Maxfields In Metropolis

Two Months

2012-02-07T19:11:00.000-08:00

Our little Eden turned two months old today!

She is changing so much every day.

Some new things Eden has been doing...
1. Smiling a TON
2. Cooing
3. Laughing when asleep
4. Sucking her thumb/hand
5. Taking a 2 to 3 hour nap during the day
6. Weighing over nine pounds
7. Liking her swing more
8. Loving Old McDonald
9. Fitting better into her 0-3 month clothes
10. Enjoying bath time

We love you so much!

Forgive my singing:)

Nani & Popsy

2012-02-01T19:01:00.000-08:00

Last week Brady's parents came out for a visit. It was so nice to have them here.
Eden loves her Nani and Popsy!

(Here we are at the Oakland Temple)

Although we've been having amazing weather this winter in San Fran, it did rain most of their visit. We got a couple of days of sunshine that we put to good use with golfing and visiting the beach and tide pools.

(Here we are at a beautiful beach on our way to Half Moon Bay)

Brady in action:)

Eden is finally getting big enough to be in her baby bjorn.

Brady, Nani, and Edee at the tide pools.
Everyone else had the same idea as us about visiting the tide pools. There were so many people there.

Some of our sightings

Nani and Edee

Nani playing "So Big" with Eden.

Eden smiled so much while Nani was here!

Eden and Brady in his new Utah Shirt
(Thanks Nani for bringing it)

Norm and Wendy were so nice to help out with Eden and let us catch up on some sleep, take us grocery shopping, out to new restaurants, sight seeing, and so much more!

We love you SO much!
Thank you for everything you do!

Sweeti"E"

2012-01-24T08:07:00.001-08:00

This past Sunday was Eden's first time going to church.
She was all smiles before and after!

She's starting to smile a lot more now when she's awake.

We just can't get enough of her:)

She loves to stretch her little legs:)

Seriously!
We love this little girl.

Christmas 2011

2012-01-17T10:00:00.000-08:00

Christmas was so special this year with Eden being born just two weeks before:)
My whole family came to see Eden and celebrate Christmas together.

Little Edee is by far our greatest gift!

Every year my mom would read "The Littlest Angel" to us on Christmas Eve.

Here she is carrying on the tradition with Eden:)

The whole family sitting down for a delicious Christmas breakfast.

Cory made amazing french toast!

After breakfast we opened our presents from Santa.

Eden opening her 1st Christmas gifts:)

Tess opening her moon boots

Brady

Cory

Lane

Mom

Poppie

Edee all tuckered out after presents:)

Lilly sleeping in the ribbons

Eden in her Christmas dress:)

Poppie and Lilly

After our enchilada dinner we played a Christmas trivia game and Catch Phrase.
Such a fun Christmas!

Christmas Spirit

2012-01-10T19:14:00.000-08:00

To get into the Christmas spirit this year we went downtown to Union Square to see the giant tree and Macy's Christmas windows.
San Francisco does so many cute things for the holidays!

The Brownings met us downtown for the festivities.

Union Square Christmas Tree

Macy's windows with cute kittens that can be adopted from the Humane Society.

Cute Browning Family

Little Opal looked darling in her winter coat and hat:)

We also went to the Embarcadero Christmas festival with the Browning's and Couch's.

The girls

All of the Embarcadero buildings are completely covered in lights for Christmas.

Everyone watching the fireworks and the Disney on ice show.

It will be so fun to take Eden next year!

One Month

2012-01-07T15:47:00.000-08:00

Our sweet little Eden is one month old today!
We can't believe how fast time is going by. She is such a sweetheart and we love her so much!

Eden had her one month check up this week and is finally over her birth weight:)
It took a while, but she is finally a whopping 7 lbs and 4 oz.

Some of Eden's nicknames are:
Edee, Baby E, Jelly Bean, Petrie (because she squeaks like a pterodactyl), and milk monster.

Her favorite spot to take a nap is on her dad's chest.
We love that she likes to cuddle!

Shes has so many cute faces!
We call this her serious face when she furrows her eyebrows:)

She is always hungry:)
I honestly think this little lady could eat all day and still want more.

She smiles a lot when she's eating and sleeping.
We thinks it's because she's dreaming about milk:)

We love her so much and can't get enough of her!

Eden Bay

2011-12-20T22:53:00.001-08:00

Eden Bay Maxfield
Birthday: December 7th 2011
Weight: 6lbs 12 oz Height: 19.5 inches
Born at 5:26 am

Our beautiful Eden is two weeks old today! I can't believe how fast time is going by. We are loving having her in our family. She is such a sweet little baby. Here are a few pictures of the last two weeks. More to come:)

She is finally here:)

It took us until we checked out of the hospital to finally decide on her name.

Here first photo shoot at the hospital.

