Savannah at Night

Here's some pictures of the beautiful city of Savannah at night. This first one is of River Street at night and the others are of a new park in the City Market area of the Historic District in Savannah. It's so nice to walk around at night and see the little city buzzing with locals and tourists. Hope you enjoy the photos.

Happy Summer!

In honor of the first day of summer I have changed my blog banner to include some pictures from our recent summertime Road Trip. I hope you all have a great summer and may the long summer days last forever!

Happy Friday

Wondering when I'll have time to actually go thru all my pictures from our recent Road Trip. This is a collage from just one part of our trip. Need to make more time for blogging.

Hope you enjoy your weekend! I'm sure there will be some more soccer for us. :)

Travel and Photography

As I mentioned in a previous post, Fer, Zico and I just went on a two week road trip from Atlanta to Montreal, Canada with a few stops in between. One of the stops was New York City. I really love that city! Here's one photo from the day and there will be MANY more to come. Stay tuned I have a lot of blogging to catch up on.

Asheville, NC (Trip to the Biltmore Estate)

Easter weekend Fer and I hopped in the car and went to Asheville, NC to the Biltmore Estate for a little weekend getaway. It was a beautiful weekend and a very nice drive up there thru the Blue Ridge Mountains. The house is amazing I definitely recommend it for anyone wanting to go and hasn't gone yet. It's so neat to see how these people lived years ago and how the house is still maintained to this day.
You will feel like you have go to Europe yet you are in the Southern States of the US.
It was the first weekend of the Flower Festival at the Biltmore but since it has been such a cold winter in the South there weren't to many flowers already blooming, I took pictures of whatever I could.



This is what you see when you are at the house and you look back towards the parking lots wouldn't you just love to be able to run around in that grassy area, like the Vanderbilt's kids did.

The mountains are amazing! I could so live somewhere with this view.



There is a winery on the grounds of the Biltmore Estates and this is in the greenhouse... good use of corks and wine bottles, huh.




Here's Fer waiting for our winery tour.

This picture was taken in downtown Asheville. It's a very artsy area isn't this picture cute.
These were in the same store as the previous picture I can't remember the name of the store right now wish I could because I want to buy all these lights.
It was a really nice weekend good to be away and in a country setting. A little tip if you travel to the Biltmore if you go on their website and find the hotels that they recommend staying at and the hotels they offer package deals with, that what we did and we saved a good amount of money doing it that way. So enjoy yourself if you ever make it to the Biltmore or if you've been I'd love to hear what you thought about it.

Project Wednesday: Picture Wall Reveal

Finally my picture wall project is complete and I have photographed it to post here. I was totally inspired by this post by Ali proabably a year ago, so when Fer said he wanted more pictures of our families around the house I jumped on the opportunity to create this "headboard" of photos above our bed. Of course you can expect more of these type of photo walls to pop up around the aparment for sure.

I bought all the frames from Ikea (disregard the fire alarm above the photos) and printed them out on my home printer using Picasa - I printed them all in Sepia tone to go along with the tones of our room.

I love ALL of these photos and they make us smile everytime we look at them!

Art, Love, Family, Happiness.... I can go on and on.

Happy Wednesday. I hope this project inspires you to do something similar in your home.

Project Wednesday: Photo Wall (almost done)

Didn't have a chance to take a picture of the final product yet, but it's awesome. Just haven't had a chance to get the proper lighting in the room yet...
Once I post the final product I'll tell you where my inspriation came from. Hope you're having a great Wednesday.

Backyard Traveler: A Day in Georgia's Wine Country

So... this past weekend a group a friends and I went on a day trip to Georgia's Wine Country which was designed by us to be a tour of some of the wineries in GA and a birthday celebration for Ana and I, both of us turning 30-something. :) I came up with the idea and created the invitation and then the plan was in place.

The plan was to visit 5 wineries and then have dinner at the last one, well the days itinerary changed a little while in progress but it was totally fine and I think even better in the end. It's nice to have a plan but also have the freedom to go with the flow.

Here's a picture of the back of the invitation and the winery lineup was as follows:

1. Wolf Mountain Winery
2. Three Sisters Winery
3. Frogtown Winery
4. Blackstock (we actually skipped this one because we spent to much time at the Frogtown Winery but that's fine now there's another one to go back and check out)
5. Montaluce Winery for tasting and dinner

All the wineries were great of course some had better wine than the others but they were all very nicely decorated and the people that worked at all of them were so friendly.

We had the privilege of being served wine by the wine maker himself at the Frogtown Winery, which that part made it really cool.

Here's a picture of the front of the Frogtown Winery.

Here's a picture of the vineyards owned by Frogtown.

inside the winery. They guy behind the counter with the white hair is the owner/wine maker.
We stayed at the Frogtown Winery for a late lunch, because we really were hungry by that point in the day. We had a delicious chili (both white and red bean) served with cornbread and Cesar salad.
Three Sisters Winery
Here's a picture of the vineyard area of the Three Sisters winery
Three Sisters Winery & Vineyards
Here's a picture from the Montaluce Winery - this one was really beautiful. Please notice that I posted a new photo album along the left hand side of my blog if you're interested in seeing more pictures from the trip.
I think this sign sums up the whole day, the experience and our lives. :)