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Glam Lumberjack Jam

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I went to a dance party hosted by Susan Peterson, the owner of Freshly Picked.  The theme was Lumberjack Glam and it was for all the mamas that wanted to dance their ax off!  Over 300+ mamas came to shake it and it was so much fun.  It’s funny how I never go to dance parties now since I’m married with 3 kids, but I went to two dance parties in one month!  I’m so wild and crazy, I know.  I think being a mom is very isolating at times and you don’t get much adult interaction, so I think it’s great they are starting to have parties for us moms.

photos via justin hackworth & smilebooth
I danced my ax off so hard it was hurtin’ the next morning! 🙂

girl’s camp part two

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day two/last day of camping with my girlfriends
(see day one post here.)
the hike was pretty intense.  many times the trail was only a few feet wide
and they had long chains on the side for you to hold on to.
on our drive back home.
the song girls just wanna have fun came on which called for side ponytails and dancing. 🙂

i love girlfriends.  i don’t think i can be a happy person without them.  i ache for their presence and get withdrawls if i don’t see them for a long time.  do i sound needy or what! 😀  my girlfriends are the people i admire, respect, and love dearly and they’re more like sisters to me.  they each have qualities i look up to and i think they’re just the bomb!  not to mention they’re my true friends, which are hard to find.
friends come and go but true friends will always stay next to you no matter what.  true friends aren’t jealous of your success or happiness but they genuinely rejoice with you along the way.  and cry with you through the difficult times.  true friends are honest with you and will tell you things they know you don’t want to hear but they tell you what you need to hear.  true friends don’t tear each other down just to be hurtful, or to make themselves feel better but give constructive criticism instead.  true friends aren’t afraid to be themselves because they know their friends will accept them just the way they are.  true friends give back just as much as they receive, emotionally, over time.  true friends you keep for the rest of your life.
i’m so, so grateful i have so many true friends in my life.  here’s to friendships! 🙂

girl’s camp part one.

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my girlfriends and i went camping at the zions national park for our girls’ trip.
have you ever heard of girls taking a girls’ trip to go camping?  us neither!
but somebody’s gotta be the first to do it and we had such a blast, i want to go again!
right when we got to the campsite, what’s the first thing we did?  EAT of course!
after we got our bodies fueled up, we went on a hike. 
we treaded water 90% of the time, and the water was FREEZING.
and there was a man right in front of us in his….um….undies? 
and my friend becky said to us, “hurry, sarah and janie!  go right behind that man
so i can take a picture! ”  so we tried to catch up to him and apparently janie was
a little too excited at the idea and went off running and tripped on a rock
and fell into the cold, freezing water.
see janie’s little feet on the right corner? 
my FAVORITE moment of the trip right here. 😉
and we conquered.
i think the girls were a little worried about me in the beginning of the hike
because if there was a big step to do down or something, not one, not two,
but three girls would be below me, reaching out their hands to help me get down
 or when the water was a little rough they thought i’d “get drifted away by the water”
and when one of my friends becky almost tripped before i grabbed her
and saved her life from the endless depths of the sea(you’re welcome) she said,
“whoa! who would’ve thought sarah would help me?” hahaha.
but to their surprise(and me too), they said i had stamina and i was
one of the ones leading everybody else in the end!
and i found my new favorite hobby: hiking.  i love it!