Memorial Day on the Cape

What better way to spend Memorial Day than out on Cape Cod... two years in a row! Last year for Jesse and Eileen's wedding, this year to celebrate their anniversary with old friends at Eileen's wonderful summer home on the beach.


We started our trip with a visit to Sunru and Anne, and an afternoon of hanging out in Harvard Yard... We spent that night with our friends Josh and Kimberly, in Concord. Then it was time for our drive out to Eileen's family house in Wellfleet, a truly special place inside the national seashore on Grosse Hill just up from the beach in Cape Cod.


The Cape was fantastic-- lazy days on the beach or playing tennis by the house. Nights spent grilling on the BBQ and making competitive cocktails, or relaxing in the hot tub. Good times with friends old and new... hard to beat!

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Mother's Day in Larkspur

We headed up to Larkspur to celebrate Mother's Day with Ryan's stepmom Nancy, Aunt Donna, Uncle Tom, and Cousins Michelle and Thomas. We spent an absolutely gorgeous day hanging out on Nancy's deck.


Spencer had a great time playing peek-a-boo with Donna and Nancy. Click here for a video.

KFOG Kaboom

Every year, one of our favorite local radio stations puts on an incredible fireworks show over the Bay Bridge. The best part is that our friend Grace's company has an office on a pier right under the bridge, and they throw a party every year to watch the show from a great vantage point.


Since Spencer is a 4th of July baby, we thought why not take the opportunity to introduce him to some fireworks?


Earlier that night, we met up with Grace, Alonzo, Theo, Steve, Anne and Zoe at Taylor's Automatic Refresher in the Ferry Building downtown, for some amazing sweet potato fries (and other food too :)


The walk down along the Embarcadero to IDEO as the sun set was beautiful. But it was getting past the kids' bedtime already!


The KFOG show is incredible... they sychronize the whole thing to "world class rock," with lyric references tying the fireworks display to the music. Unfortunately, the band couldn't figure out how to hook up the radio to the PA, so we listened to random music instead ;)

Spencer seemed to get a kick out of the show. He wasn't freaked out, despite being up well past his bedtime... although he did crash hard for the walk back to the car and drive to the Marina, where we spent the night.

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Henry's Birthday Party

On Mondays and Wednesdays, Eunice drops Spencer off at a small family daycare down the street. We feel blessed by the love and care he receives from Mary, Juanita, and Mama PJ - in fact, dropping Spencer off feels a lot like leaving him with family. Eunice and Spencer stopped by on an "off day" to join the other kids at the daycare in celebrating Henry's one-year birthday.


Jia jia, Rochelle, Nicholas, Henry (the birthday boy), and Spencer look festive in their party hats!


The kids party it up with their fantastic caretakers. Juanita is on the left, Mama PJ is in the middle, and Mary is on the right.


Juanita had a feast prepared for the kids, including a carrot cake and donut holes for the birthday boy to share with his friends. Happy birthday, Henry!

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Baker Beach with Dad and Adam

Adam's in town for work, and its a beautiful day in San Francisco. Since we were going to be spending the afternoon in a dark theatre watching Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, the boys (+Abby) decided to go for a walk on Baker Beach in the morning.

You'll see that we've trained Abby to set up self-timers on her own... but she's still getting the hang of running back in time to get in the photo!

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This is just about as serious as Abby gets. Watch out, seagulls...


Back in the Marina: You'll notice that we're all wearing Dad's clothes-- we were surprised by the good weather and needed sandals, shorts and shirts.

We didn't get any shots of the play, but the performance was fantastic. Kathleen Turner played Martha in a very dark but very funny story about marraige. Check out clips from the play: http://www.shnsf.com/shows/show.asp?key=18&subkey=512

Day Trip to Dallas

Ryan had to do a day trip to Dallas for work, giving him the chance to grab dinner with Jennifer, David, Melody, and Valerie... and meet little baby Paxon, born on April 14! This was their first big family outing since Paxon was born... I was very lucky to be able to take part and meet our first Newphew.... boy is Eunice jealous :)