Getting ready to go home

Finally home and meeting her big sister Lilly. They're still getting use to each other:)

We love all of her cute little faces!

Daddy's little girl

She's stolen all of our hearts!

We love you sweetie!

READY, SET, MATCH

2011-11-30T15:47:00.000-08:00

Drum roll please.....

We are so excited to say that we will be calling San Francisco home for another 3 years! Today was Match and Brady was accepted into the Orthodontic Residency program at UCSF. We are so excited about this opportunity and are so lucky to be staying in such a great city that we love.

I'm so PROUD of you sweetie!!!!

Utes vs. Cal

2011-11-20T16:48:00.000-08:00

Earlier this month we had the opportunity to go to the U of U vs. Cal game at AT&T Park. While the score of the game was upsetting, the park, weather, and friends made up for the loss. Well for me at least:)

The weather was AMAZING!

AT&T Park

The park is so pretty with the water and bay bridge as a backdrop.

The park is really fun to watch baseball at, but I really liked watching football there too. We were happy that the Cal stadium was under construction.

Go Utes!

Dan and Aubrey

Even though Dan went to Utah State and Aubrey went to the Y, they were great sports and cheered for our Utes.

Happy Halloween

2011-10-30T18:20:00.000-07:00

Happy Halloween!
It's been an amazing October here in San Francisco. The weather has been absolutely beautiful!
I can't believe November is almost here.

This past weekend we enjoyed a fun ward Halloween Party.
We dressed up as speed bump street signs:)

At the party we have a costume, chili, and chocolate contest.
I made these hostess cupcakes to enter into the chocolate contest.

They turned out delicious!

I couldn't resist posting a picture of the pumpkins my sister's carved.
If you look close at the little pumpkin you can see the face that Tess drew.
So CUTE!!!

Happy Halloween!

Looks like Rain

2011-10-23T16:57:00.000-07:00

Last week these three lovely ladies threw me the cutest shower! The shower was decorated with adorable rain clouds, rain drops, and umbrellas. They had it at the Aldea Community Center that was just finished. Everything was beautiful and delicious!

Rischel, Me, Kristine, and Diana

This cute sign and tissue pom poms lead the way into the shower

The rain cloud backdrop was amazing!

There were so many scrumptious things to eat:)

Lemon drop cupcakes

Fruit Kabobs

Gazpacho

Fig & goat cheese on honey wheat crackers

Adorable water and Izze bottles

Little Opal and Berkeley

Brittany and Carly

Robin and Berkeley

Jane and Brionne

Alissa and Sahara

Lisa

Little Ella modeling the dress that I designed:)

Thank you so much to everyone for coming and celebrating our upcoming baby girl.
We are so lucky to have so many amazing friends here in San Fran!

Bee-autiful Showers Part 2

2011-10-06T17:17:00.000-07:00

While we were in Utah, Brady and I were lucky enough to get not only one amazing shower but two! My mom and sisters threw us a beautiful shower at the Trio Restaurant. Thank you to all the family and friends that came to celebrate with us.
We love you!

Here are the cute "Bee" themed invites

Soon to be parents
CRAZY!

All of the decorations were yellow, white, gray, and a little bit of pink.

Everything turned out so cute!

My mom made these cute little pom pom center pieces

They had an Italian style buffet with rolls, pastas, salad, and the MOST amazing tomato soup. Brady doesn't even like tomato soup and he said this one was ok:)

Daisy Bee shortbread cookies from Bakers of Normandy for the favors.
These cookies are DELICIOUS!
I wanted to eat all of them!

Tess, Me, Mom, and Tyree

It was so great to see so many family members and friends!

Grandma, Tracey, Morgan, and Jackie

Me and Bryndy

Karen, Me, Eilene, and Angela

Billie, Dillan, Me, Jen, and Heather
All my sweet friends! So happy to see all of them!

Sweet baby Dillan

My cute aunt and cousin decorating their onesies

Brady and Dillan

We got so many great gifts!
Our baby girl is definitely spoiled:)

Cute dress coat from Jen

They had everyone design stenciled onesies for the baby

Everyone did such an amazing job. They all turned out really cute!

Thanks Mom and Ty for all of your hard work putting this shower on for us. Everything was amazing!
We love you soooo much!

Bee-autiful Showers Part 1

2011-10-06T14:22:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks ago during Brady's break from school, we were able to go to Utah for a weekend of showers, birthday parties, and visiting family. We had such an amazing time and wish we could have stayed longer!

These cute little honey bears were the favors

Brady's family threw us the most amazing shower on Friday night! The theme was "Look who's coming, as sweet as can bee" The shower was filled with so many amazing decorations, details, and food!

Every where you looked there were cute little candies, banners, balloons!

Brady getting a better look at Ellie's loose tooth:)

We were given so many amazing gifts! There was also a group gift that came with a really cute card and a vase with a bee etched in it.

