Tea Time!

I think I'll begin today's blogging marathon with a few photos from the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Central New Mexico annual banquet. You see, at the end of each fiscal year (June), the gals gather to thank all of the officers for their hard work, induct the new officers, honor the science fair winners, and well, catch up on some girl talk.

For the last 5 or so years, the annual banquet has been held at the St. James Tea Room and we have a tasty, tasty "full English tea." I won't lie, the first year I went for tea, I was a little skeptical. Ok, make that COMPLETELY skeptical! But now, I look forward to it, as the food is AMAZING, the tea is terrific, and the conversation is wonderful. One of these days, I hope to take my mom there, as I know she'd love it!

Well, this year, the SWE gals had a "hat contest" to spice up the banquet. I bought a few flowers and ribbons and such and was just going to hot-glue everything to a wide-brimmed hat. Well, when Matt saw what I was about to do, he immediately said that I was missing the most important item of all...!!!! So off we went to Hobby Lobby to buy it!

Matt was a great sport and helped (ok, he did ALL the work...) make me a terrific hat. See:
And just what WAS that "most important item of all"? A BIRD!
Apparently, in Matt's mind, all ladies that drink tea have fake birds stuck to their hats. We got a great laugh out of it and it was fun dressing up for the tea party.

And speaking of laughs... Carter has started with this hilarious laugh that is a cross between Fat Albert and well, the Devil. We tried to capture it on video and here's what we got - the wacky laugh is toward the end of these 6 seconds:



It cracks us up pretty much every time!

Up next, a few blogs about our vacation to Oklahoma!
~kerrie