Hearst Castle

Trevor and I drove down to San Simeon yesterday for some sweet lovey dovey time at Hearst Castle. We took 1 down the coast and played with the new camera some. Still trying to figure stuff out, so the pictures taken by Trevor are usually the better ones. Lucky for me, you won't know who took what. Mwahahahaha.

Pee stop.

 

Pictures from the tour. I have to tell you, I was a little bit let down. The tour length that used to be 1hr 45 mins has been shortened to about 30 minutes. They do let tourists roam the gardens on their own for photos, but I was excited to hear about the art and the construction. Only got a little bit of that. In the words of children everywhere, "No fair!"

 

I like this guy:

                                          Oh, so inviting. 

We would have taken more photos, except both the camera and the phone batteries died. Rude! We made up for no picture taking by moseying and talking and laughing and things. Sure is good to be with a fellow history and giant pool lover.

Coming up soon in real life, Bella's NINTH birthday. NINTH! She is having a pool party. I bought her a bathing suit as an early birthday gift, so I'm not buying her squat else. Just know that. Also, the big Kahuna of summer news.....in six days we will be in Disneyland!!! Trevor, his two daughters and I are spending 4 days at the Happiest Place on Earth, and I can't wait. I haven't been on a multi day Disney trip in about 10 years, and I haven't gotten to go with a child since I WAS a child. Can't wait to be there with some of my favorite people. 

Xoxo, Lalas!

Summer things

Just got off the phone with my mama. I am at home, where I have not been spending too much time lately, but alas- she is at work until 7. Thursdays have always been her late days. I think I just forgot it is Thursday. 2 days off of work in a row and already I'm livin' summer like a teacher. "What day is it? Do you have to work today?" 

Anyway, to catch up....

I worked on the 4th of July but was lucky enough to meet up with Shea and Trevor and go to a bbq we had been invited to at our friend Veronica's house. Sparklers and fireworks galore!

Patriotic ribbons for Shea.

Playing with fire.

Independence Day dessert:

Happy Vanessa:

Practice makes perfect

Lots of stuff happening- Vacations coming up, which is good because I've been working a lot. Or rather, it is good I've been working a lot since I'll be going out of town a couple of times in the very near future. What I REALLY wanna tell you is that I have acquired a camera.....it's an older Minolta, but it is better (I think) than what I've been using. Couldn't beat the price, but.....it has become apparent that I need to read the manual. Hopefully I'll get better!

The best ones from taking about 100 last night:

Anyway.....ya know......I'll post more stuff in a day or so. 

Xoxo, lalas.

Baseball game! Giants vs. A's

 

We went to see some men play some baseball. My favorite part was tailgating! 

Trevor's roommate, Geoff, created a ladder ball set. We played in teams. Trevor and I were undefeated.

There was food. There was friendship. It was good. 

Rosa and I

Trevor, Me, Geoff.

(Sidenote- while typing this very blog post, a bug crawled on me! YUCK.)

Just some more pictures...

HANDSOME.

Here is Trevor chasing Masha with tiny popping noisemakers.

Helmet.

Pictures.

It was a good day <3

An interesting delivery

It was the weirdest thing- Bella found a box addressed to me in the garage, with the following letter inside. If only I knew who had written it....if only I could tell them I already have a job!

 

After I read the letter, Isabella kept asking me if I had ever thought about looking for a job at the mall.

Babies that I love

About a year ago, two of my good friends had babies within a couple weeks of each other. Lucky for me, I got to spend some time with both of those little knuckleheads recently! And their mamas, too.

This is Julia. Sadie (her mama) invited me to join them at The Oakland Zoo. I hadn't ever been. And now I have. Check out some emu and wallaroos!

I'm not sure why I didn't take any pictures of the bigger animals, but seriously you guys- one of the elephants LOVED us. LOVED. US. We saw lots of animals, ate a lovely picnic lunch, rode a train through The Outback.....it was a busy day!

Then, of course, it was Ethan's birthday. Oh man. What a ham. I like him a lot. Jenny and family threw a wonderful party. The eats were great, the company was enjoyable and most importantly, Ethan liked the present I got him. Gifts are the most important thing in life. For instance, if people don't give you stuff how do you know they REALLY like you? You don't. See? 

You ever heard of a Sing-a-majig?


Now Ethan KNOWS.

Aw.....blowing out candles!

It should be noted that my favorite part of the party was when Ethan hated his birthday hat. I am so mean.

SubZERO Festival, June 3rd

I attended my first SubZERO Festival here in San Jose, CA. Art, music, beer, food, people.  

 Trevor had to work, running sound for the main stage, so I entertained myself by checking out the other stages and rustling up a hot dog. You heard me. A hot dog. More on that in some other post.

 I met up with one of my friends, Aaron. We went to check Ben Henderson out, because he is awesome at music. I like hearing people at the bar talk about "I know Ben. Oh yeah. Known him for years." You know why people want to be associated with him? I already told you- he is awesome at music! No doy!

 Then we watched The Emerald Hill.

Hip hip hooray for good music in San Jose! So much fun to watch!

 The night wound down, and it started to rain. It was no big thang, but Trevor's battery had died while his car sat in the middle of the audience for the first couple acts on the main stage..... it was pushed out of the way, but had to be pushed back towards my car for some jumper cable action rounds abouts 2 am. The slippery ground made it hard for Trevor and Ben to push, but some kind Groundwerks folk helped them out (while I sat inside, so cozy dry and steering). I actually wasn't cozy dry- I was a bit wet. Oh, San Jose rain....washing away the indiscretion that was my hot dog chowing....

Car love. Hella smoochkissing lips.

If you're into it, SubZERO information can be found here. 
 I mean, it already happened for this year, and I'm just kind of catching up, but STILL. You can go there and read about it. If you want.