Girls catch-up weekend

I invited a bunch of girlfriends up to Camp Zarahemla this weekend for a little ladies retreat. The purpose of the trip was to get caught up on unfinished projects and at the same time have fun, unwind and relax up in the mountains. I have done a couple of these kinds of get-a-ways in the past and have totally loved them.

I had to take the back row of seats out of my van to fit all of our crafting stuff, bedding and food for the weekend. We even filled up the car topper on the top of the van.

Usually when our van is packed this full it is because we are packing for a family of 7. The sad truth about this weekend however, is that there was only 2 of us in this car :) Now that’s a whole lot of fun!

After unloading and grabbing a bunk bed :) we wasted no time getting down to business. Everyone broke out their projects and got started. There was a little bit of everything going on… Scrapbooking, coloring FHE lessons, re-touching photos on the computer, sewing, guitar playing, digital scrapbooking, wreath making, knitting, homework, organizing recipes, wooden family blocks, making count down to Christmas candy chains, and a few ladies just read, watched movies, and visited.

We stayed up late and when I got up the next morning this is what I saw out the window next to my bed. YEAH!!!! IT'S SNOWING!!!!

It snowed all day. It was so pretty. I loved being in a cabin, in the mountains, with a fire going, drinking hot chocolate and snow falling all around.

Jenne brought up a couple of camera lenses to play around with and test out. She asked for models and had lots of volunteers. She ended up taking almost everyone out in the snow for their very own photo shoot. All of the pictures turned out great and everyone had a lot of fun posing like a super model.

Here are a few of my favorites.

At the end of the day when we were just about ready for bed I started feeling bad that Jenne had gone out and took all of these pictures of everyone else but she didn’t have any of herself so I grabbed her for a little 1am, impromptu photo shoot of her own. Here are a few of my favorite poses.

WORK IT, JENNE.

The next day was back to work. I was able to start and complete two digital photo books, one for Alaina and one for Hailey. I was also able to make each of them a new blanket. Both of these are Christmas gifts for them this year. After all the hard work, I really hope the girls like these things.

By the 3rd night most of the ladies were ready for a little break from their projects so we finally broke out the games. We all got a little Wacky playing Wacky 6. But the real wacky side of us came through when we combined it with Truth or Dare. Now that was fun!

Here’s a group shot of most of the ladies from this weekend

Thanks for all of the fun memories girls.