The Bakers come to visit!!!

We were so excited to get a visit from The Baker fam...they fit a visit in with us as they traveled to Southern California to visit family and we're so glad they did!

We had several jam packed days and it was all so much fun!

Riley and I picked them up on Thursday around noon and our first stop was In-N-Out for burgers...yum!

We came back to let the kids take naps and we all did a little relaxing!

Once the kiddos were up we played outside. It didn't take long for Riley to get her princess clothes on and Reed was just beginning to understand how girly this house is!

He took a stroll on Riley's bike while she did some dancing!

Slide time!
Monkey see monkey do!

Jason got home a little late from work and we got a late start on dinner...so it was almost 9:00 before we ate but it was yum!



Andrea and I...so glad I got to spend time with one of my best friends!

Just a few hours after their arrival Reed had officially been sucked into the world of dress up...Josh was terrified but we were all cracking up!

Check out Reed's beautiful shoes!

Here he is with the stroller and the dog carrier on his arm...ready to go!

Jason was planning on taking Friday off sort of "under the radar" but we knew that it was going to be tough when his phone started ringing at 3 am due to the horrific tsunami that hit Japan that morning. What a tragic event.

He had to go into work first thing and he wasn't sure if he would end up being able to take the day off but in the end it all worked out.

Our plans were to check out the beach...but we were under a tsuami warning so all the beaches were closed.

These two were looking pretty cute and were ready to have a fun day so off we went!

Reed and Riley held hands on the way!

We were adventurous and found a private access to Stinson Beach and snuck on.

It was a beautiful day!

Beach cuties!

Family pic!

We found some seagulls and Andrea had some snacks on her so the birds were swarming around us and the kids loved it!

We headed to a great little cafe for lunch and then found a cute spot to take some pics of the kiddos...gotta watch this girl!

Next we headed into San Francisco to do some sight seeing and eat some good seafood!

We started walking along the Embarcadero and as is standard in San Fran...there are lots of crazy people!

Unfortunately there are also lots of beggars lining the streets and sometimes it's hard to see all of that. We learned the hard way that having kids makes it even worse...this one guy made balloon figures for the kids and of course we had to pay him for them...it was all worth it because these balloons provided endless entertainment for these two!

We had to keep Reed from hitting random people with his balloon on the stroll!

We headed to Pier 39 to see and smell the sea lions!

These two had so much fun together!

Another family shot

After the sea lions we headed to ride the infamous trolley...it was a little bit of a wait and not as exciting as all of us expected but we had never ridden them either so just another fun thing to cross of the list!

On our way to the trolley Jason was being pestered by someone on the street and he had fallen behind the rest of us...I saw him getting frustrated with this dude who kept talking to him and wondered what was going on. Turns out this guy kept telling him he was going to give Jason a citation and Jason couldn't figure out what for and he was getting ticked. When Jason asked what he did or what law he broke the guy said "I'm going to give you a citation for not smiling"...haha...and then he preceded to hand Jason a smiley face sticker...gotta love San Fran!

Riley had fun hanging on the handles!

We saw this huge line wrapped around an entire block and asked the trolley driver what was going on...his response "there was an Elvis siting"...ha...turns out this was the day the iPad 2 came out and this was the line for the Apple store!

We rode the trolley to Union Square...showed Andrea lots of the big shops like the three story Forever 21 but much to Josh's relief we didn't actually do any shopping but instead just got back on the trolley for our ride back!

One of the funniest moments of the day...Josh and Andrea had made a bet before coming out to Cali that if gas went above $4.00/gallon he could get a new duck blind...unfortunately that's not a common price for gas out here but with the events of the tsunami gas prices happened to go up Friday morning. When we first drove into the city both Andrea and I had spotted many gas stations with gas over $4.00 but neither of the guys noticed so we just chuckled to ourselves and went on...they never knew what we thought was so funny until literally that evening when we were walking to eat after riding the trolley when Josh finally clued in to the gas price at a station we passed and claimed his victory!

We had a great seafood meal at Scoma's...one of our go to places and then headed home for the night!

Saturday morning I came out to find the bounce house blown up and the boys "watching" the kids!

Jump time...the bounce house was out the entire time they were here and the kids just turned it on and off as they pleased!

Miss M came over to watch the kids all day while we headed to Napa for some adult fun...it was a perfect day!

We took Josh and Andrea to Rutherford Grill for a great lunch and our friends Todd and Hannah met up with us as well!

After lunch we headed to the St Helena Olive Oil company and did some tastings of olive oils, vinegars, and all kinds of yummy stuff!

Such a cool place...Jason and I had never been there so it was all new to us too!

Josh deciding on which olive oil to buy!

We started our tastings at St Supery!

Jason being silly...what's new!

Hannah and Todd

The girls...Andrea, me, and Hannah

We then went to Mumm for some champagne tastings...beautiful place with great views!

Me and my sweet hubby

We checked out the art gallery at Mumm where they were featuring an artist who had taken photographs of families in the same exact location over periods of 10-30 years...it was amazing.

After we were done tasting we stopped in downtown Napa at a great little bakery called Sweetie Pie's for some sweet treats...I caught Andrea digging in to her cupcake!

Fun times!

The kids behaved very well for Miss M and had a great day of fun themselves. When we got home we decided to make pizza for dinner and Reed and Riley were anxious to help Andrea make the dough!

Sunday we went to church, took them to our favorite sushi place, and then hit up the outlet mall for a little shopping!

The guys were actually more on a shopping mission than Andrea and I so we took the kids to a little play area and let them burn some energy off!

Reed had to take a little juice break!

That evening the boys went and picked up In-N-Out for dinner because Josh hadn't gotten his fill yet and Andrea and I decided to heat out for a movie...I'll be honest...we both wanted to see the Justin Bieber movie so we faced our Bieber Fever and saw it in 3D!

Monday morning we took the kiddos to the Jelly Belly Factory and Josh braved the tasting line and tasted several nasty flavors..yuck!

Then it was off to the aiport so the Bakers could continue on with their vacation!

We had such a fun time with them here...Riley asked about Reed for days after and I think he did the same. We did a lot while they were here but it was all super fun!

Thanks for coming to visit...can't wait to see you guys again soon!