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San Francisco iphone shots


The last of our San Francisco pictures! Yay! Then I can go back to blogging about our crazy life. By the way–these pictures are not in chronological order!
 
Have I mentioned how much I love the houses there? 😉 Seriously. I stopped so many times to take pictures of houses every time we walked or drove anywhere. But I won’t bore you with all of them…just a few of my favorites.
san fran rainbow house
1) Don entered into the “man bag” world for this trip and it was great having someone else to lug around camera stuff part time! He loves that I call it his purse 😉 2) The Full House house!! 3) and 4) Those famous painted ladies!!
full house house and painted ladies san fran

 

1) and 2) I mentioned in my last post about an amazing bakery that we went to. It’s called Mr. Holmes Bakehouse. They serve cruffins (croissant + muffin) every day in a limited quantity. We got there wayyyy too early. They roll out at 9am and we expected a line to form pretty early based on what I had heard. We got there around 7:30, grabbed a life changing chocolate croissant and a donut and just hung out until we started the line around 8:40. I would suggest getting there around 8:45 and not super early (at least for a weekday.) The flavor that day was supposed to be brownie walnut but for some reason they were serving key lime pie. I’m definitely not a lime fan but the cruffin itself was amazing and I would DEFINITELY put it on my list of recommendations. And while you’re there, get some chocolate croissants!
 
3) We also tried Bi-rite Creamery which was supposedly a big deal there. To me, it was nothing special but I do love salted caramel and chocolate ice cream together. 4) Ghirardelli was connected to our hotel so we grabbed these amazing chocolate dipped waffle cones with Ghirardelli chocolate ice cream. Now THAT was good ice cream.
san fran ice cearm and treats

 

I had to make this collage of the back of my head because it totally cracks me up. 1) Painted Ladies 2) Muir Woods 3) Golden Gate Bridge 4) Twin Peaks
san fran landmarks

 

FOOD! 3 of the 4 burger places we had while we were there. 1) Super Duper Burger–it was pretty good but nothing too amazing. 2) hotel breakfast 3) In-n-Out 4) Causwells (not our favorite!)
cheeseburgers and other san fran food

 

1) generic flight shot. 2) pretty blooms and color combo! 3) flamingo graffiti 4) love seeing palm trees!!
san fransico iphone pictures 3

 

1) 15 weeks belly shot in front of a pretty house that I matched. 2) and one at Muir Woods. 3) Self timer at Muir Woods. Nailed it! 4) Lombard Street
san fran landmarks

 

Now the back of Don’s head get its turn in the spotlight at Muir Woods and Twin Peaks. The other shots are the pretty views from Alcatraz.
san fransico iphone pictures 5
And that’s a wrap! Now we can get back to normal life. 
If you’re interested in the other posts here’s Part One, Part Two, and Part Three!

 

Blog, Family, iphone

January iPhone photos


It’s so crazy that we’re already into the second month of 2015. Judging by my iPhone pictures, January was filled with junk food. And trust me, that is pretty much reality. February is an exciting month for us–we will be finding out the baby’s gender next week! So I’m assuming the next week will go by very slowly. 
 
(If you follow me on instagram, most of these are repeats..)
Maggi gifted this beautiful prayer journal to me this past Christmas. It is really helpful to be able to see needs written out in front of you.
val marie paper prayer journal

 

the boys and I always love to wake up to see boxes of donuts on the counter
donut varieties

 

Stephanie gave me this devotional. I highly recommend it–seriously encouraging.
And this mug cookie from my favorite food blog has been my go-to quick dessert lately. It is seriously good and only takes a few minutes to whip up. The first time I made it, it was kind of crumbly. But she added a note to the recipe to help prevent that. And it is so good. Check out her other recipes as well. Mel never lets me down. 
paul david tripp devotional

 

her pigtails are my favorite
little girl sitting on floor

 

an afternoon outing with a good friend and good food was much needed this month
burgers and fries

 

ice cream cone
16 weeks and already starting to feel those tiny baby kicks
16 week bumpdate

 

this picture kind of demonstrates why I don’t have many pictures of all 4 kids together
4 kids

 

Lion’s Choice cones are always a good choice
lions choice ice cream cones

 

 while shopping at Target, Kingston saw this coat in the girl’s section and yelled “Chewbacca coat!!” He had to try it on.
chewbacca coat

 

This past Wednesday marked 17 weeks for me. It also was the day I had my first root canal. If anyone wants to know, it wasn’t as painful as most people describe (and I am a wimp) but I have been absolutely traumatized reliving those 45 minutes in my brain. I’m not sure what they’re actually doing during a root canal, and I don’t want to know, but I am so grossed out by even guessing.  
17 week bumpdate

 

but since I didn’t cry (like I thought I would) I thought I deserved a QT pretzel
large pretzel

 

donuts with sprinkles

 

I’m looking forward to learning more about photography this year so I can pass some helpful tips to Liam. He’s already learning to find the natural light. 
photographer in training

So, one week left until we find out the gender…any guesses?