The Best.

Tyler and I had a date to clean the kitchen and the living room {I know-- we are exciting people} to get ready for my Young Women to come over for a "Conference Breakfast" Saturday morning. I walked through the front door to find everything clean-- including the kitchen floor mopped and the floors vacummed + dinner in the crockpot+ a surprise date! It was a beautiful sight.

It was so sweet of Tyler to do all of this, because I know he is just as tired by the end of the week as me. Dinner was delicious and we went and saw Hunger Games {which was AMAZING}. So grateful for a sweet and caring husband who looks for ways to help me.

Date Night

Tyler and I had a fun double date with some friends last weekend. We ate at one of our favorite Thai restaurants and then went to the arcade! I had never been to an actual arcade before-- I mean yes, I have been to Chuck-E-Cheese but does that count? Tyler was racking up the tickets-- he probably could have got me a lucky rabbits foot or something. I guess we will never know, because we gave the tickets to a little girl. She was so excited- it was adorable.

Ignore the fact that my eye is closed-- I am trying to document more with pictures!

Traditions.

My family has a fun tradition of going bowling on Christmas Eve. It is one of my favorite traditions. Read about duck pin bowling in 2008... I have only missed 2 years of this tradition! I knew we would be too busy on Christmas Eve to go, so Tyler and I went on Saturday. It was a night of firsts-- Tyler and I had never been bowling together! How weird is that?! Also-- I have never been bowling with just one other person! Those games go F-A-S-T!

I love this tradition and I am so glad that we are going to continue it with our family!

Date Night.

When Tyler got home from school last night he came home to a poem on the door.

"I know its a little late

For a Halloween themed date.

There will be pumpkins, popcorn, and coco to share

Come on in if you dare."

I'm sure my creative writing teacher would have been impressed with that.

We never carved our pumpkins-- we got crazy busy with other other activities! I am so glad we waited because after Halloween we were able to pick up a pumpkin carving kit {I ALWAYS wanted one}!

Tyler and the Pumpkin Guts

For some reason I remember pumpkin carving being extremely messy-- I think the last pumpkin I carved was when I was 10. It was not messy at all-- very civilized.

The final result!!

I think it turned out super cute!

I also made pumpkin hot chocolate-- delicious.

and

Popped homemade popcorn-- in a pot over the stove!! It was seriously so fun {I am easily impressed}. Tyler did a video of the popcorn-- I will try to find it!

Hee Haw

Tyler and I had a Groupon {Groupon is the best} to Hee Haw Farms. We tried going at the beginning of the month but got rained out! We tried again Friday night, and it was a success!

Us and our pumpkins

They had a lot to offer-- including a haunted forest {Tylers idea}. It was a lot of fun-- but I am a HUGE WIMP. Within 2 minutes I thought I was going to vomit-- with the bridge turning, lights flashing, smoke everywhere, and this spinny thing ahead of me I was a MESS! We hadn't event gotten to the "spooks" yet. Whenever a "spook" got in my face I screamed, and I screamed loudly. I honestly was scared, but I also thought if I screamed loudly they wouldn't be as in my face. Incorrect. The scariest spook {besides the chainsaw in my face, who I accidentally kicked} was this spook who followed us {I had my face mostly covered} who got right in my face and whispered, "You have a pretty face". I just about peed my pants. I also kept repeating, "I'm going to be sick, I'm going to puke" hoping to keep the spooks away... didn't work! Let me tell you-- if I was a spook I would stay away from the girl saying she was about to vomit. We survived the forest better than the group behind us. Let's just say, some had wet pants and decided to forgo the hay ride back and walk the half mile back to the farm. That would make for an awkward night.

We got back to the farm, and picked out our pumpkins! Of course, this ENTIRE time Tyler did not flinch even once.

It was quite the date night!

Go Jazz.

You may be wondering if we were at the very top of the arena.

Ummm no we were not.

We had one row above us.

We were determined to see one Jazz game this season!

It was a lot of fun- even though we lost. We had a brief glimmer of hope when we went into overtime. It was a very brief glimmer.

Hello goodness.

We had a fun double date at our place on Friday.

We made mini pizzas- crust and everything!

And I made this deliciousness for dessert.

Red Velvet Brownies with White Chocolate Frosting.

The picture is from my phone-- so it does not do it justice!