Lovely Family Visits

This has been an amazing summer filled with family and friends.  Over the past several weeks I was fortunate enough to spend a week in Pacific Grove with my sister and her daughter and then a week in San Francisco with a friend and my daughter and her husband.  I even had the treat of my sister and her daughter driving back to Portland with me in my Mini (yes it was packed - bless Claire for sitting in the back seat the entire trip!).  Tomorrow my daughter arrives for a sweet visit. Next year, we have plans to make apricot jam in my sisters new kitchen.  I can hardly wait!

photo: everything fabulous 

Where Have All the Flowers Gone....

I had an amazing weekend in San Francisco working on wedding plans with my daughter.  As luck would have it, my sister and her daughter came as well.  We had an amazing girls weekend with all kinds of fun activities.  I stayed at the Fairmont Hotel for a great price and it was such a fun place to stay.  I felt as though I was staying in a building that was filled with history.  My friend met us for breakfast on Sunday and she told us the story of meeting a beautiful woman dressed to the nines accompanied by her dog who she talked with one evening while she was staying there.  The woman actually lived at the Fairmont and the bellman walked her dog for her.  Now that's the life!! 

Weekend Adventure to San Francisco

I'm busting out of the chains of work and home, to visit my daughter, sister, and niece in San Francisco this weekend. My daughter had a free ticket and has given it to me.  We will be getting all sorts of wonderful wedding errands done for her wedding in April.  I'm actually delivering the wedding dress!  I know I will have all kinds of adventures to share with you when I get back.  Most of all, it's just going to be so nice to be with family again. And best of all, a great friend will be house sitting for me while I'm gone.  What luck for me!

{photo: Caitlin Goebel}