San Francisco Treat!!

Happy 6 month Birthday to our
Coco Adoration Capri!!!
I can't believe 6 months ago today our hearts quadrupled when she was born.
She has been such a light to our lives and our home.
We love you Coco and are so thankful for you to be in our lives.
God blessed us fully with the best children.


We had to go to San Francisco for an appointment last week.
We decided to make it fun for the kids by going somewhere different, than just the usual Pier 39, which we all love.
We were just looking for something different this time.
Hugo has been itching to go to the California Academy of Science Museum.
Once we told the kids, they were so happy.
They love to look at every little thing the museum has to offer.
We went to our appointment then went to the museum.

Brooklin and Kameron in front of the sign before we went inside.

This is a huge flower displayed inside. This is the actual size of the flower.
I thought it was just oversized to show the detail but it wasn't, this was the actual size. Kameron said he read about them in a book, and sure enough he was right. That was the real size of them.
I guess I had so much going on with the kids, that I forgot to take pictures of the names of the exhibits we were seeing. I know, how could that happen?
Well, a long day, 3 little children, and only an hour and a half inside. I guess that could be expected.

Brooklin found Felix the frog. She loved to see him and did have a conversation with him. He was a huge frog. Bigger than in your backyard, well, at least bigger than in my backyard. Thank goodness!

This is just inside the Butterfly garden. Kameron giving me a cheesy grin.
This was a great display. There are circular ramps you walk up inside and it takes you to the top. While you're walking the butterflies just fly all over around your head and land right next to you or even on you.
If fact, when we left this area they had us turn around to check our backs, bags and even ran a big duster type brush under the stroller to make sure there were no critters or butterflies that got stuck on us.
A butterfly is fine but not a critter like this cute little frog on this leaf.

You can barely see the little guy....he's red with blue legs. He's close enough that we could have touched him but we didn't. I was thinking why would he not jump on us? He was cute and very brightly colored.

Brooklin was most impressed with this little Gecko guy. He is so real, he looks fake. He was in a glass case, not out in the open like the others.

I wonder if her name is Charlotte? This was huge. I can't imagine finding that in my laundry room.

This is a huge water snake. I never found his head, which was fine with me.

Brooklin found Mr. Ray's family.
She was so happy to take a picture for Mr. Ray.

This fish was huge...the picture of Brooklin is a little blurry but I used it to show how big this fish was in comparison to her head.

The kids loved to pet the starfish.
Brooklin did try to pick them up and the lady asked her not too, nicely.

Her Eel friends. They are different colors than the Mr. Green Eel.

This is what Hugo is holding Brooklin up to see. Seahorses.

Kameron really liked this big aquarium wall. It was way above your head and lower than your feet, cause there were steps down. Hugo said he read that prior to the museum opening, they had to move this big glass during the night because to transport it there, it took up several lanes on the road.
It is HUGE and it is very thick and in several sheets.

This is a huge white alligator.

The turtle display.

These are just disgusting. Yes, hissing cockroaches.
They are huge!!! They were inside a big glass case and you could still hear them hissing.

Brooklin with the Zebras. I love Zebra print.
I guess I shouldn't say that too loud in a museum huh?

CoCo just enjoying her ride. She was taking in all the sights.
She is very observant and watched everything.
I was hoping a butterfly would have landed on her and I could have got a great picture.

Hugo said,"Look it's Mema!!".

CoCo laughing...I couldn't resist.

Doesn't this display remind you of Night at the Museum?
He sits right inside the front door.
They actually have Night at the Museum there where kids can spend the night. Wouldn't that make a great birthday party?

Brooklin found a friend in the gift store. She helped Brooklin find a prize.
She hung around our family the whole time we were in there.
I didn't think til later, maybe she thought we were going to break something.

This was her prize she got.
She was so excited because she could see things up close.

Hugo and the kids while I took the picture.

Me and the kids while Hugo took the picture.

We did make one last stop before heading home.
We must not go to San Fran without getting a bowl of clam chowder.
It was getting late, so we just drove down to the pier and ran quickly into Fisherman's Grotto and had a quick bowl, then headed home.
It was quite cold and windy there but
when we got home it was still in the 100's.

We had a great day with the family. We missed our Shine. She had cheer practice and could not miss. Kameron was happy to miss the day of school especially for the museum visit.

If you're ever in San Francisco, California Academy of Science Museum is a great stop. The kids really enjoyed it.

Thanks for sharing bits of our day.
Til next Time with T!!!

Scrap Tiffany "4-Photo Layout"

This week at Scrap Tiffany the challenge was to create a layout with 4 photos.
This layout features my son's 8th birthday party.
We took him and some friends to a Motocross races in our local arena.
They had so much fun.
Prior to the races, they got to go to the track party. This means they got to meet the drivers and get a poster and autographs from them, and get to play/run the track. The track had some major dirt hills that the jumps were done on and some of them were huge. Well, for me they were, I was 8 months pregnant at the time. I thought it may send me into labor.
One of the drivers even let my son, the birthday boy, sit on his bike for a picture. They were all very impressed but very tired by the end of the night.

This was a hard one to just use 4 photos, so I used 5. I guess it's a bigger challenge with 5 right?
I just couldn't leave one out so here's my layout.

That's my layout. It was such a fun layout with all the excitement of the pictures, it was easy to make an exciting layout.

Go over to Tiffany's to check out the rest of the design team's
layouts using 4 photos. Don't forget if you make a layout based on this weeks challenge you can send it to Tiffany and she may put it on the website for show and tell.

Thanks for stopping by...
Til next Time with T!!!

ScrapTiffany "Scraplift" Challenge

This week's challenge at Scrap Tiffany was "scraplift".
Well, I immediately thought of all the blogs and people I admire in scrapbooking. They're are way too many to choose from.
So I just closed my eyes and pointed.
Just kidding, I didn't.
I chose to scraplift a card from Christina.
I always love her work.

Take a look at Christina's work.
She does a great job and really makes things look very easy.

Don't forget to visit Scrap Tiffany to see what the other designers
have created or should I say copied for this week.
Thanks for stopping by.

Til next Time with T!!

Scrap Tiffany "Thrifty Thursday"

Today was my day over at Tiffany's to share a Thrifty Thursday Thrill.
I am going to show you how to make plastic bag pages.

Here's what you do....
First start out with one of these...
I know we all have these everywhere in our houses. At our house we use them for just about everything from dog poop to taking food to a BBQ. Just as long as you don't use the same bag for those two things, then you're good!!
And I know all us Target shoppers have even more lurking around our house.

That's all there is to it.
Don't forget you can do so much to these "pages". You can stamp, ink, paint, cut a cute edge, cut out shapes, or whatever else you can think of.
I am sure there are plenty of people that can/will find plenty to do with these.

Hope you enjoyed the "thrill" for Thursday.
Thanks for stopping by.

Til next Time with T!!

Scrap Tiffany "Vintage Challenge"

This week at Tiffany the challenge was "Vintage".
Although, I realize there are a lot of manufacturers out there that produce
vintage product, but whenever I hear vintage, I think 7Gypsies.
Recently, at my LSS I took a class to learn how to make these houses.
I love their vintage papers, and embellishments.
So I thought this was perfect for this challenge.
Here it is......

This is the roof that comes off and is a mini book.
I love this map paper and there is also dictionary paper inside it too.

Thanks for stopping by today to go back in time with all the vintage products.
Go check out the other designer's on Tiffany to see the other time capsules.

Til next Time with T!!!