My Most Favorite Time of the Year

GIRLS WEEKEND!!!  Seriously does it get any better than working out with your sister, eating good food together, sleeping in a hotel and shopping, shopping and MORE shopping?!!  The best tradition we have ever created!  So Alise was the only one to come to Utah this year but that didn’t stop us from having a great weekend!  She flew in on Thursday and we had non stop laughing until Sunday night!  My kids even made this exact comment “Mom, I have not seen you laugh like this in a long time!”  Ok, so that is really sad that my kids would say that but really having your sister in town makes all the worries go away!  It has been quite a few years since Alise has been to Utah so having the kids older was great!  Less whining and more playing!

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Alise had her first Crossfit workout at the gym I go to.  It also happened to be the Open WOD of 14.3.  Heavy Deadlifts and box jumps for 8 minutes.  Alise was breathing harder than she has ever breathed in a workout and was sore for days from the deadlifts!  She did awesome though lifting 105 LBS 69 times!!

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We went out to Cubby’s for lunch after our workout and then got scalp massages at the beauty school while the kids were at school.  What a way to start the weekend!  After we got the kids home from school we made sure everyone was good and took off to Salt Lake.  Actually we never made it quite to Salt Lake City.  We made it as far as Murray and South Jordan.  All the stores we ever needed were there!  We checked into our hotel “Home 2 Suites” which was above and beyond what we thought it would be!  Full kitchen, couch, continental breakfast, completely new and only $70!  It really saved us a lot of money not staying in downtown!  Then we headed to dinner to our traditional “Cheesecake Factory”.  We took cheesecake to go and ate it in the room later that night, also our tradition!  We shopped Friday night and Saturday and got some great deals!  Our favorite stores being Express, Bohme, Nordstrom Rack and DSW shoes.  After lunch at Olive Garden we were feeling a little drained and tired!  So we went to get a pedicure.  Just what we needed to tackle our last store of Nordstrom Rack!  Our last stop on the way home was “Waffle Love” where I introduced Alise to the best waffles ever!  We got home surprisingly early at 5 pm Saturday but we were pooped!  Thanks Alise for another great weekend and to our hubbies who held down the houses while we were gone!  Just what these mommies needed!

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Comments

Enriquez Family said…
What a blast! Now you need to come hete and I take you to waffle window!
March 27, 2014 at 10:36 AM
Candace and Brian said…
2 beautiful girls! How fun to spend the weekend together.
April 2, 2014 at 8:11 PM
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