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Grateful Turkey

Posted on December 3, 2023 by Carrie

This year, Thanksgiving was a mere three weeks after Halloween and it creeped up fast! It seemed like we had just started making a dent in eating bags of candy when it was time to start eating turkey and stuffing. Continue reading →

Posted in Baby & Kids, Drinking, Eating, Holidays, Running, Sightseeing, Snoopy, Travel, Wine Tasting | Tagged 10k, Bay Area Discovery Museum, Bay Bridge, cousins, First Street Wine Company, Forma Gym Turkey Trot, gelato, Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate View Point, Livermore, Lombard Street, McGrail Vineyards and Winery, Napa Valley Burger Company, OAK, race, running, San Francisco, Sausalito, SNA, Snoopy, sunset, Thanksgiving, Walnut Creek | Leave a comment

Veteran’s Day Weekend in Wine Country & the East Bay

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Carrie

We started a new tradition (we hope) this year and flew up to Oakland over the long Veteran’s Day weekend. While there, we visited Dan’s parents and brother and – the best part of all – escaped for a parents’ … Continue reading →

Posted in Baby & Kids, Drinking, Holidays, Sightseeing, Travel, Wine Tasting | Tagged Alan York, BART, Bay Area, Beach Hut Deli, Benziger Winery, biodynamics, birthday, bowling, Delia Owens, Dr. Karan Singh, Dublin, Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa, Granada Bowl, kidney stone, Livermore, manicure, Mary Bowerman Trail, Mission Hospital, Mount Diablo State Park, Napa, Orange County Urology, pedicure, Pleasanton, Sante Restaurant, SNA, Sonoma, Sunflower, The Biggest Little Farm, ureteroscopy, Veteran's Day, Where the Crawdads Sing | 1 Comment

A Tardy, But Thankful Thanksgiving

Posted on December 26, 2018 by Carrie

Well…Christmas was yesterday and I’m just now getting around to writing about our Thanksgiving events and activities. Keeping up with three kids, three houses, three jobs, and life is all encompassing. As overwhelmed as I often feel, I am equally … Continue reading →

Posted in Baby & Kids, Drinking, Eating, Holidays, Sightseeing, Snoopy, Travel, Wine Tasting | Tagged Baker Ranch, California Academy of Sciences, Forma Gym Turkey Trot, Friendsgiving, Livermore, Rants from Mommyland, Snoopy, Thanksgiving, turkey trot, Wente Vineyard Tasting Room | 1 Comment

SLO Weekend

Posted on November 3, 2018 by Carrie

Last week, Dan had to travel to San Luis Obispo and do some intern recruiting work for his company at his alma mater’s construction management career fair. Since we hadn’t yet been on a true vacation as a family of … Continue reading →

Posted in Baby & Kids, Drinking, Eating, Hiking, Sightseeing, Travel, Wine Tasting | Tagged Batch, Bayley Construction, Bubblegum Alley, butterflies, Cal Poly Downtown, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Charles Paddock Zoo, Creamery Marketplace, Dinosaur Caves Park, Doc Burnstein's Ice Cream Lab, Embassy Suites, Firestone's, JUSTIN Winery, Kona's Deli, Mama's Meatball, Mission San Luis Obispo Tolosa, Pismo Beach, road trip, San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo Children's Museum, SLO, SLO Farmers' Market, Splash Cafe, Terrace Hill, tri-tip | 1 Comment

Take Me to Ohio

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Carrie

During the end of August and early September, we spent nearly two weeks in Ohio visiting with family, seeing new-to-us sites, and, most special of all, celebrating at my younger brother’s wedding. On this trip, William got to meet my … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventure, Arts, Baby & Kids, Drinking, Eating, Sightseeing, Travel, Wedding, Wine Tasting | Tagged American Airlines, ATV, Birchard Public Library, birthday, Butterfly House, Catch Me, chickens, donuts, eggs, Elmore, Fremont, Gibsonburg, Greater Cleveland Aquarium, Helena, Ideal Bakery, library storytime, Miami and Erie Canal, Mount Vernon, Oak Openings Metropark, Ohio, ORD, Providence Metropark, Rusty River Barn, S.C.R.A.P., Sheraton Suites Chicago O'Hare, SNA, thunderstorm, TOL, Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Utica, Velvet Ice Cream, wedding, White Star Park, Whitehouse, Wine Flight | 1 Comment

