Girl Time!!!



This last saturday was a day well needed. I was able to go spend some "girl" time with the women who mean the most to me in my life. Not all were able to attend due to travel distances but most were able to make it. It was a gorgeous spring day...the sun was shinning, there was a slight breeze in the air, and we were headed to catheys valley for an annual spring event held by a lady from our church. Her name is Teresa Anderson. She holds these annual spring events at her home every year  I believe for the past 8 years...and they are absolutly AMAZING! Not only is her events amazing but it's held at her gorgeous home up in the hills of catheys valley. When I mean gorgeous...I mean magazine dream house home on a 5 acre lot. My Dad actually told Teresa's husband one time " I think you are going to be distapointed when you get to heaven." Now I don't think that would be true lol but that just goes to show how amazingly beautiful her house it. Go to her blog site at the bottom of the page to learn more about the event recently held. This year she held what was titled "Vintage Spring Sorbet" As I am sure you can imagine everything was "Vintage" style. Let me take you on a short tour of it.

When we first arrived they had different areas though out her fromt yard that they had diplayed vintage style photo props to take some pictures of yourself or of friends. It went from vintage kites, to vintage style bikes, frames that hung from the trees to "frame" yourself, etc ect etc. We had a blast with that!!



Uuumm... can you tell we had a blast with that by the photo below?...LOL..WOW! Crazy girls. This is how we all get when we don't have any kids around. We all start to act like kids...LOVE IT!



They had plenty of things to do. After the fun "picture" taking was over. They had a bunch of different vintage crafts to do, fun shopping with many cute things to choose from, roasting marshmellow peeps (not pizzas...peeps...inside joke..lol), different varieties of yummy frozen sorbets to taste all day long if you'd like, yummy drink stands with added treats such as gumdrops, taffy, a cute garden area filled with vintage fun gardening decor, the cutest shed that I've ever seen she has all dressed up with adorable canopes, and so so much more.



They had a bunch of these cute flags hanging everywhere along with the vintage look of flowers in a mason jar. 



There was even a cooking show taught by Chef Sam, her son. The appetizers he shared were...AMAZING!! I gotta get the recipes.

Then we made our way to have a fabulous professionlly catered lunch. Oh sooo yummy! I was too hungry to take pics of the lunch...sorry.

Last but definitly not least we were greeted by song writter and singer Mindy Gledhill!! I actually have never heard of her or her songs but alot of people there had. I have to say I bought 2 of her CD's while I was there. I like her alot. Her voice reminds me of Colbie Calliet a bit. Here is a couple of my favorite songs of hers...so far. Click on the highlighted links below.

California

Crazy Love

Whole Wide World

Okay so I had to take a few pics of her. Isn't she a cutie?...I love her style...so stylish!!

What was so nice about this whole experiance is...you got all of this just for $30! I highly recommend you check out  Teresa Andersons Blog. As she holds these events annually just for women to get together and enjoy woman hood. I truly enjoyed this day with the women I love the most...I wish all  of you could have come...  We just might have to plan ahead of time next year in hopes we ALL can go. Thank you to the ladies who were able to make it..sure did make  for a fun, memorable day. Love You All and can't wait for next year!

My Sweet Savannah

I can remember the day you were born. You are what made me a Mommy for the first time 5 years ago today. I never knew how much love a mother could have for her child. Even after 5 years...my love for you my sweet Savannah has only grown. We have enjoyed watching you grow the past 5 years. From the very beginning you have had such a contagious smile and laugh. But what we loved the most was your little since of humor. You always had a way to put a smile on our face.

You are a  strong little girl. You have been and have seen through some rough challenges in just your short 5 years on this earth. I know our Heavenly Father sent you for a reason. He needs his strongest children in the last days and I believe you are one of them. We as your parents have seen the strength you have within yourself and the challenges you have already endured so far. You are an example to us and your little sister.

We are blessed to have your sweet spirit in our home.

Our family wouldn't be the same with out you. Love You and Happy 5th Birthday!



