bri & i tend to pack the weekend with way more things than will even fit into our schedule. and this last weekend was no exception. in fact, most of my chores (that usually get done on saturday) were completely ignored. which is a problem because i don't really have time any other day of the week to do all that fun stuff. oh well, we can live with a dirty shower...i guess. :)

my last week was absolutely terrible. i'm positive every big assignment + every hard test fell during the week. at the end of the week i felt just as relieved as i do at the end of a semester. so some celebrating was in order.

i had a get together with my favorite friends. dinner + a sleepover =some much needed girl time. my mom was also in town for the day & joined us for dinner.

 i have loved having my mom around. i really thought i knew how much i missed her when she was gone, but over time i think i had just forgot what it was like to be able to call her up & chat with her every day & see her almost every weekend. it has been the best. love this lady!

brian & i decided that saturday was the perfect day. (& we plan for most of our saturdays to be like this over the summer).
we spent the morning playing tennis with our friends paige & alex. i was the only one without much tennis experience, but they were nice & played easy on me. :) & of course my husband is the best coach/teacher in the world. pretty sure i'll be playing decent in no time. (i hope.) we finished off with a little basketball & then headed home to take the most glorious afternoon nap. (we did have full intentions to clean the house & do the laundry...oops.)

we then went on our weekly date night. we joined two of my high school friends & their husbands for dinner @ buffalo wild wings. (my first experience, & it was a good one) we then headed over to trafalga to play miniature golf & then laser tag a couple of times. the first game of laser tag we got absolutely dominated by about 10 little kids. (and when i say little kids, i mean 5-8 year olds) so we went into the next game talking/planning out our stradegy so it wouldn't happen again, needless to say i'm pretty sure the girl that was running the game thought we were ridiculous. (hey, we're competitive)
we had a blast & brian told me the next time he's home alone because i'm doing something else he's just going to head to trafalga and play laser tag.
the funny thing is, i wouldn't be surprised at all if he actually did that.

we are so grateful for good friends. we only wish we had more time so we could hang out with more of our friends & do it more often.

& the good news is: only four more weeks of school....
& only four more days until the weekend. :)

i have about four different drafts written up of things we've been up to this summer. (most of them consist of our time in idaho) but before i get to those i thought i'd blog about a few things that i don't want to slip through the cracks. 

2 of my long lost best friends came into town in july. 

allie moved to moscow with her husband for law school. thank goodness she makes it down to utah now & then. of course we had to do our regular cafe rio run while she was in town. 

she's expecting a little baby girl in december. & is the cutest pregnant lady i know.

my high school bff holly made a quick visit in july for a wedding. i hadn't seen her since my wedding, a year ago, & it was so great to catch up and meet her little aubree. really wishing these little reunions could happen more often. alaska is too far away...

there are way too many cute babies, everywhere i turn. :)

bri and i got to go to his mission president's homecoming a couple weeks ago. i absolutely loved meeting him. it's fun to finally meet the guy your husband talks so much about & has so much respect for, he definitely lived up to all the hype. 

as we were walking up to talk to him, brian was holding his arms out to give him a hug, but president nelson kind of pushed him aside and yelled "macey!" & then gave me a big hug. i was super impressed that he knew me, (i mean, we sent them a wedding invite, but what mission president remembers one of his first missionaries wives names?)  but that's just exactly the kind of guy he is. he was so kind & personable. one of my new favorite people. 

(also, he kinda looks like president uchtdorf to me. and who doesn't love that?) :)

i'm pretty mad i didn't get a picture of brian with president & sister nelson. but they're the cute couple in the middle....surrounded by all their missionaries.

oh, & brian is the cute one in the tie. :)   

a bridal shower

i have the greatest friends. 

sister zeller

meet marg.

she's one of my best friends.

she got her mission call about 4 months ago.

to vitoria brasil.

we dropped her off at the mtc last wednesday.
after a cafe rio lunch date of course. 

don't worry, she packed a fish fan. (just in case she ever needs one)

it's a mystery to us how she fit everything into 2 suitcases.

we like to call her our little pack rat.

love you marg.
thank goodness it's only 18 months.