From Cabin Fever to Cinderella's Ball

Typically, if Kyle and I are both in town for a weekend (which seems pretty rare these days,) we try to lay low, get stuff done around the house and relax. Not the case this weekend. We packed in the events: acting like our former, younger selves on Friday night – playing drinking games at a cabin in Gravette, Arkansas … and our older, more sophisticated selves at a charity ball on Saturday night – enjoying cocktails in our fancy dress and tux. (Me in the dress, Kyle in the tux!)

A group of my coworkers from General Mills plan an annual “Cabin Trip” to get away, party, and not worry about anyone having to get themselves home. We decided to join in the festivities as the cabin was only 30 minutes from our house. The cabin was absolutely gorgeous, ginormous and super cheap. "The Cabins at Big Springs" http://www.the-cabins.net/coloradopine.html

Our crew of 15 cooked up a Mexican feast (well, the ladies did, while the guys watched basketball on the couch, typical) listened to some good music, and played cards. Here's Erin cooking up the taco bar.

And Kyle and Kaylie partaking of the grub.

Kyle was up for staying the night, but I was pretty determined to go home and sleep in our own bed, so he partook in the drinking games while I played DD and watched the fun. It was very much like we were back in college … not something we would do every weekend, but it was nice for Kyle to meet some more Gmills people.

Here's my man, showing the youngin's how it's done. I'm so proud.

With Kyle still recovering from the night before, we headed to the Embassy Suites in Rogers on Saturday afternoon to prepare for our gala. We hung out with some friends at the hotel, enjoyed cocktails and played cards (no drinking games this time.) Then we put on our fancy attire and headed down to the event. We clean up pretty nice, if I do say so myself.

PS - Thanks to my Dad for the gorgeous dress! I really felt like Cinderella. Kyle is going to buy stock at White House Black Market now that I'm hooked. :)

Here are two of our best friends down here in Arkansas ... The beautiful Melissa and her good lookin' hubby, Jeff. (It would have been just too easy to get one picture of the four of us!)

We enjoyed a very nice meal and were entertained by a few songs from Danny Gokey … an American Idol 3rd place finisher last season, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. While he’s not the big-namer they usually get, he did sound really good. Being the VIP's that we are, we got to meet him “backstage.”

A little Christmas spirit to end the night. Pay no attention to the beer bottles ... they had nothing to do with this photo.

Now we just need a weekend to recover from our weekend.