Pictures!

Here are some photos of what we've been doing since we arrived in northern California:

 May: Slumming in "Old Sacramento", a very fun historic district in our state's capital, thirty or forty minutes from our house.

 

June: Hannah Jane loses her first tooth! We were in temporary lodging on base still but the tooth fairy found us!

 

Fishing and camping at Lassen Volcanic National Park for Mary's birthday in June



Our first 4th of July parade! Hannah Jane picked these out for herself to wear on the big day.

Visiting with TC and family at their house in Lake Tahoe...beautiful! (I love this photo because I have so many like it of just TC and I when we were younger)

Gymnastics!!!!

We took Hannah Jane to the circus in Sacramento, and afterward asked her if she had fun - she did, but thought kindergarten was more fun......

Our first opportunity to play soccer....she loves it because she gets to kick something and not get in trouble for it.

Chasing Rick's U2 plane after he lands from "space" (see photo below). Hannah Jane and I got to ride in the "chase car", a camero that chases after the thing as it lands and talks the pilot down. Weird experience being right behind a huge aircraft as it's trying to get its wheels on the ground.... (Just as a reminder in case you forgot: Rick is a doctor.....who occasionally has to fly to space or jump out of helicopters in Iraq or temporarily pilot an F-16... because the air force pays him to... for reasons that still are a bit fuzzy to me.....)

Rick climbing out of the U2 after returning from the edge of space (see Rick's facebook photos for his "earth" pictures...)

Wine break! Along a hike in the Sierras......(Hannah Jane was directing us to "drink your wine!")

Hannah Jane practicers reeling in a salmon at our town's "Calling Back of the Salmon" festival put on by a local Indian tribe. Apparently the salmon run back up stream through our neighborhood even  in the fall...

"Train Town" in Sonoma (hey, we had to give her something after sitting through 2 days of wine tastings. Actually, we all had fun, both vineyard touring AND at Train Town.)



June: Our first American county fair! Bumper cars.....soooooo not Japanese.........

May: Hot tubing it at friend TC's house in San Francisco...just two hours away!