All Things Wonderful...

The weekend is already over and its seems like it just begun! I had been looking forward to this weekend for about a month now, and while it was wonderful, it wasn't really all that I was expecting it to be and it definitely went too fast! This weekend was my annual Mother-Daughter Weekend with my mom! :) The 2nd annual get together for us and this year we decided to go to Women of Faith at the Xcel Energy Center. Most of the speakers were very interesting and inspirational, and yes, even FUNNY! But it was much more focused on story telling, than actually relating anything to scripture, which was a little disappointing to me and not what I am used to at a conference. It also was very geared towards moms, so if it weren't for the fact that I have now been a nanny for almost a year, I wouldn't have been able to relate very much. I think out of all the speakers, Anita Renfroe was my FAVORITE!!! She was absolutely hilarious and has some great parodies about life! Luckily enough, she is on Youtube! Momsense and Love Story are probably my favorites, but Wrinkle Ladies isn't bad either!





We also had GREAT seats! 4th row from the stage!!! And we got to see Steven Curtis Chapman! That was pretty exciting for me. And hearing about his family's life story was also very interesting. It gave me a lot of insight and appreciation for a lot of his songs. I think I want his "Cinderella" song played for my father daughter dance at my wedding...hopefully someday! And "I'll Be Here" might be a nice first dance song! ha ha



Soooo close to the stage!



Steven Curtis Chapman singing "Cinderella'



Steven and his wife, Mary Beth, singing a "rap" song!! It was funny!!



One last pic of Steven singing



As mom and I were leaving the Xcel on Friday night, there was a line at the elevator so I said .... "Let's just take the stairs" These were the stairs..and we needed to go up several flights, however, we couldn't find the parking garage by taking the stairs and almost got locked in a stairway!!!



Mom and I Saturday morning. Leaving for the conference 30 minutes late...but we were still on time :)

The conference wasn't too bad. I did enjoy it. But I wouldn't say that it's a MUST go to. Now TCX...that is a must! I just wish I could have spent more actual time hanging out with my mom. Even just sitting around the house with her doing her lesson plans and me working on homework. I miss that. At least I'll get to go home for awhile in a few weeks for Thanksgiving. And oh, I can't wait for the month off at Christmas!!! Only 365 more days until our next Mother-Daughter Weekend! :) Can't wait!



Love you mom!