The BIG Dinner Re-cap!

There is SO much to say about Saturday night that I’m not sure where to start. I guess I should start by saying I had a GREAT time!

And then there are my shoes. I wore these. I saw them at DSW the other day and just HAD to have them (still doing my part for the economy). You’ll see my dress in some of the pictures below and let’s just say I went out on a little bit of a fashion limb. But it felt good and well, my twitter friends (especially @iHeartStilettos) said it was okay! So I did it, and I’m so glad. : )
There were almost 30 of us at dinner. A few didn’t show and we had another blogger join us who had just heard about the dinner that day from a friend of hers that lives in Austin. WOW!
Unfortunately we didn’t sit down until almost an hour after our reservation (which sort of stressed me out) but everyone had a great time mingling in the lobby and then we got free appetizers out of the deal, so it worked out fine. We were separated into two different sections but it would’ve been hard to talk to everyone even if we’d all been together. There we SO many of us! YAY!

My sweet friend Leslie of Stethoscopes and Stilettos (also one of my roomies at BlogHer – wahoo!) made gorgeous and individually unique place cards for everyone. Isn’t mine darling? Thanks SO MUCH Leslie!

I had the privilege of sitting next to Jill, and Em was on the other side of her. And across from me were Nicole and Jay.

In this picture, from left to right: Kristin, Em, Jill, Me

Here’s our whole section…

It was a really long table, but I’ll start with the left side, go down and then back up the right side. You follow?

In the other section here are two more pictures of the attendees:

Here we have (left row first) Dorsey, Natalie, Christina, Lisa, (and right side) Mama Mia (I found her!) and Ally.

And in this group – Colleen, Laurie, Jean, (don’t mind the guy behind her, it was just a friend of… ) Eddie’s : ) (Ed starts the right side), then Bianca, Jes and Jenny.

I think I missed a few people in the pictures including Texan Mama and The Stiletto Mom.
Here I am with my co-host with most, Holly and also Martha of Life of Preston. Holly, Shauna and Bianca started up burbmom.net which sponsored someone’s dinner and Jes (of Chircky.com) was the lucky winner.
I sponsored someone as well (heehee) with a gift card to Starbucks and the winner was Texan Mama from Who Put me In Charge of These People!

And lastly, here’s Kami, our Canadian visitor and one of my bloggy BFFs (see Martha giving her bunny ears?) Kams sat very nicely and quietly at the table all night, with her two drinks in hand…

Here’s Leslie toasting to Kami…

And here’s me wishing I could toast to her, but just drinking my boring glass of water instead…
This face in no way reflects what kind of time I had though because I enjoyed myself immensely and was so happy at the turn out and to meet so many bloggers in real life was just wonderful! It makes me even more excited to go to BlogHer this summer and to do dinners like this again and again. Thanks to Holly for helping me and to everyone for coming!
Now I have to move on to planning the next big event around here. The B Man’s 5th birthday party, which is only ONE month from today. Any tips on a “mouse” themed party are much appreciated (and I DON’T mean Mickey…)
p.s. If you’ve done your own re-cap of the dinner you can link up at June Cleaver Nirvana!
Elaine

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