Funday Monday

I wish I had more to say.
This weekend was CA-RAZY!
Let me recap.
Friday was work. Dinner with the in-laws. Meeting my brother in law for the VERY first time after a year of marriage. Off to a Favorite Things party. Then a little girl time. Then home to sleep for three hours before Adam woke me up with a heart attack to say he was in Provo so I could pick him up.

Saturday. Slept in. Bigtime. Then my brother and his wife stopped by. After that Adam and I went to meet his family so he could see his brother for he first time in two years. Off to lunch. Then a drive to Fashion Place Mall so I could buy a gift for my father and a few of the favorite things from the night before... I am such a sucker. Then back to drop Adam off to pitch. Then dinner with my family. Then Adam's game! He pitched. And he did great! After the game we went to Applebees with the brothers and then to our house to hang out. They hung out. I went to sleep because my tummy hurt.

Sunday. Church. I taught a lesson. It was REALLY rough... I am learning though. Maybe young married ladies just don't like to answer questions? Or maybe I ask bad questions? Haha. Who knows. Then a baseball game. Then just a relaxing Sunday with Adam watching Miley get CRAY... literally... I couldn't like her performance. I couldn't even pretend to like it. Why did her toungue keep doing those weird things? Why did she keep using that finger to represent a male reproductive organ? Why did she think it was okay to wear two Scary Spice buns? Only Scary can pulls those off... But then it was all redeemed. Watching JT reunited with NSYNC! REUNITED! My loves. My life. Adam was so confused as to why I was so happy. And I just talked about it the rest of the night. I kept saying "I LOVE NYSNC!" Maybe I went a little overboard... but I couldn't help it. They were all there. All the boys. Right on stage. I die. I love. I wanted to fangirl cry. Just like every other girl my age.

Now here is Monday. Let's make it fun!

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Dear Time Out,

Remember a long time ago when I talked about Time Out for Women? Well... if you don't... Let me tell you what I said last time. "This wekend I am going to Time Out for Women with my Mom!" That was about it... and that was about... a month and a half ago. And when I was looking through my drafts I realized I never posted about it. Let me tell you, besides the fact that I got food poisoning, it was WONDERFUL!

The speakers were:

• Virginia. She was all about forgiveness.
• Sheri Dew. She talked about women in the Church and their importance.
• Chris Williams. He talked about letting it go, joining the Savior in healing, and saving souls. His big question was, "What burden can you lay at Jesus' door?" Because if we do that, He will heal us. Find out what Chris let go and what burden he laid at Jesus' door here.
• The Ladies from "Our Best Bites", Sara and Kate. They talked about looking for ways to serve and mother. And how life is more than being that picture perfect family.
• Brad Wilcox. His talk was all about names. Our name and God's name. And knowing God's name when we take it. He talked about thinking of the Savior writing His name across out heart just as Michael Angelo wrote his name across the statue he carved.
• Jon Bytheway. He said, "Regardless of your original intentions you will become what you surround yourself with." We need to surround ourselves with good things, good people, good music... just good in general. One thing he said that I loved was, "You are the average of the 5 people your surround yourself with."
• Emily Freeman. Her whole talk was based on this quoted, "Trust god enough so that you can trust his timing for us." - Neal Maxwell
• We also had wonderful musical performances from Jenny Oaks Baker, and she talked about the importance of family combined with Christ and the Gospel as well as not sweating the small stuff. And Mercy River, a group of three women. They talked about how Heavenly Father really loves it when we put our needs in His hand, letting him know He can calm us and looking to Him for hope.

This is my beautiful mother and I.

There wasn't much to take photos of. We honestly just sat and listened to wonderful speakers for two days straight. And this was the most scenery we got... besides the shopping at City Creek during lunch. I am so glad I got to spend those hours learning and growing with my Mother. She is beautiful and kind and such an inspiration to me.

Dear Weekend Plans,

Happy weekend people! Adam and I have had fun so far by double dating and staying up way too late. Now he is off making some money and I am cleaning up the apartment. The whole time with this on replay! Here is your weekend tune.

We are still trying to figure out the rest of our weekend, what are you doing? Got any fun plans I could copy?

Dear Snow Fall,

It is snowing like crazy over here... all weekend ideas of road trips and outdoor adventure just got squashed. And the football game tonight? BETTER BUNDLE UP! It is going to be fa-ree-zing! Here is your weekend tune. With some strong women singers... the video is cray.

Hopefully you don't get a foot of snow today... or hopefully we don't get another foot. Have a good one. Here is hoping for sunny weather!

Love,
Deidre

Dear Shark in the Water,

Here is the weekend song for you. Thanks to The Voice I cannot get this song out of my head. And now it is on replay until another diddy replaces it. Got any suggestions?

Hope your weekend is going swimmingly!

Love,

Deidre

Dear Play It By Ear,

Weekend! Weekend! WEEKEND! Has every day felt like Friday to anyone else? Halloween on a Wednesday threw everything off... but that is okay. Because it is FINALLY the weekend. Which means it is time for a good time.

