Anyway, we love the Bay Area. I've always been enamored with San Francisco and was about to move there before Jared and I decided to get married and that would mean another year in Boston. So Jared treated me to a wonderful honeymoon in San Francisco before his final year at MIT. Our job hunt during that last year took us all over the country but when an opportunity arose in the Bay Area we jumped at the chance to create a permanent honeymoon in such a great place. We spent 6 years there. We bought our first home there. All our kids were born there. We explored the redwoods and the coast and the city with lots of babies and toddlers in tow. We try to head back every chance we get!
We loved the chance to enjoy time with Jared's sister Kathryn and her husband MJ plus with my sister Charity. Nice to have two sisters in the area. Kathryn and MJ let us all stay at their lovely home in Oakland/Piedmont (a home that felt like a second home to us the whole time we lived near them - we spent lots of time with them and their great kids who've all grown up and moved on now). And we got to see Charity's really cool house that she shares with roommates and have her as our personal tour guide of the city.
My amazing sister Charity now lives in San Francisco and it was so fun to enjoy her favorite spots which turned out to also be some of my favorite places. This is at Coit Tower, a spot Jared and I grew to love on our honeymoon.
At the old Ferry Building, we enjoyed the fabulous Saturday market and all the great samples of both food and interesting people. We were all quite entertained by wonderful street performers and by a little group of naked people riding past us on their bikes!
We went to a pancake breakfast at the church by the temple for Kathryn and MJ's ward. MJ was the master of the fluffy pancakes using the recipe their son Will perfected as part of his science fair project that won him an award on the state level.
Charity showed us a glass elevator that offered wonderful views of the city out to the bay. We rode up and down again and again. Great times! |
Driving across the good old Golden Gate is always a thrill and sharing the joy of so many favorite places with my dear sister who loves it all as much or more than me was so much fun. |
So Oliver wasn't happy and my hair looks weird. But we we did get a family photo at the Golden Gate! |
Easter Morning egg hunt in the lovely Pritchett garden |
Love those calla lillies - miss them. We had so many of them in our yard in San Jose. Love how everything grows like crazy everywhere in California. |
A rose in the Prichett garden - I miss all the rose bushes we had at our house in CA. Nothing like a perfect rose. |
After our jaunt to our old stomping grounds in San Jose, we headed back to Kathryn and MJ's for another Easter Egg hunt with the local missionaries and MJ's niece and two nephews. |
Gotta love an egg hunt - especially when these eggs had been blown out and filled with fruity pebbles cereal - fun surprise, Aunt Kathryn! |
We enjoyed a truly delicious and beautiful Easter dinner with the Pritchetts, the missionaries and some of MJ's family. Great people. Great times. Thank you Pritchetts! |
3 comments:
Looks like such a great trip! I'm so glad you got to go.
Everybody looks so happy. Fun to be back to your old stomping grounds and with the great Kathryn and MJ family!
saren, i'm just stumbling across The Power of Moms...and now that I'm a Mom too I'm glad I found it. Your photos made me miss the Bay Area too! We moved to Texas 6 months ago and I can't wait to go back and visit =).
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