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Girls Day Catch Up

I have been such a slacker on keeping this blog updated. I decided to do a quick post to catch up on documenting our girls day adventures.

April 09
This was a random girls day. We were going to meet for lunch at Mothers downtown and it was too busy. We ended up walking to Pazzo's deli for lunch. We were then going to go to the DaVinci exhibit at OMSI, but that was also insane. We ended up going to bunch of random places.....Habitat for Humanity Restore, Rejuvenation, and Whole Foods.

May 09
Our annual Mothers Day trip down to Corvallis. We went to the Farmers Market and the bazaar on campus. We had lunch at Old World Deli and then hit Marcella's in Turner for plants.

June 09
We went to the Hillsboro Farmers Market and bought more plants for our garden. We had lunch at our favorite tea place and hit some antique shops. Mmmm...Hungarian mushroom soup.

July 09
We went to the Salem Art Fair and had lunch at a crepe place.

August 09
We skipped this month, which was really good since I had terrible morning sickness the whole month.

September 09
We went to Sauvies Island and did the corn maze and visited Cistus Nursery. We then drove to Scappose and had lunch at an Italian place.

This weekend we are meeting up to go to the Saturday Market in Salem and then we are planting bulbs for every season in pots in Mom's greenhouse. Can't wait!

Girls Day: March 2009

For our March event we all met up at the Hallie Ford Museum at Willamette University. My Mom and Aunt have lived in Salem for a long time and had never been, so we decided to check it out. They had an exhibit of ancient oil lamps that was very cool and they have a large permanent collection. It was definitely worth the $3 admission.

After that we went out for lunch at Mom's new favorite place called "Word of Mouth" and it was great. It had a great atmosphere and that food was delicious. I am still thinking about the seafood soup I had that had a great lemon tang to it. Anyways, we sat there for quite some time and talked and had a great time.

We were also planning to visit a textile museum, but ran out time. We will have to keep that on the list for another rainy day.

Feb 09: Girls Day

I don't have any pictures for this post because it was a super random day. Our plan was that we were all going to go to lunch and then go to the Davinci exhibit at OMSI. Sounds simple right?

Well....After alot of thinking, we decided to all meet at Mother's downtown. Poor Erin got lost and when we got there is was a 30 min wait even though it was 1pm. We decided that we did not want to wait so we wandered around and were having a hard time finding something that was open for lunch on a Saturday. After visiting 5+ places, we decided to eat at the Pazzo's Deli, which was great. We then went back to our cars and said goodbye to Erin because she had to get back to her sick baby :(

We then jumped in the car and headed over to OMSI. We finally found parking and when we walked in there was the line of all lines to get tickets. I am not even kidding when I say there were probably 500 people in line. We decided it was not worth it, so we headed over to Rejuvenation to wander around and get coffee. Then I took everyone to the Habitat for Humanity Re-store, which is a really random place. After that, we went to Whole Foods and dinked around. Aunt Carol was able to get some more purple rice, so that was good.

Anyway, it was the most random day ever, but was still tons of fun. That is what I like about these monthly meetings....we don't have to do anything too exciting, but it is still alot of fun.

What are we doing in March????

PS-For documentation purposes we skipped the month of January

Girls Day: December 08

 

 

So instead of making cookies like last year, we decided to do something healthier by making wreaths. This was a super fun project and I highly recommend it. We watched a very unhelpful video on YouTube and got to work. It was fun to see how different everyones wreaths were even though we were using the same set of supplies. I of course went the tacky route with my hot pink/purple ribbon, Erin used her expert bow making skills, Aunt Carol's wreath was put together like a professional, and Mom can make 3 wreaths for every one I can make. She is fast!

Aunt Carol also made us a great lunch, we played with Lilli, and watched part of the civil war game. It was a great day!

What are we doing for January??

Girls Day: November 08

 

For the month of November we all met up at Erin's place and had a tea party a place called the Stratford House Tea Parlour in downtown Hillsboro. This was Lilli's first girls day event and tea party, so it was very special. Even Grandma came along! After tea, we checked out a few antique stores and of course my Mom and I found some treasures we could not live without.

