Winery concert

My friend Karen's uncle is Kris Kristofferson and we were fortunate enough to get to go to his concert this weekend at a winery in Temecula! UNFORTUNATELY, Rob was looking forward to this for a long time (and brushing up on his Kris movies and music) and ended up getting a really nasty flu bug. Poor guy has been miserable for the last few days, but he wanted me to go ahead to the concert anyway without him. This is how I felt to be without my love that night:

It was such a beautiful setting, outside under the stars and surrounded by the vineyards. Speaking of the vineyards, when we first got there, we took a wrong detour and ended up walking down some completely dark vineyard path - we were in hysterics having to use my camera flash as light...it seemed like how a really scary movie might start (attack of the killer Gewurztaminer!)

We finally figured out where to go and got settled with our wine

Somehow, this is how I would envision my stroller if I were a Mom, that's some good Mommy Juice:



The concert itself was really special - it was just Kris up there with his guitar, it was such a mellow night. Baby Bennett seemed to LOVE the music, he was dancing and so happy all night long. Here he is with Kris' wife, Lisa:
That's one happy fan!



We thought about Rob the whole time and were hoping he wasn't doing anymore of this:

After the concert, it was really cool - I got to meet Kris for a couple of minutes. He seemed really tired after performing so I didn't ask him for a picture. But this is how it would have worked in my mind (and can you tell who here doesn't have any sort of background in graphic design? haha!):

And Bennett did a great job being a "stand in date" for Uncle Rob, he even held my hand the whole way home.

POW #16 - the Aiy Aiy Aiy! Edition

My Mom voted that this be my next POW because she loves this picture so much. This picture is in honor of our upcoming trip to Cabo next week for Steve and Pam's wedding (hollar! ) and it's a pic of me in Mexico a few years ago for Nicole and Chad's wedding (old school hollar!). Even though I was pretty chubby back then, I love this picture because all these guys are so short compared to me! They're all in my boob level (hey sexy girlfriend, anyone?) and I'm not even in my heels at this point of the night. Enjoy:

New kitties

So, I realize that I frequently blog about other people's kids...so sue me, I have none of my own and am completely satisfied parenting vicariously through others. Prepare yourselves, this is going to be that kind of a blog, but with cats instead of kids. My hairdresser's cat just had 7 babies and when I was getting my hair done the other night, I'll give you 2 guesses what kept my attention for the whole 2 hours. My dark highlights? Nope! Those 4-week old little babies were seriously the cutest things EVER. I took all of these pics with my cell phone, so they don't even come close to doing them justice, but I just wanted to share these happy furry moments with you anyway. Here they are in their little box:

This one was by far my favorite. Damn you, allergies, otherwise I would have brought this little guy home with me that night.

That's some serious cat-on-cat wrestling action:

This video is really hard to see, but anytime the babies would crawl all over me, their Mom would lick them down afterwards. What is she trying to insinuate? I DID shower, lady.

Lastly, Mama feeding ALL 7 babies at once, the cutest and most peaceful thing to watch. The babies went from totally hyper, to frantically pigging out, to post-milk coma all within minutes. My favorite little guy literally fell over from his drunken stupor. Please mop me up from the puddle on the floor, I'm melting!

Bathtime!

There is nothing cuter than when we give Galileo a bath. He's so obedient during the whole thing but gives off this air of complete desperation and depression. It's so cute, so I had Rob take pictures this time during G's last bath just to show you his sad little face. Pretty funny.

Getting started - when you say "it's time for a bath", the good little boy actually takes himself into the bathroom and jumps into the bathtub! I'd like to claim we've trained him so well, but it's just that he's so freakin' smart.

I think the happy little slip-proof stickies are so ironic

Ha! Look at that face!

Getting dried off:

All bundled up and ready for stage 2: Wild Man!

It's so funny, he's so quiet and paralyzed during the whole process but then gets his aggression and rage out on the towels afterwards, absolutely priceless:

POW #15 - sister in law edition

This week's picture o' the week is a shout-out to my sister in law Jen, whose birthday is coming up. I love this photo (other than the fact my eyes are closed), it was taken when I had gone to Washington a few years ago to help while my brother was on a trip. We were silly with Abby one day (shocker) and all 3 of us rocked some pigtails. Abby was so tiny in this picture! Please to enjoy....

Beach Day!

When Ben and Laura were here last weekend with their kids, we also had a beach day - the kids had a blast! It was not the hottest day so the kids started off in full clothes but because they were playing in the waves so much they got soaked and eventually it was toplessville - the only way to be! :) They seemed to love the ocean and making sand castles - it was definitely a successful beach going experience to ensure they'll want to come back year after year to visit fun Uncle Rob and Aunt Beth!

Making some pretty sweet sandcastles:

Even Morgan seemed to love the fresh ocean air:

Playing in the waves:

Beth & Zach playing in the waves:

Poor little seagull...ha!

And what better way to end the day then a visit to In & Out Burger:

The Happiest Place on Earth

Our good friends Ben and Laura came to visit last weekend with their kids Amanda, Zach and Morgan. We had an absolute blast and I'm not ashamed to admit we were pretty wiped out afterwards (thus my blogging life is not caught up to real life yet). We went to Disneyland the second day they were here...we love that place anyway but it's even more fun being there with those guys.

On our way!

Riding Astro Blasters and Peter Pan:

Pirates and Nemo, Zach was quite intense watching the Pirates:

Matterhorn and Jungle Cruise, Amanda was too cute reacting to the hippos:

I have to admit, I think I might have enjoyed the Merry Go Round just a bit more than the kids. Don't judge.

Watching fireworks:

We ran ourselves pretty hard and rode a ton of rides, as evidenced by the 3 crashed out little one's at the end of the night. Trust me, if I could have fit in that stroller, I would have crashed out too:

POW #14 - the Mom Edition

This week's Picture O' The Week is actually 2 pics in honor of my Mom whose birthday was yesterday (hollar!). This picture was from our trip out to visit her 2 years ago in DC. She took us on a Segway tour through the city and we had an absolute blast. Those things are so much fun, that was an awesome idea, Mom! I swear, if anybody ever has the chance to Segway, you should. There was minimal bloodshed and it's so sad to eventually get off of them - walking is WAY overrated. :)