This week it was Zach’s turn to plan Family Night.  So you shouldn’t be surprised to hear that Monday we went snowboarding shopping…

…and had tacos for dinner at Lonestar Taqueria.  It’s all good though, because all my FHE plans involve ice cream.  I guess we are both pretty predictable.

It also won’t surprise you to hear that I made a list of things that Zach and I are going to do during this fall season.  One of these things was to make raspberry butter.   It was convenient that we had been to Bear Lake two weekends in a row where there was a raspberry stand around every bend.  I found a copy cat recipe online for Maddox’s flavored butter and we have been enjoying it on toast all week.

Zach I were lucky enough to score fantastic seats next to his sister and our brother-in-law for the Utah vs. UCLA football game.  It was cold and wet but it was a pretty exciting game.  Zach even made a new friend, who happened to love his choice of concessions:  a corn dog submerged in a bucket of stale popcorn.  He calls it the “combo meal”.

And because we didn’t get our football fix with just the Utah game, we decided to drive up to Logan for the Utah State vs. BYU game after Zach found some tickets for sale for a killer deal.  Sometimes being a procrastinator DOES pay off.  He purchased them from a 90-year-old man who told us “the crowd was just too rowdy for him these days”.  They were on the 5th row!  We ate dinner at our local favorite, Le Nonne, before the game and then rushed off to the stadium.

We were both heartbroken when Chuckie got injured.  My Aggie’s best chance at a winning season tore up his knee in the first quarter of the game.  Our fellow fans were irate and weren’t shy about it, either.  We didn’t score another touchdown after the incident and we left Romney Stadium pretty down.  We decided to pick up some Coldstone on our way back to our hotel to help ease the pain.  It helped.

The next morning I made Zach get up early to take a drive up Logan Canyon to see the leaves.

We listened to the morning session of conference and then afterwards ate lunch at a new Logan addition:  Hu Hot at the recommendation of some of our favorite friends.  Zach loved it because it reminded him of his hometown favorite, Lee’s Mongolian.  Thank you Mike and Lindsey!

We stopped at a few antique stores on the way out of town, fought the temptation to buy more raspberries, and then made our way back home.  Zach watched the second session of Saturday conference from the comfort of our sofa while I peeled and cored apples for my first homemade apple pie.  Another task on my fall list has been to make a pie completely from scratch.  Maybe not my brightest idea, I will admit.  It actually wasn’t that hard with the exception of the dough for the crust.  That was my least favorite part.

I am pretty sure I had more flour in my hair than in the actual dough, but it turned out pretty good!  Yeah, she’s not the prettiest…but it is what is on the inside that counts.

I drove down to my Mom’s house afterwards to go out to eat and see a flick with the ladies while the men were at the Priesthood Session.

We literally saw the worst possible movie:  Baggage Claim.  Please, for the love of all that is holy…do not go see this movie.  We should have known that with a plot of “a flight attendant looking to find love” it would have been a dud.  We sat through the whole thing, however.  Why?  Because my mother wanted to see if the girl ended up with the guy.  Spoiler alert:  SHE DOES!  I can’t believe we each wasted over $9 [movies are $9 dollars now!?] on that flick.

Afterwards we drove back to my mother’s to shove pie in our pie holes.

Nobody hated it!  Even my brother approved…soooo….

Sunday was spent watching more of Conference in our pajamas, eating breakfast, and lounging.  We had Sunday dinner at my grandma’s house with my uncles and cousins and looked through more old family photos.  Oh the joy of those awkward phases in our childhood.  My mom really should have limited my Cool Ranch Doritos consumption.

Conference this weekend was pretty incredible.  It’s amazing what you can learn from such inspired messages.