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Half Moon Bay. As far as I'm concerned, that's a great name for a town. It's so great that I want to visit it just because of its name. It probably helps that the town itself lives up to its title. I love its small coastside town vibe. Luckily for me, the kids love it too because of Lemos Farm. At least around this time of year, Lemos is a kiddie heaven filled with pumpkins, farm animals, train rides, pies and cookies, and all sorts of good ol' fashioned fun. We had such a good time that it made Jeff jealous. He wants to take a morning off later this week so that he can take the kids to Lemos again and try to recreate the memory.

Oh, so exciting! Where to start?!?!



Mommy, this place is amazing. It has leaves!

Big rocking horses too!



And ducks.

Oh yeah, almost forgot the pumpkins. Levi picked this one up and called it his baby.

I made Ruby leave her bink in the car. She thought this pumpkin with little knobs made a good substitute.

"Not half bad!" she says.

Totally unrelated, but awesome bed head.

Mad 2 Electric Boogaloo

Jeff and I manage to get out to the movie theater every 2 years or so, mainly for company screenings of movies made at Jeff's work. We did just that over the weekend when we went to see Madagascar 2. As far as Dreamworks animation goes, we liked this one. There were some genuinely funny gags and it was entertaining. Most importantly, we feel like it's good enough that many people will pay to see it so that Jeff can keep his job.

The other extra-ordinary thing we did recently was go to a rock concert. I can barely remember the last time we did that. It was definitely back in the day BC (Before Children) when we had the time and inclination to drive all the way to Sacto to see U2. This time around we saw Weezer in San Jose. I couldn't see much since it was general admission and we were standing on the floor, but I managed to catch some glimpses of what was going on onstage by alternating my hopping with the frizzy-haired girl hopping in front of me. Jeff was really happy that they performed The Greatest Man That Ever Lived. In fact, as a follow-up to a story I heard on NPR, I asked Jeff later in the week to compile a playlist for me of songs he wants played at his memorial service...someday. Of course, "The Greatest Man" was at the top. Haha! Funny. By golly, if that's what he wants, I'll do it. It'll really annoy his mom, Joan, though.

i scream, you scream

New month, new post. I spend a lot of time cooking at work and at home, so why not write about food that I've been making? Well, let me back up a little. As kids, Jeff and I both loved the same ice cream flavor: Fenton's Swiss Milk Chocolate. It's a malted milk ice cream filled with tiny slivers of chocolate. I think I mentioned this in our blogger profile. Anyway, back to the present. Jeff and I are now old and we're suckers for the nostalgia of our childhood. This week I decided to make Swiss Milk Chocolate ice cream at home although (going back to the growing old part) the extreme cold of ice cream makes our teeth hurt. I made some minor tweaks to David Lebovitz's malted milk ice cream and came up with something quite delicious and not unlike the original. Thank you, thank you, David Lebovitz. This man is my hero. Among many wonderful recipes, he's got one for candied bacon ice cream. I love salt, and I love it in desserts. This guy speaks my culinary language. Here's a pic of my Swiss Milk Choc ice cream. Ok, ok. I'll throw a couple in of the kids too.