Girl's Weekend at the Cabin...

I've been part of the same Bunko group for about seven years. I love these gals very much! Bunko is a game you play with dice. There is a certain number you are trying to roll with each round. You keep score and then there are prizes at the end. Whoever is the hostess provides dinner and shop for the prizes with the money that everyone donates. The game is fun, but it's the chance to be together and have a Girl's Night Out that it's really all about. After we finish dinner and the game, we're usually talking until midnight or later. It's like having monthly therapy, a chance to talk and vent and laugh. The night after Mindy hosted, her husband (who had been hanging out upstairs) asked her, "Do you guys always laugh that much?" Yep, lots of laughs and lots of fun with this group.

Mindy's grandparents have a cabin up Provo canyon that she invited us to stay at for the weekend. At that point in the summer, I was in need of girl's weekend for sure. The cabin was perfect, right next to a stream, two hammocks, ahhhhh!

I stayed in the "porch room." I could hear the stream all night
and it was so breezy and cool- Loved It!

Scott asked what we did for three days and I said we hiked around the trails, played games, but mostly just talked. He seriously didn't believe me. He didn't think it was possible to just sit around and talk for that long. Oh, but we did. Talked out on the big patio until it got too cold and dark, then talked inside till all hours.

Back -Therse, Cindy, Terah, Larissa, Melissa
Front - Mindy, Tracey (holding baby Ivy), Tammy

One of the highlights of the weekend was figuring out that Mindy's grandpa, Marion D. Hanks, was friends with Grandpa Moore while he was in England! Elder Hanks was in the Quorum of the Seventy for a long time. Mindy mentioned he was a mission president in London and I asked him what years he was there. We figured out that our grandparents were there the same years. Our mom's are the same age and both were baptized while they were in England. Later I asked Grandma Moore if she knew the Hanks and she said they were good friends. If Elder Hanks couldn't make a speaking assignment, he'd call Grandpa to fill in for him.