Last weekend was really good and really bad all at once. My mom got into town on Friday and we headed to Time Out For Women. Which was INCREDIBLE! More on that later. Saturday same deal, we headed up to TOFW... but decided to stop and get an Egg McMuffin on the way. Well once we got there Adam texts and asks where the cold medicine is. He is feeling awful. Luckily, he could just sleep all day while I was in SLC with Mama. So the day was going great, but then remember that Egg McMuffin... food poisioning. I felt sick from about noon on. But you gotta pull through it, right? Right. So we enjoyed the conference and then went shopping with our favorite Bevan women. Then home for dinner with Adam and bed early for the sickees.

This weekend.
No plans.
Adam has a test tonight. And then we will be grocery shopping at some point... and the rest? We are playing it by ear. Mostly because it is Adam's weekend to plan the date and he wouldn't give me any insight to his thoughts. So he isn't playing it by ear. I am.
Well... one thing is for sure. I will be taking down Halloween and putting up Thanksgiving decorations this weekend. So I can at least be sure on that!

What are your plans for the weekend?

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Have a BOMB.com weekend! 

 Love, Deidre

Dear Weekenders,

Last weekend didn't go quite as planned. Actually... it didn't go at all as planned. We had high hopes for a corn maze, a trip to Salt Lake, and some pumpkin decorating. But instead we went to In n Out, a dollar movie, and didnt leave the house once on Saturday. Pretty promising. The only thing that did happen was hanging out with Drew and Madison.

This weekend, there is NO backing out of plans. My mom got in last night and I am spending the weekend with her at the Time Out for Women conference. My brother and I got her tickets for her birthday back in July, so this has been in the works forever. It will be fun to spend the weekend with my mom. And I think my mom is planning on seeing all her grandchildren while she is here, so that is always exciting for her. Besides that, Adam will be having a man date with Drew because Madison's mom and sisters are in town and will need a girls night. And then tomorrow we will hopefully go buy a vacuum and some pans... I know, we have been married for two months and we still don't have those pretty important items. We are just a teeny tiny bit behind. Oops! So enjoy your weekend. And enjoy this song on repeat. I am LOVING the new T Swift Album. She just gets me.

What are your plans for the weekend?

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Have a smashing time!

Love,

Deidre

Dear Weekenders,

Friday. Friday. Getting down on FRIDAY. Everybody's looking forward to the weekend, weekend. You know that, right? Or you have been living under a rock maybs? I don't know. Either way. It is HERE! The weekend is FINALLY here!!! And for all of us without Fall break, the weekend is the best time. So let's get to it weekenders!

Rules: 

Not really rules... because who follows rules on the weekend?!

Guidelines:

Post a photo from last weekend [if you have one].

Tell us what you are looking forward to this weekend.

Grab a button for your blog.

Link up.

Celebrate in everyone's weekend plans!

Remember how I mentioned a birthday redo? Well Adam outdid himself! This was the end of our evening. He sent me to our room while he "set up"... And then I came out to streamers, flowers, a cake with candles, and a little song. More on that later... but the birthday redo and my sweet husband was the highlight of last weekend for sure!

This weekend... that is all I can say about this weekend. We have a lot of things we want to do... but who knows what will actually happen. With no baseball or home football games the world is our oyster! Our plans are as follows...

• Cornbelly's Corn Maze with The Dennis (the same Drew and Madison that we spend about 50% of every single weekend with) and Brugmans.. or as we like to call them, our favorite baseball couples. 
• Saturday will start with a bountiful basket! Which we haven't ordered for two weeks so we are really excited for fresh fruits and vegetables.
• We will probably take a few minutes to watch the BYU vs Notre Dame game... until we are so sad that we are losing that we go take a nap.
• Plans to head up to the big city of Salt Lake for a little shopping and maybe I can trick Skinny into taking me to the Thriller show.
• And then last of all... Adam things we are going to a haunted house. And I think we are doing crafts or making a music video or taking fall photos. I need a little Halloween festivity since I left all my decorations in Idaho!

Keep this little diddy on replay. The radios here have been playing it again and now I cannot get it off my mind to save my life. It is the official weekend song.

WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS? 

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Now go on. Have a WICKED weekend.

Love,
Deidre

Dear Weekenders,

Guess what? It's the weekend. And we ALL love the weekend. At least... I would hope you do, because I would question you if you didn't. How are you planning on celebrating the weekend? Well. To get everyone pumped for a few days off from school and work, I am starting the weekender linkup.

Rules: 

Not really rules... because who follows rules on the weekend?!

Guidelines:

Post a photo from last weekend [if you have one].

Tell us what you are looking forward to this weekend.

Grab a button for your blog.

Link up.

Celebrate in everyone's weekend plans!

Last weekend was my birthday. Adam played baseball. I watched (in my new Miller jersey) and wore a crown and huge buttons thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Dennis.

This weekend it going to be AWESOME. Our plans are as follows...