Thank you sooooo much to everyone who helped with our shower! We are so blessed to have such a wonderful family!

We love you!

Labor Day Weekend

2011-09-19T19:01:00.001-07:00

Over labor day weekend Brady and I went to our friend's wedding out in Grass Valley and then drove up to Tahoe for the rest of the weekend. It was absolutely BEAUTIFUL! We stayed at the sweetest cottage and enjoyed the gorgeous lake and wonderful weather.

The drive up to Tahoe was so pretty with all of the trees

Scenic Lookout

My co-worker Carly suggested that we stay at these cottages. I'm so happy that she did!
They were amazing!
(They even allowed for Lilly to stay with us)

All the cute little cottages

They had croquet set up in the front and horseshoes in the back:)

We arrived a little before check-in so we headed down the street to the dog friendly
Carnelian Bay Beach

All the pups were having so much fun in the water

Lil and Brady excited to be at the lake

The weather was so nice but Lilly got hot pretty fast

Here she is trying to get some shade from her dad:)

Since it was so hot I decided to take Lilly for her first swim lesson.
She didn't love it, but I think it helped her cool off.

I had never been to Lake Tahoe and I couldn't get over how pretty it was!

So nice being in the sun and relaxing at the beach

After the beach we came back to our cute little cottage

We stayed in the Sierra cottage.
All of the cottages had really cute names and darling little front patios!

After checking in we decided to go on a hike.

The trail was a little dusty, so Lilly got pretty dirty.
Yes we ended up having to give her a bath.

When we got back from our hike our cute little hotel placed late-afternoon treats out on the patio
(Fresh cookies, brownies, and lemonade)
Doesn't get better than that!

Our next activity was a game of horseshoes

I got pretty good after warming up but Brady still won with a
"RINGER"

We decided to drive to downtown Tahoe and walk around and enjoy the sunset.

The sunset was AMAZING! I couldn't stop taking pictures

There was a cute little walking path around the lake

Love this little pup!

Love this HUB even more!

These cute little flowers were everywhere. I really wanted to take some home

AMAZING!

Lilly

Before leaving in the morning, we walked over and took one last look at the beach

Tahoe we LOVE you!

Our Good Fortune

2011-07-17T17:25:00.001-07:00

Brady and I are so excited to share our exciting fortune:) A new addition will be joining our family come this December. We just had our 19 week ultra sound appointment on Friday and found out that we will be having...

A GIRL!!!
(We can't wait to meet this little cutie)

Happy 4th of July

2011-07-10T19:34:00.000-07:00

We had a great fourth of July! We had our first BBQ at our house. We've been here in San Fran for three years and still hadn't used our patio for a BBQ. The weather turned out perfect. We are so lucky to have such great friends and live in such a wonderful nation!

Brady getting the patio ready:)

Everyone brought yummy treats!

Rice Krispy treats, fruit & dip.

I made these S'more brownies

Cutie Ben

Enjoying the sunny weather

Baby Ella

Baby Elise

Baby Opal

All the girls

Carmel By the Sea

2011-06-26T18:52:00.000-07:00

Over Memorial Day weekend Brady and I went down to Carmel. We couldn't have asked for a better weekend. We had a wonderful time seeing all the beautiful sights!

On our way down we stopped by this amazing beach that our friends told us about.
You hike down a little path and then get to this beautiful beach that is surrounded by cliffs that block the wind and keeps you nice and toasty:)

After making a little detour to the secret beach we finally made our way to Carmel.

We stopped in the park for a little picnic.

After lunch we started the beautiful 17 mile drive.
AMAZING!!!

1. Bird Rock

2. White Sand Beach

3. Spyglass Golf Course

Brady was in heaven with all the amazing golf courses.

4. Cypress Point Golf Club

The greens are immaculate!

5. Crocker Grove "Oldest Cypress Tree"

6. The Lone Cypress

7. Pebble Beach

Lookout on the 17 mile drive

After the 17 mile drive Brady and I walked Ocean Avenue in downtown Carmel, stopped by the Cottage of Sweets:) and finished the walk at the beach.

We will definitely be back to Carmel soon!

Weekend with Ty

2011-05-18T13:40:00.001-07:00

Last weekend my sister made the long drive to San Fran with a friend for a visit. It was a short trip, but we had a lot of fun!
Thanks for coming Ty!

We went to Off the Grid at Fort Mason

Off the Grid has all the best gourmet food vendors in one place.!

We had a hard time deciding which foods to try.

They also had live music.

We ended up trying some dumplings for an appetizer.
Then Ty and I split this burrito that Brady found that had french fries in it.
AMAZING!

So many people showed up. I'm glad we went a little early. The lines got pretty long.

The even had a little creme brulee stand:)

View from just up the hill in Fort Mason.
Love SAN FRAN!

