weekend with the girls :)

This past weekend I went up to Park City with Ryan's mom and sisters. I must say, I have been very blessed to marry into a family that i adore as much as my own! We all had such a great time together!

We started the weekend off with the long drive to Park City, I must say though, that the drive went pretty quick considering we were talking the whole way up so it passed the time nicely :)

Kristin, Lauren, and me (the backseat gang)


Julie (the DD), and Kim

Once we got into Park City, we hit up Main Street first. We were all surprised at how cold the weather was so we went into a lot of little shops just to warm up. We found ourselves in one shop in particular that we were happy we found, it was called "Mountain Body" (website here). What intrigued us into the store was the sign advertising a cosmetic deli...never heard of one? well neither had we! In case you were wondering, this is what one looks like:

It has a bunch of different kinds of masks for face, and hair, etc. They are all made from herbs and organic things and you buy it in little tupperwares and pay by the weight. Well we all decided that since we were having a girls weekend, we HAD to do facials! So Kim got a tupperware of the "Mother Earth" mask. :) The sweet employee working there, also treated us to a hand treatment, it included a bunch of creams, scrubs, and lotions, and when we were all done, our hands were so smooth! We were all blown away, I don't think my hands have ever been that soft!


Here we are applying the hand treatment


And all of us before we left our new favorite store

For dinner that night, Julie had a coupon for $25 a meal at Red Banjo Pizza, so we headed up there. It was really funny cause we had a spend a certain amount to be able to use the coupon, so we ordered 3 appetizers, each a dinner salad, and a huge pizza...all between 5 girls, and we ate it all! I didn't think we'd ever be able to eat all the food we had, but somehow we did! It ended up being a great deal, for all that food it was only about $6 a person (great deal for Main Street dinner in Park City 'eh)


After dinner, we headed back to the hotel to check in. We stayed at the New Park Hotel and Resort. We had a 2 bedroom suite, and none of us really knew what to expect...well lets just say we were NOT let down! We had one room with a queen size bed, leather couch, fireplace, huge bathroom, and mini kitchen, AND THEN another door joining into the 2nd part of the suite, which was even more impressive! It had a huge HALLWAY, washer and dryer, bedroom with a king size bed, an even bigger bathroom, with double sinks, jaccuzi tub, and then a living room with a full kitchen (big fridge, stove top, sink and dishwasher included), another leather couch, and fireplace, there were a total of 3 flat screens in the whole place AND a private deck with a hot tub on it! SHEESH! We sure felt like queens! First we decided to hop into the hot tub out on the deck, we didn't realize that it was smaller than normal hot tubs, and by the time we were all in, it was definatly overflowing!




haha, we were all hugging our knees and we we figured it was a better fit for maybe 3 people tops. So we headed down to the main hotel hot tub, sadly it was broken, so we just went back up and started our masks.



These masks were so dang funny to us! We were all laughing so hard at each other wearing them, and we couldn't believe how much they tightened up our faces, so we couldn't even smile normal while laughing, which made us laugh even harder! It was a memory I'll never ever forget! Once we took them off, we played a couple card games, and ate a ton more treats (spinich articoke dip, apples dipped in carmel, chocolates from Rocky Mountain Chocolates, popcorn, cream sodas....the list goes on and on!)

The next morning, we took our time getting ready and eating some more (muffins, pears, apples, bananas, juice...we didn't go hungry on this trip!) and then we were off to the outlets to start our shopping adventure. We got there at about 11:30, and by 2:30 we'd only been into 5 of the stores, and already were stopping for lunch. We went to a place called Souperman, and had some yummy homemade soups, they make them really healthy by not adding any salt or flour to any of the soups.



Once we were done with lunch we headed back to the outlets, the only photo we got while shopping was in Motherhood Maternity, we were doing some shopping for Kristin, and while they were looking around, Lauren and I were sitting on some chairs and I decided to try on a belly that they have in the dressing rooms,

...so this is what I'll look like when I'm pregnant I guess! Haha I felt so silly wearing it, and we all got a good laugh!

Well, we finally got around to almost all of the stores, we probably only missed the last 10-15 shops. We got kicked out of the last one. Literally. We were in the dressing room and the lady from the store came back to remind us twice that they were closing, and when we left, they had to unlock the doors for us!


As you can tell, we DEFINITELY had too much fun shopping, we were there for about 8 hours and this is what we came out with...the trunk was seriously overflowing!

We're going to make this fun little trip a yearly tradition, and we just might have to stay an extra night so we can make it to all the stores next year! We had so much fun, and I really can't wait for next year!