This last weekend was a full one that passed WAY too quickly.  We kicked it off with attending my (Skoll's) holiday party.  Every year the Foundation, Capricorn and Goodlands all come together for a holiday party -- this year it was at the Stanford Park Hotel.  They tented the courtyard and attempted to keep it warm with heaters, but I still froze.  It looked great though - AND it was fun to see everyone dressed up!  I finally got the chance to wear my orange pashmina. :)

Saturday was an early morning since we committed to hiking 10 - 11 miles with FULL packs.  We invited our new friends Cami & John to join us.  John had papers to write -- but Cami came. We really enjoyed getting to know her and hopefully she didn't mind the long day with us!  The loop we decided to hike is at Butano State Park - a park just outside of Pescadero (one of my very favorite places)! The weather cooperated for the most part -- it spit on us here and there, but the trees protected us and we stayed relatively dry.  The loop took us up around the Butano canyon rim where we admired the ocean for a bit and had lunch on an old abandoned landing strip and then back down into the canyon.  There was a combination of redwood trees and other trees covered in what I called frosty moss.  It was trippy looking.  We loved it.  It was just the right hike for us that day....   Of course, we couldn't leave Pescadero without a stop at Harley Farms or at Arcangeli's Market.  We sampled and purchased lots of my favorite goat cheese and the fresh artichoke bread -- I think we hooked Cami on it too!  And as we were pulling onto Highway 1 to head home the sun was on it's way down.  We stopped and watched a cloudy sunset and were in awe of the enormous curling waves.  It was a perfect finish to the day.

Sunday was our last day in nursery!  We've absolutely loved nursery, but we are excited to graduate to Primary with our cute nursery kids.  Hooray!  Only bummer is that there won't be any more toys or snacks.  :(

My aunt and cousin (Kook and Ay) were visiting Joy this weekend in the city.   We drove up Sunday afternoon for a delicous meal and Lee brought the ice cream.  He catered to the family requests (grasshopper pie and chocolate).  Both were exceptional.  He's been a bit of an ice cream factory lately.  I think we now have eight different tubs of ice cream in our freezer.....

The weekend disappeared -- we now have just this last week of work and we're off to visit both families for 2 weeks!  So fun!

Of course pictures of the weekend are on the gallery