California......knows how to party. Part I

On July 10, my peeps and I went to California. This is something we do every year. We go out and visit my sister Jamie. It's a great time. Jamie lives in Santa Monica. We started it off by eating at our favorite mexican place. Baja Fresh.

After our snack we went shopping around town. The one place that we were so excited about was Pinkberry. This is a place where you get fat free yogurt and then add your own toppings. I really enjoyed the raspberries, blueberries and chocolate chips. We LOVED this place. We had one everyday we were there.

Seriously it was so good. People call it Crackberry--because you become so addicted. This is totally true.

Next place.. The Cave or as Speidy (Heidi and Spencer from the Hills) likes to call it.. Don Antonios. Again mexican food. Very good stuff.

Then we hit a popular cupcake joint called Sprinkles. A lot of celebrities enjoy these tastey little cakes. (no celeb sightings here..but stay tuned) My favorite is the lemon coconut..but I like them all.

After the cupcakes.

More pics soon.

Another warm summer evening...

We sure have enjoyed the family get togethers that we have been having. We have been going up to Midway for a little BBQ and last time we had quite the feast. This time everyone was able to join us. What a great time!

Of course there were s'mores! and lots of instruction on how to make the perfect s'more.

And we can't forget the group song, "The Gambler". It was so much fun. I love being outdoors.

4th of July

What's more American then baseball?

The group headed to watch the Bees take on Arizona. The Bees lost but we had fun anyway.

There were so many people there it was crazy. We went to get a drink and popcorn and missed the 2, 3 and 1/2 of the 4 innings. It was crazy. After the game, they shoot off fireworks. They put on a pretty good show.

Everyone who had lawn seats, moves out onto the field to watch the fireworks. I think they had the best seat in the house.

When they started the fireworks, we thought that we had great seats. What we did not realize was that there was a cover over our seats, which totally blocked our view. We decided we had better seats in our car, so we watched fireworks from the car and missed all the traffic. (yes the stop sign was on purpose--again better view from the street)Until next year. (I bought a new camera, I was trying out lots of different shots.)