Family Fun At The San Diego Zoo With Tillamook

My family and I celebrated the Loaf Love Tour with the Tillamook crew today at the World Famous San Diego Zoo.  We met Loafy and got to know the Tillamook Ambassadors. Celebrity Chef Keegan Gerhard and his beautiful wife Lisa demonstrated some tips & tricks on making the perfect grilled cheese sandwich. We sampled cheese, had some yogurt, built our own grilled cheese creations, and enjoyed ice cream for dessert! We spent the remainder of our day exploring the Zoo.  Our thanks goes to Tillamook for an awesome family day!

I wanted to share a few photos from our family day of fun!  Hoping that you all had (or are having) an AMAZING weekend! Please let us know what you and your family are up to!

Baby Loaf

Cheese Tasting!

Our Family & Loafy

Cheese!

Chef Keegan, My Silly Monkey & Me
 

Keegan & Lisa

Grilled Cheese Featuring Tillamook Cheese

Tillamook Mudslide Ice Cream

Yummy Yogurt!

Lions, Tigers And Cheese, Oh My! Tillamook® Brings The Loaf Love Tour To San Diego

In Celebration of the Loaf Love Tour, Locals Can Gain FREE Entry to the San Diego Zoo Saturday, October 27th

*Free entry for the first 100 eligible participants only.

Free entry starting at 9:00 a.m. until limit reached. Participating fans may check-in at the Tillamook Baby Loaf bus located outside the zoo’s main ticket gate. To win, attendees must come wearing orange. Limit one free entry per person, no monetary value.

WHO:  Tillamook, the 103-year-old, farmer-owned cooperative from Oregon that has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s premier natural cheese makers and leading dairy product company.

WHAT:  The Loaf Love Tour, the third annual mobile sampling event dedicated to bringing tasty cheese to the people, is traveling to San Diego as the last stop on their 2012 tour. As a fun way to celebrate the end of their nine month cross-country excursion with local residents, Tillamook will be offering free admission to the San Diego Zoo on Saturday, October 27th. The first 100 fans who show up wearing their happiest Tillamook orange will receive free access to the zoo, where attendee’s dressed in orange thereafter will receive $1 off general admission*. Once inside the zoo, event-goers of all ages can taste a variety of Tillamook Cheese, take pictures with Loafy, join in zoo bingo, taste yummy samples of Tillamook Yogurt new to the San Diego market, and much more.

WHEN: Saturday, October 27th from 9:00AM to 5:00PM

WHERE: The San Diego Zoo 2920 Zoo Drive San Diego, CA 92101

Before leaving California and wrapping up their third year on the road, the Tour will be cruising around San Diego in their fleet of mini-buses from October 23rd - October 30th. Local fans can find the Tour at grocery stores and special events educating attendees on Tillamook products while sampling their cheeses made in Oregon. To conclude their tour-end travels through San Diego, Tillamook is going out with a bang and holding a twitter contest where the winner gets a party for up to 50 people at a location of their choice. For more information on entering the contest click here.

To see a complete list of stops on the Tour or to sign up for cheese-filled news updates, stop by LoafLoveTour.com and to join in the live chatter, visit the Tillamook Facebook page or follow @TillamookCheese on Twitter.

Profile Pictures

I have been debating on updating my profile picture since the one that I am using (on ALL of my online profiles) is quite dated. Though I probably should change it, I'm just not quite ready to yet.

How many of you have a special story behind your profile picture?  I'm sure we all do.  After all we selected a particular photo to represent who we are.  Today, I'd like to share my profile picture story.  I'll hope that you will share your story too!

First off, I'll share the bigger picture since all that you would normally see is a thumbnail version. This photo was taken on September 18, 2010 at the San Diego Zoo.  At the time, my husband & I were 3 month old parents.  We were a brand spanking new mommy & daddy duo to an angel of a child.  He never cried much and the times that he did - he was very easily soothed.  We were lucky and we knew it.

I like the "calm" that I feel when I see this picture and remember this day.  Though I was very tired and suffered from sleep deprivation, as new parents do, I was a relaxed new mommy with a supportive husband. This cleared the way of any "new mommy" anxieties.  My maternal instincts kicked in very strongly.   I felt confident in mothering our baby.  I'm glad that my husband caught this new mommy moment.  Baby & I were relaxed, it was a beautiful day, and his daddy & I loved our family outing.  Prior to our visit to the Zoo that day, I had never seen such a sea of strollers. Though much of the time I "wore" our son in a SleepyWrap:  WE too were there with our stroller.  The place was all abuzz with family.  We were a part of that buzz.  WE too were now a Family.

Tidbits:

• The sunglasses (which I have misplaced & been searching for since our Hawaii trip) hid my super tired eyes.
• Baby's Outfit: I hope that one day my son forgives me for putting him in that silly green & white striped ensemble.  In my defense: I had to shield his delicate baby skin from the San Diego Sunshine didn't I?  This was one of the few outfits that came with a hat that was his size at the time.
• You can see our son's little dimple & his content expression on his little baby face.
• Yes, I am actually wearing a little lipstick!  Much of my new mom moments did not include any form of make-up use.

Now time to share a photo of my hubby & my bubby from this day!  They are the story behind my profile pic!