Weekend Life is the Life

Weekends need to be longer.  This past weekend was splendid, if I do say so myself.  Here are a few things I did...

After sleeping in on Saturday I woke up in the mood for something warm and delicious (other than Danny, hehe) so I decided to make blueberry muffins, one of Danny's favorite.  I tried to make it a surprise, but since I rarely make breakfast, Danny was curious and caught me.  I may have posted this before, but here is the recipe I used.

In the afternoon, we were invited to my nephew General J's birthday party.  This was a birthday of success!  You see, I'm not much of a gift giver.  It isn't one of my talents.  I don't usually give gifts unless there is some type of get-together involved.  I don't mean that in a rude way, I just don't usually think about it.  Anyway, General J told us a few weeks ago that all he wanted was a popgun.  You know, the old school toy gun with the cork in it so it pops.  General J was so sure we would get this for him and I really didn't want to let him down.  However, popguns don't really seem to be sold at any regular store.  Luckily, over our vacation as we were walking around Knott's Berry Farm, in one of the toy stores, we found a popgun!  We were so excited and General J was thrilled.  

General J blowing out his candles.

I also got a little bonding time with Baby D at the party.

Speaking of babies we found out on Saturday that Danny's brother Ben and his wife Heather had their baby little boy!  How very exciting!

In the afternoon I worked a little on my small flower patch.  I've decided this year to try out gardening now that I have a little green space of my own.  Well, we rent, but kind of my own.  I feel like you have arrived to maturity when you can tell the difference between a weed and the plant you actually want to stay.  I actually found weeding rather therapeutic and was pleased with how the flower bed looked when I was done.  Special thanks to my brother Mark who let me take some rocks from his yard to line my little garden with.  I'm pretty sure his neighbors thought I was crazy when they saw me (some random lady) filling an empty birthday gift bag with rocks from his backyard.

The daffodils are blooming!

Saturday evening Danny and I had a date night.  We went to Rumbi Grill for dinner and then we saw the much talked about Hunger Games movie.  It was intense, to say the least.  I thought it stuck pretty well to the book, but some things were different.  I'd say the movie makes a lot more sense if you have read the book.  It was kind of hard to watch, since it is violence among kids.  I got teary a few times in the sadder scenes.  I have more to say about the story line on my next post when I talk about reading the books, but the movie was well done.  Everyone said the shaky camera technique bothered them, but I was fine.  I think all those roller coasters from Knott's Berry Farms prepared me.

On Sunday morning we headed to church and taught our crazy class in Primary.  Those kiddos wear me out, but it is pretty cute when they want to walk with me to class and tell me whatever stories cross their minds.  After a Sunday nap, I made cookies for our friends who taught our Primary class last week.  I was in the mood for snickerdoodles.  It took me longer to find a recipe online without the ingredient of cream of tartar (which I didn't have in my cupboards) than to actually bake the cookies.

In the evening, with the weather so mild Danny and I took a little walk at the park nearby.  I just love that spring is in the air.  I can't help but be in a good mood with warmer weather.