Fall has arrived...sort of...

I love fall....absolutely love it. And it's felt like fall in San Francisco up until the official start of the fall season this past week. It's been hitting 90 degrees lately, and living in an apartment without air conditioning means it can become quite toasty. We decided to take advantage of the warmer weather and headed to my favorite spot...the beach! We visited Santa Cruz the first weekend we moved here and loved it so much that we went back. Here are a few pictures from the beautiful day.

I love, love, love the holidays and enjoy decorating for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. To get in the spirit, I decorated our mantel and baked a pumpkin cake (thank you Martha Stewart: http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/pumpkin-cake-with-brown-butter-icing).

My sweet, lil' Toby loves everyone and enjoys visitors to his home. Our friends Brittany and Drue stayed with us last Saturday....Brittany calls me into the spare room and this is what I find...

Toby had weasled himself under the pillows and would not leave the room. He ended up sleeping with his Aunt Brittany!

On another note, this will be the last blog post for a few weeks. I have a week of events to manage at work beginning with our annual Gala called "Spectacular". This year's Gala theme is "Are you ready for a Wicked evening?"...a take off of the Broadway Musical "Wicked". One of the stars of the show who played Glinda on Broadway and in LA will perform a few of her songs from the musical. It should be a wonderful evening and all of the proceeds benefit St. Rose Hospital.