Sugar and SpiCe and EVERYthIng NICE...thats what little girls are made of!

It only happens once a year...but I am already wishing we could do it again before next year...It's our annual "Girls Weekend!" We started this wonderful tradition last year in July, just before Todd and Dana were married. We vowed to keep it a tradition and and made plans for the event to take place again...which it did this past weekend. Last year we sort of did the "SPA THING", with facials, painting toenails and a "get to know you game"...this year we took on the theme of "GAME TIME". We ate at the Chinese Gourmet in Orem until we were ALMOST too full (we had to save room for our "junk food" later on). Afterwards we tried something new and did a Photo Scavenger Hunt...which turned out to be a blast! We had a list of 60 things (that were each worth a different amount of points) on our lists. We had to take a picture of one of our team mates with the object from our list. We had 1 1/2 hours to get as many photo's as possible and the team with the most points won. Poor Kim had to be on my team...(she felt sad that she had to be on my team too because she knew that I would be the loser)...I was the slow one, so yes Dayna and Dana won...but Kim was a good sport and we had tons of fun. We took pictures of strangers, candy, something that reminded us of summer, the inside of a restaurant, a fire hydrant, someone working and many, many more hilarious and crazy things. We really had to think "out of the box" on some of the objects and be super creative. It was hysterical to see some of the pictures that everyone took...good laughs for years to come thats for sure. Dayna and Dana won cute purses for getting the most points! We then went back to Dayna and Jack's where we were spending the night. We made junk food and played more hilarious games. We played one where we passed the camera around (that was set on the timer mode), whoever got stuck with the camera when it went off had to pick some outrageous item from a bag of "unknown" objects!...we wore masks, crazy hats, wigs, moo moo's...crazy garb that none of us would be caught dead in. It was great for laughs and many fun pictures. At about 1:30am, we couldn't hold our eyes open any longer and we headed for bed. BUT...bright and early (7:30 am) I got up, made crepes with raspberry freezer jam, frozen strawberries, Nutella and banana's and whipped topping...yes we ate AGAIN...can you believe it!

Then we got ready and headed out for a day of shopping. We found some great deals on winter wear...shoes and "girl stuff"...we bought a few fun things and then we all went and had our nails done! I'm not one to get my nails done often (this is only the 3rd time in my LIFE) because I don't feel like its a luxury that I can do all the time...BUT I have to say~ it sure makes me feel pampered and pretty when I do. I love the way my hands actually look like "girl hands" and the way that it makes me feel a little more feminine with long nails. We had a fantastic time just "being girls" together. Talking, laughing and goofing off couldn't have been any more fun! I love my girls! Girls weekend is something that I look forward to every year. I can't wait until next year when we can do it again.

PS...Halle gets to start going to our "Girls Weekend" in a few years, that's why there aren't any pictures of her in here...but we love her and are excited for when she will be grown up enough to come along.