• First of all. It is BYU Homecoming. BYU vs Oregon football game. Wish us look with both of our QBs being injured. I have faith that something will work out. 
• Adam also has a test, so that will give me plenty of time to relax and watch GG. 
• We have been toying with the idea of a haunted house, Castle of Chaos is RIGHT down the street... but we might save that for closer to the Halloween holiday.
• Figure out our Halloween costumes. We have a few ideas. But we need to finalize it this weekend before all the parties start. I love Halloween.
• We will most likely spend a portion of the weekend with Madison and Drew because... we are always with them.
• Fall photo shoot? Adam doesn't know I want to do that yet.
• Adam feels bad that I spent my birthday watching baseball and then not seeing him while he attended Priesthood session of conference, so we are re-celebrating my birthday. He said he has lots of "birthday surprises" planned. In other words, he doesn't know what we are doing yet so he is pretending he has awesome things. But yes. A re-birthday. Which means another yummy dinner. Any ideas where we should go?

WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS? 

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Now go on. Have a WONDERFUL weekend.

Love,
Deidre

Dear Sports,

Well it is the weekend. And it going away just as fast as it came! Our weekend is full of football and baseball. Athletic events for everyone. BYU Baseball Alumni dinner last night followed by the BYU Football game. And today? The BYU Baseball Alumni game. Alumni VS the current roster. Let's do this. And then tonight? Maybe some mini golf... gotta stick to the theme! Here is you weekend tune.

Now what are your plans for the weekend?

Anyone watching football?

Or do you have exciting fall plans?

Love,
The Skinnys

Dear Saturday,

This weekend has gone by too fast. Group date with the baseball marrieds last night, returning gifts and making a Jedi robe today, and more fun tonight. Plus the Brigham City temple dedication. Weekend, please slow down will ya? Here is your weekend tune!

Love,
Deidre

Dear Saturday,

Friday has come and gone and now we are in Saturday mode. Two more days left before heading back to the grind. We went to the fair, the gym, and to pick up a bountiful basket. Now all that is left on the docket is one test for Adam and THE HOLY WAR! So until Monday... here is your weekend replay song!

Peace and blessings!

Love,

Deidre

Dear Weekend,

Here is your weekend song!

It is time for the best time. The WEEKEND. We are organizing and returning wedding gifts. Watching a football game. And celebrating a teammates wedding. What are you going to be doing?

Love,
Deidre

Dear Breakfast Surprise,

The best part about a day off of work it sleeping in. The second best part is there is actually time to make breakfast in the morning. And I don't mean some toast on the way out the door. I mean a yummy breakfast that could leave you full until tomorrow. So this morning Adam has weights and such for baseball at 7:30. So I slept in and then woke up to surprise him with breakfast once he returned. He has been asking and asking for chocolate chip (we had banana ones last night to replace the chocolate kind) pancakes. But we didn't have chocolate chips. So I ran to the store, and while I was there getting those little sweet morsels I got a craving for coconut syrup. So I picked up some buttermilk. And when he returned home at 10:20, we had a GREAT breakfast of chocolate chip pancakes and coconut syrup. Yummmmy. The pancakes don't look as good as they tasted. I was struggling with the flip today.

Coconut Syrup

1 cube butter

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup buttermilk

Bring to a boil

Remove from heat

Add 1/2 tsp baking soda

and 1/2 tsp coconut extract

Stir and ENJOY! 

I got this recipe from one of my best friends and roommates from Sophomore year. She would make it all the time and it stemmed a lot of pancake parties where we lived.

Love,

Deidre

Dear Weekend,

Busy. And fun. You were busy and fun. And it was a good kind of busy too. Not the busy where I come home at night and say to myself, "Deidre, what the heck are you putting yourself through!?" The kind of busy where I come home and say to myself, "Well that was a success!" And then I can put my head down on my pillow and think "Victory." 

This is what happened... and I can give you more details laters. Deal? Deal.

Friday

Pretzel Salad (recipe to come)

Lunch Date at Sammy's thanks to an AWESOME Groupon

Sign-in book shopping... still have yet to buy one

Hanging out with my BFF Gloria, so sad she is moving

Dinner Date at Texas Roadhouse

Double Date of cards and s'mores with our favorite people Mark and Mallory

Treats for all!

At Sammy's we had to wait... forever... because all the boxes and shipments were all out on the counter.

Clearly one dinner roll decided to eat the others and was WAY bigger.

Saturday

Breakfast at Kneaders with Adam's mission companions

Donate plasma... tried and failed. My veins are too little!

Bought a kitchen table at Kmart

7 Peaks Waterpark

Lots of Prison Break

Trafalga and Sonic with friends

The nice countdown Adam put in my phone while waiting to donate plasma...

  Adam was Rambo and I was Poseidon.

 Four men on the little kid Frog Hopper? Broken.... 

"You can have one or two adults on it at a time! NEVER four!"

See what I mean? Successful weekend. Too much The perfect amount of fun!

Love,

Deidre