SISTACULAR!

A "Sistacular" (Megan named it...) is a celebration just for sisters. A night to hang out and make fun food. (Abbey was having a "friendtacular" with her friend Lynn across the street.)

Tonight our menu included:

Sliders with steak fries and onion rings
Molten Lava Cakes
Cherry Cheesecake Tarts

Each of the girls had their own recipes to be working on. Emily made the Sliders and Megan made the Cherry Cheesecake Tarts. Em and I made the Molten Lava Cakes together.

After the dishes were done, we settled in to watch Miss Congeniality. Nothing like a little sister time...

One Sister in N.Y.C. and Two Sisters in the Kitchen

Emily's Itinerary for today 1/10/09 (One more day and she comes home! :) )

6:00am Wake-up call
7:00am Breakfast
7:30am BUS to NYC
Ferry to Statue of Liberty
Lunch in NYC
Walk around the city
Subway to hotel
6:00pm Dinner @ Mars 2112
8:00 pm Broadway Show: The Little Mermaid
10:00pm Curfew


While Emily is wandering around the most famous city in the world, Megan and Abbey are busy cooking in the kitchen. On the menu today: Abbey and Megan's Mini Fruit Tarts. The recipe will be in the next issue of the family cookbook. I love that in this family, everybody cooks!

Delicious!

Our summer vacation so far...

A hike on the Santa Rosa Plateau,

Dinner with Jordy before he moved to Martha's Vinyard,

The Del Mar Fair (with Meg's friend Makenna),

A weekend with the Proms...The Wild Animal Park,

the beach in Oceanside,

(Em's friend Katarina, and the Prom boys, Keanu and Niko)

Nichole and Van Seng Prom

lots of trampoline,

and Rock Band,

more time at the beach,

swimming at the Johnson's

and a fun sleepover at Mimi's house!

Living Room Sleepover

Emily was out of town this weekend on the Junior High Girls Weekend Getaway. They went to Palm Springs, stayed in a really nice hotel and went to a waterpark and swam and went to the mall. She had so much fun.

In her absence, Megan and Abbey decided to have a Living Room Sleepover. They set this whole thing up and watched The Secret Garden on the laptop computer. (Notice the ongoing construction project paraphernalia in the background. Em wasn't the only one in luxurious accommodations! :))



When I asked them to smile for me I noticed something special happening...


Ahhh...Sisterhood!

Sisters...

I've always wished I had a sister. Someone who knows me inside and out. Someone who I could turn to. Someone I could be there for in return. Someone to pray with, shop with, laugh with, cry with, raise kids with, a "built-in" best friend. I have to admit that I am sometimes envious of my girls and how they have each other and love each other.



Today it occured to me, as I listened to Megan and Abbey having so much fun playing Barbies on the trampoline, that I might not have a biological sister, but the Lord has given me "sisters." Megan and Nichole fill all those "sister" holes in my heart.