24 Hours of Fun!!

Earlier this spring, I was the maid of honor at my friend, Lisa's wedding. She had a fabulous cake from Cheri's Bakery, but of course, I couldn't eat any of it since I was still nursing the babe. I believe it was then that we started planning our "Theresa can eat freely" slumber party.


Our first stop was Cheri's, of course! Lisa ordered me a chocolate with chocolate filling, No Mo Milk cake. I seriously cannot describe how good it was or how sick I made myself eating way too much of it!!





Next we ran to Gymboree for the Circle of Friends sale. I picked up a few things including a green jumper Katie really wanted, a soccer shirt that Kelton picked out and a wingman hat for Konnor.




We grabbed some lunch at Chili's, including a pomegranate margarita. YUM! While we were there, we colored chili peppers for St Judes, a charity close to my heart that we regularly support.



Then we hit up JoAnn's and Target and headed back to Lisa's house to get ready for mass.

Lisa is Catholic and I was raised Catholic. I haven't been to mass forever and was really looking forward to going, but a wicked little storm blew in with lots of wind, rain and lightening. So we ended up staying home and slipping into our comfy pants a little earlier than planned.

There was freezer cooking and crafting on our agenda, but first we whipped up a couple snacks....raspberry chipotle bean dip and cheesy guacamole bean dip. Soooo, good!


Next up was our cream soups for the freezer. It was very easy to modify the recipe just by subsituting So Delicious Coconut Milk and Namaste Perfect Flour Blend. We made my batch first to avoid any cross contamination. In just an hour, we finished 6 cans worth of allergy friendly cream of chicken, 4 cans worth of regular cream of chicken and 4 cans worth of regular cream of mushroom. I'm really trying to use less plastic so I froze some of mine in glass jars.




We cleaned everything up, ate another piece of cake, poured a glass of wine and broke out the craft supplies!


Oh and when we got bored with the wine, we had some of this....


I'm so thrilled with how my wreath came out. I wish I would have taken pictures of the process. I used...

a foam wreath
3 black boas
wooden letters to spell BOO
orange paint and glitter paint
orange ribbon

First, I painted the letters so that they'd have plenty of time to dry. Then I wrapped the boas around the wreath. They didn't even need to be very close because of the fullness of the boas. I attached the ends with a small piece of wire stuck into the foam. I was having trouble figuring out how to attach my letters. Finally, I ended up hot gluing a piece of wire to the back and wrapping it around the wreath. Because the boas are so full, they hide the wire. I attached an orange ribbon to hang it and Voila! The perfect Halloween wreath!


Lisa made a fall wreath, which I totally love. I plan to make one like it also so I have something to hang up when Halloween is over.


Lisa has a daughter a year older than Katie and we're planning a super fun play date in the near future. We've also excited to have another slumber party where we're going to make tons of different red velvet cake recipes! If you follow me on pinterest, you can see the ideas we're finding!

While Lisa and I were consuming enough calories to sustain a gorilla, Eric was at the lake with his parents and the kids. That will be the next blog. I'm trying to talk him into writing it!