Tessa's Birthday Brunch!

Making banana chocolate chip pancakes -very messily.

Malia making breakfast sausages with HUGE pitchfork....

Happy Birthday Miss Tessa (check out her new blog)! I am so incredibly blessed to have you in my life and I pray that the Lord blesses your 21st year of life with blessings upon blessings! My only wish to you is that you don't graduate early, but I know that the Lord has great plans for you. And I hope you know that the food was delicious because we put 2 extra cups of love in. Love you and Happy birthday.
p.s. birthday girl is glowing...literally
(please excuse the crappy iPhone pictures, Betsy Shutter (my camera) is currently being babysitted by Bryan)

surprise goodbye.

Last weekend Steph, Abby, and Heidi planned a surprise goodbye party for Rhea! We all headed to Heidi's house and hid while Rhea thought she was going out to dinner. The night was filled with delicious food, a video made for rhea, a game of charades -words pertaining to rhea such as Spanish Rice, Dougie, and fashion blogs, and more good food and desserts with a nice game of taboo afterwards! I can't believe she's leaving for Australia TODAY! Follow her journey here!

Secret Santa @ The Cottage

Last night at The Cottage we had our Secret Santa sugar & spice gift exchange.
We also had a birthday celebration, my beautiful roommate, Malia, turned 21!!!
Was a night filled with so much joy and laughter, which was nice before our crazy week of finals!

Over the Hill!

Last week was our beautiful housemate, Kristin's birthday -she hates birthdays but we being the cute cottage that we are, had to throw her a little sumthin sumthin. Homegirl was in her room talking to Bethany while the rest of us were scurrying around trying to get everything done. And Elise tricks her in telling her we were gonna pick our secret santas, and viola! SURPRISE beautiful housemate! We love you and Happy birthday!!

shots of passionfruit lemon with a rim of sugar!

the freshly baked pazookie melted our 25 candles....

birthday girl's glowing!

teehee

we picked our secret santa!

and ALL OF US GOT RHEA....

sneaky roommate put her name 7x in the santa jar...you are getting a mound of coal for Christmas!

photobooth!

Here are some pictures from our lovely photobooth at our Pilgrim and Indian house cooling party. Thank you Greg for setting up our photobooth!!

Homeboy thought he was at a GQ photoshoot..

with beautiful models in the back.

The best dressed indians!

behind the scenes.

my favorites.

House Cooling Party

At The Cottage we were unable to have a house warming party. So we decided to have a house cooling party, and in honor of thanksgiving we made it a pilgrims and indians theme! We had so much fun with our friends coming and helping us cool down our house! Yay Cottage for the cutest house ever!

We pimped up our crib a little bit for the party.

We had a "Thankful Tree" that read -Leaf what you are thankful for on the tree. Where our guests wrote a leaf of what they were thankful for.

Had a "plant your crop" station, where we had chocolate pudding, oreo crumbles and candy corn to make your own dirt cup.

Had a Tea/Hot Coco/Apple Cider Bar outside!

A snack bar.

A head dress station!

And of course our photobooth!

21st!

This Sunday was my friend Gabriella's birthday. She turned 21 but decided to have an alcohol-free birthday get-together. So we had a bbq with root beer and sparkling lemonade for kicks!



Mason jars with patriotic straws for labor day!



cute picnic basket that my roommate brought!













Happy birthday Gabs!