Monday, September 21, 2009

shut up and HAVE FUN!!! Our weekend in San Francisco

We had SOOOO much fun on our weekend trip to SF to see Wicked!! First thing we checked into our beautiful hotel

While Annaleesa and Carolyn checked us in, we hung out starting the relaxing weekend.


Then we were off to Union Square to check out the shopping. WOW that mall goes and goes up. The top 4 floors are Aunt Bonnie's special place!! (Nordstroms)


We loved the curving escalators, they wound upward for so many floors!!


Colleen found "her" chair and had her loyal subject come sit with her.

Allie thought she was special like Aunt Colleen and found that her loyal subject weren't so loyal.

The next morning we were up and out the door to go play!


We went and found the trolly cars to ride to Fisherman's Wharf!
Aunt Bonnie had to sit on Grandma's lap, there was standing room only!




We made it to Fisherman's Wharf and we were off to find the CHOCOLATE!!

AWWWW, we were in heaven!! They gave out samples!! YUMMY!








On our way to the chocolate we saw a trolley car with Wicked on it so, of course, we had to stop and take our picture with it!








Katie and Annaleesa found the chocolate first!!
Aunt Colleen liked the chocolate, but found her first love on a giant poster!!







To get up to the top level we found an elevator, it wasn't too hard to find. On our way down that we had the problem! We got on and couldn't remember which level was the street level. So we kept pushing the buttons and then peeking out to see if we had finally picked the right level. We went up and down several time before got it right!!




After we finally got out of the elevator, we went to find Aunt Bonnie some crab! Joe's Crab Shack was down the street!




All the waitresses stop and dance when certain songs come on the speakers! This is our waitress and she was such fun!!
there will be more later when we can get the blog to work!

Sunday, September 6, 2009

She is blessed


Ava is surrounded by her family that loves her and each other. Yes, Russ is holding a BYU cap over my head - He is in so much trouble!

The Hokansons joined us for the special day.

The Sanders Family - a family of five now with the
addition of Ava.

Ava is wearing the same dress that her mother, Alexis
wore almost 28 years ago when she was sealed and blessed.

Special day - special baby girl. We are so happy that Ava is blessed!