Holiday Weekends!

I don't think I'll ever be able to work at a place that doesn't give you all holidays off. I love my banker's holidays. I had a 4 day weekend this week. I went home to my parents house this weekend! It was so much fun! We had a baby shower for my best friend, Aubry. And all 3 of my closest girl friends were there! It's so fun because Aubry is pregnant and due in a few weeks. Then the other 3 of us are all engaged and got engaged within 2 weeks of each other! It was fun to just spend time together again!

We always have to take weird pictures. Don't mind my hunchback..

So that was fun! Saturday night, we got some of my friends and some of Jeremy's friends together and went to dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings in Layton and then bowling! I am so happy that our friends, as different as they are, can all get together and have fun like that! Sunday was a family day. Jeremy and I made queso for a snack for my family before church and then we hung out the rest of the day. Monday I went and saw Pitch Perfect (again) with my Rachy Poo. Such a funny movie! Then I went and saw my other Racheal's new house. SO CUTE! I'm kinda jealous. I want a house. Then that night Jerms and I were supposed to go to dinner with my brother and sister in law. So instead I just went down to Jeremys house and when I got there he had dinner made for me! With my favorite drink ever!!!!

I could live on Martinelli's. Seriously. It's my favorite. Isn't he cute though? I just love him! He's so good to me!
And Tuesday I went to lunch with my mom and my 2nd mom. We had fun just eating and catching up. It's been a while since I'd seen 2nd mom. Then came home, had some roomie time with Kayla. Love her. And then started watching The Walking Dead. and HOLY CRAP! I'm so sucked in it's friggin ridiculous. I finished season one last night. Don't judge me for that. Or do. Whatevs.

I want to be a cougar!

..and then he jumped in the tree.

 

This is apparently what  a cougar looks like, according to Mr. Dimond. He's a strange one, but I think he makes a pretty cute cougar! I'll keep him!

And I'm a bear? Who knows. I've got issues. But whatevs.
We had fun hiking up the same place that Kayla and I hiked a few weeks ago. Seriously. Logan rocks for hiking places and outdoorsy people. So we hiked and had fun. This is what we would look like if we saw a bear..

And that bear would live in here...

Creepy, right? 

And then we made crack. AKA Reese's Rice Krispies. They're slightly addicting and perfectly delicious. Boyfriend ate a lot of them and he got sick. But that's just means I'm good at my girlfriendly duties on feeding him. Right? 

Other random highlights from the weekend:

My beautiful cousin got married! Congrats Kenz!!!! LOVE YOU! And then we went to Smith's to get some stuff to decorate the car at said wedding and the person in front of us at the checkout left their receipt, and I just want you to notice how much they have saved so far this year! WTF! Who does that. Crazy. Because that's not including any coupons, that's just with their Smith's Rewards. Think of how much they would have to spend to save that much!!! Wow.

Oh and if you want the recipe for crack here you go:

Reeses Krispies

1 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Corn Syrup
1 1/3 Cup Creamy Peanut Butter
4 1/4 Cup Rice Krispes
1 Pinch of Salt
4 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, chopped
1 Handful Chocolate Chips


In a large sauce pan over medium heat, melt the sugar, corn syrup, and peanut butter until smooth and evenly combined.
Remove from heat.
Quickly add the salt and cereal and stir to combine thoroughly. Add the chocolate chips and stir again. Wait about 1 min and add the candy, quickly folding the mixture together so as to not smash up the candy.

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and drop rounded tablespoons onto the sheet. Let cool and devour!

Try them. I dare you.

Weekend Update: WIth Seth Meyers

Ok, no not with Seth Meyers. But, you get me. That's almost as cool right?
I love conference weekend. It's probably my favorite time of year! Especially since we are so blessed to live so close to the conference center.  The weekend started out Friday night at my parents house. It was a party! Kinda like a whole weekend long triple date. Yes. I said it. It was me and the boyfriend. Sammi and Levi and my parents. We had some cute family time at first and watched videos on proposals on the Youtube. You know, just giving Jerms some ideas ;)

Saturday morning, Me, Sam, Jerms and Levi went to conference and then to lunch and had a grand ol' time!

Aren't they the cutest?!

We're kinda cute too! (Conceited? Yes.)

Then we went home and my amazing mom, oldest sister and favorite sister-in-law had been preparing mass amounts of crock pot meals. We've found this new thing where you can make freezer crock pot meals, so we plan out for a month or so and then Mal and Kenz (with her amazing coupon skills) go shopping. Then we put them together. And by we, mostly I mean all of them. I did a real good job and keeping the nephews entertained. We got done just in time for the boys to head out to Priesthood session. Dad took Levi and Jerms as his body guards.
Sunday we had our traditional German Pancakes for breakfast during the morning session.

We all stayed in our pajamas and ate junk food and listened to the words of the prophet. It's my favorite day!!!
Monday was Columbus Day. Which means, my dad and I had the day off while everyone else had to work. So we took the guns out and went to the shooting range.

 I love those days. I have the best dad in the world! Then we went to In-N-Out and had some burgers, fries and just some nice time to chat. Then my cute boyfriend took me to dinner at Texas Roadhouse.
Mmm....rolls and cinnamon butter. If you know me at all, you know I have a slight obsession with butter. So that was fun. And we had a great server! Which always makes the experience so much better!!

And...we're fatty's. It's fine.

PS. Trying to fit tons of freezer meals into a freezer in an apartment with 3 other girls, that was fun. Food tetris.