This is an incredibly delayed post! Life got busy, holy cow!! I'm so incredibly grateful though and the past few months have been amazing. I've met tons of new families, and lots and lots of adorable children! It's still crazy to me to call it "work". As the busy season comes to an end, I look back on adventures like this one this past summer and look forward to having more like it. This weekend in August took us to Cannon Beach on the Oregon coast and these are the types of weekends I cherish. I couldn't have asked for a better mix of people to go with -- an old high school friend, and two friends made here in Seattle-- all of which who really didn't know each other very well, but it was perfect. In the end, they all left the best of friends. We cooked some delicious meals, shucked fresh oysters (some of us were better at it than others--meaning I'm not), wandered along the beach, enjoyed some stunning sunsets and overall it was just a nice change of pace and allowed us to slow life down a bit. It's needed sometimes, and my goal for 2016 is to make things like this a priority.