Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Sister's Weekend Part 1

So it's been two years since we've had a sister's weekend. This was LONG overdue and quite possibly much too short but it was well worth it! Tiff had us over to her place in Salt Lake from Friday to Saturday. Below is a picture of all of us (and Ben! He stayed for a bit and then took his kids back home) who came. We missed Mom, Tawnja, Guppy, Tran and Kally who weren't able to make this one...bummer!
Back row: Ben, Brenda, Karmen, Nadja.
Middle: Deb-T, Tracy, Valerie, Jen.
Front and center: Tiffy who is 11 weeks pregnant!

Me, Tracy, Val and Tiff started off sister's weekend by running a few errands before the others arrived. We found this awesome place that had killer deals on modest shirts and dresses. It's a small warehouse in Salt Lake by Tiff's house...the DownEast Clothing line. We seriously found shirts for $2.50 and dresses for $7.50! Everyone else arrived about 5:30 that night (coming from Idaho). We had artichokes for dinner, which is a Campbell delicacy! Then everyone brought food to share. Karmen made our traditional avacado sister's night dip and Nadja brought some Danish abelskiver...just to name a few. We had so much to eat but that's part of all the fun! We kept going back for more again and again...


One or our new traditions that Tiff came up with, was to bring "our favorite things" to sister's night. We each bought, made or came up with something to bring that we considered one of our favorite things...and gave one to everyone in the group. It's a little bit hard to do because we have a $3 per person limit so it doesn't get too expensive. That was SO MUCH FUN! This first picture below is of Brenda. She brought some dried apples that she had made, and a roll of very pretty scrapbook paper.

This one is of Karmen who had made handmade greeting and birthday cards, and her favorite candy bar, an Idaho spud!

These were some of the shirts we found at DownEast! What a find, Val! We were all excited about these... Notice "Charlie" in the background about to take a bit of Val's head.

Ok, since I'm computer challenged, I can't figure out how to make my pictures smaller. It will only let me put 5 pictures on per post so you'll have to go down to the next post to see the rest of the pics from sister's night.

8 comments:

Traci said...

How fun!!! I am jealous!
I did a girls trip a while back and I did the same thing and had us each bring our favorite thing! Got some fun stuff too!
Loved hearing about yours!

Kally said...

Im so glad everyone had so much fun, but did you guys do a pryamid? Dont you guys always do that? Tiff is cute in the front and her pregnant but not big with child yet!!! So cute!! How fun!

Allie said...

Looks like fun! I am glad that you guys finally had another sisters night! Even though I am not a sister I agree that you should have more because I get to see my cousins when you guys have them!

Briana said...

wow looks like you guys had an awesome time! I LOVE everyones little gifts that they brought!

Camille said...

Wow- that looks like you girls had a blast! Good for you! Girls need that cause guys have TONS of stuff they do :)

Tiff George said...

Ha ha...you're right - we DID word things almost the same! Oopsy... I DID steal some pics from your blog, but I didn't think I stole all your words, too. This was a blast and I'm already missing all of you!

Tiff George said...

Ooh, and I just remembered you asked me to email you my pics from girls night...I'm on it right now!

val said...

This was sooooooo fun! I'm glad you got pics of everyone with their gifts. Good memories! I'm laughing at your comment about Charlie getting me!! ANd I love my M! Plus, I loved your comment about cleaning you left on my blog. It makes a world of difference when it is clean! Let me live in the temple, please! Anyway, I got my bathrooms and kitchen clean, and it already feels so very nice! Miss you dearly, my cutest Deb-T!

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