kaitlynn out of her seat and sat her on my legs and she played and laughed while I was stretched out on the front seat of the van. She had yet to have have enough strength at holding herself up and you will see in one of the pics how she is falling toward the door...Don't worry, I didn't let her fall or anything, but it was funny. She was going after a toy I had stuck between the door and I. 
Look at those Giants!
For some of you who don't recognize anyone in some of the pictures its because they are JR's family. Half of his family came from Idaho and Oregon.
