This weekend my husband, myself as well as a few of our friends decided to take a trip to Ste. Genevieve, MO to visit Crown Valley Winery, for a day of sipping wonderful wine and enjoying the beautiful scenery.

*Entrance*

We were so fortunate, the day turned out to be beyond gorgeous. Perfect for sitting on the patio and relaxing together.

Andrew and I were treated to a tour of the winery as well as a wine tasting by Crown Valley Winery.

We got an up close look at how the wine is made, bottled and shipped out.

The tour was very informative, I never knew so many steps went into creating wine!!

*Where the wine is bottled* 

My favorite part was seeing all the wine barrels, and learning that Crown Valley not only gets their barrels from Missouri but also France!

Once the tour was over we got to sample all of their wines, which were quite delicious.

My number one favorite would have to be the Chardonel.

We then took our favorite wines and sat outside on the patio and ordered some food from their full menu!

It was so hard to choose what to get!

I settled on the Blue Bison Salad with the Blackberry Wine Vinaigrette.

Seriously, I can't even describe how excellent this salad was. I would highly recommend this to anyone who goes and visits Crown Valley!

*Sunglasses c/o Ditto*

After we were done with our meal we decided to make the short drive to Crown Valley's Brewery.

We grabbed a glass of their Craft Beer and went to sit on their patio where we were able to enjoy the wonderful weather some more as well as live music.

The scenery was absolutely gorgeous here as well, so I insisted that we take pictures {the guys weren't that thrilled but they will just have to get used to it!}

*Romper - Old Navy*

I want to thank Crown Valley Winery for a wonderful day and for allowing my husband and I to take a complimentary tour and tasting!

Cheers!

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I was pretty impressed. Kevin Hart was hilarious & I admit to re-watching his opening when the show was replayed. One Direction cleaned house by winning everything they were nominated for, even beating out Justin Bieber {did anyone even see him last night, did I miss something?!}.

I was very moved by Frank Ocean's performance, sadly I had never even heard of him until last night *ashamed* but I do believe I have found a new artist that will take over my iPod for a while. Miley Cyrus anyone?! I was one of those people who were appalled when she cut her hair but last night, she owned it & I was loving it...

Who else is excited for the new Twilight movie coming out in November? Me! Cheesy is to be expected but I don't even care, I'm obsessed and the teaser trailer last night, yup definitely can't wait! It should be interesting to see Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson during promotion {notice, she was not there last night :( }. And as I drifted off to sleep last night the lovely words by Miss Taylor Swift replayed in my head... over & over & over again... repetitive much?!?

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As promised I am going to share with you all the final installment of our pictures from Mexico. I have always wanted to do a mini photo session on the beach with Andrew {a few years back we did one with my fam when we were in Destin & I really enjoyed it}. When we got there that was one of the things that I was determined to look into & to my surprised the session was free, all you had to do was purchase the pictures you like... Awesome! So here are the ones that we chose...

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend, see you Monday!! :)