First Audition!

After being signed by her agent back in October, Cydney finally had her first audition last thursday! It was for a Shell oil commercial. She didn't get a callback but loved the experience and has since had another audition! She absolutely loves doing this and had a great time riding Bart into the city and walking around experiencing something that is very different than what she is used to! She said all the people reminded her of Disneyland! Lol Here are some pictures I snapped of the experience!

Christy comes to Cali!

Last week one of my best friends Christy came to visit Sunny Northern California from Vancouver, BC! She came to meet my family and to check out San Francisco for the first time! We had an absolute blast!

Thursday evening she flew into Sac and the girls and I went to pick her up. We started the weekend off by stopping at In n Out on our way home from the airport... she has now been once and can say she had it! Both of us felt gross afterwards! Friday we spent the morning getting pedicures (Her first EVER!) and shopping at some of the stores she doesn't have in Canada such as Target and Tilly's! Friday afternoon we went to Old Town Sacramento and showed her around ending the day with dinner at "Johnny Garlics" in Roseville owned by food networks Guy Fieri.

Saturday we got up and drove to San Fran. picking Melissa up on the way! We took at ballpark tour of AT&T park which was absolutely fantastic getting to go behind the scenes of my favorite team! Then we drove around the city showing Christy some famous landmarks like Coit Tower, The Full House street, Lombard St. and the Golden Gate bridge!! Sunday Christy and I rode bart into the city and did some more sightseeing including Pier 39, and Boudin Bakery! We ended the day with a movie and her first trip to BJ's Brew house.... Only my favorite restaurant ever!

Monday morning I had to drop her off at Bart at 7am to catch a train to SFO and I drove home. All in all it was a fantastic trip and I hope that Christy got a great taste of how awesome northern ca is and why we choose to live here!! ;) 

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San Francisco Trip!

On April 2nd I turned 20 something..... According to my blog title... haha ok 28. I need to milk the "20 somethings" as long as I can OK! Now leave me alone!! Being that Easter was the 4th it was a bad weekend for us to do much of anything for my birthday so we decided to plan a little get away for the following weekend!

Chris was able to get Friday off and we went to San Francisco for the weekend. This was something I was particularly excited about!! We used to go to SF a LOT when we lived over in Martinez. We would hop on "BART" and 40 minutes later we were in the city for a nice date. Not so easy being at least 2 hours away now. So it's been a good 4 years since Chris and I have been able to do this which has made me sad!

We decided to drive the "long" way in and avoid the Giants opening day traffic and go across the Golden Gate Bridge. Chris had never driven this way so it was a nice little drive! The weather was GORGEOUS!! We visited the Walt Disney Family Museum at the Presidio when we got into town and it was just AWESOME!!! If you ever have a chance to go, you must! I was a little bummed that we weren't allowed to take any pictures but it was def worth the trip over there!! They told us it would take us about 2 hours to go through and I thought to myself "no way" when I heard that but sure enough... about 2 hours later we found ourselves exiting!

After we left the museum we decided to be a little "touristy" and do things that we had never done even though we had lived in the bay area most of our lives! We drove down Lombard Street and after we checked into our hotel and walked around a bit we rode the Powell St Cable Car over to Ghirardelli Square. Yes we had never done either of those things!! lol

Saturday we met up with Nic and Melissa and my childhood friend Derek and his wife Tahnee for lunch at Joes Crab Shack. Derek and I grew up together in Madera and he is now an awesome photographer! He did pics of my girls in July and is going to photograph Nic and Melissa's wedding. They were meeting up in the City that day to shoot some engagement photos! After watching the Bush Man for a while, We had a fun and embarassing lunch (that involved me doing the hula for my bday thank you Melissa) and then headed our seperate ways.

Saturday night we went to the Giants home night opener at AT&T Park! It was the first game the Chris and I have gone to alone in probably over 5 years! I love going to games. I love the atmosphere, smells, sights and sounds. Especially with the views of San Francisco Bay in the background! It was especially awesome because we got to see the ceremony for Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum recieving his CY Young award for the 2nd year in a row! The game was dissapointing as they lost and we had some exceptionally annoying fans around us, but all in all we enjoyed the time together!

Sunday we had a nice drive home and got to enjoy dinner and a movie before we went home to the girls who were really happy to see us! It seemed like Bella's vocabulary expanded over the weekend and she babbled all night telling us all about HER weekend!

Here are some pictures of our trip!

San Francisco Trip!