SAN FRANCISCO TRIP!

It so happened that a couple of our long time friends, Mike and Kristi, were in San Francisco at the same time, so we all met up on Sunday night for dinner at Spork. Everett and Mike went to the same high school and were roommates at UT and after college.

Everett and I were able to head out for a few days and go to San Francisco! We stayed from Thursday 11/19 to Monday 11/23. We had a great time!

Some of the things we did while we were there:

Fisherman’s Wharf
Union Square
Chinatown
Lombard Street
Alcatraz
Pier 39
Ghiradelli Square
Cable Cars
Napa
Walked and ate ALOT

On Friday, we took an 8 hour wine tour to Napa. We rode a shuttle to Napa and visited 4 wineries. The ones we went to were Domaine Chandon, V. Sattui, Black Stallion, and Andretti Winery. V. Sattui was our favorite! We then rode a 50 minute ferry back to San Francisco.

We had a very fun trip, but we were ready to come home on Monday to see Chloe and Kyle.

Chloe's Soccer

Eva, Chloe, Ellie, and Gabby

Chloe had a great first soccer season!

She had her last game on Saturday, and she scored 2 goals, received her first trophy and went to a soccer party at Coach John's house!

Next activities up for the kids...

Soccer Tots for Kyle starting in December!

Chloe playing on an indoor soccer team during the winter season!

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Zeller Elves

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Kyle's Favorite Books!

Kyle loves stories before he goes to bed. His favorites that we read every night are Five Green and Speckled Frogs, Big Red Barn, Five Monkeys Jumping on the Bed, and Clifford the Big Red Dog. He goes through phases where he wants the same books read over and over again. This is the phase of nightly books for right now!

Five Green and Speckled Frogs

2009 Family Pictures!

Here are a few of our recent family pictures. We love them all, but we are saving a few of them for our Christmas card, so those won't be posted right now. :)

Halloween 2009!!

Halloween was very fun this year! Both kids were super excited about going trick-or-treating!! Kamie, Jeremy, Karlee Brynlee, and Kamie's dad came over to go with us! The guys all stayed home and watched the UT game (Yeah, we won!) while Kamie and I took the kids to get candy!

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Halloween Preview!

The official announcement:

Chloe will be DORTHY from The Wizard of Oz.

Kyle will be SPIDERMAN.

Homer will be a PUMPKIN.

Here they are practicing their roles!

Laura's 35th!

Even thought it was a messy, rainy day, it was a great birthday!! I like to tell Everett each year where to buy a cake for me, and he usually forgets to come home with one! Not this year! He came home tonight with my favorite cookie cake!! :) He's awesome!! Thanks!!

Chloe took this picture of us!!

This was my surprise celebration last Thursday night at The Blue Goose! I had no idea I would be having a Girl's Night Out that night! It was so much fun! Thanks, girls!! Thanks, Everett for keeping the kids so I could go out!!

Teresa, Kamie

Kim, Me and Tamara

Chloe and Kyle sang to me! :)

Pumpkin Patch

Soccer Goals!

Kyle loves to say "Go Chloe!"

Grandma came to watch today. Grandpa was stuck meeting with a roof inspector, but he will make it next time!

Big day in soccer today! First, they had team and individual pictures. Then, Chloe scored 2 goals in the game!! Their team outscored the other team for the first time! Everyone still wins in 4 year old soccer!

Before the game, Everett told Chloe she would get ice cream if she scored one goal and ice cream and gum if she scored 2 goals. She went after that ball today! All it took was some ice cream incentive to get that aggressive side out of her!

Video of Chloe's 2 Goals!