It was a very fun day and I am excited to have a new member of our girls club. :)

October Girls Day

 
Momma and Grandma to be

We all met over at Erin's house and got a tour of her nursery, which was super cute. We then hit the Beaverton Farmers market and it was great. I had never been to that one and was surprised at how large it was. I bought 35lbs of tomatoes and was very glad that Aunt Carol scored rock star parking. After that we had a leisurely lunch at Hall Street and sat on the patio, which was great. We then hit Beaverton Bakery on our way home.

Erin proclaimed that she was going to have her baby late and predicted it would be October 19th. She ended up having her baby early and here is a cute picture of Miss Lillian Nicole with her new Grandma

      

We all look forward to having a new girl in our monthly gatherings!

Girls Day at the Art Fair

The girls posing in the lobby of Marco Polo

This month we decided to attend the Salem Art Fair. Mom is so into the fair that she volunteered to work at the Art Fair run at 6am! There was no way I was going to do that, so I met up with Aunt Carol and Erin at a more reasonable 9:30am and we went to a garage sale, grabbed coffee, and then went to the Salem Farmers Market, which is huge. Here is a picture of us posing in a flower booth.

Isn't Erin's belly so cute!!

After that, we met up with Mom and the art fair and I of course forgot to take any pictures while we were there. I would love to say that the art fair was my favorite part of the day, but it wasn't. My favorite part of the day was eating at Marco Polo. This is the most random restaurant I have ever been to, but it is great! They have an asian menu, a vegetarian menu, and a european menu. I have been there twice and always order off of the asian menu because everything comes with this really good and healthy purple rice. It is a custom mixture of three types of rice (red, black, brown) and I plan on spending time this week trying to figure out how to make it.

After lunch, we went back to Aunt Carols place to check out her garden. I took lots of pictures and will be writing about that in a separate post. Uncle John was nice enough to pick me a ton of marionberries and I told him I would make him some jam with them. However, I just used most of them to make homemade ice cream and it was so good!! I have a feeling he can appreciate that. :)

We are probably going to take August off because Erin is hosting an air show party at her house and we are hosting Mangelstock....Oh and we took last August off and we like to do the same activities in the same order every year. :)

Girls Day at the Japanese Gardens

Each month, I get together with my Mom, my Aunt Carol, and my Cousin Erin and we go out and do something for the day. We started this in Feb 2007 and here is what we did last year:

• February- Antiquing in Sellwood and lunch at Caprials
• March-Wine tasting and lunch at Reedville Cafe
• April-Shopping in the rain at Bridgeport Village
• May-Moms Weekend at OSU and plants at Marcella's
• June-Heirloom Roses, Ferguson's Fragrant Nursery, lunch in St. Paul
• July-Salem Art Fair and lunch at Gerry Franks Konditorei
• August-Skipped this month
• September-Race for the Cure, Saturday Market and brunch at the Springwater Grill
• October-Skipped this month
• November-Tea House in Albany
• December-Made Christmas cookies and went to the Pittock Mansion

Here is what we have done so far in 2008

• January-Antiquing in Aurora
• February-Ikea
• March-Antiquing in Lafayette and wine tasting in Dundee
• April-Woodburn Tulip Festival and lunch in Mt. Angel
• May-Moms weekend at OSU

For this months event (June) we went to the Japanese Gardens and had lunch at Elephants Deli in NW Portland. Mom and Aunt Carol came over around 9am and we went to check out an Amish high chair/desk/rocking horse in N. Portland, which Aunt Carol purchased for her upcoming Grandbaby. We then went to get coffee at Blue Gardenia on Mississippi and then went back to my house to drop off the new baby item. I was supposed to grab a coupon I had for the Japanese Gardens, which I forgot, so we had to go back. When I grabbed the coupon it said it was good for 4 admissions, so I didn't need it anyway. The reason I am telling you all of this is because all of this dinking around allowed us to make it to the Japanese Gardens less than 5 minutes before Erin got there, so everything worked out perfectly. Here are some pictures from our tour...Aren't we Cute!