Happy Birthday to Me

To take care of wedding stuff we made another trip up to Tahoe around my birthday. Once again it was a super fun weekend. Sharon, our wedding coordinator, filled our bellies and got us boozed up for our tasting, giving us a healthy start to our weekend. We took the tunnel tour at the Cal Neva which was pretty interesting but we didn't see any ghosts.



There was also a mini cooper rally going on during our stay.

Led Zepagain happened to be playing at the casino next door and we were glad we checked it out. They were a fun band and great to watch. We even left the casino with a little extra money in our pockets after a successful run on the craps table.

For my birthday, Kevin took me to Soule Domain, a nice restaurant inside a log cabin. Everything was delicious and we split a two giant scoops of vanilla ice cream at the end of the meal.

During the weekend we also had a chance to take the happy hour cruise on Lake Tahoe.

For my actual birthday I came home to an ice cream cake.

A week later I got another surprise from Kevin, an iPad!!

Kevin's Parent's 45th Anniversary

We flew to Minnesota to celebrate Roger and Bev's 45th anniversary. Kevin's brother Jim hosted a bbq. The next day we went out on their boat and Kevin caught a bass.

Happy Graduation, Kevin!

Kevin finally finished his MBA program from Golden Gate University. We had a fun bbq to celebrate. It was also our one year anniversary of living in the house.

Kevin rewarded himself with a new lawn.

Yosemite Winter Wonderland

Over President's weekend Kevin and I finally made it Yosemite again. The first night we stayed a couple miles outside the El Portal entrance at Yosemite View Lodge. We got upgraded to the a river-view room with a balcony. It was a little too chilly to fully enjoy but this is the view from the balcony!

The next day we drove into the park and did the obligatory stop at Tunnel View.


We drove up the snowy Glacier Point road to the Dewey Point trailhead. We strapped on our snowshoes and started the 3 1/2 mile trek to the point. Luckily a path was already blazed into the deep snow.

The trail wasn't too crowded so we were surprised to see about 80+ people at the end of the trail. Not too surprising when we reached the view though! From Dewey Point you can see all the way to Half Dome and the valley and you're directly across from El Capitan.

On the way back our legs started to hurt and at one point we took a break to stretch our legs on trail.

And then mid-stretch Kevin dropped to a knee and asked me to marry him. And I said yes :-)
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Palm Springs

The whole family met up in Palm Springs for my cousin Dorothy's wedding. It was a pretty quick trip but the weather was amazing and I even got to jump into the pool for a little bit.

There was a photo booth at the wedding which proved to be pretty amusing.

January Fun

A little belated but we had our annual crab fest at Andrea and Sean's house. Followed by a few rounds of flip cup and jello shots :)


A couple weeks later Kevin and I organized an East Bay bar crawl. We started at Albany bowl and got a couple games of bowling in.

After a quick dinner at Al's Burger we hit up the Hotsy Totsy, Ivy Room and the Mallard. Fun night!

New Year's 2011

Kevin and I rang in the New Year at a house party in LA. The next day Kevin and a group of his friends watched Wisconsin lose to TCU in the Rose Bowl. I nixed going to the Pasadena and watched the game at a bar with some of his friends and did some shopping.