Napa Valley

Today we are leaving Napa and heading to spend the remainder of our trip in San Francisco!

Napa was wonderful and we had great weather. It was sunny and upper 70's/lower 80's every day. Pure sunshine and no clouds. The sun felt so good!!

The first (and our favorite!) winery that we went to was Sterling Winery. We took a tour of the winery, sampled some wines (I just took one sip of each), and enjoyed the views and sunshine. It was really fun!











My mom and sister on the lift up to the top of the winery. My sister was being a wuss! Ha!




My mom and I at Sterling. I bought two bottles of wine for after the baby.

We also went to Cakebread Cellars, Rombauer, and Castello Di Amorosa. But Sterling was by far our favorite.



Cakebread grapevines




My sissy and I at Cakebread







Castello Di Amorosa

We ate some amazing food in Napa! We had some great marinated olives, dinner at Morimoto's restaurant (he's and Ironchef!), and an amazing lunch at Rutherford Grill.

At Rutherford Grill they had these amazing woodfire grilled artichokes. Seriously the best!! I will be trying to recreate these at home this summer for sure!



I can't wait to see what San Fran has to offer for the remainder of the trip. I am soaking in as much sunshine as possible! And....I get to hang out with my bro! He lives in San Fran and I can't wait for him to be our tour guide.

Dump post

This is going to be a hodge podge of photos and posts, mixed together. I just dont have time to catch up on all of them! So, here goes:

In March Peytonn turned 6! How did he get to be six years old so fast?! He's almost done with Kindergarten and soon he will be a first grader. Sniff sniff. My baby and first born is growing up too fast!! He's so tall that I can barely pick him up anymore!

He had his first 'friend' bday party this year. We had it at the YMCA where the kids had gym time and swim time! Let me tell you, 25 five and six year olds for over two hours is exhausting!!!!! But they had a blast!














It was super crazy but Peytonn had a blast and that's all that matters!

We had his family party in Easter Sunday. He now thinks he gets at least two or three parties for his birthday. Yeah....no.

We've been trying to get outside as much as possible when the weather permits. We've had soccer practice and games and baseball is also getting ready to start. We are going to be super busy here soon!

But this weekend the weather was amazing and we got to spend some much needed time at the park and outside working on the yard and the garden.











Avonlea got to break in her new keen sandals. They were great for the park!





First soccer game!




Mama got to enjoy/indulge in a cherry soda. Yum!

I am so excited to leave for vacation tomorrow. I spent last night grocery shopping and making a few freezer meals for the family while I'll be gone. I am almost packed and definitely ready to go!

I've got my spray tan and my highlights/haircut. And a 14 week belly to tag along. :)



See you all next week!!

This....

I want.

Now......who wants to buy it for me?

Anyone?

No?

Come on!

I'll give you ice cream. :)