Fun Weekend

This past weekend, Caleb, Athena, and I traveled to California for two great events: my 10 year Stanford reunion, and my dear friend Maggie Roach's wedding to Taylor Black.  We had a wonderful time seeing old friends and enjoying the gorgeous California weather.

Here is Athena rocking her nametag on Stanford's campus:


And here she is practicing her dance moves on the Google bus that took us from Santa Cruz up the coast to Pie Ranch, the wedding venue:


Here we all are at the wedding (it was sunny!):


Athena danced the night away and ended her evening passed out on a couch.  Overall, she was a great traveling companion.

Meanwhile, Mazie had a fun-filled weekend back in Colorado.  After she told me that she felt "excluded" when I went to Maggie's bachelorette party a few weeks ago, we were a little concerned that she would have a hard time being left behind while the rest of us went on our trip.  In the end, we stretched the truth just a tad (telling her we were going to a "meeting" in California... technically not lie, right?  We sure met with lots of people!), but, more importantly, our wonderful family pitched in to give her such a great time that I don't think she missed us for a second.  On Thursday, my mom picked her up from school and drove up to Vail, where they met up with Ty and Sara and stayed in a fancy hotel.  Friday was Mazie's "date day" with Ahya: they wore beautiful dresses and let Ty and Sara tag along for lunch on the condition that they also look beautiful.  On Friday night, Ahya left Mazie with Ty and Sara for an action-packed evening and morning of baking, movie watching, and music making (Aunt Sara documents it here).  And then on Saturday morning Mazie got to meet up with Aunt Jen and OLIVIA (and Mia and Maggie) who were up in Vail for a soccer tournament Mia was playing in.  Mazie got TWO sleepovers with Olivia (on Saturday and Sunday nights), and then we picked up a tired but happy kid on Monday morning.