I met Ben the Bachelor!!

As everyone who watches the bachelor knows.... Ben has a winery in Sonoma... which happens to be a quick 20 minute drive from Napa where I live.

We heard through the grape vine that Ben's winery Envolve was having a special event at Enoteca Della Santina .   We thought it would be fun to go, since we watch the Bachelor together every week, not to mention we love wine tasting.  I forgot my camera and my phone... so annoying... but the girls snapped a few photos for me.

The wines were all really nice, I loved the Rose... it would be a perfect for summer... it was great because it was not super sweet. Light appetizers were served...and were quite yummy.

Posters in the windows of shops in Sonoma!

Waiting in line for the event to start.

From Left: Tiffanie, Moi, Kattie, Stacey and Traci

Another photo in line...

Kattie, Tiffanie, me and Stace

I'm the old lady in the group ... we did get carded though;)

Here we are with BEN!

Ben was gracious and posed with anyone who asked and at one point he said I am just a regular guy....

His partners were really nice as well.... My favorite was his mom, she handed out roses at the end of the night and was super sweet and cute. I was surprise that there were not more crazy girls there.. TIFFANIE was the crazed fan in our group;)  

We wen back to Traci's house and watched the Bachelor when we got home.

It was a super fun girls night!

Wedding Fun

My friend Kelly got married Saturday....Which is why I sat under the dryer Fri night to set my hair... I love to get dressed up and I love weddings.  Just Chad, Gab and I went... Which was nice!

Gabby and Chad while waiting for the ceremony to start

Kelly and Fil

Tiff and I... 

My hair turned out cuteish..my eyes look soo squinty. BLECK

The Dance girls- we all do dance together.

Gab, Kellie, Kelly, Tiffanie and MOI

Keith, Tiff and I

Gabby getting a dorky pic of  Tiff and I... this cracks me up.

Tiff drinking two glasses of champagne :)

Gabby catching the bouquet.

Chad and Keith being silly.

Tiffanie and her forkaphone as Chad was calling it.... she sang along to most of the songs!

Keith trying to be taller than Gab... 

It was a fun night and a pretty wedding... Congrats Kelly and Fil!!

Looking Back- A trip to the Flea with Friends

A few months ago my friends and I went to a flea market in Old Town Roseville, there were sooo many beautiful things I wanted... I could have filled a truck and spent a big wad of cash... I was a good kid and only bought a necklace and a skirt that I have worn in my wiww pictures.

Darian trying on a huge tiara:)

Me on an an amazing vintage couch!

Me and Katie of Katie Jean ..in front of her booth.

I wish I would have bought one of these.... vintage drawer pull necklaces.

Love the writing on this vintage window

My favorite booth at the whole show.

An Afternoon in Berkley

Sorry I have been MIA.. it has been crazy around here, Scarlette got thrush and I spent all week getting ready for Gwen's bday party Sat.  This post is long over due, it has been about a month since ago that we went to Berkley.  My good friend Jen came into town to see her family, she lives in DC and we never were able to hook up the whole time I lived only 5 hours from her!  So Jen emailed me and my friend Melissa to see if we wanted to meet in Berkley while she was here and we said yes.  We met at a children's discovery museum type place then sat in the campus lawn and had lunch.  It was fun.

Graham doing art.

Budding artist.

I loved this section, it was the baby washing section!

We decided we needed a photo of the 3 of us together since we have been friends since 7th grade:)

Husbands were making us laugh.

Not a great photo location.

We lucked out, the weather was sunny and beautiful, it was a great way to spend the afternoon.

Will be back tomorrow with my newest project, it is pretty exciting!

My Birthday & A Trip to The Flea Market

I have been wanting to post this since Monday and have either been busy or the DSL was down.  My birthday was last Saturday, so I spent all weekend doing fun things!  The kids had no school on Friday, so Thursday night the kids and I went over to Tiffanie's house and played "Just dance" on the wii with Tiffanie and Kattie.. until 1 am.  Friday night I went out with the girls, Sat. my family came over for my birthday.. we had a yummy lunch and hung out.  Sat night we went over to our good friends Jenny and Steves house for a going away party for our other good friends who are moving to SO.CAL:( Sunday I got up at 5:30 to go to the  Alameda flea market..needless to say I have been tired all week!  

Here are some photos from Fri night and from the Flea market.

Dinner at Norman Rose in Napa

Kattie, me, Tiffanie and Kellie

Melanie, Carie and Sara

Carrie and Sara

Kattie and Me

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Tiffanie brought an extra diet coke along in her purse in case of an emergency!

She needs to join me in the diet coke addict club!

After dinner we went to Billcos..  this is me throwing darts.  Super good at this btw! HA HA

This is the second time I had played darts in my life, the other time was with Chad in Chico 13 years ago!

Gina teaching some dudes how to play pool. 

She wanted us to play too, but I am horrid at pool and don't really enjoy it.

Melanie and Sara ended up playing the dart game to the end, the rest of us gave up because we were sooo bad.  

Sara was the big winner

Melanie not happy about losing!

A ride in Gina's car to the bowling alley.

Melanie strikes a pose after she got  a strike!  

We were pretty bad at bowling too, this was the second game. I had the high score for the night of 98, yikes!

Tiffanie and I were trying to finish up the second game(right side) and we were speed bowling for everyone, I was bowling at that point in my sparkley high heels and I did not fall like the man behind the counter said I would.  TALENT

He did however kick us off the lane because they were closing and Tiffanie got a tiny bit rowdy and released the ball behind her so it almost hit me and I had to jump over it(like on the wii)  in my heels.  Never been kicked off of a bowling lane!

A group shot.

Sara, Melanie, Tiffanie, Gina, Me and Carrie

Gina dropped Tiffanie and I off at our house at about 1:30am and we sort of woke the whole house up.  Tiffanie spent a few hours in bed with Gabby before driving home.

On to the Flea Market..

Scarlette's first Flea Market Trip

Love this booth, sooo shabby chic.

Amy and Annie, changing miss Scarlette while I ate my lunch.

Me and Annie with our goodies!  Heidi was holding Scarlette at that point and she wouldn't let me take her picture:(

Here is what I bought!

A vintage pink ford truck for Scarlette.

  I would so drive this truck.  It is up high on her shelf so that it doesn't get stolen by Graham.   

A pretty(pink) vintage Bread box, which we actually use for our bread.

Two charms.

A stop Sign for Grahams wall.

He was so excited about this, Chad had to quickly hang it before he left town on Tuesday.

A giant pink metal "S" for Smith at the moment.. but could also be for Scarlette.  I wish I would have taken a pic of this guys booth, he makes these letters and he had hundreds of letters in all different shapes, sizes and colors.

There were tons of beautiful quilts, pottery and knick knacks... but I was strong and resisted.  Also, had Annie at my side telling me I had enough of all these things.It was a super fun weekend!!!