After eating we walked over to the Palace of Fine Arts and walked around.

We've never been there before at night time. It was breath taking!

Saturday morning Brady made us his FAMOUS french toast.
YUM!!!

Then we went to the Beach.
Lilly loved running around the beach with her cousins.

Ty with all the pups.
Titus, Gidget, and Lilly.

Love you Ty!

Seattle Adventures

2011-04-28T15:47:00.000-07:00

A while back Brady and I went up to Seattle to visit with my mom, Lane, and Tyree. We celebrated a late Christmas, ate delicious food and some truly amazing coconut no-bake cookies. We had a great weekend full of adventures, some good and not so good:)

The three girls!
Miss them soooo much!

After dinner one night:

We thought it would be fun to take some action shots on these stairs. We spent a good half hour or more trying to capture the perfect actions shots:)

Yes Brady's feet hurt after he landed this one!

Me and Ty

Ty has always been the more timid sister:)
It took her a second to get up the nerves to jump.

The Fremont Troll aka Troll Under the Bridge
We've always driven by but never stopped to take pictures.

Just being silly

So if you're wondering why I'm standing next to three security guards and holding my purse well to make a long story short...

After dinner when we started to take our action shots by the stairs, I set my purse down (which also had my wallet and my sister's inside) by the bottom of the stairs. Then we left and started to drive home. We stopped at the Troll and took some more pictures then made our way home. As I was getting out of the car I realized that my purse wasn't by my feet. We had already been done with dinner for 2 hours and still had a half an hour drive back to the restaurant. Lucky girl that I am, we RAN up to the steps and found these 3 security guards just starring at my purse.
(Everything was there)
SUCH A BLESSING!!!!

Ginger & Lilly

2011-04-11T16:52:00.000-07:00

G&L

Here is a sneak peek of my Spring 2011 kids line. I've been working on these designs for a couple of weeks now and still have a lot more that I want to add but here is a little preview.
I can't wait to show you more...

Thanks to Lisa & Mark for letting their little girl Lucy be my adorable model! Also thanks to Diana for taking some amazing pictures!

Sunnyside of the Beach

2011-04-01T15:56:00.000-07:00

80 Degrees and blue, blue sky's have graced our little city of San Francisco this week.
There's nothing better then driving with the windows down and heading to the beach for a little walk along the shore!

LOVING THIS WEATHER

My two FAVES!

I love this little pup!

How could you not?

Look at those waves!

We love living by the ocean

We past this little seagull and I thought he only had one leg. I started feeling bad for him:(

Very tricky:)

Rischel's Shower

2011-02-28T17:19:00.000-08:00

This past weekend Diana and I threw a baby shower for our friend Rischel. It was so fun to get together with friends, snack on delicious food, catch up, and open gifts.
Thanks for everyone who could make it. We are so excited for Rischel!

I fell in love with these invitations and was just waiting for the opportunity to make them. I made some alterations of my own and loved the way they turned out!

For the Thank You favors I made mini french bread and fresh strawberry jam.
YUM!

First time making freezer jam. I couldn't believe how much SUGAR the recipe called for.

For the game prizes we picked up some adorable gift cards from Anthropologie.

Delicious French Bread
Mini Loaves

Calla Lillie's

One of Rischel's favorite flowers

I loved the gray, white, tan, and hint of pink color scheme.

Thanks to Diana, Jon, and Brady for cutting out all of the cute flags, tags, and hearts!

I came across these little sweets and couldn't resist making them for the shower.
DELISH!

Mini Cadbury Eggs
So happy it's Easter time:)

Tasty Croissant Sandwiches

Anthropologie has the cutest gift boxes ever! I thought it would great to mix them in with my tiered stands for the table.

Raspberry Sherbet Smoothy

Diana made the most amazing fruit kabob displays!
I LOVE fresh fruit!

1. Eat, 2. Games, 3. Gifts:)

1. Eat

2. Games
We divided the guests into 3 groups and played baby pictionary. This was my first time playing this game at a shower and it turned out great! All the words were geared toward baby things.
So many artists:)

Lisa and Angela

The other sweet baby Lily:)

Baby Emma

Anisha & Max

We were so happy that Rischel's mom came out from Washington for the shower!

Rachel and Avery

Beautiful baby Opal modeling one of the darling headbands Rischel got as a gift from Rebekah Palmer.

Diana B and Opal.
Thanks for all of you help D! I wouldn't have been able to do it without you!

Anisha and Max
Love this picture!

3. Gifts

We had so much fun watching Rischel open all of her great gifts for her and her little girl!

We are so excited to meet Rischel and Jon's little girl in just a couple of weeks!
You guys are going to be great parents!

Thank you to everyone who made it!
It was so fun getting all the girls together:)

Thanks to Diana Browning and Diana Hulme for taking some pictures!

