Bishop's Pumpkin Farm

I have been told for years that I must take the family over to Bishop's Pumpkin Farm out in Wheatland, CA. We finally made it over there this year! It was about an hour drive and reminded me of Apple Hill and Fairytale Town mixed together. They had caramel apples, train rides, slides, a petting zoo, a corn maze, hay rides, forts, and lots of photo opportunities! 

Broderick's first train ride

Tyler on the train

I convinced him to sit with us. 

One pregnant sister sitting in front of us and another pregnant sister sitting behind us lol 

The train on the move

Slide F-U-N! 

Fort

Broderick was asleep when we took this picture.. probably not the best idea 

Tyler found his pumpkin! 

My little pumpkins 

Always have to get that family photo! 

My little niece Kyla

 My little Englishman 

What's a farm without a tractor! 

Ready for the long drive home!

Bishop's Pumpkin Farm was fun but my heart still belongs to Apple Hill. ♥

A Birthday in San Francisco

 Yesterday was my 27th birthday and I don't care who knows it! lol 
We thought it'd be fun to take a little day trip to San Francisco. I really wanted to go to the Exploratorium since I hadn't been there since we moved to Northern California back in 1993 and Deke and Tyler had never been. This was actually Tyler's first time to San Francisco and he was beyond excited to go there. While we were driving over the Bay Bridge he said - "this is a dream come true!!!". Apparently its been a life long desire to cross over a bridge. You should of seen his face when he laid eyes on the Golden Gate for the first time! 

Here are a few of the things we did at the Explratorium:

 Tyler LOVED playing the drums! 

 FINALLY... a chair that is "Deke-sized!" lol 

Deke drew a picture of me through a scope. 

Tyler is making electricity here and if you look really close you can see it. 

Rain drop photography 

After the Exploratorium we walked around the Palace of Fine Arts 

For dinner we went to Johnny Rockets where I had the most amazing peanut butter chocolate milkshake. I must recreate it. 

And you thought the milkshake was my dessert, HA! We had lots of time left on the meter so we decided to check out this cute little cupcake shop down the street, Kara's Cupcakes.

On the way out we decided to burn some of those calories and walked down the bridge... well we walked, Tyler ran. 

Bye-bye San Francisco, we shall meet again real soon! 

This was too cute not to share - This is how I found the boys after coming back to the car from getting gas. I guess our day trip wore them out! 

6 Flags Discovery Kingdom!

Friday afternoon we had a raffle at work and I won a High School Musical Easter basket. The gal that won the six flags tickets ended up not wanting them and asked me to trade with her. I explained to her that it wasn't a fair trade but she didn't care because she wouldn't use the tickets. SO I got two tickets to 6 flags AND $20 of food vouchers! We of course went the very next day because Deke actually had the day off from the fire academy. The weather was beautiful and it was nice spending some much needed time with Deke. He's been so busy with work, school, and the fire academy that we haven't spend a whole lot of time together. It ended up being a really fun day!

♥ We got some snuggling in while waiting in the long lines ♥

This cute little penguin followed Deke's finger along the glass.
Petting the Sting Ray's

In line for one of the water ride....all smiles.

After the water ride...all wet, I'm not smiling. :(

I like to think that he was blowing kisses at us.

We got blue tongues from a snow cone we had while waiting for the whale show to start.

One of the many sweet tricks.