My Mom's Visit/ Our Julian Trip

My Mom came to visit a couple weekends ago because, well, she loves us! Not that my Dad doesn't love us too, but he's not a big flyer. Anyhow, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to visit the apple orchards of Julian.

Yes, I sometimes skip, sometimes frolic, what have you.

A not-so-scary scarecrow

Look at that old rusty gem... and

how about that truck?

At first we were only picking the normal sized apples, but then I decided that these little ones were pretty cute and would make adorable mini caramel apples!

I wonder why he's so interested in my left hand...

The apple don't fall too far from the tree :)

Pumpkin Time! Drew was designated pumpkin carrier.

Mama and Drew in the little corn maze

And we also went to Drew's restaurant to enjoy some crab.

(awful picture of me, but it shows how much I love her)

She relished the chance to capture me in a bib.



We love you, Mom!

Our engagement picture photographer

Our good friend and budding photographer, Natalie Valine, has finally started a blog to share her great work (see the link on the left column for Natalie Marie Photography). Natalie did our engagement photos in March 2007 at Balboa Park, which we used for our save-the-date, our newspaper announcement and our wedding website.

So if you know anyone looking for beautiful, affordable pictures in the San Diego area... send 'em her way!

A rose by any other name...

I just found out that there is a breed of rose named the Adelaide D'Orleans. Looks like my fame has spread from the Austrailian city to the Guys and Dolls musical and finally has made its mark on horticulture. Now, if I can only get that Adelaide statue erected, I will have arrived.

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They are quite pretty, aren't they?

A night at the theatre

Swell Season

On Friday night, after a long day of work, Shannon, Jamie and I stayed on campus to see The Swell Season play at SDSU's open air theatre. They are better known as the musicians from the movie Once, Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard. Here is a tiny clip of their most famous song, "Falling Slowly," which is very poorly recorded from my camera, but is the testament to how good they sounded live.

It was nice and cool outside (finallly!) and we treated ourselves to some salted caramel hot chocolates- which sound kind of sketch but are really good.