7/25 - What a day! Welcome home to us. Our water heater went out in the morning and was leaking into Greg's closet. I had a training class and missed Kaseys dance performance at her camp - but Greg and Grammy got to go and record it. She did really well doing Ballet, Jazz and Tap. she likde tap the best. Landon had a tryout for baseball team - he's a little rusty and there are 8 kids trying for 3 spots so we'll see. Later in the day Kasey wasn't feeling to well in the car, and after dinner she was almost screaming that her ear hurt. Greg was at home waiting for plumber, I took Landon to friends to take a shower. Then came home got Kasey to take her to Acute Kids - of course she had ear infection. She was saying she couldn't handle it anymore - I think it was really hurting her. We got medicine right before the pharmacy closed and got her to settle down a little to go so sleep. The Dr said to put a few drops of olive oil in her ear to coat it and help.
7/24 - It was time to go home. We got up, had breakfast outside one more time, and headed out to the airport. By the time we got there, returned the car and got through security we figured we better eat some lunch. We decide salad, sandwich and a cold beer sounded good.
When we landed in town we got message that one of the ladies in the neighborhood had broken her arm and couldn't go to Bunco that night. I said I would get kids to bed and step in to help out :)
We got home and kids told us about their week. It was getting late, and I was getting texts asking if I was close :). Greg got the kids to bed and I headed to bunco. Always fun! I got 9 Druncos (has nothing to do with being drunk :))
7/23 - We got up in the morning had breakfast at 8:30am and headed out for the day. We first went to Chateau Montelena which is the winery that first put California wine on the map. They beat France and European wineries in a blind taste test twice in 1976 - Cool movie based on this called Bottle Shock. They won with Chardonney, but later started winning with Cabs. They have about 20 years that their cabs have been getting 90+ ratings which is pretty good. We joined the futures wine club.
After that we headed to Taylors Refresher (now called Gott's) for good burger for lunch. Then we headed to Spring mountain. We tried a new one called Terra Valentine - small winery with nice view. They had a nice Sangiovese blend that we liked and of course cabs.
Then we headed to another favorite Spring Mountain. We were doing Estate tasting with 2 other couples - one from Switzerland and one from somewhere in US. They were already wine club members. They loved the 2001 Cab. So we tasted 2009, 2007 Ellivette (Their best wine), 2005 Cab, and then 2001 Cab. They were all great. So the other couples talked them into opening a 2001 Elivette and an 1979 Cab. All of them were great, and it was nice to sit on the property relax and drink a 1979 bottle of wine.
We headed back to the hotel after that. There was a winemaker and his wife there serving wine and chatting. It's always interesting meeting people from different perspectives and actually talking to the winemaker himself.
We had a little later dinner that night, but it was walking distance so it was great. We ate at Bistro Jeanty which is French. We'd been sharing more during the week and didn't so much that night. By the time dinner was over we were way done - stuffed, tired, and about ready to go home. don't get me wrong Napa is always a wonderful trip!
7/22 - I actually went to bed before midnight - which was late Central time, but still. We got up and showered, went to breakfast at our hotel. then we had some time because our first appointment wasn't until 11:30. We just relaxed for a while - working on blog and listening to Pandora. Then we headed out for the day. We started at Nickel and Nickel which was a previous favorite. Then we ate a quick lunch from grocery deli and headed to Allora another favorite that we are part of their wine club. After that we headed back to hotel to rest and talk to the kids. We had early dinner at 5:30 at Bottega - one of my favorites, and then we got some dessert at Bouchon and headed back with some wine left. We got to taste a little at hotel, and then relax for the evening.
we spent some more time relaxing in the jacuzzi after dinner.
7/21 - We woke up decided not to walk 10-15 minutes in the cold for breakfast, and so we just got ready and headed out. We found a place in Napa to have breakfast. We had to wait for a while, sat at a community table, but the breakfast was good and made us ready for our first day of wine tasting.
