San Francisco Fancy Food Show

Every year, Jon and I head to San Francisco for the annual Fancy Food Show. We look for new ideas for JDW and try to have some fun while we are there. This year, we were invited to 3 vendor parties for each night of the show! On Saturday night, we got to go to the Godiva chocolate and wine pairing event. It was INCREDIBLE! Godiva really has some fantastic chocolates, and the appetizers and drinks were pretty tasty too!


Here we are tasting some chocolate... and more chocolate


We got to meet one of the head chefs from Godiva, Thierry. He was doing the wine pairing with the different chocolates.

The second night, we got to go to a Ghirardelli ice cream sundae party. It was held at their location at Ghirardelli Square.



The last night, we went to the infamous (well, infamous in the food industry) Jelly Belly party. We didn't have our camera this night, but it was sure fun dancing and hanging out with a bunch of our vendors!

We always enjoy walking the show and tasting all the yummy foods. It's always nice to catch up with our vendors also.


Here we are at the Cafe D' Amore booth. We are excited for some new products they are coming out with this year.

We were also able to meet our friends Tim & Alissa and their two adorable daughters for dinner on the way out of town. It was great to see them, just wish we could have had more time with them.

Dog Beach

While we were having a major heat wave in January, we decided to take Maverick to Dog Beach in Huntington for the first time. We went with Josh and Heather and her dog Tuni.


Mav was a little timid at first.


He started to get a hang of it after a little while. By the end of the day, Tuni and Maverick were running splashing, chasing, and catching.


They loved having all the other dogs to play with too!


Best Buds!

Here's a video of Maverick playing frisbee.



I'm defintiely looking forward to taking him back in the summer when we can actually go out in the water and see how he does swimming.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to everyone!

This year, Jon and I rang in the New Year in a little town called Eden, UT. Our friend Jeana has a family house in this town which is about an eight minute drive to Powder Mountain. We headed out there with eight of our friends and had a great time exploring a couple of new mountains.


Jon and I at the top of the mountain. The views were unreal!


These were the trees we were riding through. Some of the most fun trees I've ever been in!


There was a whole section of the mountain called Powder Country. Basically, they let you drop down the front side of the mountain through all the killer powder and they pick you up in a shuttle to take you back to the hill. It was Awesome!


One of the days, we headed over to SnowBasin. The Olympics were held there in 2002. It is a really nice resort and the hill was awesome. I would love to go back there on a powder day.


Here's a group shot of us all.

It was a great trip and I look forward to next year's adventure, wherever it might take us!!

December

December was a great month for Jon and I. We can't believe how fast the year went by. We love the Christmas Season and enjoyed spending time with our friends and family.

We had our annual white elephant party at our house. It was a blast and there were several gifts that made a come back and many more new ones. We're pretty sure that most of the gifts were left behind as we continue to find them hidden throughout our house and garage!





Maverick even joined in on the festivities... whether he liked it or not!



We were able to make it up to Mammoth one weekend for the "Night of Lights." It was an incredible fireworks show at Canyon lodge. It was well worth it, we had a blast. Here's us with some friends at the top of the mountain.



Jon and I enjoyed Christmas Eve morning to ourselves and then we headed up to Big Bear for Christmas with Jon's family.



We had a great time in the snow in Big Bear. They just had a great storm come through that left all kinds of snow to play with. We built an incredible sled run and all had fun playing on it. I didn't manage to get any pictures of us going down it. I guess I was having to much fun myself!


Building the run and playing with snowshoes in the backyard.

Maverick LOVES the snow!



I totally slacked on getting pictures throughout the month and obviously fell way behind. Hopefully I'll do better in the new year!

November Catch Up

I know December is already almost over, but it was a very busy few months for Jon and I. So here's a few things from November.

When November comes around, we really start to get the itch for snowboarding. So we had a snowboard tuning / waxing party with some friends in our garage one night.



Jon and Andy got to do some good riding. Here's a couple of them riding a log on Joplin out on Saddleback mountain.





We were able to get a few hikes in at Peter's Canyon, that made Maverick a happy dog!



Thanksgiving was spent with the Joy / Spykerman family in Big Bear. It was a great time as usual. It's always great to catch up with family. And there was plenty of entertainment with the dogs and kids running around.

It was raining on our way up, which turned into snow when we got to Big Bear. We saw this amazing rainbow on our drive.



Out on a walk.







The best dogs, Maverick & Dooley!



Thanksgiving dinner was fantastic as usual.



On the last day, we took a off road jeep tour. It was a lot of fun. Here's the group that went looking out over the Antelope Valley.



November was definitely a busy month for us with work, but we were thankful to be able to have some nice times with friends and family to break up the stresses of orders and customers!

More to come soon.

Halloween Bike Ride

Every year, our friend Andy plans a Halloween costume bike ride. This year, we decided to mix it up a little bit and turned it into a bike ride / camping trip. Jon and I rode our tandem mountain bike with bob trailer in tow from our house down to El Moro. Then the fun really began. Everyone was in costume. We rode a few miles in to our campsite. Set up camp, ate some food, played some games and had a great time together. I didn't get many pictures but here you go!


Our very creative "costume"


Best costume of the night goes to Heather aka the Oscar Meyer weiner


A beautiful morning

Taggers!

I've been tagged by my friend Juliana and I'm supposed to say 7 random things about me. So here it goes:

1. I hate needles! I can't stand getting shots, taking blood, anything like that. Even when it's other people. I was in the ER with my husband when he got his knee sliced open while snowboarding. The doctor was giving him shots inside the cut. And I passed out! So there I am laying on the ER floor. Awesome!

2. I LOVE snow! Probably more than anything in the world! Not only because of the obvious reasons (snowboarding, snowshoeing, snowball fights) but because after a big storm it makes everything look so clean and peaceful! I start dreaming of snow in July. Those dreams usually consist of me trying to get to the snow, but not being able to. I love snow so much that Jon and I have decided to move to Mammoth come January for three months! Pray for snow!

3. I am addicted to coffee with flavored creamer! I get overly excited when I go to the grocery store in October and find that the Peppermint Mocha creamer is already available. This happened to me last week. I bought two bottles!

4. My dog rules! His name is Maverick and was named before Sarah Palin decided to get Mavericky. And he was not named after Top Gun either. I just like the name. I am training him to do agility and hope to compete with him some day.

5. I love the Discovery Channel. Jon and I have never had cable until this year. I am totally addicted to the Discovery Channel and Science channel. There is a show called Time Warp that I am totally intrigued by. They take everyday occurrences and slow it down to 500 frames a second. Incredible! You wouldn't believe how cool popping a bubble looks in slow motion!

6. I am in a bunco group.

7. The Seven. I have the most amazing group of girlfriends. We call ourselves the 7. We have been friends since high school, and some since we were born! We were all in each others weddings. We are enjoying watching each others kids grow up. We look forward to growing old together. I love my girls.

So that's random me in a nutshell. Now I am supposed to tag 7 people to do this. Most of my blogging friends have already been tagged, so I'm tagging some random people. I don't even know if these people look at my blog (or how often they do). Maybe I just stalk their blog. Tag your it: Drew, Jeana, Melissa, Kristi, Megan, Sheryl, and Jen.