A Girl's Week

The boys are off on their high adventure trip (bike ride across California) this week, so Calissa and I are on our own at home.

 Monday, we did some grocery shopping and then made 8 batches of Strawberry jam.  After that we went shopping at Old Navy and Calissa spent her gift card from her birthday.  We went out to Outback for dinner and then enjoyed milkshakes at Grandma and Grandpa's house.

Tuesday, Calissa had a friend over (Gracie) all day.  We picked her up from swim team practice and then went to the Farmer's Market.  After that they played, I read and did some chores around the house.  About dinner time, she went home and Calissa and I had dinner at home (with our yummy farmer's market corn on the cob) and watched America's Got Talent.  We ended the day reading in bed!

 On Wednesday morning we picked up Lindsay and headed to the Oakland Zoo.

We had a fun day!

 Our favorite thing that day was watching the otters play (and petting the goats, and watching the monkeys, and riding the train, and getting pressed pennies!)

Uncle Drew and Christopher were at the Giant's game and Aunt Tina had to work, so she brought over Emily and we watched the girls until Drew got back about 7:00 pm. (Calissa played barbies with Lindsay for probably over three hours!  What a great cousin!)  The traffic was super bad and it took them forever to get home but we had fun with the girls. Calissa went to mutual that night to watch a movie and have some S'mores.

On Thursday, we had a church thing in the morning.  Calissa babysat some kids while I had brunch with some of the sisters in our ward.  Then, we headed out to Walnut Creek to go to Barnes and Noble to get a birthday present for Christopher.  Since Calissa had been such a great babysitter I let her pick out a couple of new books too.  Then, we walked to Buckhorn to grab a late lunch.  Once home, we hung out for a while and then I convinced Calissa to go on a walk with me.  She wasn't too happy about it until we found baby ducks diving in the water.  They were soooo cute!  That evening Gracie came over to spend the night and we went and had dinner at Skipolini's, played some cards, watched some tv, and then went to bed.  (There was also some sleepwalking by Gracie and some talking in her sleep by Calissa)!

 On Friday after Gracie left we went to Benihana to celebrate Christopher's 7th birthday!
Thanks for inviting us!  It was soooo yummy!

Then, we went and did about 3 hours of shopping in the mall.  Calissa bought a new dress and purse with (mostly) her own money.  I got a few things too with some gift cards that I had.  That night we had leftovers for dinner and then watched the movie "Zapped" on the Disney Channel.  Calissa had one last night in our bed and then we ran some errands the next day, washed dad's car and waited for them to come home! Calissa was glad to see her dad and brothers but decided that she was going to miss sleeping in dad's bed!