That day we started tasting at Reynolds - we'd been there before and really liked their sister label Naughty. We got to sit outside in great weather and have tasting. We tasted about 8 different wines there. Then we stopped at Trefethen which was ok. They had a Rose called Sin that I really liked. Then we headed to Miner for tasting.
This was recommended by friend from high school and we liked most of the wines which is always fun! After that we checked into hotel, changed and headed back out. The end of the day we went to Quintessa where they make 1 wine each year. It's very high end, but good wine and fun experience.
We ended the day at Restaurant called Press which is steak house that Greg wanted to try. Great Oysters, amazing bread, we brought our own wine, and steaks were good too.
We had an outdoor private patio and jacuzzi which we enjoyed. This night we were sitting out there relaxing and a momma raccoon and her 3 babies came walking along our fence trying to jump on our patio. we were thinking that wasn't a very good idea. We eventually scared them away, but our patio wasn't to relaxing after that :)
7/20 - Today was Greg's birthday. Kids went to Greg still in bed told him happy birthday and gave him a hug. Kids and I got up to make breakfast. We made biscuits (kids did most of it), I made cheese eggs and sausage. We all ate breakfast in bed. Of course Kasey made a mess, but it was still fun.
We gave Greg his gifts. New shirt and shorts, and homemade cards from kids. Kasey had made a cake in her cooking camp the day before so we used that as Greg's cake. Landon wanted a yellow candle because he thought daddy liked that color (we aren't sure where he got that from, but nice thinking). We lit the candle and sang to him. Happy birthday didn't get all the way out, Kasey started singing you smell like a monkey before the end of the song. It was funny and I got it on video.
Greg and I were leaving that day for trip to Napa so we all got ready. Took Kasey to Grandma's, we got a cute picture of the 4 of us. Kasey got to go see Turbo movie before the rest of us did.
We took Landon to Grammy and Gramps. Landon and Grammy had an appointment at Legoland so Gramps took us to the airport. Landon had a great time, he built a car that won 3 times. He got to see the new Star Wars exhibit which he liked as well.
Greg and I flew to San Francisco. We spent the night there before heading to Napa. We were supposed to meet up with Greg's cousin but their little girl woke up from nap with 102 so we did dinner on our own. We found a place in back alley that had Catalyn food (Spanish Tapas) which we love. We got some homemade Sangria, some great food, and then finished up with a scotch. Good times.
After that we went to grab water and back to the room for a bit. We had reservations at Press Club (wine bar in the city which one of my high school friends owns). We got there a little early. They had some bubbly for Greg and I since it was his birthday. Then we ordered a few different wine flights. We ended up with 3 because he brought us one that wasn't right. We had a great time talking and trying different wines.
7/16 - Kasey didn't want to go to sleep so I went up to get her in bed. She asked if i was drinking Sangria and watching soccer game. I told her no, we were drinking beer and watching soccer game. She told me that Landon asked earlier if he could try a coke. Then Kasey told him mommy says we have to try everything. Greg got out of it somehow.
7/14 - Since kids were at grandparents, I ended up sleeping until almost 10am. Which of course made us late to lunch to celebrate Gramp's birthday. We went to BJs for lunch to celebrate. Had a beer, good food and yummy pizookie (cookie cake with ice cream) - Yum. Then we went back to Grammy and gramps house to hang out for a while. We left from there for kids and I to go see Despicable me 2. Cute movie!
7/13 - We started the day at birthday party at the pool. Kids had fun in deep end and shallow end. for a little while I was treading water and kids were jumping in swimming to me. not sure they understood why I couldn't hold them in 10 feet of water. We had a good time.
We tried to go see movie in afternoon, but kids started melting down so we didn't. I took kids to Grammy/Gramps to spend the night. Greg and I went to surprise birthday party for Lyn, and then he went to FC Dallas game with Doug. We had fun at Lyns' party. it was several couples hanging out having a few drinks and cake to celebrate. Eventually the guys sat down and us ladies were standing up laughing and drinking margaritas. We had good time!
