Halloween 2012

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is never going to be my favorite occasion,  but I do love dressing the pup up.

Ross brought us home 2nd place in the pumpkin carving contest and now the pumpkin looks great on my counter :)

Thanks for hosting the get together Emily, err Cat lady.

This bath loofa is tired! Time for bed.

3 years ago:  Steph's Halloween Dinner Party

2 years ago: Snickery Squares

1 year ago: Halloween

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Stamping with Friends

Sierra hosted Girls Night last week.

Well, Sierra and Dax hosted...

There was food, wine, and gossip.

But, there was also a craft!

Sierra helped us make cute Christmas cards. Stamping is my new favorite thing, a great scrapbook substitute.

We tried to take a group shot on the table. Not so successful.

So we enlisted Sierra's Hubby, Connor. Success!

Do you notice anything funny in this picture?

We found an alternate use for some of the card making sparkle stickers. I'll make it a little bit more obvious...

Bling. HAAHAAA. 

Piercings, why not?

3 years ago: Steph's Halloween Dinner Party

2 years ago: Distractions

1 year ago: Smokey Sweet Potato Soup

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San Francisco: City Sights

Here are some more pictures from my trip to San Fran last week!

Sausalito.

We ate lunch outdoors at FISH in Sausalito. So good!

Walking around Sausalito. You can see the San Fran skyline in the background.

View from our rental house in Tiburon.

Our balcony got lots of use!

We hiked up some pretty substantial hills.

Lombard street aka the curviest road in the world.

The "Painted Ladies" 

3 years ago: Lap Dog

2 years ago: Roma's Home Improvement

1 year ago: Bake Night

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Romantic Ross?

I planned on continuing with Napa pictures, but this story is too good not to share with y'all!

Had a lunch/spa date with Jolin on Saturday and Ross told me to be home by 4:30 because we were going to have date night. At 4:30 he came downstairs all dressed up and handed me the newspaper. He told me to check the classifieds and then proceeded to walk out the front door, with Roma, and drive away. What??! So I began to frantically search the classifieds section and found this:

So, I started looking all over the house for this gift. I needed a couple text message clues (my observation skills are limited when I'm excited), but I found a wrapped box. I almost started tearing off the wrapping paper,  but thought I should read the card first. Good thing!

Ross came back to the house at 5:45 on the dot. We said bye to Roma (yep, her 2nd big overnight by herself in the garage!) and loaded up the car. When we turned south on the freeway, I knew we were going to the Alyeska Resort in Girdwood. I've been wanting to stay there, but never have. eeee!

When we got to the hotel, Ross pulled out my favorite bottle of wine that I had brought back from Napa (a Razi Vineyard Cab), a gourmet cheese, prosciutto, grapes, and get this... he even packed 2 wine glasses! We enjoyed our appetizers while staring at the mountains from our room.

I finally got to open my present, which turned out to be a fabulous pair of silk pajama's :)

Ross had made us dinner reservations at my favorite restaurant too- Jack Sprat! We started with yam fries, then I had a seafood cioppino and Ross had homemade pasta with sausage.

Awesome, awesome date night. This one will go down in the books for sure!!!

3 years ago: Julia Childs

2 years ago: Roma's Many Looks

1 year ago: Sleepy in Seattle

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Napa

On our trip to California,  we enjoyed a Platypus wine tour of Napa Valley. (A couple years ago, I took a Platypus tour of Sonoma and loved it!). We visited four vineyards.

We had great weather and some great vino!

Lavender was growing everywhere!

Razi- Winery with my favorite wines of the day!

Aunt Marta, me, Cousin Courtney, Mom

3 years ago: Sunny Skies

2 years ago: New Flash

1 year ago: Seattle, WA

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