I Left My Heart in Cabo San Lucas: Beach Pics

I'm sitting at Peet's (coffee shop, for those non-Californians among you) working on lesson plans today, daydreaming about being back at Capella.  Here are some pictures of our time in Cabo from Cari and JJ's camera.  Feast your eyes on the beauty & preciousness (of Jude).  


*you may have to enlarge these since I can't figure out how to make pics bigger on my blog.  

Jude and me upon our arrival in Cabo

Cari and Milo in the Capella lobby.  Check out his scrunchy face.

JJ and Milo having dinner at "The Office."  So sweet.

Judebug with our butler, Victor (aka guacamole master)

plunge pool on our patio, overlooking the resort & the Pacific

I got the boys shirts to match their eyes :)

me & my piggies getting some sun

view from my elliptical in the fitness center

(totally untouched iphone photo)

who wouldn't work out every day if this was the view???

me, Cari, and the boys

infinity pool numero dos: on the beach

terribly grainy picture of me and JJ
before a debauched night out starting at Cabo Wabo
(you don't wanna know where it ended)

just a pirate ship, no big thang

Cari and JJ: on our patio pre-date night
(side note: I fell in love with that dress but it didn't fit me so I got it for Cari!)

oh Capella, how I long for thee
(another unedited iPhone pic taken from patio)

If you're even thinking of going to Cabo, I can't recommend Capella highly enough.  Just click on that link and you'll start salivating.  I'm sure you can imagine how hard it is being back home after 8 blissed out days there!  Only regret: not getting pictures of the cute waiters/resort staff.

Here's to being able to return in 2012!

Seth Cohen? Are you out there? (aka Christmas Pressies Part 3)

I've already shared with you some of the incredibly sweet Christmas gifts I received this year in this post and in this post.  Today I have another overwhelmingly generous gift to share . . . and it comes from a girl I've been friends with since middle school!

Amy and I were in the same homeroom all 4 years of high school because our last names both started with a K.  Our homeroom teacher was a bit of a freak (she was often hungover, and occasionally she'd wear these leather pants that literally zipped from the front to the back, so she could unzip them and the legs would come off), which provided us with ample opportunity to goof off and share silly stories.  We went to prom together, we shared our first dates together, and we stayed close through college and graduate/law school and now, once again, we live in the same state (albeit 7 hours apart).

the sweet Lazzaronis, one of my favorite families in the world

Amy & new baby Sammy

my kinda kid!

me and Amy on Newport Beach

happy hour in southern California :)

A few days before I went home to Georgia for Christmas, between giving final exams, mailing packages, teaching galore, packing for Christmas vacation, nurturing my terrible sore throat, and spinning my head off trying to get everything done, I got a package in the mail from Amy, Dave, and Sammy.  This is what was inside:

Can you believe it?  How generous and wonderful is that?  You better believe I hopped on Southwest's website and booked a ticket, and I am so excited to visit my dear Lazzaronis the first weekend of February!  Not to mention, I'm still very moved by the hugeness of this gift.  They are always so good to me.

Gabby blogged about this restaurant in Orange County, and I can't wait to try it with Amy and Dave.  And if we're lucky, we might revisit The Beachcomber on Newport Beach, where last time we shared a light lunch and some white wine.  Of course we'll make a stop here (duh), and we always head to this place once or twice for some delicious food and "the world's largest selection of draft beer!"

Thank you so much dear Lazzaronis . . . I can't wait to hug your necks, squeeze that sweet baby, and step my toes on the (probably cold but still) southern California beach!