Church Par-tay

Stacy invited Penny and her family to our church Christmas party. I consider Penny my long lost sister. Honestly, it was one of the best church Christmas party's we've had. The food was good and the entertainment was stellar.

I don't know what I'd do without my mom and dad. They keep me in line.

Me and Penny. I think we kind of look alike. I love you Penny! Enough to wear lipstick. Yes, that much.

Some of my favorite people - I miss you Annie! Come back!

Adam sang Silent Night while J played guitar. Ummm...awesome!

Some of the young men sang "I'm Gettin' Nuttin' for Christmas". Pretty entertaining.

The highlight of the night - Dallin singing a Christmas song he wrote while Joe played guitar. It was seriously good.

Waiting in line for Santa:

Max loves Michael. He's the son I never had.

Only in AZ do you wear flip flops to a Christmas party.

Finally - a picture of Evan on Santa's lap! And it didn't cost me a cent :)

After the party we went and saw Breaking Dawn. Dang I love that movie. When we came home Ben was asleep on the couch like this:

It was a good day :)

At the Ho

For Mother's Day weekend, Tiffany got passes to a spa event. She was also able to get a room at the Valley Ho (a super awesome retro hotel in Scottsdale). Woo hoo!!! We had such a great time. Here are Penny and Lisa posing while Tiffany was checking in: I love Lisa's Blue Steel face.

Then we checked into our super cool room. I loved the decor (which you can't really see in any of these pictures - but trust me, it was cool).
Sooo....we went to the spa event - walked around a bit and got a bag full of free loot. Then we sat in the car and giggled over all of our stuff. It was like Christmas morning! There was a coupon for a free blow-out, a coupon for a facial, philosophy mosturizer, perfume...and much more! Here's a picture of some of the stuff:

After the event we went to dinner at that super good mexican food restaurant that we had went to back in October. I forgot the name. We had so much fun chatting and being silly. Our waiter brought us a free dessert because we were so charming. Then we ventured over to Fashion Square to see "Something Borrowed" at the movie theater. After we headed back to our hotel and chatted until the wee hours. I think I fell asleep around 1:30 but Lisa and Tiffany were still chatting away.

The next morning we checked out and had breakfast at a cute little joint called Butterfields. The strawberry shortcake pancakes were AWESOME. Like super duper awesome. And then we headed over to Anthropologie. I think the salespeople there thought we were a little crazy because we'd try something on and then congregate in Lisa's dressing room - giving each other critiques. I got a pair of $165 Citizen of Humanity jeans for $20. I'm not lying. We all got some awesome deals.

One of my favorite parts of the day was at the end when we went to Target. Lisa was desperate to buy something - the only thing she had bought so far was a pair of pants at Anthro for $20. We kept encouraging her to try things on. But she didn't want to use the dressing room - so she tried a skirt on in the back of the women's section with me, Tiffany and Penny standing around her. I don't think I've laughed that hard in a long time. I will forever have a picture of Lisa shimming over to the mirror with her pants around her ankles. Awesome.

Now that summer is around the corner, I hope to hang out with these girls more.

Thank you Tiffany for a great weekend!