That Time We Were Fancy

I know you guys have been dying to see what the Bacara Resort and Spa was like, so here's a recap of our few days there. If you're ever in the area, I would highly recommend this place. It's something different and if you didn't want to leave you really don't have to, there are several restaurant choices, but if you did want to leave, downtown Santa Barbara is just 15 minutes away.

When you arrive this is what you're greeted with

This is the view looking out from the lobby

This is the lobby:

Standing just by the lobby desk, for some reason I forgot to take a picture of that...strange.

This is looking in the opposite direction, the far side is the lobby front desk

  

This is still in the lobby area off to the side

Once we got settled in we decided to explore a little before we lost the sun. But discovered they had free hot cider,

 so we did this for a bit.

When we finally decided we should probably walk around before the sun went down we found this view

and then it got better and we saw this:

and this (that's the hill we had to climb up to get the view above)

we tried to get the background, but just got us

The pool area was pretty cool too, they had these little "cabana" rooms that you could rent for the day. We didn't do it, but if it was laying out weather we would definitely consider it:

Looking from the cabana area. Note: the cabana area had it's own pool, cause they're fancy like that

Now onto the room

Walking into the room, this little room was in the right

Bathroom was on the left

 Walking just past the bathroom and little side luggage area was the bed

Looking back toward the bathroom and front door

Our fireplace. It was so nice to have the fire going all night, cozy.

Opposite of the bed was the balcony door

If you look really close, and lean over the railing a bit, there was an ocean view, yep we get ocean view rooms, cause we like to roll like that.

And of course what hotel room wouldn't be compelete without a scale. That was totally random, I didn't have the guts to step on it after all we ate!

We went to a really nice steak dinner, but Mr. took the picture on his phone and hasn't sent it to me yet...

The next morning we went to breakfast at Miro

They had cute things like this jam jar

 I wanted to take it home, but then ate it, so I had nothing left to take...haha. We got a view like this this first morning

Another self portrait

That night we stayed at the hotel so we could do this:

Curtis had chips, salsa and guacamole and I had grilled artichoke, but I forgot to take a picture of it

You know another self portrait was coming right? (we need to make some more friends)

and we ate this:

Goat Cheese and Chicken Quesadilla

 

Hamburger and fries, with bread I brought from home.

 and three hours later it looked like this

and a view like this the second morning

another self portrait

then we found a photographer person walking by and got her to take a picture

Then we headed home, but there was a sign to see a butterfly habitat, so we took an hour detour and saw these little guys before heading back to see Baby Fox and the rest of my family.

And that was our trip in a whole lot of pictures. If you're still around, congrats for making it through all the pictures! I love pictures.

Happy Hump Day!

Still Shorts Weather..What?!

Yep that's right, it's almost the end of November and it's still in the low 70's. Perfect weather to break out the sweater and scarf with shorts and flip flops, only in California right?

I couldn't pass up taking pictures by the ocean after breakfast last week. Yep, I took these pictures just in front of where we ate breakfast, there were people staring. I tried to pretend I do this all the time.

 

Shorts - Old Navy, Shirt - Ann Taylor Loft, Scarf - Old Navy

If it makes you feel any better, at night it was cold and I forgot to pack any sweaters that matched what I brought with me. Which made me have to go out and buy a sweater so I wouldn't freeze at night...darn, shopping again. I would also like to note that I was going to just wear a jacket I brought that looked just awful and Mr. said he wouldn't let me go out looking like that, and that he would have to take away my blog if I wore it out in public. He's a funny guy.

Blogger Break - What I Did

I know you're dying to know what I did while I was away for the week. Spent time with the Mr., spent time with my family and of course spent lots of time with Baby Fox.

So I guess we'll start at the beginining. I took the week off. Yep, I took Monday through Wednesday off of work so Mr. and I could do a much needed get-a-way to this place:

We left Baby Fox with my parents so we could eat breakfast overlooking the Pacific without having  toddler throwing everything within arms reach...the weather couldn't have been more perfect!

