Saying Goodbye To Our Jersey Girl

Beautiful Christa!


Yesterday, on the first day of Spring, I hosted a tea party in honor of our friend Christa, who is moving back to New Jersey in a few weeks. In order to get her to my house, without knowing that we were throwing a party for her, we planned to have a Spring Clothing Swap. The idea for the tea party came about when we decided that we should all get dressed up and do something fancy since most of use live in jeans and leggings! Christa also loves tea...she and I have become addicted to David's Tea (a loose tea store at our local mall)...there could be worse things to be addicted to, right?!? I also thought having a beautiful tea party on the first day of Spring was fitting for this type of occasion. We spent the afternoon enjoyed wonderful food, tea and celebrating friendship. Christa was surprised and overcome with emotion but enjoyed her celebration.

The tea table with beautiful china tea cups.


She arrives and still has no idea.

Carrie explaining to her the meaning behind the gift we gave her.
This photos is so perfect, it shows her raw emotion and how overwhelmed she is with the surprise.

We each did a few scrapbook pages and put them into this beautiful album.

Two of my scrapbook pages. I am very happy with how they came out and I am not usually into scrapbooking!

It is hard for me to believe that I have only known Christa since September, honestly, she is one of those people that I had an instant connection with and I feel like we grew up together. We are both East Coast girls from Italian families so we get the same things. Case in point, she calls pasta sauce gravy, just like my family does. She has such a silly sense of humor and can make me laugh at the drop of a hat. We have daily phone calls or sometimes 2 or 3. We see each other at least twice a week and she (was) one of my Bikram yoga buddies. She is so honest, kind, caring, genuine and full of grace and I am truly blessed to have her as part of my life. Christa is one of those people that will be a part of my life for a very long time to come and I am honored to call her my friend. I am going to miss you, Arabella will miss Sofia and Jay will miss Joe. Our door is open anytime you want to make a trip back to Montreal. You have touched my heart and soul in more ways that you will ever know, I love you Christa.