John Mayer!? Yes, Please.

If you really knew me, you'd know that there is one thing I absolutely LOVE! Ok, ok I love a lot of things...I'm just a loving kinda gal...However! I love, love, LOVE music!! Instead of watching the news like most do in the morning, I watch music videos (well listen to them while I'm rushing to get ready). I also have music streaming 24-7 at work, can’t really work without it. ;)

Have you seen the movie “The Heartbreak Kid” with Ben Stiller?? Here is a link to watch a trailer of it The Heartbreak Kid Trailer …but there is a part in the movie where Eddie (Ben) and his new wife road trip to their Honeymoon in Mexico and the whole trip every song that came on she knew and sang…she even played the musical instruments with her hands! Anyways, the point of why I am sharing this with you is because when Marc and I watched that movie, he looked at me during that part and said, “That is soooo you!” My mom even thinks so, but she's always on Team Marc. I hate admitting it, but it’s totally me! Haha! Yet, I can’t say I’m in this club alone…my sister is my partner in crime when it comes to singing out loud to every song on the radio. One thing we LOVE to do together is going to concerts and tonight we are doing just that! Who are you seeing, you ask?? The one and only, John Mayer! I couldn’t be more excited…my sis has seen him already and she reported it’s going to be a good one. I’ll be sure to do a post of how awesome it was!

My favorite John Mayer song to date: Slow Dancing in a Burning Room – It’s a total breakup song, but so DANG GOOD!

Blessed with Besties

Mostly everyone is blessed with a best friend. Sometimes, your best friend changes with the different chapters of life...however in my life, there are 4 consistent, beautiful women who I've been extremely blessed to call my best friends - Desie, Kel, Jess and Sissylala. We may not be able to talk every day or hang out every week...but no matter what, they mean the world to me! The other day we finally had the opportunity to have a lunch date together (minus the Sissylala...she's being a career woman in SD!), and it inspired me to do this post...to let them know how important they are to me and how I would do anything for them (Brooke and Cousin Wousin Bear, you are in there too!). They are all different and I think that's what I love most about them. Each one teaches me how to be a better person and I hope I do the same for them. :) Marc has told me as I grow older I might loose some of my close friends...which in the past years, I have, but I look it as weeding out the bad ones to keep the roses! I pray that my "roses" and I always have our friendship, I mean we've made it through high school drama, college fun, marriage and babies, 10+ years of a whole lotta stuff... I am pretty sure we can stick together through everything else life hands us in years to come!

One more thing I learned while reflecting on the blessing of having the bestest besties EVER, is that my husband is right up there with them. He is an incredible man, and I really can't imagine my life without him by my side. He seriously completes me and I am so thankful God has blessed me ten-fold with such an amazing life partner and best friend.

I AM ONE BLESSED LITTLE LADY!! :)

In Today's News...

Most of you know that I work at the Palm Springs Desert Resort Communities Convention and Visitors Authority...I know, a mouthfull, right!? Around here we call it the CVA...in most other cities or  towns...they call them CVB's. All in all, it's a Bureau that supports one of the world's largest industries; Tourism. Well, our oganization has been going through a lot of changes these past couple of months and quite frankly "we're the talk of the town." Today we were regonized in the local newspaper as we posed by our new CVA Sign, one of the changes we've recently did to gain more exposure locally. Someday I'll do a post of what my role is at the CVA, but in the meantime take a peak at the article to learn more about what the Palm Springs CVA is up to!  Sign of the Times - The Desert Sun

Cheese Ballers!

Ok - If you know one thing about Marc and I, it's that we love to watch funny shows! One show we love is Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory (yes, on MTV). Well, a couple weeks ago his episode happened to be all about Grilled Cheese Sandwiches...it was Rob's goal to create THEE best GCS! He was so into it, he got his crew to enter in The Grilled Cheese Invitational, as the "Cheese Ballers." The Invitational was held this past April. Unfortuntely, they didn't win anything, but it was one HALARIOUS episode to watch! Since, I did a post about National GCS Day, I had to share this too! Who knows...you might see Marc and I at the Invitational next year! ;p

You can watch the full episode by clicking the link below...BELIEVE ME IT'S WORTH IT! Or I am sure it will rerun and you can catch it then!

Cheese Ballers! Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory - Season 3

You can also learn more about Rob Dyrdek on his website at dyrdek.com!

Newport Beach or Bust!