Something To Make You Smile

So our little Madalyn has recently found a new favorite movie. She watches this movie OVER and OVER and OVER. She would watch it all day, and while in her sleep if I let her. I actually love seeing how much she loves this movie because it was MY all time favorite while growing up. And I have to say...I think I still love it the same as I did when I was younger :) I mean who could't love that curly,red headed little girl named Annie?...Have you seen that movie?...If you havn't you should. Below is a link to one of our favorite songs she sings on the video, I say "our" because not only do I love it but my girls love it too...especially our little Madalyn. Click Here to watch. So the other morning as we started to get ready for the day we had Annie playing in the backgroud on our TV and our Madalyn always sings the "Tomorrow" song at the top of her lungs around the house. So I decided to record her on my phone while she sang Annie's "Tomorrow" song. I just can't get enough of this video so I had to share. It definitly started my day with a smile :)



A proud Mommy I am

This past week I had one of my very first parent/teacher conferences with Savannah's preschool teachers. Yes you may be saying,"Really a parent/teacher conference for a preschooler?" Okay well..that's kind of what I was thinking when I first heard it. But actually it's kind of nice as a first time mother whose first child is going into kindergarten next fall to be able to see where she is with her learning skills. Since it's my first experiance with a child in school I have no clue where she should be...I always wonder, is she behind?...Is she ahead of the game? Am I challenging her enough? Am I challenging her too much?..Is she right on track? Anways, so the bottom line is it was nice having a parent/teacher conference for our preschooler. All my worries disappered after the conference, I walked out of the room feeling so proud of our little girl. The hard work that she put into this past year and I as her Mother had put into teaching her the past couple years while she was still at home during the day. Savannah's I guess you can say "report card" was a total of 101/104-this included her reading skills,writting skills, particiaption, recognizing shapes,numbers, the sounds of letters, the difference between a capital letter and lower case letter, ryming,ect. Her score for a kindergarten reading level was in the 90 percentile. Savannah loves to learn. She is much like her Daddy when it comes to that :) I know this is just the beginning of a super journey of schooling/learning ahead of us...but I definintly feel we are off to a great start.

When The Table Dances The Food Sings

This past saturday evening we had an "Adult Dinner" at my parents house. My Mom has started a tradition that we all love. Every few months she will have whats called and "Adult Dinner" at her home for her children and their spouses only...that means NO KIDS ALLOWED!! Now do you see why we all love it?..We get to spend our evening just talking as couples with no interuptions and enjoy amazing food cooked by my Mom. She loves entertaining with food...she is an amazing cook and makes the food look just as good as it tastes. She is the next Paula Deene. I have added a few pics from this past Adult Dinner and then a couple from the one before. My Mom not only makes a yummy 3 course meal but she decorates a beautiful table. Thanks Mom for this wonderful tradition that we all love.



Warning: Your mouth may start to water as you see this yummy food before your eyes

Appetizers/drinks

Salad

Aren't the colors in this salad AMAZING

Main meal

We all got served a whole baby chicken along with beautiful vegetables. Yes by this time we were extremely full

Dessert

I never got a photo of the dessert but it was an olive oil/rosemary cake. I know it sounds yucky but it is delicious.

Thanks again to the amazing chef who made it all happen

I thought I would add a few pics from our last adult dinner and also a couple of pics from last summer from our "Corn Bust" that I meant to put up. You may be asking what is a corn bust? I had no idea either. Apparently when my Mom was growing up her grandma would gather all the cousins, aunts, uncles,etc and gather tons and tons of corn and put out different types of toppings to put on the corn such as onions,cheese,salsa,etc and they would eat their tummys full of corn. It was actually alot of fun! The kids had a blast. Once again all these ideas and decor are ideas of my wonderful Mom.

The Last adult dinner-Chipino Feed

And....The Corn Bust

And to top that evening off...the ice-cream man came and Papa got all the grandkids an ice-cream! Love this picture. I know this is late getting these photos up but I just had to brag how amazing of a chef my Mom is.



I Love Sundays

I always love sundays. Sometimes I don't really care for the "getting ready" part of it in the mornings because I am left to do it alone due to Mike having early morning church meetings, and of course usually the girls are the crankiest on sunday mornings. But I love the fact that we all get dressed in our sunday best. I love how beautiful our girls are. And I always tell Mike that my favorite outfit from the day I met him is and will always be him in his church suit and tie. There is just something about him in a suit and tie that makes my heart pitter patter  (I never got a pic of him in his suit and tie to put up on the blog due to him at morning meetings on sunday) But like Grama always tells my girls an outfit is not complete without a "SMILE"