Columbus Day Weekend with our guests!

What a FUN BUSY WEEKEND!! Seriously so fun. Columbus Day was yesterday and some businesses had the day off. Including my friends, and Ben did! It was so nice.

So Sarah, my best friend from college and her husband Jeff came into town on Friday evening and we all met at Ben's work in San Francisco. We took the trolley over to Fisherman's Wharf, walked around for a while. Looking in shops and watching some street artists.

Then walked to Ghirardelli for some amazing chocolate sundays!!

We came back late that night to our place and then Saturday just slept in, hung out, went to In-N-Out for lunch, and then went to the Oakland Temple for a session. Our friends, my other best friend roommate Rachel and her husband Mark met up with us (they live down south in Santa Clara):

The temple is so pretty and unique. And it was really great to do a session together. We had a really good time!

This is the sunset from up on the temple, you can walk around up top. See San Francisco!?

After the temple, we all went out to eat at Oogie's, or something like that :) We said goodbye to Mark and Rachel:( and headed back to Dublin. Sunday--we went to church. And I got a calling! I'm the Laurel adviser in Young Womens, which I'm SUPER excited about!! I really have always known I was going to get that calling someday and I've been looking forward to it. I'm excited!

After church we did lunch, went to the park to play frisbee and soccer and play on the playground, we watched Ironman, took naps, played lots of ROOK...and just relaxed! Then the best part, Sarah and my TRADITION: We played Dr. Mario while BLASTING N'Sync Christmas! Every year that I've known her, we've done that. (And just like tradition--I ALWAYS WIN!). We would force ourselves to not break it out until November...but we just had to make an exception this year:) They left Monday morning to go finish off some sight-seeing in San Francisco. Thanks for coming guys--we seriously had so much fun and we love you!

Ben had work off too so we were able to hang out all day together. It was so nice. One of his friends from the mission Tim Hendon and his wife Stefanie were also in town! So we went in to San Francisco last night and had dinner at the Rainforest Cafe, which was great and then walked around a bit. They were SO nice and took us all the way home so we didn't have to ride the BART and we could hang out and talk with them longer. They came to our place and chilled for a bit and then took off. It was SO good to see them too! Man, it's great to have such great friends and be able to get together now and then.

NEXT Ben's family comes in town on THURSDAY!! SO EXCITED!! They're staying till Monday so we can't wait. I wish Ben could get work off, but at least he'll have Saturday and Sunday free.

We love you all!