Summer

April 26th, 2010 comments 1

The weather was beautiful and oh so warm over the weekend! Like, drink coffee on the back deck while wearing flip flops and short sleeves warm! Hooray!


M was recording most of Saturday so I drove up to Sacramento to spend the afternoon with friends. On my way back, I took a detour through a section of Napa. Beautiful.

On Sunday, we stopped by our neighborhood’s annual gig, the Glen Park Festival. Er, festival is misleading, more like a block party with local vendors. We went last year, and like last year, we stayed for a whopping 5 minutes then walked home. More fun for people with kids, I think. Not to disrespect our beloved hood, but Cole Valley does it better.

Because the weather was so unusually warm, we hopped into the car and drove up to Livermore for some minature golf! But first, we stopped by our favorite SF suburb, Pleasanton, for lunch. Despite all the creepy life-like sculptures placed randomly in the downtown area, it’s such a clean, friendly and pretty town. We’d move there in a heartbeat if the weekday commute to SF wasn’t such a drag.

See? Creepy.

See? Pretty.

Aaaaaand here’s Grandpa, playing golf.

The Whale-less Watch

April 21st, 2010 Comments Off

What’s up? Only us Sea Lions out here…

Breakfast of Champions

December 13th, 2009 comments 3

For me, it’s a toasted poppy seed bagel with cream cheese covered in bits of smoked salmon, a glass of orange juice and a mug of hot black coffee. I stocked up on gluten-free bagels (and a yummy apple cranberry pie) during a recent visit to the Mariposa gluten-free bakery up in Oakland. M and I each sampled a slice of their pizza during our stop which was heavenly. M, who would eat pizza every day if I let him, couldn’t even tell that it was sans gluten. Perfect, we’ll take them all. Snaps for Mariposa.

The Tree

November 29th, 2009 comments 3


On Saturday, M and I drove down to Rancho Siempre Verde, a Christmas tree farm in Pescadero. Minus the snow (and cold), the experience was a lot like Christmas tree hunting back in East — there were plenty of trees to choose from, a warm fire to roast marshmallows, and we got to hitch a ride with our tree on a tractor. We had a lot of fun!









Pigeon Point Lighthouse

November 28th, 2009 comments 3







Pescadero, CA

The Best Wedding, Ever — Part Two

November 15th, 2009 comments 4

I can’t believe that our wedding was 5 weeks ago, already! Wow, time flies when you no longer have a large party to plan. Here are more pictures from our photographer… I need to go kick it into high gear with our thank you cards (must-write-neatly).





Muir Woods

November 10th, 2009 Comments Off

Ah, Endor.

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Sea Ranch

November 7th, 2009 Comments Off

These were taken back in July of this year as we scouted potential wedding locations along the Sonoma coastline.

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The Best Wedding, Ever

November 6th, 2009 Comments Off

I got our wedding pictures from our photographer this morning and they’re awesome! Here’s a sneak peak…

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Sonoma Wine Country

November 5th, 2009 Comments Off




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