Wine Making

I feel SO behind on this blog!! Hopefully I will get caught up since the kids are heading back to school on Wednesday!! :0)

Anyway, Jeff & I went to a wine making event at Grace Hill Winery. It was so fun!! It wasn't too expensive either. It was $25 each, you made the wine, & got a bottle of it.

Before we came, we were encouraged to email them a label we wanted on our bottle and they printed them off. We found our labels and sat down at a table.

They had three types of red and three types of white wines for everyone to taste.

Then you started mixing them until you find the taste you want!

You also have to do math. :0/  You write down the measurements you use in your glass, then you have to multiply them and make them add up to the amount that will fill the bottle. I made Jeff do my math. ;0)

Then you take your equation up to the wine people and they make your wine!

You get to pick your bottle color, the foil that goes around the top, and then they cork it for you and put your label on for you. I chose this color because I thought it would go well with my label. It's a picture of Lily I took when she was little. :0)

Jeff picked a blue label because that went well with the picture from St. Maarten that I took a few years ago.

Us in front of the vineyards.

It was a lot of fun and I would love to do it again!!

And They Lived Happily Ever After.......

16 years ago, I married my best friend. I remember waking up that morning and being SO excited!! I couldn't believe I got to spend the rest of my life with this man who loved me so completely. In the past 16 years, we have had our share of ups and downs, good times and bad times, but throughout it all it has made us closer than ever. I truly could not imagine my life without Jeff by my side. He has given me so many blessings; his love, our home, the ability to be a stay at home mom, and many other wonderful things, but most importantly, our three beautiful and loving children. 

Thank you Jeff for 16 years of marriage, I know we will enjoy many more together. I love you!! 

Grace Hill Winery

Last weekend, Jeff & I traveled to Whitewater, KS (about 30 minutes away) so we could check out The Grace Hill Winery. We really like visiting local wineries when we travel, but I had just heard about this one so close to us!

We started in the tasting room. I loved this sign:

Their wine was really good!!

Some of them had funny & interesting names too!

F5 (because, you know, we live in Kansas), Peckerhead Red (after a rooster that roams around the vineyard), Dodging Tornados (again, Kansas), and Chloe's Cuvee (After their first bulldog).
They also had one called El Gato Moscato, after their cat. :0)

After the tasting, we went on the tour. It wasn't quite the whole tour though because it rained part of the time and the vineyard was way too muddy.

This is their cat. :0)

We ended up buying several bottles of wine and we are planning on going back. They have several events that they host that sound like a lot of fun!!