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This Saturday Rodney Strong Vineyards’ 23rd Annual Wine & Chocolate Fantasy event. Tickets are still on sale, and definitely one that chocolate lovers (and wine lovers) will not want to miss!

This year I am bringing my sister, Kasey Alton, a mother of three, a chocolatier, and brand new to Twitter: @RainingChocolat (yup, without the e). Growing up we didn’t realize they made other desserts other than chocolate…. And each trip to the ice cream store resulted in chocolate ice cream covering our faces.

I cannot wait for Saturday!

For all those who made New Years Resolutions to eat healthier, here is your new excuse why you simply cannot be bothered with a diet – National “Snack Food Month.”

Turns out that in February people didn’t used to eat as much ‘snacks’ as they did every other month so the SFA and the National Potato Promotion Board (NPPB) initiated National Snack Food Month in 1989 to increase consumption.

From the Snack Food Association: An International Trade Association website:

National Snack Food Month was started to “build awareness of snacks during a month when snack food consumption was traditionally low.”

Not sure about you, but I am definitely NOT celebrating this silly “National Month” and in fact, I will be avoiding potato chips and “snacks” all together this month….

Driving around the backroads of Sonoma County, it is clear how gorgeous the countryside of this county is. Anyone who knows me, either online or in real life, knows how addicted I am to taking pictures…. It doesn’t hurt that I have an endless amount of beauty to capture here in wine country.

Well, my new addiction to posting my photos is the social networking site specifically for iPhone users: Instagram.

I use this site as a way to show off what I am up to, but it is also great for brands to instantly turn their iPhone pictures into works of art to show off to their customers. For more information, please check out: 5 Key Takeaways From Brands Rocking Instagram. Sonoma County brands can use it to show off behind-the-scenes action of their businesses.

I hope this can be myself and my two best friends when we are this age…

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Friday January 26, 2012: The instagram photo of the day was a picture of my lunch. So on my blog I decided I wanted to post all the images I have on my iPhone of my lunch.

So enjoy….