giraffes, pineapple-carrot muffins, and put-put #perfectweekend

Hello Friends! And Good Morning from Denver! {insert talk show host voice} #jk #insertjessicavoice

What have you been up to since we last talked? Well, we just have had the most amazing weekend. Normally I don't do a travel log, but seriously, our little family weekend adventures were just so fun! So here goes ;) #sidenote #elididnotdiethisweekend #noralmostdie #alltimelowonaccidents!

So, basically, it was wonderful having Nate home for the weekend! Besides the fact that I just love being with him and see our cute little family together, he is just so great with eli #andmychasinggoeswaydown #myhipsfeelgreatthismorning #thankstonate #imsurehestiredthough

Anyway, so sometimes our cutie pie Eli will start fussing (usually when he's in the carseat and the sun is in his eyes or he's getting his diaper changed.) So, Nate, the cute dad that he is, will say things to distract him. Usually I say something like "where's your head/ears/hands...etc" and he plays that game with me. But nate, is not into games. He wants real life #iguess 

Here are some the phrases I have heard lately that he says to distract him:

 "Eli, what is your favorite color?"

"Eli, look out the window, what do you see?"

"Eli, what are you thinking about?"

my fave: "Eli, what does a giraffe do?"

At first, I was like..."um...nate, he can't answer those types of questions..." but now i just smile at how cute of a dad nate is. He tries so hard to help Eli and have fun with him, so let him ask whatever he wants :)

Ok, so here's our weekend ;)

Friday night we got everything planned and had a hot date! Our babysitter showed up, and we were off. We went to a cute little family run restaurant in the middle of this residential area called Papa Mazzotti's, AND we loved it! The atmosphere was amazing, and it was just so cute! (I didn't get a lot of pictures this weekend, I guess I was enjoying myself too much, so you'll have to use your imaginations I guess). Once we were done eating, Nate just wanted to sit there and talk :) It was so fun not to have crazy music blaring or being distracted by the TV like at most restaurants. AND we had the most amazing sunset!!!

#denverisgorgeous

Then off to the family fun center down the street! Nate LOVES put-put (for you westerners, we played minigolf #funnyeasterners #waithesfromohio #mideasterners #waitmidwesternersiguess). So we played a round of put-put (the only way i said I would play with my painful walking situation is if nate ran after my crazy hits and picked up the ball for me...he is so nice!)  ...so normally I lose by like 15, but somehow my belly did me good and we tied ;) #bestwayonadate   Then off to playing arcade games with tokens we got for free #freeisalwaysbest

Then what else but another free item? we shared a free lemonade icee thing at Chic-fil-a #freetastesgoodtoo #justlikeladyandthetramp

Then what else, but we find out that our babysitter needed to do service hours for honor society, so she babysat for free #imtellingyou #freeisawesome #thanksgirl!

Saturday morning, we got up and went straight to an Ultimate Frisbee game that we were invited to by some friends. I'm sure nate played well! I just sat there and chatted away #momslovetogetoutandtalk  and Eli was a champ and sat in his stroller the whole time #myhipsthankyoueli

Then what better than another outing with friends? A BBQ!  #sidenote  not sure if the heat wave has hit your area, but its perfect weather here! Saturday couldn't have been better #justaskoursunburns #wedidntthinkaboutsunscreeninmarch

Then off to the General Women's Conference! It was amazing. If you missed it, or are wondering what the heck I'm talking about, you can check it out here, we listened to our leaders and a living Apostle of God!

Phew, that was quite a day! But oh, so, fun!

Sunday morning was amazing (Sunday mornings are not always amazing, because getting everyone ready for church and having a time limit sometimes stresses moms out #thatsreallife) but guess what? we were all ready really early for some reason this week!

Pictured here: Us ready...well, Eli is almost ready, we didn't want him to get his church clothes dirty. I am also in an apron...because my belly is prone to getting dirty these days #stickingoutmuch. Ain't no one got time for dirty church dresses before church even starts!

Then Nate even had time to play with Eli outside a bit before we left #theyaretoocutealldressedup

After a great day at church, we came home and everyone took naps but me. #anothersidenote Something is weird in my body, and naps don't make me feel good! Its weird, I wake up and feel gross for hours. Seriously, like nauseous, and groggy, and out of it...FOR HOURS!! Its weird, so I avoid them like the plague and just sleep at night, well the best I can with a million bathroom breaks and aching hips and all...haha #lovepregnancy    

 Anyway, enough of this pity party. So I wasn't about to take a nap. 

Here I am deciding what to do with free time

So after i read my scriptures I decided to index 

  --if you want to learn how to index, it's super easy! Learn how to here--- 

but I was falling asleep during that too! So, I decided to make some muffins. I looked in my pantry and got super excited about pineapple #crazypreggoiknow  So i found an awesome and healthy recipe for Upside Down Pineapple Carrot Muffins! You know mine looked as good as the picture on the website, right? #nailedit   Ok, maybe not, but they tasted amazing!! Like we didn't have dinner, we just ate these muffins.

Then

After everyone woke up we didn't know what to do with ourselves with no extra meetings. So we pulled our couch out into a movie theater setting (once again, no picture, sorry) and watched the new Gordon B Hinckley DVD called "A Giant Among Men"...we got it for free in the mail this week, and I am trying to find the link where you can get it for free, but can't. When I find it, i'll update this post and post it in another blog post, sorry!...Anyway, it was great!

After the movie, we pulled out our favorite Sunday game (which I highly recommend to everyone!). Its and LDS trivia game called "Jots and Tittles" I know you're supposed to play it with a board. But one time we found this set of trivia cards at DI for 75 cents and bought it. We seriously have played almost every sunday for the past 2 years and LOVE it! We don't keep score, we just ask each other questions for a whole card then switch. Some of the questions are hard, but we love it when we can get 4 or 5 out of 6!  GUESS WHAT!?!?! I totally got 5.5/6 on this one! 

 #howmanywouldyouknow

#imightbebragging  #ijustthinkitsrandomthatiknowjacobhamblin

(I got all of them but the James and John, I guess Peter and James)...but I was so proud of myself. Who else knows about Jacob Hamblin but someone who worked at Jacob Lake Inn (on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon) two summers in a row?? 

Then we ended our night with each of us telling our stories of ghetto places we have lived (Jacob Lake ranks high in that area and Nate's Hill Cumorrah Pageant ranks high in his). We laughed so hard. #laughingfeelssogood

It was a perfect ending to a perfect weekend!

Thanks for coming along with me!

I hope you enjoyed it! and maybe even got some ideas of fun things to do with your family over the weekends!

Now I'm off to do dishes. #realitycheck I have literally not done dishes since last Tuesday, and the sink is barely full!!  here's my life hack:  We use paper plates/bowls and napkins for everything! Then dishes dont have to be done for days #nodishesmakesahappymomma (it was one of the "financial upgrades" we decided was appropriate once we had a real job out of college!) #dontjudge #ialsousedisposablediapersandmuffinpaperthings #yougottadowhatyougottado

#herestobeingreal

Anyway, enjoy your week! I'll enjoy my dishes