Arleen & Tom Visit Part 1

Tom and Arleen got here on Monday and they've covered a lot. They've driven up to Wine Country, gone to Triburon, stopped at the Golden Gate Bridge a few times, took a trolley through San Francisco and stopped at Wisherman's Wharf.  We're having a great visit. Here are a few pictures before we left for John's birthday dinner last night.  More to come...

Birthday Boy

We celebrated John's birthday with a day of food yesterday. In the afternoon, he got a surprise from Omaha Steaks from mom and dad. And we ate our faces off at The House of Prime Rib last night in our old neighborhood in San Francisco with Tom and Arleen. And we topped the night off with the After Midnight Chocolate Cake from Citizen Cake. 

More Before Pictures

Here are pictures of the bedrooms upstairs.  I'll add bathroom, downstairs and front of house pics later this week. The guest bedroom mattress arrived last week, headboard tomorrow and I just need to get some bedding and it will be all ready to go for Arleen and Tom next Monday! Typical, Cole had to make his way into every picture.

I love this picture.

Eric sent it to me today. It's the view of the bottoms from Grandma and Grandpa's yard. It looks the same but different from when I was a kid. The pond used to be filled in and there were cattails everywhere, the trees have grown a ton and Grandpa kept the grass shorter. I remember Grandpa made Christy and me a swing off of that tree that we used to have so much fun on when we came over. I knew I was getting older when I got too big for that swing...it was a sad day, I remember!

The only thing this picture is missing is Grandpa down at the bottom across the pond. He was always down there poking around.

Before House Pictures

Belleville Visit

Shots of Grandma's new patio, Lucky the cat, and some of us on the deck. Our outfits coordinated (isn't she cute in her pink?), so I had to take some shots.

St. Louis Visit

Covered a lot this weekend in St. Louis. Outback Steakhouse on Friday night, Queeny Park and shopping on Saturday, lunch with Eric, and Hacienda on Saturday night. Sunday included church, going to Grandmas and then dinner with Jaclyn and Katie Sunday night. It was a great visit and good to be back. I took some shots while I was there, including pictures of Mom and Dad's new Toyota Camry.