Girls' Weekend

 Girls' Weekend usually means Kenzie and Aleah are coming down for their 2 or 3 night stay with us - but due to their hectic summer schedules, time was running out!!  In the meantime, Jill and Jessi always enjoy coming down for a weekend so they can get away from the daily summer grind and have time to themselves to blog and read!  Since school was starting in a couple of weeks, the ONLY choice was to have all 4 of them come at the same time - needless to say the young girls were NOT happy having their moms come too so they kind of pretended they weren't there......

Now these two 16 year olds, always want the PERFECT picture - so that's why they look SO GOOD in all the pictures I took!  They would look at the picture after I took it and if they didn't like the way they looked, they would ask if I would take it again!!  GIRLS!!!!  

I made mango daiquiris for the older girls and I -  non-alcoholic white peach daiquiris for these two!  Jaime and Brad came over for adjustments so they joined us for happy hour!

Game time!!  I can't tell you how many times we played rummikub, Phase 10, Skyjo, Skipbo, and the 7 game!!!  But I can tell you we only played 5 Crowns ONCE and then only 1/2 way through because I was in 2nd place and we had to stop so I could get dinner going!!!  And darn it, we never made it back to it!

We had a couple of really nice days!!  The crew all arrived late morning on Friday and then left Sunday after lunch so we had plenty of time together!  These two got some blogging done and reading!

One of the things the girls do when they come is to make chocolate chip cookie dough and between the 3 of us, (and this time with a little help from Jessi) we eat the entire batch raw!!!  YUM!!!  We also use my moms' old recipe which takes crisco - and it's hard to believe what it costs to buy a stick of crisco these days!!!!  

The batch turned out perfect!  Instead of using full size chocolate chips, they used the minis which worked out perfect because we don't eat it for the chocolate chips but for the dough!

The girls had made plans to go to Cripple Creek and celebrate all of their birthdays - don't they look great?  They had tickets to go to the Butte Theater and see Bee-Hive which was ladies singing the best female songs of the 60's - guess it was great!

They ate lunch at The District and said it was good!

And then walked around Cripple Creek and took some pictures!  After the theater, they went to the Teller County Fair and even saw some old friends from 4-H and school!

Meanwhile, the girls wanted to go to Goodwill to go "thrifting".  They love the Goodwill store we have in town so we headed in - and ironically, we ran into Rayna and Hez!!!  How fun!!  The girls found clothes to buy and then we went to the new thrift place and looked around!

Friday night dinner was Kenzie's choice of Spicy Crab Linguine and Saturday night dinner was Aleah's choice of Chicken Alfredo!  Both were great but next year we'll probably NOT have 2 pasta dishes in a row!

More games that evening......