Brady's 27th Birthday

2011-02-09T06:52:00.000-08:00

This past Saturday was Brady's 27th Birthday! I can't believe how old we are getting;)
The weather was absolutely beautiful. We celebrated all weekend long with food, friends, and presents.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE!

The happy birthday banner I made

Brady had to spend most of his birthday at school:(
He was a coordinator for Give Kids A Smile Day. He was at school from 7am to 5pm.
When he got home we finally got to start celebrating.

Thanks for all the cute cards and gifts that were sent!

Brady opening his card and In & Out gift card from the Jackson's
&
The cute puppy card and Five Guys gift card from Matthew, Heidi, Owen, and Sadie

Brady opening his gifts from Wendy and Norm

Brady opening the new basketball shoes I gave him.
I was so worried he wouldn't like them!

We went downtown to eat dinner at the Slanted Door. It's a delicious Vietnamese food restaurant.
We were trying so hard to get a picture that would show the Bay Bridge in the background.

The restaurant is in the ferry building down on the wharf.

We love the food but the dessert is why we come or at least why I come:)

The Meyer Lemon Meringue Tart
is a little piece of heaven!

Since Brady was at school most of the day on Saturday we had a little party on Sunday night with some friends.

Brady has a couple of favorite desserts that he loves. So this year I made most of his favorites into cupcakes.

Brady's favorite ice cream is cookies n' cream
These are milk chocolate cupcakes with cookies n' cream frosting and a mini Oreo topping

Brady's LOVES strawberry shortcake!
So I made these little treats out of angle food cake, topped with fresh strawberries and home made whipped cream frosting

Lemon squares are other favorite.
I made these cupcakes with lemon cake mix, whipped cream frosting, and lemon zest

Rice Krispies Treats:)
I wasn't sure how to make these into cupcake so I stuck with the originals.

Thanks to everyone who came!

This is sweet little Maybelle Kent who took her first steps at our house!
Such a cutie!

Diana B's Shower

2011-01-09T20:53:00.000-08:00

Before winter break we Bekah, Rischel, and I threw a shower for Diana Browning. We had a winter wonderland theme. The shower was so much fun with yummy soup and grilled cheese, treats, and hot coco favors.
We can't wait to meet your little girl!

Diana B.

Sparkling Apple Juice with peppermint sprinkles

I made some hot coco favors complete with hot coco, peppermint marshmallows, and candy cane stir sticks

Mini cupcakes
(Everything is better in mini)

Nothing is better on a cold day than soup and grilled cheese.
(Thanks to Brady who stayed in the kitchen and grilled the sandwiches)

Winter Wonderland Dessert Table

Thanks mom for helping me put all my cute Christmas decorations up!

Diana opening up all of her cute gifts!

All the girls expecting:)

Cutie Pie
Baby Max

Kathryn and Kristine

Whitney, Sarah, and Kathryn

Anisha, Max, and Kristy

Rischel, Robyn, and Berkley

Thanks everyone for coming!

Here are the invitations I designed and made for the shower.
I loved the winter theme!

Thanks Diana Hulme for letting me use some of your pics:)

Christmas Union Square

2010-12-13T21:19:00.000-08:00

When my Mom and Lane were in town we went down to Union Square the day after Thanksgiving for the tree lighting ceremony. The tree was beautiful and full of twinkling lights. We enjoyed looking at all the fun Christmas windows around all the stores!

I love all the wreaths Macy's puts in all their windows!

Me and my cute hub:)

I love Christmas time!

Mom and Lane

The St. Regis has a different huge sugar/candy castle each year.

Tiffany's Windows

Each year Macy's teams up with the Humane Society and features cute little pets in each window that can be adopted.

We had such a good time getting into the Christmas spirit early this year!

Thanksgiving 2010

2010-12-13T21:02:00.001-08:00

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year. We had our first Thanksgiving at our home! My mom and step-dad came down from Seattle to celebrate Thanksgiving with us. We are so thankful for so many blessings in our lives (especially family!)

We had a wonderful holiday full of memories and wonderful food:)

The boys helping to get the table set

My darling mother!

Not very many women cook in their high heels:)

My mom and Lane went on a run and came back with these beautiful flower and other things to make a pretty table centerpiece.

I was so happy that we got to use some of our table lines and other items we got for our wedding!

The centerpiece turned out really pretty with some candles my mom bought for me

Amazing Thanksgiving Feast

Even in my small kitchen my mom cooked the BEST Thanksgiving dinner. We brined the turkey and it turned out AMAZING! She added cinnamon and chili into the brine which gave the turkey and gravy a terrific taste.

Love you Mom!

Even Deuce came down to celebrate

After dinner we sat down and played a game of Mexican Train

We LOVE this game!

Lilly in her turkey coma:)

Happy Thanksgiving!

