Where have we been and where are we going?

Where the heck have I been??? Well a lot has been going on, but let me begin with the first of many, we've MOVED! Fer's job was transferred once again (mine too this time) so we picked up ALL our stuff and moved to the Savannah area of Georgia, about 4 hours from Atlanta. We have been SO busy with the move and there will be lot's of details to share from the past 3 to 4 months - so little by little I'll be blogging them out. :)

As you can see Zico was helping me as always, he's such a cutie pie and has really handled this move quite well which makes us happy.

I hope you all have a great weekend and shall I say I'm so glad to be back to blogging. Lot's more to come.

Atlanta Restaurants: Canoe

I wrote about Canoe a while ago when we all gathered there in March for my birthday. Well Fer and I finally made it back there this past Sunday to enjoy their delicious Brunch that they are so famous for and boy was it good. We started off with Sticky Buns with Georgia Pecans and coffee then of course had an order of the salmon with potato pancakes - for me that would be a enough and I would walk out of there completely content but we also had a main entree that day. I had pancakes and Fer had scrambled eggs with baby Maine shrimp; both meals were quite yummy.

After brunch we had a chance to walk around the beautiful gardens outside it was such a nice outing.

Happy Friday

Enjoy the green open spaces of summer! Have a great weekend.

VineDog Weekend - Three Sisters Winery

A few weeks ago now Fer, Zico and I went up to the Three Sisters Winery for their Vine Dog Weekend Event. It was so much fun to take Zico up there he thoroughly enjoyed it. :) We love Wine, We love the Three Sisters Winery and the scenery there and we love Zico so it was a perfect combination and a really nice outing. Here's a picture of Zico and I preparing for a photo in the winery.

Here's some of the beautiful scenery at the Three Sisters Winery.
Working on getting Zico to pose for a picture by himself and practice for the photo he was going to have taken to be put on a wine bottle. See the use of treats... he'll do anything for a treat.
Fer and Zico, such a nice picture with the vineyards behind them.
and TA DA Zico posing for a beautiful photo, I believe he's deep in thought here. :)
He's really enjoying the day.
And here's the final product. You had the choice of putting the wine label on either a white blend or a red blend. We chose red as you can tell. I think the picture came out amazing. We had such a good time that day. The Three Sisters Winery in Dahlonega, GA is a really nice winery to visit. The people are so friendly, the winery is beautiful and the wine is delicious! What else could you ask for? a close up.
and if you know anything about wine you'll know that Zico's wine fits in just right in between these other two bottles. :)
They are having another event this weekend, we're hoping to make it up there for it. It's the Georgia's Wine Country Festival and it should be a really nice event as well.

Enjoy the weekend and enjoy a glass of vino during it. :)

The Counter

This weekend we went to try out a new burger joint and let me tell you boy was it GOOD! Probably one of the best hamburgers I've had in a long time. YUMMY!

We went to the Counter Burger in Roswell, GA - I would say it's a upscale, yet casual still, Hamburger Restaurant. The concept of the restaurant is that you can "build your own burger", which is fun and stressful (LOL) at the same time. There were so many options and of course your want to build the best burger. You can also just order an already decided on burger if you'd like off the menu. I went kind of mainstream with my selections grilled onions, provolone cheese... and coleslaw. :) Didn't want to go to nuts at first. But you can order things like grilled pineapple and fried egg as well for your hamburger.

Here's a picture of the bar area of the restaurant. You can choose beer from the tap or some vino if you'd like. Sounds good to me. The decor is pretty cool too.

Here's a burger with a fried egg on top. Yummy.

Here's a Counter Burger.

Hope you have a chance to check out this place some time soon, it was really good!

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. :)

Birthday Dinner

Some scenes from Ana and my birthday dinner on Saturday. We went to a restaurant called Canoe located in Buckhead and let me tell you the dinner was amazing along with the company!

Here's a picture of the smoked salmon dish that was out of this world!

A REALLY good Zinfandel!

Happy Birthday to ME. ;)

Happy Birthday to Ana!

We had such a nice evening. Stay tuned for more pictures birthday pictures to come. :)

Weather Forecast

Today's weather forecast is....

is cloudy with a chance of rain... :) Isn't Zico the cutest little guy out there? Actually we may have another chance of snow today - wow and it's March. What a winter we're having in ATL this year.

UPDATE: Just in case you want one of these adorable rain coats for your dog, I got this one at Old Navy.

Snowfall in Atlanta 2010

This past Friday, February 12th Atlanta had a pretty big (for ATL) snow storm. About three inches of snow fell in the course of an afternoon an evening. This winter has been amazing all over the United States this year. This past weekend 49 out of 50 states had some type of snowfall to talk about. It does make for a lot of excitement. It was so nice to get out of work early and come home with the anticipation of running around outside and playing in the snow. Which is exactly what we did, got home - got Zico ready and ran outside to see all that the winter wonderland had to offer. It was beautiful and amazing!
The snow was really coming down pretty steady. It's amazing how a place that rarely gets snow can look like this in a few hours.

Here's Zico Biscuit out in the thick of it all.

Here's a snowman some kids made in the neighborhood isn't it cool.

not so tropical plant, at the moment, tropical plant.

Check out more pictures of our snowfall in Hotlanta in my photo album on the left hand side of this page. What kind of snowy pictures can you share from these recent storms?

Lazy Bear Lodge

Back in November the gang and I took a little trip to the mountains of North Georgia to go "camping". We rented a cabin for two nights thru (as you can see) Mountain Getaway Cabin Rentals. It was awesome, even better than I had expected. Our course as you will see from the pictures below we did not rough it at all we had a great time and for only two nights we brought enough food and wine to feed an army for a week.

Our cabin was called the Lazy Bear Lodge. So cute and besides us there were a lot of lazy bears in the cabin.

Isn't Fer's Jeep perfect for this setting.

There was a fire place and even though it wasn't cold we had a fire going most of the time.

We had our work cut out for us.

Picture of the kitchen, it was really nice. As I mentioned before I was really impressed with the cabin. It was so clean and had every thing you needed from bed sheets to cutting boards to wine glasses.

Here's a picture of one of the bedrooms.

A lazy bear. :)

Downstairs there was a game room where we entertained ourselves for hours.

This was the view from the back deck, something else, huh.

another view.

This was definitely one of the most memorable trips I have ever been on... looking forward to the next cabin getaway.