We spent Thanksgiving with my parents this year. It’s a Rose tradition to go bowling after eating our big turkey dinner, and before everyone sits down and falls asleep. The kids love it and look forward to this tradition each year. Here’s a few snap shots from today. What Pro’s!
Yup, we did it again. To be honest, up until recently, I didn’t actually think we would be hosting another Twilight party this year. The one we did last year was fun, and was truly a hit with all the lady friends we roll with, but I didn’t really anticipate that I would take part in putting another one on. But, as the release of New Moon got closer it was made clear to me that most of the ladies from last year were planning on it and couldn’t wait to see what we would come up with this year.
With some pressure from many of my friends, I got to thinking….what the heck. Let’s make it happen.
My friend Mamie from the Fairchild Movie Theater called to let me know that Summit Entertainment was letting a few groups view the movie New Moon the day before it was actually released and offered that opportunity to us. Can anyone say SWEET!
Jenne made our awesome passes this year. She is a superstar with this kind of stuff and did the most fantastic job we could have imagined.
Jenne, Kathy, and I had a ton of fun emailing all 185 women we invited. We made sure that each email was sent in character. Literally, IN CHARACTER. It was a blast. Once we wrote the email as Bella. Another time we wrote as Charlie. Another was as Jessica. Alice even got her turn to say a few things. We made sure they were full of fun and wit.
We even sent out a quiz asking trivia from the book. Based on answers, we created some prizes for the gals, which added to the fun of the event. Linda made a quilt that was raffled off. It was a hit!
Here are a few of our prize winners. “Come on Down!!!”
Thanks for all of the fun this month ladies, Maybe we’ll see ya again in June when Eclipse is released:)
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.
Here’s a group shot of most of the ladies from this weekend
Thanks for all of the fun memories girls.
