Top 10 of our Trip- #7

7. Brother and Uncle Bonding
It just seems that there is not enough testosterone in our house.  Not that Chris is lacking ANY; but a mom, 2 girls and a female dog lead to a lot more My Little Pony, dress up, and tea parties than crazy boy stuff that I know Chris craves sometimes. He had been looking forward to doing an overnight trip with his brothers and Vince like last year.  Instead of an overnight, they decided to do an all day creek swim/walk.  With the dogs too.  First time that Daria went swimming, and Chris said she held her own pretty well next to Vince and Mikey's dogs.
Elia also flirted and played with her uncles all trip.  We have even had to call them on the phone so she could say hi since we got back.  Gianna, and of course Phoebe and Gabby, always enjoy their uncles too.

They found tiny frogs on their creek walk.

Elia told Danny he is her favorite, in front of Patrick who has put in a  LOT of time in Dallas.
He took it in stride though.

Here we are waiting to get into Salsa Brava, which is a DDD restaurant.

6 Year Anniversary

Its been 6 years!  Chris took a half day, which is always great, and we went out to dinner and then watched fireworks with the family.  We went to Cane Rosso, which was featured on Diners, Drive ins and Dives.

This restaurant was awesome!  Best fire oven, italian pizza I have ever had in the states!

Classic margherita pizza.  Buffalo mozzarella.

Elia was making Chris laugh.  Love this pic of him.

dessert- smores calzone!

Right before we left to go to the fireworks.

Goofing off while we waited (and waited) for the fireworks.

California: Park and the City

I took one picture of the kids the whole day Wednesday, and it sure is a beauty!

Aunt Jenny braided G's hair

We took the cousins to the park with Aunt Cathy and her 2 little ones (they are G and E's second cousins).  For dinner all the adults went into San Fransisco for dinner.  We went to Q, which was featured on Guy Fieri's show, Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.  We could have just eaten the appetizers and been completely satisfied, but I went ahead and got the Duck Confit, and it did not disappoint!  I don't think I had ever had duck before but it was so, so good!  I'm so mad I didnt take any pics!
Afterwards Chris and I picked Matt and Sarah up from the SF airport.

The most amazing dessert ever! 

Museum at Fair Park

Since we had such a great time taking the train to the St. Patrick's Day parade last week, we took the DART again, but this time to Fair Park to go to the Dinosaurs Unearthed exhibit. Chris had a half day, so we had enough time to get to the museum by 3:30. The train lost a tiny bit of its new-ness to the girls, and it was harder to keep them sitting still and not crazy. The Dinosaurs Unearthed exhibit basically made you pay extra on top of the general exhibits. Unearthed had keypads so you could push buttons and make the dinosaurs move... which is pretty cool(especially for toddlers) but in the end probably not worth the extra dough.

Not sure how Elia felt at first!

They got pretty obsessed with excavating the bones. They could have played there for hours.

After we did Unearthed, we went to the general exhibits were there was some excavating in the sand (again, coulda played for hours). In fact, we could have done just this and everyone would have been happy. We also went to the under 6 play area where they have a play farm. The girls loved it too.

After that, we took the DART to Deep Ellum and got some Twisted Root burgers. They have been featured on Diners Drive ins and Dives, and trust me, they did not disappoint.

A fun day!