I know it seems as if Marc and I go on vacations a lot, but the truth is, since Marc is off during the summer it's our only time to get out of town together and "vacation". We both work in industries that are seasonal...October through May are months where we work long hours and Marc, being in the grueling golf business, barely gets two days off during the season, hence why we do our "traveling" in the summer. :) Our latest vacation you ask? Was a long weekend in Newport Beach with our good friends, Jenn and Tyler. We stayed at the Best Western right off of PCH in Newport, which was absolutely perfect. We all brought our beach cruisers, as that was the main inspiration for the vacation...well, it was two things...beach and crusin' our bikes on the beach. Marc and I had an amazing time, and it was so nice to share the memories with Jenn and Ty (Thanks Guys!!). Here's a day by day breakdown of all the fun things we did.

Day One - Thursday, July 29th
8:00am - Road Trip to Newport Beach...I have to say we didn't leave until about 9:00, we were waiting for Tyler to get pretty. ;P

11:00am - Arrive in NB and met up with Marc...headed to Mutt Lynch's for some fresh cold beers and some grub!

1:00pm - Beach Time!!

6:00pm - BBQ at Zac and Chad's new house....we also got to meet Dodger, he was one big doggie and slobbered a lot!

Day Two - Friday, July 30th
8:00am - Drove to Zac's and Chad's to pick up the bikes, which is in Corona Del Mar and rode them to PCH to meet Jenn at Starbucks for bagels and coffee...the bike ride totally kicked my butt! haha

10:00-4:00pm- Beach cruised to Huntington Beach....had a sneak peak of the US Open headquarters...shopped....ate lunch and had more beers, people watched and beach cruised back to the hotel.

6:00pm- Dinner Date Night at The Crow Bar in Corona Del Mar...We didn't have the best experience at The Crow Bar...it had a menu that was hard to understand and Ty ended up ordering a $20 burger that hardly looked like it should even be a burger. Let's just say the atmosphere of the restaurant was nice, but the food, not so much. Good thing we had good company!

10:00pm - Nightcap at La Cave....Newport being Tyler, Jenn and Marc's old stomping grounds they wanted to take me to La Cave, a restaurant that is literally in the basement and feels like you're in a pirate cave. We saw a lot of different people there, pirate looking people...it was good times for sure.

Day Three - Saturday, July 31st
10:00am - Breakfast at Starbucks again...Marc took some down time to study and write the rest of his term paper. Can you tell he is very dedicated (I don't know how he does it)?

1:00-4:30pm - BEACH BUMS! We took a bike ride to NB Penninsula to meet up with Chad and Zac, yes, you guessed it for more beers! We actually didn't find them, but we did find Rockin' Baja and grubbed on some delicious food and micheladas (Tyler ordered a burger again, it was a sucessful, beefy burger!) I think we all rolled out of there and tried to work off the food by bike riding back to the hotel.

6:00-10:00pm - OC Fair for the Sumblime Concert!! Sublime is back on tour, with their new lead singer, Rome, who did an awesome job! We got the $25 lawn tickets and took in the music and atmosphere. If you know me, I LOVE concerts of any kind....it was a great venue and great show!

10:00pm-Closing Time - Chad took all of us to Villa Nova Restaurant, where the cougars were out and on the prawl! We hung out at the piano bar and I slowly went down hill, but my trusty counterparts kept the night alive...we even counted down to the new month!

Day Four - Sunday, August 1st
10:00am - Breakfast at Cappy Cafe...just walking distance from the hotel, we scored an outside table and had a yummy breakfast!

12:00-4:30pm - BRONZED BEACH BUMS! We took in every ounce of beachiness we could...ordered these amazing sandwiches from Big Belly Deli and vegged out in the sand...we honestly didn't want to leave!

We can't wait for our next adventure with the Murdoch's!!

Friends & Foodies Forever

About a year ago, my friends Stephanie and Jessica started a food blog for our close girlfriends to post our favorite reciepes on...well, not being the best cook, I don't really post a lot, but Jess and Steph do! They have some really yummy dishes and easy receipes any "non-cook" can follow. Marc and I just got back from a 4-day vacation in Newport Beach (that post to come soon) and came back to a "room-mate" free house. I'm not really sure why we cook more when they are away, but we do and one night I ended up making a favorite dish of mine - Chicken Salad Wraps. I thought this would be a good post for our Foodie Blog and a perfect opportunity to introduce it to you! Here it is folks - friendsfoodiesforever.blogspot.com go check it out, you never know you might find something you'll want to try!

Bon appetit!