49ers vs. Rams

2010-12-05T22:37:00.000-08:00

Our great friend Bryan was nice enough to get us some tickets to see him in action against our 49ers. We had such a great time! The game was amazing! We can now check going to Candlestick Park off our to do list:)
Thanks Bry!

Rams vs. 49ers.

Candlestick Park
I was told that it is always freezing here so I made Brady dress warm, turns out it was a record hot day of 88 and we were dying of heat:)

There is this awesome escalator going up to the stands

Brady was in HEAVEN!

View from up top
Such a BEAUTIFUL day!

The parking lot was full of tailgaters.
I've never seen tailgating like this before!

Warm-ups and stretching

They had a youth cheer leading performance

Bryan is stretching right below the S

Getting pumped up for the Niners to come out:)

Bryan is right in the middle on the SF logo
GO BRYAN!

It was also fun to see Ty Rees and his family that came out to San Fran for the game

The game was so close!

After the game we walked down to the field to say hi to Bry.

Brady striking the Heisman Pose:)

Bryan and Nicole after the game

It was so great to see Bryan and catch up for a little!
Great game Bry!
Thanks for letting us come and watch!

Go Giants

2010-12-05T21:59:00.001-08:00

Better late than never!
Working downtown has been so much fun, especially when the Giants won the World Series!
I had the chance to walk over to see the Giants parade with Brittany and Carly.
So many people were out in their orange and black and all the street corners were decorated with giant orange and black balloons.
GO GIANTS!

Brittany and Carly
These two girls are so much fun to work with!

So cool that we live in San Fran when the Giant won the World Series

Everyone getting excited for the parade to start

I loved all the floats!

Fear the Beard!

All of the players were on classic San Fran Trolley cars:)

Now and Zen Fest

2010-12-05T21:13:00.000-08:00

I had a really busy November and need to catch up on blogging:) We love living in San Francisco! There is always something fun and free going on in the city. A while back we went to the NOW and ZEN Fest in Golden Gate Park. It was a beautiful day! We enjoyed the sunshine and music by Plain White T's and Sara Bareilles.

Trying to find a spot to sit...

We were so excited to hear all the great music!

The Haynie's came down for all the fun:)

Happy Halloween!

2010-10-31T18:36:00.001-07:00

Happy Halloween! We had an October FULL of fun Halloween activities! We started the month out with a "Pumpkin Carving Party" hosted by our friends the Couch's. Then we had a great time with friends at a Halloween party hosted by the Bellisario's and finished the festivities with a great ward party!

LOTS OF PICS!!!

Brady: Bank Robber

Me: Loot

Pumpkin Carving Party

The Couch's Pumpkin Carving Party

Kristine is the most AMAZING cook! It was so much fun eating all the yummy snacks, carving pumpkins, and watching a scary movie.

Haynie's, Brady's, Browning's, Mine, and Couch's

I Love how Brady's turned out!

Thanks again Jason and Kristine for having such a great party!

Bellisario's Halloween Party

Bellisario's

Mark: Han Solo

Lisa: Princess Leia

Lucy: Ewok

Browning's

John:Baker

Diana: Oven

Baby Girl: Bun

Jergensen's

Ryan: Utah Nerd

Rachel:Cleopatra

Elliason's

Joe:Floss

Jana: Dentist

Lily:Tooth Fairy

Hulme's

Dan & Diana: Mariachi Couple

Ward Halloween Party

Halloween parade up to the assisted living home.

Everyone enjoying the chili cook-off and chocolate contest.

Decorations were sooo cute!

Brady and Jon trying to pick between all the great desserts.

I entered my pumpkin cupcakes with cinnamon cream cheese frosting

So YUMMY!

Not Chocolate but still won 2nd place:)

The Young Women Room

This year we had the young women in charge of the Carnival Room

We had donut on a string game, bean bag toss, and face painting!

This girls to a great job!

They were pros at face painting!

Fun bean bag toss

Donuts on a string

The young men were in charge of the Haunted House room

The young men with the cute pumpkin bowling game

Scary fishing game and they also had a scary food station complete with brains and eye-balls (peeled grapes and spaghetti noodles)

Other members of the ward volunteered to decorate doors for all the Trick or Treaters

All the doors looked GREAT!

Such a great Halloween!!!

Parkmerced Movie Night

2010-10-20T20:55:00.000-07:00

A month or so ago our apartment complex had an outdoor movie night. It was so much fun! They had a little popcorn and hot chocolate stand. We cuddled up with some blankets and our hot coco and watched The Blind Side.Sorry the pictures are a little pixelly (old phone camera)

Front Row Joes:)

We love where we live!

Big Screen

Baby Lil

Movie Treats

Dress design for Shabby Apple dresses

2010-10-15T18:58:00.000-07:00

It's that time of year again:) The Shabby Apple Dare to Design Contest is here. I decided to make two designs for my "Shabby Apple Dresses".