7/12 - Greg's grandfathers friend in Odessa passed this week so Greg and his dad were going to day trip Odessa for the funeral. That makes for a long time. Ended up being relaxing day for me. I took the kids to camp, relaxed in the morning, got to have some of Greg's enchiladas for lunch, caught up a little TV, and went to get kids at camp.
7/11 - I came home from China. I was 6 flights in 6 days and all of them were delayed. Not really wanting to fly with Delta anymore... Our flight from China to Detroit was over an hour late, and so we had to run through customers and across the airport to get to our connecting gate. We got on the plane in time, then DFW closed for weather so we sat on the tarmac for a while. We ended up in Dallas even a little early - which in Dallas always means you wait on the tarmac longer. It was great to get home.
7/10 - Today was crazy day for China trip. We had to train to a different city. We left the hotel at 6:15am, took a car about an hour to train station, took an hour train to Hangzhou, then had car take us about 40 minutes to partner location. We had meetings then headed to lunch. It was about 100 degrees outside. Our partner wanted to go to good restaurant for lunch which was about 10 minute walk. In 100 degrees we were sweating (at least I was) by the time we got there. We had nice lunch. Then headed back in taxi for train station, had to wait for while for train, took train back, and looking to see what happens to him next :) Then we got car from train station.
Overall we were gone about 12 hours, and about 8 hours of that were traveling. We felt gross and tired when we got back.
7/9 - Had to get up early to fly to Shanghai. We then had some meetings in the afternoon in the office.
7/7 - Kids went roller skating for first time at friend Bday party. Landon had fun with it. Apparently Kasey did some screaming but liked it once she got the hang of it.
7/6 - I took quick trip to Taiwan and China for work. Had to leave Saturday morning. I got to spend the night at mom and dads Friday so they could take me to airport on Saturday morning. We had about 24 hours of travel to get to Taipei. My colleague booked the flights so we ended up with weird route and on Delta (she was going for lowest cost). All 3 of our flights were late, but we made it to the hotel just fine. We had a car pick us up at the airport and take us to hotel. He had wifi in his car which was nice. We stayed at Far Eastern which is one of my favorite hotels in the world. We had breakfast with few of the local guys that had worked for me in Dallas. Then we had meetings with partner. They took us to dumpling restaurant in what until about a month ago was the latest building in Asia (called 101 building). Lunch was great. We had meetings in the afternoon til about 6:30.
Then our partner including the CEO and Chairman took several of us to dinner at a nice restaurant. We had a 10 course dinner including prawns, scallops, lamb, chicken, beef etc. Food was great, but it was ton of food
While I was flying to China Greg and kids got to go to neighborhood 4th of July party and birthday party - Kasey got to go off diving board for first time. She did well swimming in deep pool.
7/5 - I actually got up to work out at 6am. Even though I was out on Friday. I took donuts home for everyone :) we went to the pool to meet one of new neighbors and the cracknells. We had good time kids playing in pool and adults talking.
Then we grabbed quick lunch. In the afternoon Greg took K to swim and Landon and I ran a few errands.
We ended up at dinner at Zorbas which is great. Then Greg and kids took me to my parents to spend the night since I had early flight on 6/12.
7/4 - we had lazy day to start off. Then I got up to go get kids. We ended up having burgers and pigs in blanket with my parents which was great 4th of July lunch. We hung out, took little naps in the afternoon, and then headed up to FC DAllas game. We had dinner at Durkins then went to stadium. WE parked so we could get out of the parking lot easily. the game was 0 to 0. Not sure Landon is quite there for non scoring game yet. AFter the game, we got to see fireworks from our car, and we left a little early to get the kids home since they didn't start before 10pm
7/3 - Landon had his first slumber party. He wen to Maxum Hughes house for birthday party and slumber party. The boys stayed up til about 11:15, and of course Landon woke up about 6:45pm. Boys seemed to have fun playing in the pool. Landon really liked the diving board and finding where food was. While Landon was doing that Kasey was at Grammy and Gramps house spending the night. Greg and I went to Brookhaven with Steiners and another couple friend. We had some dinner, hung out, and then watched Kaboom town in Addison from the golf course which was fun.
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