Who knew our picnic blanket would be such a hit?

(Check out 11 Inexpensively Awesome Bay Area Dates)

I've been meaning to go to Off The Grid - a gourmet mobile food market that travels around the Bay Area - for months now, and when I went up to stay in San Francisco with Morgan for the night we decided to take all our many, many children to the Presido Picnic. (To clarify, we technically only have four children between us, but four people under age 5 who have been plied with M&Ms and then released into the wild feels like approximately twenty.)

Indy + Me | Carmel, CA 

I'm in the mood for a road trip. If you're feeling equally get-me-out-of-here, check out National Geographic's itinerary for doing the Pacific Coast Highway right.

My favorite J.Crew t-shirt (the Painter's Tee) is available in a short sleeve.

Wearing these wishbone earrings pretty much every day lately.

Hell's Kitchen | NYC

I have been DYING to show you this sweatshirt.

This photo was actually taken in NYC when I was there last month, but I'm only posting it now because of a very valuable lesson in retail that I recently learned: please, oh please do not promote a product that you do not have in sufficient quantities to accommodate demand.

Monterey Bay | California

Because this morning's post was so light and fluffy, I thought I'd bring it back down and talk about something really, really important:

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Chris' Whale Watching | Monterey Bay, California

A couple of weeks ago, when I was in New York, Erin and I were walking down the street after lunch and a pigeon landed on my head.

Pigeons do not typically land on people's heads. And despite the fact that I screamed like the little girl in The Ring had just come walking out of my television screen during JoJo's one-on-one date, once we - and the other people on the block who had borne witness to my attack-by-bird - recovered, Erin said, "I'm not even surprised. Of COURSE a pigeon just landed on your head." And honestly, I wasn't surprised either.