These designs are for Spring 2011

Enjoy and Wish Me Luck!

Design 1

"Spring Fling"

I love this dress for spring!

Inspiration:

I was inspired by spring flowers with this design.

Fabric/Design Details:

I love the contrast between the pale peach bodice and slate grey ruffled pencil skirt. I used a satin cotton for the top of the dress and a cotton/linen blend for the bottom.

The dress has a scoop neckline and a capped sleeve. The cute cap sleeve has a pin tuck detail to give the sleeves a little pop.

Design 2

"Promenade"

Inspiration:

Promenade: A leisurely walk, especially one taken in a public place as a social activity.

Living in San Francisco, one of my favorite spots is Fisherman's Wharf. I love the boats, sea lions, and the ocean. I designed this dress with a nautical theme.

Fabric/Design Details:

There's nothing better than a crisp white cotton dress in Spring. This dress would be made of a white stretch poplin with navy blue striped details on the bottom of the dress. The neckline and sleeves will also have a navy detail to make the white stand out.

The dress has a a classic silhouette making it a must have for Spring!

Cowell Ranch State Beach

2010-09-29T21:34:00.000-07:00

A couple of weekends ago, Brady and I went on a trip to Cowell Ranch State Beach down in Half Moon Bay. It was a perfect sunny day! The beach was great because it was surrounded by cliffs so there was basically no wind. We had a great time relaxing in the sun:)

Brady and Lil

We walked past this property that had this cool whale gate

Views from the bluff

Relaxing on the beach!

We love living near the ocean:)

Flying V

Stanford

2010-09-12T19:32:00.001-07:00

Last week for Labor Day me and Brady enjoyed a beautiful day in Palo Alto at the Stanford Campus. Brady downloaded the audio tour on iTunes. The campus is full of gorgeous architecture, statues, and landscapes. We stopped and had a delicious lunch at the University Cafe. What a wonderful Labor Day:)

Brady enjoying the most amazing club!

Lilly waiting for us to finish our lunch. She was so hot and took every opportunity to hide in the shade.

Driving up to the campus.

All around the campus are Eucalyptus groves

I couldn't stop taking pictures of all the pretty arch ways!

Auguste Rodin statues

Our BEAUTIFUL Lilly!

Campus Memorial Court

Memorial Church

The church has beautiful stain glass windows all around it

Each class has a numbered plaque in the hall ways of Memorial Court

Lilly trying to take a breather:)

Hoover Tower

I LOVE palm trees!

Rodin's Statue Garden

Resting in the shade

Reception Pics

2010-09-03T08:43:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the pictures I took at Brady's sisters wedding.

Last of the wedding pics:)

Enjoy!

Groomsmen and the Bride

Heidi and Sadie

Such a good looking group of guys

Matthew, Heidi, Owen, and Sadie

Owen

Matthew and Sadie

Cousins

Jocelyn, Ellie, Caden, and Owen

Cute sign in pics and pages

Cutting the Cake

So happy that Heather came

I love this girl!

First Dance

Bryndy and Nelson

Jocelyn and Brady

Throwing the bouquet

How low can you go?

During dancing we did the limbo:)

Jeff

Ellie

Nelson

Heidi

Ellie, Caden, and Jocelyn doing the splits:)

Bryndy and her cute friends.

Brady and Caden

Megan and Craig getting ready to leave the reception!

We love you guys!

Wedding Decorations

2010-08-29T20:44:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of the beautiful Garden Park Ward that Brady's sister Megan had her Wedding at.

She picked such bright and cute colors.

Everything turned out great:)

I designed these cute guestbook pages for the wedding.

A place for guests to write a little note to the bride and groom and a spot to place their polaroid picture we took.

Then we hung them from different colored ribbons

Guestbook sign in table

Megan had GORGEOUS bridals

The amazing quilt that Megan's aunts made her

Wendy borrowed these cute bird cages that we placed around the grounds.

Added a cute little touch

Garden Park is so pretty!

My good friend Anjuli Theler helped with the wedding flowers. She did such and amazing job!

Thanks Anj!

To see more of here beautiful work visit

Pink Petals Floral

The cake was a delicious lemon poppy cake!

Temple Pics

2010-08-27T17:33:00.001-07:00

Here are the pictures that I took of at the temple at Brady's sister's wedding. It was such a beautiful day! Megan and Craig are such a cute couple! We are so happy for you guys.

WARNING: LOTS OF PICTURES:)

Most of the family waiting for Megan and Craig to come out of the temple

Heidi and Sadie

Sisters

Marissa, Bryndy, and Makenzie

Jeff and Caden

Brady and Baby James

Matthew and Heidi with Sadie and Owen

Such a cute family!

