Copeland Girls' Getaway

This year was hopefully the start of an annual tradition for all the Copeland girls--a Copeland Girls' Get-Away.  All of the husbands agreed to take care of the kids so we could all spend a few fun days together.

We were only missing Alison who was ill and couldn't attend.  She was so sad because she was the one who had basically planned this whole event.  She definitely says she will be there next year!

 We stayed at the Marriott condos and were on the 23rd floor.  Our view was beautiful at night - - -

or in the day!

 Throughout the four days we were there, I loved taking pictures of all my beautiful "daughters"!

 So many fun talks together.

 



Lots of fun seeing all the sights and sounds of Las Vegas.

And, of course, there was a little bit of craziness!

 

 Yes, we did a whole lot of shopping!

 The girls all tried on a sweater on sale, so we thought that was a great photo op!

 And there was a whole lot of eating--all calories removed, of course!

 (The most divine crepes--this just happens to be banana with Nutella--divine!)

The largest cups of hot chocolate I've ever seen!

 
Angie took us to a place for breakfast where all the servings were so gigantic, you had to share.  It was soooo good!

 For example--here is their french toast!
 
 One night after going to a concert, we came home to a surprise baby shower for Amy who is expecting our 27th grandchild in November.
I think the girls definitely pulled it off and Amy was genuinely surprised!

The girls had decorated the room up so darling from items that Natalie had designed and brought with her--little bow ties (since Amy is having a boy), Hershey bars with the HE emphasized, along with the plates, cups, and napkins, all perfectly coordinated as Natalie always does for parties.

 
 Natalie had even taken left-over fabric from the quilt to make a darling window decoration.




 
 A special baby quilt was designed by Natalie who chose all the fabrics, and then I sewed them all together.
 
 I think Amy was very pleased and happy about this sweet shower that her sister, Alison, had thought of and then all the girls put together for her.

Amy was such a great sport to allow us to take this picture of her because of her unique fashion of compression socks and shoes she was wearing.  Hey, anything for comfort, right?! 

I think all the girls would agree that our favorite evening in Las Vegas was the night we went to Roy's for a wonderful dinner, then went to the Celine concert.  Absolutely the best concert I have ever attended!

 The concert hall holds over 2,000 and when it started, absolutely every chair was filled!

 I would say this concert was almost a spiritual experience--the songs and whole concert were so uplifting!  It was a beautiful occasion!

 I don't know if Cassie was a lover of Celine music before the concert, but I think we even made a believer out of her!

 Another evening we attended the Michael Jackson "One" show.  It has the Cirque du Soleil performers in it that were fantastic, but I think we were a little disappointed in the Michael Jackson song choices plus the weird theme throughout it.  We really should have seen this before Celine because maybe we would have enjoyed it more and not made such a comparison. 
 
We still had fun being together--and of course, acting a little crazy again!

 Walking down the beautiful stairway of the theater.

 And another of the special times was attending church together.  So proud of these wonderful women who are such great examples to our grandchildren of living the types of lives they should be living.  
Thanks to all who attended and made this possible!  It was absolutely the best!  Until next year!