A Passport is a Girl's Best Friend

And we're off!.... Again. This weekend we drove down to the Central Coast for our good friends and D's college friend's joint 30th birthday party. We left the bay early, because Friday, and drove down to SLO to meet up with Jen, RJ, and the Motts for the Friday summer concert in Mission Plaza. Saturday was everything I imagined it to be. Woke up late, had some coffee on the porch, lazy breakfast, afternoon lounging at Avila beach, lots of laughing, and then a kick ass party with a bunch of our friends. Getting our puff paint art on because why wouldn't you have personalized beer koozies with your own hashtag? Some awesome dance moves were displayed We call this sweet move the "Danielle" - see t-shirt below for the original For the party, they had a crazy t-shirt contest, so naturally being the most amazing (horrible) friends, we found the worst/most embarrassing pictures of them and put them onto shirts. (Fact, a few pictures ...

We had a couple of special birthday's this summer. First was our Goddaughter Myka's 1st birthday down in Palmdale. This last weekend we celebrated Lizzy's 2nd birthday at Avlia Beach. Oh how time flies :)

Some of our great friends (Meaghan and Nolan) moved down to Paso Robles earlier this year and we have made it a habit to visit them every few months. This weekend we decided to visit Hearst Castle. Hearst Castle is a National and California Historical Landmark mansion located on the Central Coast of California. It was designed by architect Julia Morgan between 1919 and 1947 for newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. In 1957, the Hearst Corporation donated the property to the state of California and it has since been maintained as a state historic park where the estate. The Casa Grande entrance (the main house entrance) Living room all decked out for Christmas Dinning room Don't worry, you can even get ketchup and mustard here Bath house The Neptune Pool and ancient Roman temple which was transported wholesale from Europe and reconstructed on site. Looking up at the house Amazing tiles from Italy and Greece Beautiful...

Duane and I drove down to Paso Robles to visit our very good friends the Mott's for the Paso Wine Festival. Friends, games, Lizzy time and drinking. Who could ask for more. This is Lizzy. She is adorable Yup Best Friends The Motts