Wine & Tacos

Last weekend we took a little trip to Carlton and the Scott Paul tasting room for a little wine tasting followed by the best tacos so far in Oregon...

 Scott Wright, co-owner and Winemaker of Scott Paul Wines.

 Poppa Rick talking about wine..

 Poppa Rick tasting the wine...

Henri - 10 1/2 months.

 After wine tasting, we drove back to Newberg for the BEST tacos yet since moving back to Oregon...

(these are carnitas, after I already inhaled 1, i ended up ordering 2 more Carne Asada!)

 Oliver loving his rice n' beans...

Baby brother does too!

Dinner and Drinking

**** UPDATE*****
I found more pictures that I didn't realize I had...

 

  

  

  

(There were a few more but I felt they were too blurry...)

A few weeks ago Aaron (Chef) and Andrea (also known as the A Team) invited us over for dinner. Also invited were Joel and Jenna(J Team) who were fortunate enough to leave their little girl Elliott with Grandma for the evening. It was decided by the end of the night that Elliott and Olvier would be perfect for each other and play date needs to be arranged. The Sommelier from Clarklewis, Kurt also came to dinner loaded with armfuls of wine and boxes of glasses. Two other women ended up showing up right before dinner as well, 1 a friend of Kurt's who turned out to be from Domine Serene and her friend who is the Sommelier at Fenoil and Joel's boss (from 1 of his jobs). Immediately after Kurt arrived, magnums of champagne were opened and poured. Unfortunately I couldn't partake in the drinking except for a couple small sips and was the one left to baby wrangle. We had a great meal and conversation (along with a pretty bad spill for Oliver). Graham thought that it would be nice to take pictures of what was opened for those members of our family that are wine geeks...I am pretty sure we didn't get pictures of all the wine and Champagne as more and more bottles were pulled out during the night. Here is just the beginning of the night before Graham had too much to drink to think of taking pictures.

 Our contribution.

 

  

  

  

  

  

Oliver also had his first experience with a piano and we were delighted to see that he really took to it. You would expect a baby to bang on the keys but he very thoughtfully and purposefully pressed the keys.

 

 Maestro age 13 months.