Its wedding/engagement season for book club members!

Holy cow...there must be something in the water (or maybe its the wine) at BC because the wedding bug is going around! I'd like to give congratulations to the following girls for their upcoming/recent nuptials!!

Corrine-upcoming wedding October 2009 in Costa Rica
Cassie- married this May in St. Lucia
Nicole- upcoming wedding September 2010 in Lakewood
Monika-upcoming wedding June 2010 in Idaho
Alisa-upcoming wedding in Estes Park, 2010

Congratulations to you beautiful, wonderful women. We are all so excited for you and wish you happiness and joy!

Where have we been???

Wow, our last post was from March book club! Where does time go? We've still had our monthly bookclubs, but I have not been diligent about posting.

Here is a recap of what we've been reading:
February- Nicole's house "Flowers for Algernon"
May- Marissa's house "Twilight"
June- Cassie's house "Franny and Zooey"
July- Laura's house "Holes"
August-Alisa's house "Dear John"
September- Lindsey's house "The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes"

Unfortunately, we've also been slacking on our picture taking! I, personally, will make sure that pictures are taken at the next book club at Amanda's house in November!

Happy reading!
~Laura

July 2009 book club

The book for July was "Holes" by Louis Sachar and Laura was the fine hostess. The book was a light, easy read...which was well deserved after the past few months heavy topics! To stick with the theme Laura served food in buckets with shovels to dish it out and also made some yummy "sand" desert. We then washed it all down with some delicious wine (of course)!

We ran out of wine so we turned to VODKA shots!!

March Book/ Chocolate Club

Chocolate Lipstick

doing what we do best...eating!

Girls Love Chocolate

another great turnout!

The book choice for February was Chocolate Lover's Club by Carole Matthews. It was a nice change of pace for our club and was a fun, easy read! We enjoyed an amazing spread (thanks to Tammie) with "heavenly" chocolate fondue. Dark , White, and Milk...mmmm. Delicious!!!

January Book Club

This month's book club was hosted by Katelyn and the theme was "Wine and Weines"! I'm sure you can guess what wonderful food was served...bbq weinies! We read the book "A Long Way Gone. Memories of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmeal Beah. As always we had a great time!

December Book Club

This month's book club was our biggest gathering to date! We had a total of 14 ladies join us to discuss this month's book, A Prayer For Owen Meany, by John Irving. Corrine (and Jason) was the fabulous hostess with the mostess and prepared us a meal of burger sliders, bbq chicken bruschetta w/grilled onions, a veggie tray with dip, and (my fav) white chocolate gorp!!! Delicious! Everyone pitched in and brought a bottle of wine, however, Katleyn had to make a wine run in the middle of book club because we were almost out! Talk about a bunch of winos...

Although the book was another long one, it was a touching story about a "little" boy named Owen. The book brought on some deep discussions about life, death, and friendship.

~Laura

September Book Club

Randi hosted Septembers’ Book Club. We read the wonderufl book “A Thousand Splendid Suns”.

The author of “A Thousand Splendid Suns” uses fictional characters to give a historical, factual account of Kabul before and after the Civil War in Afghanistan. The beauty of Kabul is depicted in the first part of the book; however, the author uses the latter three parts to tell how the Civil War changed all that. While the war affected all of Kabul, the book centers around two women, Mariam and Laila, and discusses the suppression of women that was brought on by the war. As a woman, this book really makes you feel pain for the women living in Kabul during that time but, at the same time, you feel grateful that you live in a country that has taken great strides to get past such a time. This book also makes you realize that while we were suffering during the 9/11 attacks, the majority people in Afghanistan were suffering just as much.

Randi hosted this event in her new, beautiful home. She prepared a delicious and healthy meal, though she provided add-ons for those who did not want the healthy choice. I think everyone took advantage of the add-ons, especially when it came to the dessert. Which reminds me, Randi, we are still waiting for that apple crisp recipe!!

-Alisa