This post is to shamelessly plug my entry in the Design a Roxy Bikini Contest! Help me win the Viewer's Choice Prize by voting here:

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You're allowed to vote once a day per computer/email address until July 31st. For each vote you'll be entered in a drawing for a $1,000 Roxy shopping spree! (Hey Jon, you'd look great in a bikini.) Thanks everyone!

My favorite Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies:

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 1/2 cups unsalted butter, room temperature

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1 cup packed light-brown sugar

1 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

2 large eggs

3 to 4 cups milk chocolate chips (about 24 ounces)

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In bowl, whisk together flour and baking soda; set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine butter with both sugars; beat on medium speed until light and fluffy. Reduce speed to low; add salt, vanilla and eggs. Beat until well mixed, about 1 minute. Add flour mixture; mix until just combined. Stir in chocolate chips.

 

2. Drop heaping tablespoon-size balls of dough about 2 inches apart on baking sheets lined with parchment paper.

 

3. Bake until cookies are golden around the edges, but still soft in the center, 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool on baking sheet.

Don't you wish you still lived here, Jon?

Superbaby with Bob the Builder made out of Legos and covered in sand in Carlsbad:

Had a great trip with the fam to San Diego! Here's Superbaby playing at Legoland (which he thought was almost as fun as running through Albertsons):

...in pencil and watercolor: