Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Sorry for the delay in between blog posts! I've been busy the past three weekends with baby showers and Capitola 3.0.

Two weeks ago was Carolyn's baby shower in Sacramento. So fun! Audrey and I rode up from the city to celebrate Baby Becker. Here's a pic with the girls.

Last weekend I flew into Raleigh, where Emily and I hosted a baby shower for Adrienne. It was such a great weekend! I miss those girls so much and wish we could all live in the same place (maybe someday I'll make it back so we're at least in the same state - here's to hoping!). We immediately went to Sonic, and later headed over to the old Wake Forest campus in ... Wake Forest!

Here we are on the main quad. I couldn't believe how similar the Winston-Salem campus is to the original! All the buildings looked exactly the same, especially...

...the original version of Wait Chapel. We wanted to go in, but as you can see, some people were taking wedding photos so we kept our distance. It was so neat to see where the university before it moved to Winston-Salem until the 1950's. The old campus is now home to a theological seminary.

Adrienne's shower was on Sunday. Here we are ready for the guests to arrive!

Here's Adrienne with Emily's cherry limeaid punch (not from Sonic, but tasted like it!) and a red velvet baby booty cupcake. So cute!

Adrienne's grandmother couldn't attend the shower but she sent this beautiful handmade heart-patterned blanket for Lucy. It has a label in it that says "Handmade by my great-grandmother Joann Smith." Isn't that sweet? Lucy received many wonderful gifts - she's going to be all set when she arrives in about six weeks!

This weekend was our annual girls' trip to - as Lisa Marie would say - "a town called Capitola." LMB had a client event in the city on Thursday, so she took the Capitol corridor train into SF Wednesday night. She came to book club with me, stayed Wednesday and Thursday nights with us, and we just hung out, relaxed and caught up on some much needed R&R together. It was great to have company on the long, rainy and windy ride down (Lisa Page was with us too) to Capitola where we met the other girls. We always rent a condo of a friend of Carmen's, hang out, drink wine, laugh, and do whatever we feel like. Unfortunately for Facebook and the blog, much of our lounging around happened in pajamas that first night, so I'm just posting this photo of us from our trip into town.

Capitola 3.0: Lisa Page, me, Jen, Carmen, Katy, Veronica, Lisa Marie, Carolyn and Baby Becker

This was the first time all eight of us were able to go, and it will be the last time without kids in our lives. No matter what changes take place over the next few years, I'll always be grateful for the moments when we can sneak away from the rest of our lives and just enjoy each other. I have wonderful friends.