Meet Mr. and Mrs. Hammond

I love the pictures coming out of the temple!

They're so HAPPY

Craig's sister Stephanie did an amazing job with Megan's bouquet

Little Sadie Louise

Beautiful Couple!

The Jackson Family

Marissa, Jeff, Jocelyn, Ellie, Caden, and James

Brady is in Bliss with all of the nieces and nephews around.

Megan looked amazing! Here is a picture of the hair piece I made for her.

Bryndy with the babies

Blake with the nieces and nephews

p.s. I love how Owen is dancing in these pictures:)

Marissa, Heidi, Bryndy, Makenzie

Owen, Ellie, Jocelyn, and Caden

Megan and Craig getting set up to take some shots with all the babies

How cute are all these little ones?

Father and Mother of the Bride with the couple

Brady playing with Ellie and Owen

We can't get enough of baby James!

Group Shots

Bride and Bridesmaids

Popsy and James

Bride and Groom with Groomsmen and Bridesmaids

Wedding Reception Pics to come...

Megan and Craig's Rehearsal Dinner

2010-08-24T08:50:00.000-07:00

This past weekend we had the opportunity to go to Utah to celebrate Megan and Craig's wedding. It was a beautiful weekend with wonderful weather, food, music, and family. They had their rehearsal dinner at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. Craig's family did an amazing job! Everything was so cute and the food was amazing!

Megan and Craig

(The Newlyweds)

On each table they had chocolate covered doughnut holes from Banbury Cross

(So Delicious)

They made cute little tags with your seat assignment and a picture of Megan and Craig behind it.

It's so fun to get the family together! I had to take a million pictures of all the little babies we never get to see.

We had a beautiful view of the Salt Lake Temple

Brady with Ellie and Jocelyn

Caden

Owen

Sadie

Baby James

The Whole Maxfield Fam

Enjoying the Sunshine

2010-08-15T21:13:00.000-07:00

While other people are enjoying a hot summer, here in San Francisco we are enjoying the coldest part of the year:) We literally jump for joy when we get to enjoy a sunny hot day. A couple of weeks ago Brady and I were able to enjoy such a day. We packed up Lilly and drove to Ocean Beach. I love living so close to a beach. We really need to take advantage more!

The waves were so pretty

Always by her Dad

We've lived here 2 years now and were lucky enough to each find a whole sand dollar on the same day.

We were so excited!

My little Lilly's paw prints

Mr. and Mrs.

Our love

This cute little pup wanted to play with Lilly, but she's a "little" high maintenance and didn't really want to.

We can't wait for the sunshine to come out and greet us with its presence again!

Tanner Park

2010-07-16T08:54:00.001-07:00

While we were in Utah we went to Tanner Park. It's is a really neat dog park! We brought the whole gang, packed a lunch, inter-tubes, and had a great time!

Sorry about all of the pictures, we were having so much FUN!

Starting of the park.

Titus

Gidget

My Baby Lilly

Setting up our little picnic

Lilly got really hot on our walk and wanted to cool down

Reached the end of the park.

Lilly must have been really hot because she got into the water.

She never gets in the water in San Fran.

All the puppies playing in the water.

Trying to blow up our inter-tubes

Tess got a head start:)

I love our Lilly

She's so CUTE!

Ty and her babies

Bother and Sister

It was a team effort but we finally finished the inter-tubes!

Brady and Tess getting ready to slide down the tunnel

Where is Tess?

The current was so strong it was hard to keep a hold of your tube.

Brady was the only one that could stay on the tube:)

Me and Ty getting ready for out turn

The water was FREEZING!

Taking a break for lunch and to warm up.

Brady and Tess hiking over for their 2nd try

Newest addition to our family

Baby Allie (Tess's little girl)

Gidget

Titus

Tess coming out of the tunnel.

Second try: still couldn't stay on the tube.

Brady's second time.

What a Pro:)

Third times the charm for Tess.

They made a train coming down the third time.

Tess lost one of her flip flops coming out of the tunnel the first time. We had to improvise a shoe for the hike back to the car with the packaging from the inter-tubes.

2010-07-11T22:45:00.001-07:00

I had a wonderful birthday this year. We were able to be in Utah to celebrate with family and friends. Brady had a great idea to go on a hike and enjoy the beautiful day.

I never get over how beautiful the canyons are. After our hike my dad took us out to dinner at Macaroni Grill and to a movie (Prince of Persia).

Thank you for all the gifts and wishes!

Driving up to the trail head.

The group starting our hike up to Donut Falls.

Me and Moonie

Me and Brady

Ty, Manuel and little Alex

Cute little squirrel or chipmunk?

The Sisters

The water was freezing!

My little sister is growing up so fast!

GORGEOUS!

Tess and Brady

We made it to the top!

Well as far as the trail would let us hike:)