Holiday NorCal Trip

Posted on December 27, 2017 by Carrie

At the end of last summer, prior to Dan knowing that I was pregnant with our third child, he arranged a romantic overnight trip for the two of us in the Napa Valley in mid-December. He booked a night at … Continue reading →

Posted in Baby & Kids, Drinking, Eating, Holidays, Sightseeing, Travel, Wine Tasting | Tagged Baths Roman Spa, Brannan Cottage Inn, Calistoga, Calistoga Kitchen, Casa del Pomba, Christmas, Clos Du Val, Deacon Dave's Christmas Lights, Dean & DeLuca's, Duckhorn, House of the Dove, Livermore, Napa, Napa Valley Bistro, OAK, Old Faithful Geyser of California, Silver Oak, Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, Twomey, wine, wine tasting | 2 Comments

Santa Barbara Summer Getaway

Posted on July 22, 2017 by Carrie

Every year, our daycare provider takes one week of vacation in the summer. I don’t know how she survives the other 51 weeks of the year with small children underfoot from 7am – 5:30pm. She is certainly deserving of this … Continue reading →

Posted in Baby & Kids, Drinking, Eating, Sightseeing, Travel, Wine Tasting | Tagged Amtrak, carousel, Carpinteria, Chase Palm Park, Chase Palm Park Center, Enterprise Fish Co., Fess Parker Winery & Vineyard, Firestone Vineyards, Le Cafe Stella, MOXI, Pacific Surfliner Train, playground, Rincon Ridge, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara Zoo, Santo Mezcal by Los Agaves, Sea Center, Stearns Wharf, The Great Pacific Ice Cream Company, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation, Trader Joe's, wine tasting | 5 Comments

Early California Christmas in Livermore

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Carrie

The entire Chambers clan, sans brother Alex, descended upon Grandma and Grandpa’s house in Livermore the second weekend in December for an early family Christmas. Dan’s sister, Robin, and her family, flew in from Oklahoma City, and we flew up … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventure, Baby & Kids, Drinking, Holidays, Travel, Wine Tasting | Tagged Casa del Pomba, Christmas, Deacon Dave's Christmas Lights, House of the Dove, Livermore, Niles Canyon Railway, Office Christmas Party, Roppongi Sushi, Santa, Starbucks, Train of Lights, Wente Vineyard Tasting Room | 1 Comment

Bay Area Trip – Baby’s First!

Posted on July 20, 2016 by Carrie

At the end of June and beginning of July, we went on our first family trip – to the Bay Area to visit Dan’s family and our friends. This trip included many firsts for our girls – Lillian’s first flight, … Continue reading →

Posted in Baby & Kids, Drinking, Sightseeing, Travel, Wine Tasting | Tagged 4th of July, Alameda County Fair, Bay Area, bowling, coffee, Cooleykatz Toys, CREAM, Early Anthony's Dublin Bowl, fireworks, grandparents, Half Moon Bay, Half Moon Bay Coffee Company, HMB Coffee Co, infant travel, Kindermusik, Livermore, Livermore Public Library, Livermore Valley, model trains, Music and Movement, Music Together, Niles, Niles Canyon Railway, OAK, Oakland, Oakland Zoo, Pacifica, Pacifica State Beach, Panera Bread, Pleasanton, Prim Pop, Ríos-Lovell Estate Winery, Shiki Japanese Cusine, SNA, Springtown, Starbucks, storytime, Sunol, toddler travel | 2 Comments

Babymoon for Baby #2 in Ojai

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Carrie

When I was pregnant with Vivian, we traveled a lot. But that was normal for us. So, I can’t really pinpoint one trip and say “oh, this was our babymoon.” While pregnant, we took trips to New England, Miami, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Baby & Kids, Drinking, Eating, Hiking, Sightseeing, Travel, Wine Tasting | Tagged babymoon, Jimmy's Pub, Libbey Park, Los Padres National Forest, Ojai, Ojai Certified Farmer's Market, Ojai Olive Oil Company, Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, Olivella, Osteria Monte Grappa, pink moment, Pixie Pool, Rose Valley Falls, Spa Ojai, The Oak Grill, The Ojai Vineyard, The Vine, Wheeler Springs | 1 Comment

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Category Archives: Wine Tasting

Grateful Turkey

Veteran’s Day Weekend in Wine Country & the East Bay

A Tardy, But Thankful Thanksgiving

SLO Weekend

Take Me to Ohio

Holiday NorCal Trip

Santa Barbara Summer Getaway

Early California Christmas in Livermore

Bay Area Trip – Baby’s First!

Babymoon for Baby #2 in Ojai

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