Tuesday, July 28, 2009

bbq chicken - inside!

i LOVE bbq chicken, but usually only get to indulge on the weekends when pete feels like q-ing. now we have an indoor grill, so i can bbq some meat or grill veggies whenever i want! yay!! this is my first attempt. they turned out well, except i was only able to eat 1/2 of one piece...pepper helped herself to the rest.

Sunday, July 26, 2009

i heart pizza!!

downtown fairfield is now the home of two great spots to grab some grub, evelyn's big italian pizzeria + canepa deli. i stopped for a ny slice last week. the weather was perfect for grabbing a bistro-style seat and enjoying the scrum-diddly pizza. remind me to take you there if you visit (or participate in slave-labor like les did a few weeks ago. she was treated to a slice, salad, stromboli + great company ~ jack).


evelyn's big italian pizzeria ~ downtown fairfield
gianormous pizza slices!

great seating area

view of solano county courthouse fountains
~a fave of underprivaleged youth in 100+ weather~






Saturday, July 25, 2009

front yard pics

yay for hot weather + our house/yard!!!


crabapple tree

up-close inspection

running through the sprinkler

i did it...not sure how i feel about it...

Friday, July 24, 2009

thriftown

les + i met up to do some thrift shopping. she's looking for all sorts of odds-n-ends and i'm in the market for chairs, furniture, and decor pieces to refresh and reuse in my house/garden. we went to this place in el sobrante and were SHOCKED to see it was PACKED. like hard to get a spot, line so long we ended up ditching our finds packed. but we had a good time looking and think we'll visit again... maybe not on the same day as their 'Back to School Sale' which meant 50% all clothing.

les found some great items:

1st pogo stick ride!

from benihanas...

an 'h' for huddy

a sculpture of herself (J/K!)

completely shocked. not sure why.




Thursday, July 23, 2009

bbq with the willis family!

jack was 'helping' austin with his paci...austin liked it at first...

pretty girl, autumn. i don't know what she's going to do with all these boys around!

jack wanted to be shirtless. it was over 100 + he thinks it's cool (check out his farmer tan!)

me + the boys (jack was a wee bit jealous of me + austin)

on saturday we invited jason, kristin, austin, + autumn to enjoy our porch for the evening. it was a hot day, so we thought hamburgers + cold beers + new porch + fairfield breeze = awesome night! jason went to high school with pete, and he and his wife, kristin welcomed their twins, austin + autumn last November. we haven't seen them in a while and were shocked to see how big the babies were! we had a very nice night and made plans to make sure we saw each other more often...

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

gilmore girls + chocolate-cherry cake


sookie/leslie

les sent me a text that said, 'all these years of striving to be lorelai, i think i've become freaking sookie'. first i laughed {out lout!} and then i got an idea: chocolate cake with cherries, layered, on cake pedi. seems like a stretch, but if you know les, you know that she likes to bake/cook (read: that's why she's more like sookie than lorelai), and if you know me, i have MORE than plenty kitchen gadgets that i'm trying to get some use of with my double oven, grill, + gas cooktop. AND, les + tara came over to help me make-over some of my furniture and during the visit, les + i discussed cherries. first because there are a ton of fruit trees around my new house and we were planning on making a cobbler for dessert (thought to use something local, but ended up not), then because i shared with les that cherries are jack's favorite fruit, but if figures becasue there is nothing quick about pitting cherries, then because we were planning on picking up a cherry pitter at walmart, and finally because i was wondering what to do with the remaining cherries from our bbq on saturday and i didn't want them hanging around because i didn't want to have to pit yet ANOTHER batch for jack. i know it's lazy, it's just time consuming. bananas are soooo much easier. and out-of-site, out-of-mind for an almost 18-month-old. long story, i know, but put it all together and hopefully it's worth it for this prize i baked today!

the masterpiece.

see the cherries?

up close ~ i wish i was able to photograph food like pros, my pics aren't ever as delicious looking

laura's dinner slice

voila! chocolate cake with cherries baked-in, flipped over complete with a chocolate frosting on said pedi using said baking dishes (some of the many gadgets i have). i also thought of devon, because of the cake pan discussion the ensued after she blogged about her amazing cake. all in all, it was great to bake, excellent after dinner (actually, it was dinner for laura), and nice to use the cherries (though i still had to pit them, so that issue wasn't really resolved). it did make me sad that my two friends i thought of live far away. yes, les can come over whenever, but this was one of those nights that you wanted friends to swing by after their dinner and have some cake with you! thank goodness for little sisters and a family that'll eat with you!!

Monday, July 20, 2009

father's day

father's day this year was super fun! for pete's 2nd father's day, we made a last minute trip to buchanan airport in concord, the site of an open house. pete, jack, & i took a look at a ton of planes, then went to lunch at a cheesesteak shop, and dinner at my parents' house. we ate a TON and had a relaxing fd.


Sunday, July 19, 2009

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Cowboy-ish

Pete said I looked a little 'texas' in my blue jeans with black tank. I added the belt. What? I like it!

We're having the Willis fam over for burgers tonight. Yum. Maybe a little 'texas'? Will post some pics of our hot Saturday. We also had comcast installed today. Yes!
Sent on the Now Network� from my Sprint® BlackBerry

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

found!

-flower bobby pin
-camera battery

it's charging, gang! pics tomorrow. and yes, leslie, they will be large, as large as possible. i know how to change the size, just didn't want to. and the mobile pic sizes aren't changeable (that i know of...)

Monday, July 13, 2009

you know when you're unpacking...

and you get to a certain point or after a long day you're relaxing on the couch and you remember that one item you know you have somewhere, you just don't know where? you've unpacked every box labeled 'master bath' but your favorite flower bobby pin is missing? or that box with your 2008 w-2 you need (like yesterday) for your refinancing of your construction loan? that's where i am...

missing items (as of right now):
-flower bobby pin
-2007 w-2 (found the '08, thankfully. and paychex
  • sites i like

    past posts

    # G

    me, blog? no way.

    me, blog?  no way.
    i protested for years.