May 28th - 31st

Cabin Crop Spring 2009 - Pendleton, MO

It was that time of year again for the semi-annual "Cabin Crop" at The Scrap N Fish Resort. This year's attendees were Donna, Carol, Bev, Vicki and my mom, Sonja. I decided to bring my mom when my favorite airline, Southwest, had a 50% off sale. I thought what a great addition to our girls weekend to have my mom join us. So I bought her a ticket and out she flew.

Mom flew out Wednesday evening and we headed out to the cabin Thursday after I got off of work. The car was packed up to the roof!!! We had the linens, tables, my scrapbook stuff, coolers, food and oh yeah we still had to stop at Walmart in Warrenton to get more food!

Finally we got to the cabin and had to unload the car, set up the tables, make sure all beds had linens, set up the coolers, get the fridge loaded and so on and so on!!! Even though my mom is 71 years young she jumped right in and helped with everything. She said jokingly that I only brought her out here so she could help me, maybe some part of that it true LOL.

Vicki was the first one to arrive and then came Donna. Mom and I helped get their cars unloaded and then we all sat down and just relaxed. After a bit of relaxing and a dinner of hot dogs and chips Donna taught us a card game called "Hand and Foot". I kept calling it "Hoof and Mouth" all night and it was just funny (to me) when you started using the lingo from the game - Picking up your foot, Playing Dirty, Playing Clean, Don't keep the 3's, etc.. When the game was being explained I wasn't understanding so we decided to just start playing the game and pretty soon we were all experienced H&F players. Thursday night we went to bed about 1:30am.

Friday came and we had pancakes and sausage for breakfast. Bev showed up right as breakfast was being served (I wonder if she planned it that way???). Today was the day to start scrappin and boy did we. Carol got there about 12:30pm - 1pm and so we had all that were coming. The weather on Friday was absolutely beautiful. After hours of scrapping I suggested we all head down to the lake for a cocktail. We all sat around down at the point and enjoyed anything from wine coolers, coconut rum & cranberry and beer. Unfortunately Bev had to leave so after a nice rest down by the lake we headed back up and said goodbye to Bev.

The rest of the time we scrapped and laughed and scrapped and laughed. Carol had brought out a Briskett to cook so she had put that in the oven and we continued to scrap. Vicki made her famous cherry almond cinnamon rolls so the smells in the cabin were just amazing. We took a break and ate our dinner of briskett and potato salad and dessert and then Mom, Vicki, Donna and I played Hand & Foot again. We told Carol to pay attention because Vicki had to leave Saturday and we wanted to make sure we could still play the game. I think we ended the last game around 1:30am and so after that everyone went to bed.

Saturday came and so did the rain, it had rained sometime during the night but I was either REALLY tired or the earplugs really helped because I didn't hear it. Everyone woke up on their own, I had realized at about 1am Saturday morning that I forgot to make the "make ahead" breakfast casserole so I got up later Saturday morning and threw it together. It didn't seem to make a difference that it was put together a couple of hours before it was cooked, everyone seemed to like it. We scrapped some more and then Vicki had to leave to go to her Uncle's 25th Wedding anniversary. Later in the day I BBQ'd hamburgers (my first time on my own) we also had pasta salad to go with it along with chips and guacamole. I have to say I was pretty impressed with my BBQ'ing skills. After dinner we played Hand & Foot with Carol who picked it up after the first go around. Back to scrappin' we went after that and I think bedtime for Saturday was about 1:30am Sunday morning (do you see a pattern here?). Despite the carpenter ants at the A/C unit and the dogs barking at "something" outside I think everyone just passed out.

Sunday came which meant time to go home. Everyone had pretty much packed up the night before so it was a fairly organized pack of supplies, coolers and such. We had decided to make our traditional stop at The Cookery which is at the Flying J Truck Stop. Here we ate french toast, eggs, sausage, bacon, biscuts & gravy, hashbrowns, etc. Oh yeah, Donna had "It Ain't Your Momma's BLT" sandwhich which she shared some with Carol. It was bittersweet that our long weekend was coming to an end but we know come the fall we will be out there again.

I think mom fit in real well with the girls and vice versa. We all had a great time, got a lot of projects done and can't wait to do it all over again! Hopefully with Bev and Michelle coming out for the stay! I think mom wants to come back too!