FALL BREAK IN SFO

As you can see there was plenty of food, fun, and family over the past couple of days in San Franscisco. Our semi-annual trip found all of the West Coast Simon Family healthy and happy. We had great accomodations at Mike and Cindy's and the hospitality was fantastic. We loved playing with Oscar and the newest member of the family.....CoCo. She is really very cute! We even had a great Chinese meal together with a few hours of visiting with Vicki's family. It is amazing how much Kelsey and Joshua have grown! Thurday we had a fun day in Napa...starting the day with Opus One and ending the Day with Castle of Amerosa and a tasty dinner with Cindy at Don Giovanni's. On the way out of town, we visited with Valerie at her new Emeryville loft. It was really cool! Of course we continue to marvel at Irene's good health and cheerfulness at almost 92! She "hung in there" all week with all of our goings and comings. She is a real sport!

Thanks to all again for a memorable trip. We missed having Jason, Meredith, Amelia, Aaron and Caren with us on this trip!

Another Weekend of Fun!

Last week we celebrated another birthday for Daddy Jason. We all went to dinner at a favorite restaurant, Vivace' and then to Amelia's favorite, Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Store! Amelia loves to celebrate birthdays! Especially her's!

Mommy Meredith and Daddy Jason had some errands and shopping to do so Amelia got to come over to Poppie's and Bubby's house to spend the afternoon and night.

Amelia loved going to Harris Teeter to buy groceries. She especially loved seeing herself on the t.v. security monitors. We bought all of our favorite things plus a great little flashing small "happy-faced" jack-o-lantern". It won't be long until we all get to go trick-or-treating.

We came home and made sandwiches and pumpkin-faced cookies. After lunch we took a stroll to the nearby horse farm. We made friends with "BROWNIE" the brown and white horse, fed him some apples and carrots, and took a few photos. When we got home we were tired from the long walk and ate popcicles...Amelia's favorite!

After our walks, we ate an early dinner of salad and pepperoni pizza. Poppie went out with some friends to see the ECU football game on the satellite, while Bubbie and I stayed home "puppy sitting" Zeke and Zoe'. Poppie was happy since ECU won again! We took a bubble bath in Bubby's big jaczuzzi tub and then read lots of books and had some ice cream. We were so tired we all fell asleep by 9:00 while watching "Kiyou" dvd.

This morning we got up early to begin making brunch since Mommy Meredith and Daddy Jason came over to each and pick up Amelia. Amelia helped to make biscuits. She loved sifting the dry indredients. The flour made her sneeze. She wanted to make eggs, fries with ketchup, and orange juice....her favorites!

Bubby, Poppie, and the puppies were sad to see them leave, but they were all tired all day. Amelia takes lots of energy to keep entertained!