Santa Clara Reunion

I had so much fun meeting up with friends and going to activities at Santa Clara for our 20th reunion! We stayed at the Fairmont,and my highlights were running to Santa Row from our hotel with my friend Shauna, hanging out by the pool and catching up with friends during the day on Saturday, going to mass at the mission and dinner Saturday night with my cousin, Susi. And then going to the reunion dinner after that and catching up with some people I hadn't seen in 20 years.  I was surprised how much I enjoyed that!!
And mostly I went away with a great appreciation that I was a part of such a great school.  I didn't realize it as much at the time, but 20 years later, I am so grateful to have been a part of such a great, positive community!

Fall 2019

And just like that, one of my very favorite times of the year approaches; pumpkin patch season:)! We started off with a visit to Papa Bill's pumpkin patch!  Then off to the corn maze at

The Pumpkin Patch. Then back again to The Pumpkin Patch when Grandma and Grandpa were visiting for a hayride with Grandma!

Usually Maureen is in our pic, too, but she just had knee surgery! 

CORN MAZE!!

Grace and Pat did two sides of the maze!

Pumpkin Patch with Grandma!

The kids entered a coloring contest that our water company put on, and Annie won for her age group! And we were invited to a dinner where she was awarded a prize! Which was a giant candy bar:).  It was really fun!

The winners up on stage! 

Back to School. . . .

 Every year I think I'm going to get the cute back to school pics with the signs saying what grade the kids are going to be in, but by the time that first day comes, I'm super grateful to get them out the door and to school on time with their lunches and a smile on their faces:).  I did want to include a picture of everyone at the beginning of the year, though! Kate, 2nd grade, Will, 5th, Grace, 4th, and Annie and Leo home with me!

 

First week of school Blizzards, Grace bought one for Annie for her birthday!