Monday, January 24, 2011

WSR - aka Winter Suite Retreat!!

I look forward to WSR every year, not only knowing that I'll get a lot of scrapbooking done but also knowing I'll have fun with whomever gets to come that year!! This year was an exception - all 3 girls came!!! They planned it a year in advance with their hubbies to make sure the guys each had the weekend off and could babysit the kids!!

We also booked an "executive suite" for the weekend which basically means it's a HUGE room to set up the scrapbooking tables and we all LOVED having the large room to spread out!! Jaime and Jessi had the tables up by the time I arrived and before we knew it, Jill had arrived too and we all got set up and started in!!



We always love the Happy Hour the Embassy Suites puts on and it's always a good time to see the other scrappers and do some visiting!!

Our consultant, Stacey, always provides dinner the first night so after eating our subs and yummy chocolate cake, we really got down to business!! Jessi and I were in the FIRST batch of winners that night for prizes so basically got our choice - Jessi picked a dragonfly puncher which is cute as can be and I picked a puncher that has 4 tiny objects - a frog, a butterfly, a clover and one other which I can't seem to remember - anyway they're darling and I'm so glad I picked that prize!!
We scrapbooked and ate and then scrapbooked some more and ate - fruit and nuts and caramel popcorn and little sausages and homemade cookies and M & M's and hot apple cider and more chocolate...............we were stuffed by the time we headed to bed about 11:00 PM! And we all had a good night's sleep.........To be continued.............

3 comments:

ahh bear said...

That looks like so much fun (even though I don't scrapbook) - do you meet with other scrapbookers or go to classes?

Teri said...

Sounds like a great time and what is better than spending it with your kids!

Becky Raymond said...

Amanda - they used to do "crop talks" that we would attend but now there's no more classes - we all just SCRAPBOOK hours upon hours!! In years past, we have put our pages in the hallway and then all the scrappers walked around to look at them - fun getting different ideas!!