Girl's Out Over-Nighter

Girl's Weekend

June 2011

Most of us in this group have been friends a very long time.  We are a Bunko group of friends who at one time or another have been neighbors, attended the same church, had babies, adopted babies, had grandbabies, got married, got "un-married", had surgery, experienced death of a child, experienced death of a parent, moved across town, moved out-of-state, been employed, been unemployed, lost a home to fire, sold a home, bought a home, gained weight, lost weight, married off children, vacationed, party-ed and basically "done life" etc. etc.  No, we've not all personally had all these experiences, but we've each had a variety of these life-experiences and we've survived it all TOGETHER.  What a blessed, happy, goofy, lovely group of friends we are!

The Bunko Group still meets once a month to EAT play Bunko, however they do it minus me, since I'm the one who moved out-of-state.  But we ALL gather once a year for our "over-nighter". 

One year we gather on Grand Lake in Oklahoma at Helen's house

and the next year we gather in Louisiana

(at my house).

This is one of my favorite occasions

of each year.

This was our year to meet in Oklahoma.

We always meet on a Friday evening
for dinner at the Hostess' home.
This kicks-off our overnight fun.

We eat.
We sip a little wine.
And we do lots of laughing & talking!

The next day we always take a

shopping trip some place
and "do" lunch.
This year we went to
Sandstone Gardens.
It is pure "eye-candy-Heaven"
for home decorating.

I took some photos to show you -

Have you ever seen so many pretty

things in one place??

Be still my heart.

Mmmmmm.

Beautiful.

This place is JY-NOR-MOUS!

Two stories tall with more "pretties"

than the eye can take in.

It even has a Bistro within it's walls,

cause heaven knows

"Shopping Girls Gotta Eat"!

I am seriously perusing the menu.

Food is no laughing matter.

Obviously!

One of the real "sweet treats" of the weekend was the fact

that I got to spend time with my daughter.
I bet you know her, "Momof3girls"
at Land of Fluff. 
Can you believe I have this beautiful
red-haired daughter?

NOW,

for the moment I'm sure you've been waiting for.
(drum roll)
Do you want to know what I bought?

This.

AND

This.

Can you find where I put it?

(On the very bottom of this

stand in the Breakfast Room)

All the pretty things I feasted my eyes on

and I basically came home with a

BOWL-OF-FRUIT.

I woulda/could/shoulda

done better.
LOL!!

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Please come visit me tomorrow

when I will tell you the

story within the story,

which explains why I have no

photos of the first night

of our Over-nighter.

I call the post, "Party Pooper".

Till tomorrow . . .