(that lady you see on the left, ordered the most ginormous order of waffles and then only ate 3 bites, I kid you not!)

Then we relaxed by the fire coffeetable (cause everyone has one of those right?)

We had the most fantastic time, relaxing, shopping and eating lots of good food. More to come on our trip later this week.

Wednesday, we headed back to my parents and my sister and I had some fun while setting up for Thanksgiving. My grandma is really sick so the family pulled together to do a Thanksgiving at my Grandma's Club House, when I say club house, I mean a building that hasn't been updated since 1950 in her mobile home park.

 (what do you do when you have really good rolly chairs? Push each other and take pictures of course!)

  

Wednesday night we tried to get Baby Fox to watch a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving...He liked it for 2.5 seconds, then was off and running.

Thursday was spent with family, it was awesome to have all of my cousins, Aunts and Uncles and Grandma all in one place at the same time, has never happened. Made for a very big Thanksgiving dinner, but was so much fun to see everyone.

Friday we drove back home. Baby Fox requested that Mr. drive with Brown Bear

 

And of course Mr. is too honest to not actually put the bear on his lap, yep he drove about an hour with this bear in his lap.If that's not love, I'm not sure what is...

 The rest of the weekend was spent hanging out and doing nothing. We ended the weekend with this:

and a little of this:

Love decorating for Christmas and having the decorations up, if only we could keep them up longer. Have you started decorating yet? And do you wait till after the new year to take it down or do you take it down right after Christmas? We're in the after new year camp.

I'm linking up with these fabulous ladies today!

Sami at Sami's Shenanigan's

Dana at Five 30 Three

and Leeann at Join the Gossip

for "Weekend Update"

also:

Faith at Life of Faith

Life with Three Under Three at Monkey's and Tutus

Sarah at The Not uite Military Wife

and Megan at The Mrs.

for "Mommy Moments Blog Hop"

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! Taking a little blogger break to spend time with the family for the rest of the week.

I'm thankful for my family.

My husband who's my rock and supports me in everything that I do. Who can make me laugh when I'm sad, and knows when he needs to be serious. Just makes the day better just knowing I get to come home to him. When I see him with our son it makes me love him even more than I knew possible.

My Son

When he yells "Mama, Mama, Mama" and when I look over at him, he says "hi", makes my heart melt every single time. He gives me reason to want to be a better person, to do everything in my power to make him happy, and to hear his little giggle. I would do anything to hear him giggle. Everyday I am thankful for him to be in my life and to be able to call him my son.

My Parents

Who couldn't have children of their own, so they opened their home to adoption. I am thankful they were my family, I got a good one. Who show by example of what love really is. Who would do and still does anything and everything for me and my siblings. I love that I was able to give them a grandchild that they love like their own. People who I can talk about anything with and I know who will listen and give advice to the best of their knowledge.

My Siblings:

No matter how much we fight we always love each other. Who I can call at any time to just chat and we can make each other laugh. Who I have so many inside jokes with we can have whole conversations with. The people who know me though everything I've been through and have been there supporting me in everything that I've decided to. To my brother who cried the first time he saw me being a Drum Major in high school. To my sister who has showed my left sided brain to have fun and who can tell one hell of a story.

My Cousins

That no matter what we can get through anything. We always love each other and now that we're adults we can plan a get together and have fun with each other without our parents having to organize it for us. I'm so thankful for all of my cousins and knowing that you can call any one of them and have them by your side if you need them. *

*not all cousins are present

I'm also thankful for all of the second cousins (or as we call them nephews and nieces). I'm so happy that Baby Fox will have so many cousins to play with.

*not all cousins are pictured

Great Grandma

I'm thankful for my grandma and Baby Fox's Great Grandma. She's 88 and is one strong person and can overcome anything. She's sick right now, but is staying positive and loving every second that she can get with her great grandchildren, and is currently waiting for great grandchild number 7.

What are you thankful for?
Happy Thanksgiving!
Now go out and eat a lot of food!

I'll be in a food coma for the next few days so I'll see you next week!