Ahem...Attention please!

Everyone will you please take notice of the beautiful new header on our blog. I just made it last night on Photoshop and this was the first time I'd ever done a project using that program. Luckily we just got it for free thanks to Jeff's mom who gave us one of her licenses that came with it. I'm sooo excited to start working with all our pictures!

Can I get a woot woot?

I heart flea markets...

Jeff and I went to the famous Alamo Square flea market last Saturday. I was so awesome. If you guys haven't been to a San Francisco flea market you have to go. I heard someone call it a yard sale, but I've been to yard sales in Provo and they were disgusting. People were actually trying to sell their trash. So crazy. This was no yard sale. It was amazing. What did I find...

A beautiful round pedestal end table that I'm going to paint


PLUS

A long strand of antique looking costume jewelry pearls for only 3 boo-whos!

I left feeling like I totally scored.

I'll have to post pictures once it's finished being painted.

This is at Alamo Square

They call these houses the seven sisters. Only six are in this picture though. Sometimes they're called the Painted Ladies too.

I was shocked at some of the prices at the flea market though. My sister-in-law, Bridget, lucked out when she got cool antique yellow furniture from her family for their baby room. The bookcase was bamboo and I love how it looked. It was the second time I'd seen that. I'd also seen a cool bamboo dresser that'd been painted. So when I went to the flea market and found this bamboo end table/stand I got super excited. It did have a weird suede table top but I figured if I painted it and cut off the suede it'd be okay. I asked the man the price and he told me $85 bucks! Seriously?

I had to hold my tongue because all I wanted to say was "For that trash?"

Ha ha, I was fine with it until I found out it was $85. Jeff told me later that he thought the man was throwing out a crazy price so I'd throw out lower price and then we'd go back and forth on prices for a while. That's stupid though. I don't play that game. When I hear a ridiculous price, it makes me think, "For that? That is not worth it."

Props Needed for Pictures

Here's more pictures of some of the things we've been doing since in San Francisco, but I have to say there's only so many pictures you can take of the two of you together before you start wishing you had a prop or something...any ideas?

Pretty soon we'll just have to start bringing a little cactus with us, just to spice our pictures up a bit.


Here's the tower right outside our apartment (luckily you can NEVER see it in our apartment because of the fog). We were shocked we could see it that day! It's called Sutro Tower since we live on Mount Sutro in the Forest Knolls - doesn't that sound like Hobbits should be our neighbors or something?

Here's Jeff...He was sure trying to make the picture fun and exciting.

So I stepped it up with my Vanna White pose, just so people don't think we're boring.

Our first attempt at having a tourist take our picture with Lombard Street. He failed. And for some reason I kind of look cross-eyed. Weird.

Our second attempt with another tourist taking our picture.


We started to get sick of asking random people to take our picture, so we took pictures of the views at Coit Tower.

And this is my future home in Carmel.

And I love how everyone in San Francisco grows plants around their doors and windows. It's so beautiful!

Sea lions at Santa Cruz. We were so close!

We left Utah and came to CA, but look what we found when we got here!

Jeff got tickets for the 49ers practice day in Santa Clara.

Here's Alex Smith...

Frank Gore...(he's smaller than I realized)

Taylor Mays (I'm sooo excited to see him play this year...he's awesome! If you haven't seen him play, you've got to watch You Tube and see him playing for USC. He's a monster!)

And Michael Crabtree! We were 30 feet away..so crazy!

My favorite part was when practice was over Crabtree signed one of his receiver's gloves and threw it into the kids' section. The children went crazy! And some parents got a little crazy too as they were telling their child to grab the glove, ha ha.

And she'll have fun, fun, fun til...

the sun leaves San Francisco! We've been having so much fun the last two days because it's warmed up A LOT in the city! Yesterday it was in the 80s. Today it got up to 98 degrees.

Yesterday felt pretty darn perfect, but today it felt ridiculously hot. We probably would've felt cooler if we had AC, but we don't. I guess San Francisco just doesn't get warm enough during the year for people to have AC for the five days that do get very, very hot!

We went to Ocean beach yesterday and Pacifica today. Jeff found awesome deals on nice brand new wet suits for both of us and we've bought one nice body board. We'll still hunting for a good deal on another one. So if anyone knows anyone selling one...let us know!

The Pacific Ocean is sooo much colder than the Atlantic Ocean but with a wetsuit I can definitely go have fun out there! If anyone's close...this is the time to go to the beaches here :)

Tomorrow's agenda...SURFING!

