I had a great birthday and a great weekend! Thanks for all of the birthday wishes :)
On Thursday after my fun "work" birthday I headed home to my parents house for the weekend. We hung out and had dinner and then headed to bed, a simple nice relaxing night.
On Friday, which was my real birthday I slept in late, hung out in my jammies, and even took a nap! It was glorious! Then at 5pm we had Bocce Ball reservations at Campo di Bocce! We've been there before and had a great time, and you can play for free on your birthday, so we headed on over!
The Bocce Ball Court
Dad, Clay, and my Mom walking to the other side of the court
Josh and Clay being dorks
Beautiful Livermore Valley
Joshy and I :)
(wearing my new clothes from my shopping trip last weekend!)
We played in teams - Old People vs. Young People and my parents killed us, their score was 2X ours haha... we even tried cheating but nothing worked.
After Bocce we went out to dinner and then got some frozen yogurt at TCBY! Then we headed home so I could open my gifts!
My parents gave me a certificate to have the Jetta serviced! Thank goodness because she hit 75K miles awhile ago and is in dire need of an oil change and 75K mile service! Yay!
My brother got me the board game Balderdash! 
And Josh totally surprised me and got me a new camera!!!! I have been wanting one forever! I'm so excited because my old Canon was 6 years old and only had 5 mega pixels hahaha... can you say ghetto??! The new one has 14 mega pixels and panoramic picture options! Such an improvement! :) Thanks Joshy!!
After presents we headed to bed because we had big plans for Saturday!We got up bright and early and headed to San Francisco. We have already seen all of the major attractions in SF so we thought it might be fun to give the Duck Tours a try. It is this old war time vehicle that can go on land or sea.
Josh, Dad, and Mom waiting to get on it!
On The Duck!
The tour took us all over SF!
We saw Alcatraz
"Rice a Roni" Hill
Fun Murals
China Town
All the while we quacked on the nerdy quackers they gave us haha
Then we made our way into the SF Bay
And I even got to drive it! I made a huge turn too, it was pretty neat!
We drove past AT&T Park - Home of the SF Giants
Joshy and I
Dad and Mom
Saw a bunch of ships!
Then after the Duck Tour we headed over to Pier 39 for some lunch!
We ate at WipeOut, which was yummy and had HUGE portions!
The we had to get ice cream! :)
After walking Pier 39 for a bit we headed over to The Walt Disney Family Museum which is also in SF
They only allowed pictures in this one room, which displayed furniture from Walt's Disneyland Apartment
The museum was interesting and really informative, but because the weather was abnormally AMAZING for the city it made being in a museum kinda over rated so I wasn't as impressed as I would have been on a boring rainy day haha, but we got to learn some neat facts about Walt and his family so not all was lost.After SF we headed home. Josh was kind enough to drive while my dad, mom, and I all took naps in the car haha. When my brother Clay got home from work he had his new 'girl friend' come over so we could all meet her. She was really nice and stayed for dinner - which my mom had made French Dip YUMM!!!
Then after dinner we played a game of Balderdash up in the turret of my parents house. We had such a great time and almost peed our pants a few times from laughing so hard!
Then it was funfetti cake time, and then bed!
On Sunday Josh came over to my parent's house and we went for a bike ride in the vineyards!
It was 95 degrees out - so beautiful! 
Cheese!
We even saw the neighbor's baby cows
The house with our flag out for Memorial Day!
Then Josh and I watched/sorta helped my dad renovate his camper, I got a sunburn, and I gave the dogs a bath.Then we filled up their doggy pool for them to cool off in, Bo was really happy :)
He loves laying in it!
After playing with the dogs a bit we headed home, unpacked, ran a few errands and then called it a night because I had to work on Monday.All in all it was a WONDERFUL weekend!! I had such a great time seeing my family and relaxing away from work! I hope everyone else had a great Memorial Day Weekend too!-Katie
It was a beautiful day in the city! :)
They had a smart car exhibit inside! I just had to sit in one!
I love riding the escalators in this mall, the first few floors have curved escalators!! Josh on the other hand... not so much!
While we were there my main order of business was to stop in at Vera Bradley! I picked up a few birthday gifts and then got this cutesy for myself! It is the "Knot Just a Clutch" in the new Very Berry Paisley print - love it! :)
Then we decided to walk to Chinatown on a mission for the Fortune Cookie Factory!
The Chinatown Gate!
Thanks to my iPhone I was able to map out how to find the small alley where the place was!
Found it!
It is a little hole in the wall, but the cookies are so freaking good!
We got a bag of the flat ones and the folded ones with fortunes :)
Then we headed back to Union Square to the parking garage, and saw the cable car!
And Macys!
And Neiman Marcus!
Union Square!
Josh couldn't stop eating the cookies!
When we got back to town we went out to dinner in downtown Santa Rosa, and there was a Lucy on display!
Up close!
Then on Sunday we had our End of the Year work meeting! It was PJ Party Themed and we had a feast of slumber party food!
Such a great weekend despite the few hiccups, but I just keep telling myself everything is meant to be!
