Swell Little Life: The Great Grape Stomp

This weekend was the Great Grape Stomp held at Harbour Estates Winery in Jordan. I think this is the 10th year I've gone with Starbucks and I look forward to it every year! This year was extra special because I was able to introduce Chloe to alot of my "partners" that haven't met her yet. It also donned on me that she actually was at the stomp last year...she would've only been in my tummy for a few weeks!

Chris & Chloe hanging out at the food booth

Me & my stomping partner Martin. We won our first heat with 1070 mL of stomped juice!

Chloe fell asleep while I was stomping....I won't take that personally.

Here's the whole Starbucks team!

Swell Inspirations

"When I looked into your eyes & you dared to stare right back, you should have said 'Nice to meet you, I'm your other half.' ~Relient K

"To have what you've never had, you must do what you've never done" - Theodore Roosevelt.

What then shall i do this morning? how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives . . . there is no shortage of good days. it is good lives that are hard to come by. - annie dillard

"What you do speaks so loud, I can't hear what you say." -Emerson

"The tragedy of life is not death; rather, it is what we allow to die within us while we live." - norman cousins

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting."
-- E.E. Cummings

"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity."
-- Andrew Carnegie, Industrialist

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
-- Henry David Thoreau

I believe in pink.i believe that laughing
is the best calorie burner.i believe in kissing, kissing alot.i believe in being strong when
everything seems to be going wrong.i believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.
i believe that tomorrow is another day and i believe in miracles.
--Audrey Hepburn

"Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast."
-- Norman Vincent Peale

I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.
--DH Lawrence

“Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its trouble - it empties today of its strength.”

When in doubt, show up early. Think less. Feel more. Ask once. Give thanks often. Expect the best. Appreciate everything. Never give up. Make it fun. Lead. Invent. Regroup. Wink. Chill. Smile. And live as if your success was inevitable, and so it shall be.

“to laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. this is to have succeeded.” -ralph waldo emerson

"Don't worry about what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and do that. Because the world needs more people who have come alive." ~Howard Thurman

October 4, 2009

The Great Grape Stomp

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