I'm still here!

Whoa it's been a little while since I posted anything here. Bad blogger! No cookie!

Hmmm I could really go for a cookie right now too, so you know that is punishment enough.

Aaron and I had a lovely 4th of July weekend. We were busy bees on Saturday! First we headed down to the street fair. I don't know why we keep going every year. I guess it's force of habit from when we used to live downtown and the "push 'em pull 'em parade" would start literally right in front of our apartment. It was always fun to watch people, their kids and dogs dressed up and their wagons and strollers decorated in red, white and blue. Then we'd just ride our bikes down Main St. to check out the street fair. Well, this year it hit me how GD many people go to this thing! It was insanity. Aaron estimated there were at least 10,000 people. So we bought some cookies, ate lunch at Jersey Mike's, and boned out.

After that we enjoyed some bbq, washoes and debauchery at a friend's house down by the beach, then popped by Aaron's youngest brother's housewarming party, and finished the night off with a (literal) bang back at the beach! The day went by so fast, I can hardly believe the weekend is already over! And that saddens me... sigh...

Now to prepare for my birthday, which is only 17 short shopping days away!

Woo Friday!

I know I say it a lot, but seriously. This week can not come to an end fast enough!! Just a few more hours now...

We have some fun stuff planned for the weekend. Tonight I'll be heading out to the Hollywood Bowl with Beth for Opening Night, and the induction of Josh Groban into the HB Hall of Fame. Garth Brooks is hosting, and there will be several performances besides Josh Groban as well. Oh, and it ends with fireworks! Seriously, a bottle of wine, music under the stars, and fireworks? What more could you ask for?

Aaron will be off to a party while I'm out galavanting tonight. And tomorrow we'll be headed to Refugio for a beach day with his family. They've been camping out all week and will be coming home on Sunday, and since Refugio is like Mecca to the VD's, we need to make the pilgrimage! Hopefully the weather will cooperate and we can spend some time on the beach, some time around the fire, and lots of time eating!

And of course Sunday is Fathers Day. Happy Fathers Day, dads! We're not really sure what's going on, but whatever it is will probably be made more fun by our presence. ;)

Summer Vacation

Okay, so we don't actually get to take summer vacation this year. If we're lucky, maybe we'll take a sick day for a three day weekend or something, but our "real" vacation isn't until September.

Nevertheless, I'm trying to think of this summer as "Summer Vacation," and am trying to come up with as many local, fun things to do as possible on the weekends.

So far, I'm thinking:

-The Greek Festival (this weekend!)

-Concerts in the park

-4th of July Street Fair

-Wine and food pairing

-The Fair!

-Beach days (natch)

-Barbecues at the VD Love Bungalow

-A couple Dodger games perhaps?

What else? If anyone has any great ideas let me know! I'm really looking forward to a fun-filled summer this year, and it's high time we started enjoying NEW things.

Beer Festivus!

Beer Festivus was a BLAST! Thank you to everyone for coming! I know I had a great time, and I hope you did, too. Here are a few pics to take you back...

Our logo, made by yours truly :)

My mom, me, and Jo! Apparently my mom is too fancy to drink beer ;)


The old folks got cold and had to go sit by the fire! :)

Me and Aaron, lookin' all adorable.

No Beer Festivus is complete without a rousing game of Beer Pong on the portable Pong-A-Long!

Anniversary Trip Photos

I know, it's been almost a whole month since our Aniversary trip and I STILL haven't posted photos. So here they are, well a few, for your enjoyment:

Some of the vineyards at Justin.

The entrance to Justin's cellars, which are actually in a cave dug out of the hill. It smelled absolutely DIVINE in there!

Some vineyards in Paso Robles, on the way back to town from the winery. I just love the scenery in the Central Coast.

View from the pier in Avila Beach.