Our trip to Antioch

Since Ryan is not working we decided to take advantage of his free time and drive up to Northern CA to visit my family last week. We drove up on a Thursday and Brady did SO well. He usually takes pretty short naps, and has never gone over 3 hours, but on this drive, he slept for 4 hours! It was great.

We got to my parent's home in time for dinner and then headed to bed. On Friday, we planned on going to San Francisco, but as we were getting ready, a pigeon flew into the house!!

Luckily Ryan was brave and captured it for us :)

After that whole ordeal, we headed into SF with my brother and sister. We went to Union Square and walked around before grabbing some pizza at Blondies.

After lunch, we drove across the Golden Gate and into Sausalito. We walked through some fun shops along the water and took in the gorgeous view.

As we walked back to the car, we walked along the rocks on the water and there were TONS of crabs. Almost EVERY crevice had 1 or 2 of the little guys scurrying back in as we walked by.

On Sunday, we headed to my brother's home in Lodi to celebrate my dad's 56th birthday. Though Brady has been in pools before, he's never gone in deeper than his legs because they are always too cold. This pool was WARM, so I would classify this as Brady's first real swimming experience. He really seemed to like the water. I sat on that step with him on my lap for about an hour and he never made a peep. He does not usually sit still for that long. Sierra just recently learned to swim and is SO happy to have a new pool in the back yard. She loves swimming and had a blast chasing Ryan and being chased by him :)

After swimming, my brother grilled up some jalapenos that were stuffed with a cream cheese mixture and wrapped in bacon. I've had them before and they were pretty good, even though I don't like peppers or jalapenos or anything spicy. This time, I got a hot one though and couldn't finish mine.

My dad requested a german chocolate cake for dessert. I was little disappointed because, though it's a Brisco favorite (grandpa and uncles love it too) that's not "real" chocolate to me. I've tried it a few times and have never been super impressed. But I gave it another shot and it was pretty good. ...Good enough to have another piece later that night :)

After swimming and dinner and cake, we all just relaxed while Sierra and Alice played with the baby.

Sierra loves cousin Brady! Alice does too, she was pretty infatuated with him, pointing at him and touching him any chance she got, but she was camera shy.

Anyway, that was our trip up North. It was fun to see everyone, especially my 2 favorite nieces!