{Ugly Christmas sweater dinner}

How could I have forgotten to blog about our Christmas sweater dinner??

Instead of our monthly scrapbook night we decided to take a month off and just have dinner.

We headed over to Tepenyaki but had to wait FOREVER since they only had a few cooks and a big company Christmas party.

So Mandee decided she would lead us in a Christmas carol. We crack ourselves up! LOL

After dinner it was time to take photo's of our AMAZING sweaters!

Me looking oh so sweet and innocent in my winter wonderland number compliments of Mindi's mom :)

Madge sporting her frosty garb, complete with snowman earrings, snowman tattoo, snowman scarf, snowman blinking necklace, snowman sweater and snowman socks. Oh and check out the crocks! Can you say FABULOUS!

Midge is the over achiever with 2 sweaters. The festive red vest and......

MERRY "POOH"mas

Malinda in her gold stripes.....Jingle Bell ROCK!

Stephanie in her BULKY patchwork sweater...she claims it is yak fur...LOL Whatever it was it made her SICK

Another attempt to overcome her fear of cats....next step....cat condo!

Yehawwww Missie in her country Christmas sweater!

Bring on the TINSEL! Lisa is ready to be unwrapped :) LOL

And last but not least...our little hobbit, Jamie. Half of a plaid shirt?

We also decided this year to donate some stuff to Toys-For-Tots. We went to Walgreens and filled the entire box. Good Job girls!

Sweet hobbit took a dare that she couldn't fit in the shopping cart....Walgreen's carts are not your average cart...they are SMALL
And she did it! ha ha!

A few of us snuck away and saw a movie afterwards. What a fun night!

I am blessed to have these amazing girls in my life. Love you girls!

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{Family Pictures}

My wonderful friend Malinda took our family pictures on Friday. We went to a fabulous location and the pictures turned out AWESOME!!! LOVE THEM! Needless to say I will be putting up more frames around the house...I have so many favorites! Check out her blog http://www.malindasdesignsphoto.blogspot.com/ and book a session!!!

She is quick, amazing and she gave me this cute CD cover to hold my CD that she put all of my pictures on :)

Thanks Malinda! Love your guts!

{New Moon}

Another fabulous movie night with the girls! NEW MOON! LOVED IT!

First we went and checked out the boutique Malinda is selling some stuff in. Check it out! http://www.tomandlucysartshoppe.com/ It's in Lehi at the Ivory Ridge Country Club over by Micron today and tomorrow. If you can't make it to the boutique you can shop on her etsy shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/malindasdesigns

Then we headed to Pizza Factory to eat dinner. We had a HUGE group of girls and we were VERY loud! I'm suprised we didn't get kicked out of the resturant LOL

Bite me!

Our shirts said "Why not fangs AND fur!"

{Scrapbook Retreat}

So.....finally getting around to blogging about our scrapbook retreat!!

http://www.papermusesretreats.blogspot.com/

What an awesome time we had!! Thank you Lindsey, Lori and Lori's mom and sister (cooks) for an amazing time!

We arrived Wednesday afternoon after a fun filled day taking our time driving the 2 1/2 hours to the lodge. Me, Midge, Madge, Malinda, Stephanie and our newcomer HARMONY! So glad she came even though her and Malinda got sick :(

We stopped and got a shake, went shopping at a local scrapbook store, ate lunch at Daniels Summit and last but not least made a visit to Country Flair in Altamont. HAHA Country Flair is a clothing store that we thought would have some good ol' country clothes...but come to find out Altamont is pretty hip with their Silver jeans, Hurley clothes and hair clips that I needed BADLY!

Of course we had to have our daily shirts.

The first one was "Got Glue Dots?"

After a YUMMY dinner it was time to get down to business!

This is a cool picture that one of our instructors Lori took one morning

Thursday was kind of a free day and wait for the rest of the group to arrive. Teressa and Janie came up. I love hangin with my sis!

We took a little drive to town to grab some lunch...great local sandwich/pizza place! Too bad it was infested with COCKROACHES! Well okay a fake cockroach that Malinda had on one of those stupid lanyards that retract...she scared the living day lights out of me and loved every minute of it! I just had to document that because she did get me pretty good and I want to remember it :)

One fabulous find at the Country Flair clothing store was not only Silver Jeans but MOM jeans! Oh Malinda you crack me up!

Our 2nd day shirts were "Scrapook Hero"

This is our organized mess! Midge and Madge giving me their "mean" faces. Be afraid and don't mess with their family or friends or you will REGRET it! HAHA
Our annual stair sliding event at 3:00am. Steph was a newbie to the thrill and thought she could one up us and go down with 3 mats! Sorry penelope! Didn't really work out. LOL Day Three was my favorite shirt "I run with decorative scissors" We had a couple of furry friends also join us. This healthy guy was an UNWANTED guest at the retreat! Funny thing is he was SO friendly and not scared of anybody. He must have been someones pet.
THEN this sweet little kitten wandered in one night while we had the door open to let some cool air in. I am a huge cat lover and this little thing spent the rest of the retreat with us. He would just jump on your lap and lay down. Oh and he purred so loud! SO FREAKIN CUTE!
A few of us decided to head down to the hot tub. The hot tub is enclosed by huge windows and as we were sitting there soaking our tired bones we saw the sweet kitty...THEN the Raccoon! I guess these 2 animals were friends lol. We spent the next half hour planning our escape route. The Raccoon was pacing back and forth along the windows...at one point he left so we thought we were safe...NOPE! As soon as Madge opened the door he was back! Our fearless Midge finally took one for the team and headed out. It went pretty well...we hung our towels down and kind of whooshed him away. Oh we got some good laughs out of that one.

Oh the last day! What a sad, sad day!

Our shirts said "BAM! I finished 293472394 layouts in 3.5 seconds"

My aunt wanted to hold my bum..sicko! LOVE YOUR GUTS!

Thank you girls for another WONDERFUL trip! I really don't know what I would do without you!