Gratitude continues to be on my mind a lot. And now I have even more to be grateful for because I just spent a few days with some of my very dearest friends.
The destination: Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The occasion: We try to do this every year.
The secret to (9) thirty-something moms being able to do this: Amazing husbands and families who are supportive of our yearly girl time.
The best part of it all: I come home exhausted and yet completely refreshed. I am grateful for friends who uplift and inspire me. We all love motherhood. We all adore our husbands. This isn’t about escaping our lives at home. This is about reconnecting, reminiscing, laughing our heads off, and just plain having fun.
And it always, always feels best to come back home.
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We missed the peak of Fall colors, but Colorado Springs is beautiful and the weather was perfect. We spent a lot of time outdoors (thanks to our hostess with the mostest who happens to be the athlete of the group). I even experienced about 12 miles of mountain-biking for the first time and l-o-v-e-d it.
(We got a few cell phone pictures. No trekking around with an actual camera.)
Another big personal highlight was making it to the top of “The Incline” in Manitou Springs, CO. While it’s not literally vertical, it sure the heck felt like it. My sea-level lungs were not used to that altitude but it was sooo worth the climb.
I’ll claim the glow-in-the-dark legs on the far left. Those legs climbed over 2,000 feet, reaching an 8,595-foot elevation. Which is why we felt okay busting out the chocolate later on.
We can’t get together without some sort of creating or crafting. That’s part of what brought us together 8 years ago. My main project was putting together a couple floral arrangements for our friend who hosted everyone in her beautiful home. Isn’t this pot terrific?
And we helped her with a little mantel makeover. We found everything (pots, flowers, mirror, decor) at Hobby Lobby … and it was all 50% off so woo-hoo for that.
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Anyway — I’m happily back to “regular” life again and will soon be sharing …
- Winners from the holiday card design contest
- Free holiday card template downloads (resulting from the contest)
- Sneak peeks and more information about the new Project Life stuff coming early December
- Answers to your questions
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But first — the randomly selected winner of last week’s Posh Lily giveaway is Becky in Port Orchard, Washington! Congratulations Becky. Just shoot an email to poshlily@gmail.com and she’ll hook you up.
Tags: biking, colorado, floral design, flower arrangement, friends, hiking, incline, interior design, mantle makeover
How fun!! I would love to do something like this. It’s fantastic that you have friends who make it a priority.
It looks like you had a great time. And chocolate doesn’t need an occasion to be eaten. It’s for every day happiness! :0)
OH MAN! What a great weekend… love it. Love the mantel… my kiddos had the stomach virus this weekend… but since our weekend got wiped clean… I got A LOT of things done! In between loads of laundry! ~ kim
Sounds like a wonderful weekend! Love the mantel and Becky, only you could make a bike helmet look so stylish!!!!
That is awesome! It has been WAY too long since getting together for a girls weekend… hmmm, will have to do this sometime soon (before the snow flies).
by the way, love your purple shirt!
Becky, WOOHOO for you climbing the Incline! I visited my sister last year and Colorado Springs is SO pretty! I absolutely LOVED it!! Sounds like you had a wonderful time!!
Oh, the incline. A familiar view here. I lived here two years before I got up enough nerve to climb it. I think I rested more than I climbed, but it’s definitely something on the “must do” list in the Springs.
You couldn’t have come at a better weekend too. It was 80 degrees in November!!
You always get great group pictures. I love the one of ya’ll walking up the hill too. If those are both from a cell phone, I’m impressed! I have a big group of girlfriends I scrap with and I want to get a good pic of us all together. I always say, “I want a Becky Higgins group picture” and they know what I mean. LOL!
Love this! My girlfriends and i are heading away this weekend for our weekend away… which we call “Momcation.”
Sounds like an awesome time for your circle of friends.
How fun! I am so glad you had fun in Colorado Springs. We have lived here for four years and just love it!
I live in Colo. Springs and we would love for you to come and teach some classes.
Glad you had such a good weekend with special friends. Friends are definitely Gods gift to us.
My girlfriends from college have been doing this every year since the early 90s!
(When I say “this” I don’t mean all the climbing though!) We usually stay in pj’s, eat good food, sometimes craft, and mostly just catch up and enjoy being together! It’s such a great tradition!
Glad you had fun biking but PLEEEEEEASE post a sneak peek before December about the new Project Life. That system has REINVENTED my photo keeping life and I am SO excited about the next kit.
PLEEEEEEEASE just one or two wee tiny little pictures…I can’t wait for December…I. Must. See. Now…;-)