Fall get away

Had a great time this past weekend. We left Fresno on Friday and went to San Juan Batista. When we went through about a year ago, we stopped there. It was around 4pm and stores were closing. We decided then that we needed to come back another day and explore. We ate lunch at an OLD hamburger joint. Food was great! Proceeded to check out all the antique stores . As we walked into our favorite store (more junk that you can imagine), the first thing I saw was a group of dishes that I have a set of. It's the Real Old Willow pattern. Needless to say, I bought every piece because they are very rarely seen anywhere other than on the internet.
We continued to our hotel destination (Bay Landing, Burlingame). Got settled and went to dinner at the Fish Market (Yum!)
Saturday we drove over to Half Moon Bay, going past all the pumpkin patches which were loaded with people. Drove on down to Pescadero where we found the BEST bakery/grocery store. They were bringing fresh bread out about every 10 minutes. There were tons of bicyclist and motor cyclist there too. Went on to the Redwood Memorial Park and back for lunch at Barbara's on the beach at HMB. (Again, Yum!)
Sunday we drove down to Capitola and had lunch on the beach there. I think is was Zelda's. Checked out some antique stores in Soquel and drove through Watsonville over the mountains to Gilroy and then home.

Oh yes, we did bring some pumpkins home

Annual Marriage Mentoring Dessert

This was our big fundraising event for the year. We had around 275 in attendance and raised approx. the same as last year. We added a live auction this year and had Ed Croissant as the auctioneer. He did a great job. Ron spoke about what we have done this past year and Pastor Jim Franklin was our guest speaker. It was a lot of work for us. The event was our responsibility.
It was good to have Heather, Frank, Nolan & Haley there to help. Heather & Haley were here a day early and that was a big help for the setup. Nolan got to be a "caller" for the auctioneer which he relished.

Two cars loaded with flowers, table clothes, waters, etc.

We had a number of volunteers helping so set up went well.

Couples that were honored for being trained as presenters of the class we give. (Mastering the Mysteries of Love).

Don introducing auctioneer Ed Croissant

Nolan, watching for those raised hands bidding.

It was a great night but good to have it over with

Benjamin's 1st Birthday

What a fun day for the Anderson family to celebrate Ben's birthday. It was so good to have LaLa (Carrie's mom) there too all the way from N. Carolina. I'm behind in my postings so I will let the pictures tell the story for this post.

A great time was had by all!!! Thanks Jarrett & Carrie, Heather & Frank