After going through pictures from July, I realized how busy a month this was!! It started with Emily's birthday on the 3rd. She was dying to go to the Children's Museum. It's not a cheap place to take a family of 5 so I wanted to take advantage of the Culture Passes our libraries offer. It would get 2 of us in for free. But the Children's Museum passes are always the first to go, people line up outside the library to get these. So I knew I better get there at least an hour before the library opened in order to be first in line to get through the doors when they opened. I am awarding myself "mother of the year" award for this task because not only was it about 113 degrees outside while I waited, I got to hang out with a homeless man who, without sounding judgmental, terrified me! But, it was worth it because I got the passes! So the next day, off we went to the Children's Museum. Here are a few pictures from our adventure:
Emily loved the bathtub with wings!
The kids played on this structure for about an hour!
Happy mom and dad, watching our kids having a blast
Emily painting in the craft room
Casey going through the "car wash"
Ryan and Emily at the car wash
Emily at the ice cream stand
Making pizzas!
Biker Babe!
A few days after her birthday we decided to have a "glorified play date" which actually turned into a birthday party, which was what I was trying to avoid... Oh well. All the party supplies were free thanks to my job with Hallmark!! So here is Emily at her Princess and the Frog "play date"
Tripp was there too, amongst all us moms
Emily and her sweet friend, Vera
On the 12th, the kids and I flew to California (the Bay Area) to visit my dad and step-mom. The plan was that I would fly the kids there, stay a couple days and then Emily and I would fly home while the boys stayed for another week for an adventure with Grandma and Grandpa! I must say, not having flown with kids in a while, I wasn't sure what to expect, but it was such a breeze! Now that they are older, it is so much easier! Emily and Casey watched a movie on the laptop while Ryan listened to my iPod and I got to read my People magazine! Thank the Lord for technology!
Grandma and Grandpa have the most beautiful yard I've ever seen! It is amazing! Here is Grandma sitting amongst the flowers
Look at those amazing dahlias behind us!
The first night we had dinner in downtown Clayton at Ed's Mudville Grill, just down the street from Grandma and Grandpa's house
Across from Ed's is their little community park so we walked over and played before the sun set
The next evening we had dinner at Skippolini's which made the town of Clayton famous! We celebrated Emily's birthday, my step-sister Jessica's birthday and my own birthday.
Me, Jess and Dad (Grandpa)
Our princess cake
The birthday girls!
Presents!
THE Princess!
After Emily and I went home, Grandma & Grandpa had some fun adventures in store for the boys! The next week was never dull! They spent the day and overnight in San Francisco. Here they are at the California Academy of Science (I'm super jealous I didn't go!)
They had so much fun! Grandma and Grandpa spoiled the heck out of them! This was a trip they will never forget.
Also while in SF they got to ride on an old open air fire truck and tour the city, the only bummer is that it was FREEZING that day! Was it Mark Twain who said, "the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco"?
The boys got to wear firefighter turnouts to keep warm
And of course, what is a trip to SF without visiting Fisherman's Wharf?
Or riding on BART?
They also visited an Air Museum
And rode the trolly
They had so much fun! Grandma and Grandpa spoiled the heck out of them! This was a trip they will never forget. 
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