Wine Tasting in Amador County

What a beautiful day to go wine tasting in the foothills! We celebrated our good friend, Jason's, 30th Birthday today by going to brunch at a yummy place and then headed to Amador County to go wine tasting for the day. My wonderful husband ended up staying back with my little Ariana who wasn't feeling so well this morning. She was all set to spend the day with Auntie and go to a birthday party but woke up with a runny nose and not feeling so hot. So my wonderful hubby stayed back with her so I could go and enjoy the day!! Thank you!!! It was so much fun....

The birthday boy and his wife, Melanie (they were married just a month ago!)

My two best buds... Jen and Melanie

Our limo ride (thanks Melanie!!) with Jen Scott and Melanie

9 Month Professional Pictures

Coming soon.... I don't have have any pictures to post just yet but we had a great session at the park today with Joelle of Captured by Joelle. She took some family photos of the three of us and then some of Miss Ariana all by herself. Ariana loves the camera and was a true model!!! I can't wait to see the final product. Until then you can check her blog for a sneak peak (should be up in the next couple of days.) I will of course put them on our blog as soon as I get any of them!!! Stay tuned!!! http://joellesphotojournal.blogspot.com/

I am pulling my hair out!

We had a play date yesterday with our friends Norah and Natalie. Norah is the one who has that amazing hair and is only a week younger than Ariana. I thought I was the only one jealous about her hair, but it seems my daughter is too. I didn't get a great photo of her pulling on Norah's hair like 100 times because I was trying to get her not to hurt little Norah.

They had fun until....

Ariana saw her hair....

They did pretty good at sharing... and overall had a great time.

Then we went home and all she did the rest of the day was try and pull her own hair out! This was the outcome at the end of the night. I told her not to pull her hair out because as you can see, she doesn't have much to pull!!

Ariana Voted!

Ok, not really, but daddy did. I am an absentee voter so I already voted last week. But I went along so Ariana could go to her first polling place and be a part of history.

Here she is taking daddy's "I Voted" sticker off him and trying to eat it.

Here she is about to take his sticker off.

Sunday at the Park

We made our usual walk to the park on Sunday afternoon. It was nice and cool and Ariana got to play on the slide, swing and practice walking with Daddy. She loves to just walk around now, with the help of mommy and daddy, but she now has to dictate which direction she goes. She will put all her might into turning right or left. Too cute!

The Donnalley Halloween Party

What better way to cap off a week of Halloween festivities then a party at the Donnalley's. Oh how things have changed since our good ol' days of college parties. The hostess of the party is one of my college roomies and she has a baby girl, Abby, who is 2 weeks older than Ariana. They live here in Sacramento so it is always fun to see them. My parents joined us too so they could catch up with Kristy folks that were in town. Kristy dad thought it was only 5 years since we graduated from Cal Poly, ummm.. try almost 10. Ariana of course went as her butterfly and well daddy and I decided to go as Hannah Montana and Billy Ray Cyrus.

This was after the costumes were off, but Abby and Ariana were so cute playing with the pumpkin.

Kristy took them in the jumpy house...they loved it.
My husband...I mean, my dad, I mean my Billy Ray.

Grandpa and his little girl

The Donnalley Family

I don't know if I should be more concerned on how we look or that Ariana is holding daddy's beer bottle.

Hannah Montana and Billie Ray Cyrus

Kristy and Me

The Hawaiian tourist wanted a pic with the celebrity.

Kristy's parents and my mom and dad catching up!

Trick-or-Treating

Friday we headed down to Elk Grove to Auntie Dawn's and Uncle Kev's for some chili, treats, and trick-or-treating with all the cousins. Between all of them we had: 1 superwomen, 2 spidermen, 2 doggies, 1 Lion, 1 Cinderella, 1 butterfly and 1 little monster, got that? We didn't get a great shot of all of them together but you get the point. They were all so cute and SO excited to get some candy. Ariana even got in on the action but her favorite part by far was the glow in the dark stick that one of the houses was handing out.

Daddy and Ariana, Uncle Kev and little Brady Bannister
She loved loved loved this glow in the dark necklace.

Auntie Kathy with her little butterfly

Our best attempt at getting a group photo