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I can’t seem to catch a break! I’m hanging in there with the crazy life, but blogging seems to be something that just can’t get done. NOT that I think a million people read this tiny blog here, but I’d like to be better about blogging! I have fun family stories and great family shoots still yet to blog and I just can’t get to the computer long enough to post them! Here’s what I’m telling myself… JUST POST! Don’t worry! Lighten up and stop stressing! The more you blog the easier it will get!

Thats what we learned in school, right? You’d tell the teacher, “I don’t know what to write about!” And they’d say, “Just WRITE!” So, I’m just going to write! Or just share pictures and let them speak for themselves!

To quote The Awesome Brady.… Here we GO!

I’m addicted to Instagram. If you have an iPhone you need to get this app. I love it and I will be making a book of our Instagram pictures. Instagram is a fun easy app. that helps you create really great pictures. I really want to do a picture a day with it, but EV-ER-RY TIME I say I’m going to do a picture a day thing… I don’t. I do think that with instagram I can do it… Thats it! I’m proclaiming that I WILL be doing a photo a day with instagram and for Christmas I’ll make a book. How fun would it be if me and Jeramy both made our own books! So, here are a bunch of pictures I took last year… I’ve already stressed about how many more images of Maggie and JIllian then the rest of the kids, but they are ALWAYS with me!

I’ve always loved going to San Francisco. When my gramma used to work as a secretary in the finical district she’d take me to work at least once while I was on Christmas Break. When I was older and I worked in the City I didn’t hardly want to go home! Christmas in San Francisco is so sparkly and pretty!

A few years ago we made time to take the kids to Union Square, but it seems mostly life gets in the way and we can’t make the trip.

THIS year however!!!! Jeramy surprised me with tickets to ride a Christmas Cable Car!!! A cable car tour of the City! The car was decked out in lights, they gave us Santa hats, played Christmas Carols and taught us some fun San Francisco history! IT WAS SO SUPER FUN!!!

Some tips if you decide to go…

~We got a great deal from Groupon. Make sure you check them out for deals.

~Sit in the front and on the left side of the car. Thats where the good views are.

~ It is really cold. Dress warm and gloves are a must!

~ Don’t be afraid to ask your driver to stop so you can hop off for a good picture.

~ You stop at the Fairmont to see the HUGE gingerbread house … they have a direct  mailbox to the North Pole. Get in and write those letters! You have 10 minutes!

EDITED: Mary Rose wrote a letter at the Fairmont and dropped it in the Direct to the North Pole mailbox and just got an e-mail back from him today! She is freaking out!!!

 

On another level I was sad, I was missing Anne so much. Jillian was singing and doing “The Beenie Bop” and I always wonder what Anne wold be doing… and I always have a hard time taking family photos without Anne. And then, driving through the Financial District I couldn’t remember the building my Gramma worked in… It was across from the Trans-Amercia building, but I was sad I couldn’t point it out anymore. I did feel pangs of sadness, but I didn’t let those feelings take over the happy excitement of the evening.

Real quick about these images… I am still so excited about our trip last night! We’ve had these tickets for a couple weeks now, not to mention that I’ve been wanting to take the kids on a cable car for a very long time! I handed my camera over to the lady who worked with the cable car company which was really scary… for many reasons, but I didn’t want to have bunches of pictures and not have me in any of them. They are perfect! In all their blurry brightness, they are completely perfect. I let go with these pictures and backed off on my quest for the most perfect image and just captured the spirit of the day. I did edit a few… changed them to black and white, but for the most part these images are just as I took ’em and I am so excited about them!

 

 

 

How about a slideshow??