Stanford, 10 years later.

Holy cow, I cannot believe it has been (almost) 10 years since Will finished graduate school at Stanford.  I guess I should believe it since Clare was born just a few months before Will graduated and she IS 10 years old now...so...the math adds up.  

Still.  Has it really been a decade?

We headed back to Palo Alto this past weekend to celebrate and reminisce.  It has been almost five years since we lived over on the Peninsula.  We miss a lot of things about the Peninsula, mostly we miss a lot of people but we are pretty happy over in the East Bay.  Anyway, Will attended a few events with classmates and our family went to the carnival.  It was great.  We saw plenty of old friends and loved walking around the Stanford campus again.  They did a big over haul of the Business School just after we left so everything was pretty new.   

The carnival is always so cool.  Fun booths, face painting, junk food, bubbles, petting zoo.  Fun!

The very best part of the carnival is seeing old friends and classmates.  Our friends, the Clarkes, came up from Columbia for the reunion.  Our kids are the same age and we love them all so dearly.

After the carnival we walked over to good old Escondido Village to remember where the kids were little.  

                                         

We have this same picture of Lorien and Clare when Clare was a little baby.  When did they grow up?

                                           

Colter and Adell got to see how luxurious life was with a gigantic sand box and play ground right out the back gate.  That place really was magical for little families.  

                                           

                                          

Of course, we had to recreate pictures and memories from yester-year.  

                                           

We got really lucky when we went over to the apartment we lived in when Clare was a baby.  The family who lives there now was out in the courtyard celebrating a birthday.  We got to meet them and they let us go back in our old house and nose around for a bit.  It was so cool to see again and remember all the amazing times we had in that little house.  

                                         

This afternoon we met up with the Clarkes again (or at least Alycia and Avery) for lunch and another quick visit.  It was a great reunion!