Dana's Birthday

It was Dana's birthday on July 31 and a few of us celebrated the night before... everybody got massages and then met back up at Dana's house to celebrate with the dog too

Lots of cupcakes
A little bit suggestive...
The ones that rallied: Amanda, Lisa, Dana, Lisa and I at Panama Joe's.

Yes, this one was dying to dance with the birthday girl!

Lisa shows off her signature moves
ALL her moves...


Lisa and I contributed with some of our own mad skills
Ok. This is where it got a little weird...pushups, Dana? Really?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANA!!! Here's to many, many more!

Nancy's Birthday

Nancy, my mother out-law (sounds better than in-law) shares her bday with my niece Nevaeh. This weekend we celebrated with her. She had a craving for Benihana's so we took care of that

The next day we told her we were driving up to see Nevaeh, but in fact we all gathered for a surprise party at the Horgan's home. She WAS surprised. I thought she was going to kill us!

(We are taking Nevaeh to Disneyland later...)
So pretty!
Selah is getting so big and she is SO cute!
Beautiful cake...


Tristan gave Dan quite a workout...
Tristan DID have TWO pieces of cake...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NANCY! We all love you!

We'll always have Costa Rica (In Huntington Beach)

Dan's sister Laura was out with her whole family from New Jersey for our wedding and luckily was able to turn that into an extended vacation and we got to spend more time with her and the kids. The last weekend she was here we took her out for Mai Tai's and appetizers (we ended up having wine and a full dinner) and found the "Hidden Garden" room inside Kona restaurant. I thought we'd been teleported to Polynesia...
Well, this section felt more like Costa Rica...

Dan and his sister. So cute. Remember Laura, we'll "always have Costa Rica!"

On a different day we went with Laura, John and the kids to the Discovery Science Center. I loved the dinosaur exhibit.
Thanks Laura, Ron, Erica and Ryan. We had so much fun with you... can't wait till next time!

Part TWO Honeymoon: Lake Tahoe and Squaw Valley

Our last night at Northstar there was a "Retro Skate night." We were all over it. Of course, we had just finished several days of Downhill riding at Mammoth and Northstar with -thankfuly- no injuries, only to eat s---t on the darn roller skates!

We still had a blast...Cracking each other up and laughing more than skating...
We followed Retro skate night by a yummy sushi dinner...
The next morning we arrived at our next and final destination, this charming little honeymoon hideaway right by the lake! It was a surprise to me, and it was just perfect. How does he do it?
It was cozy inside and we even had a huge jacuzzi tub!
We were lucky enough to catch the sunset across our hideaway a few times...
And found ourselves at the coolest outdoor bars, with a total tropical feel... we had to remind ourselves we were in the mountains!
We spent 4th of July day on the beach...
Took out Kayaks out to "sea" (couldn't believe how blue and clear the lake was!)
Which we paddled down to yet another tropical feel waterfront bar for Bloody Marys and appys
Spent 4th of July afternoon/eve on a "cocktail cruise" and had a blast...
Happy Independence!!!

Our next stop was Squaw Valley and we did the Lake Shirley hike... we never hike, as we are usually on bikes, but it was a gorgeous hike, along a big stream...
It was a pretty gnarly hike!
It took us two hours to hike up to Lake Shirley, and Dan dove in for a dip!
Then we hiked further...
And further... till we hit patches of snow
Another hour of hiking and then the top!
And up and over, we arrived at the very top where the resort was. If it wasn't for the snow patches, this too, felt like we were somewhere tropical!