The San Francisco Treat...Ding! Ding!

Jeff will probably think I'm lame for including the sound of the cable car in the title name, but it is part of the commercial. It was necessary to include, especially since I've been hearing that sound ALL the time here. The boy I nanny for always says, "Cable Car! Ding, Ding!" I ride the cable car everyday to get to my new job (nannying), and I hear it when I walk home (I'll walk down the hills...I'm not THAT lazy). The picture above is where I hop on every morning - Union Square.

Since we last posted, there has been a lot of things that have happened. In May, I finished teaching - yahoo! In June, Jeff and I finished being Resident Assistants - double yahoo! At the end of June, I finished my ESL Endorsement and we moved - FINALLY! We stopped in at Jeff's parents for a few weeks in Modesto. They were nice enough to let us hang around, help us pick up our stuff from the moving company depot, keep all our stuff in their garage, give us free furniture, and feed us.

We moved into our apartment in the middle of July and it is AWESOME! I keep telling Jeff that I never want to move the whole time we're here (I really hate moving). Jeff quickly asks me what we'll do with our child when we have one...and I'm not quite sure. I haven't figured that out yet, but I will :) It is a small apartment, only 570 sq. ft., but it's cute.

Our ward here is AMAZING! (Sorry if the all caps thing is getting annoying, but I'm really excited about how everything has worked out so well...so it probably will happen again.) The ward members have already invited over for dinners, stopped by to say hi, and baked us things.

I got a nanny job that is just part time, so it's been the perfect job since Jeff won't go back to school until the end of September (isn't that crazy?!), we've gotten to hang out together all afternoon and evening.

Okay enough yapping...here are some cool pictures of our recent adventures.
Oh yeah...we went camping in Moab in June for our 2 year anniversary. We camped at a BLM campground that was right by a river and was only eight dollars!




I got a happy birthday peach when we went to the farmer's market at the Ferry Building on my birthday. It was the best peach I'd had in a long time. Mmmm...I love peaches!


Jeff bought Giants tickets for my birthday and we sat in the bleachers. It was an awesome game, until...
A girl threw up right next to us after she'd been drinking and chewing tobacco - BLEH! So...


We moved to way better seats with no throw up in sight! Ahhh....Happy Birthday! We also enjoyed watching the Bush Man on the piers on my birthday. Jeff's been watching him since he was 10 years old and he still laughs so hard he almost cries. It's surprising how it doesn't get old. The piers are definitely a favorite hang out spot because there's always stuff to see.

I also saw a cute Giants onesie that I wanted so bad. But Jeff said it didn't make sense because we don't have a baby. But we WILL have a baby, so why not get it, right? It made sense to me. But I didn't get it and have regretted it ever since.


Then we went to another Giants game in way better seats later that week. Jeff bought some tickets from Dreadlocks Bill (or Bull...neither of us can remember his name) and they were the best seats I've had. I liked them better than the club level we've been on. You could see everything and we were right behind home plate. I'll sit in those seats again any day. The awesome deal on tickets got included a $5 off coupon for concessions, so we bought Boudin bread bowls with clam chowder, which never get old.

Then we went to Berkeley's Kite Festival and rode on this Salsa party bus, which Jeff says looks exactly like the buses in Guatemala, ha ha.


And saw these kites and some other kites that were dancing to Stairway to Heaven (seems very appropriate song since we were in Berkeley). There was a kite fight as well with an MC giving a play by play, but lets be honest...kites are kites, so we didn't stay there long. Watching kites can only be so interesting for so long. We probably should've brought our own and then we probably would've stayed longer.

The most RIDICULOUS part of the trip was when an ambulance came and there was so much traffic it couldn't get through. We were on our shuttle riding back to our car, so we were surrounded by a lot of people from that city. The ambulance had no choice but to drive over the shrub covered median in order to SAVE A HUMAN LIFE. The woman in front of us started freaking out and cried, "Oh no! That poor grass. They're just killing that grass!" This completely inappropriate comment was shortly followed up with a comment from the lady behind us who exclaimed, "They've just destroyed that habitat's ecosystem." What what? Really people? Really? You've got to love Berkeley residents, right?

We've also been lucky to have two beach trips this summer - one at Santa Cruz and one trip in SC with my family.

I'll have to post all those pictures soon...