Weekend away

I am grateful that I got to have a weekend away with my mom, some of my sisters, and 2 married nieces. We went to Time Out For Women in Salt Lake. We started our weekend off on Friday. My darling husband took Friday off. Wednesday night as I was getting ready to go to Bunco, he started the whining..."Everyone at work got this new game today. I really want it. You're going to be gone all weekend. What am I supposed to do?" He proceeded to "show me the money" and convince me that he needed this new game to get through the weekend without me. I finally caved and he went and bought his new game.

I also realized that I had ordered a Bountiful Basket and was going to need him to pick it up. We then played the "what's it going to take" game to get him to commit. Do you guys ever do that game at your house?
me: What's it going to take for you to go pick up my basket Saturday morning?
Jer: Um....new game - oh wait, already got that...a 12 pack of Mountain Dew...and a 12 pack of Pepsi, NOT coke.
me: SOLD! Did I mention it's no longer right here by our house and it's 2 hours earlier?

So here began my weekend. Not that I don't trust my husband, but I did plan out his weekend for him:
Friday was so fun! We went shopping ALL day. It was great to giggle and have fun with my sisters. Grandma made sure we fit some service into our day and it was good to go visit an old family friend who just lost her sister. We ate dinner at my (used to be) favorite restaurant Morelia's. Then headed up to Salt Lake to start our big event. It was great! Virginia Pearce (Pres. Hinckley's daughter) spoke, and Heidi Swinton (just wrote Pres. Monson's biography).
I decided to really make it a weekend away and I stayed the night at my parent's house and stayed up way too late chatting with Robin.

We headed downtown again bright and early at 8. Our speakers for the day were also wonderful! Linda & Shawni Eyre, Amanda Dickson, Brad Wilcox, Mariama Kallon, and Emily Freeman. The music for Sat was Hilary Weeks, now I know I'm a little biased since our best friends happen to be related to her, but she was FANTASTIC! It was so great to get away for the weekend and come home feeling spiritually recharged.

Remember that husband of mine I was so worried about? 10:20 Saturday morning I get this text :

Got 3 kids ready...picked up your basket...picked up my new glasses...bought the V8 juice your kids wanted...got a haircut...I'm on a roll!

Us ladies really got a kick out of that one.

And it doesn't end there, when we got home at 11 Saturday night, I was dreading seeing the absolute chaos my home was going to be in...I walked in and had to smile. He had cleaned the whole house - and even done the dishes! My weekend away was soooo worth a PS3 game and 24 cans of pop!
p.s. I'm pretty sure my Mom took about 700 pictures, and I only took one. My dad didn't put any up on his blog, so you only get one picture. You have to understand that my mother takes about a million pictures. We were walking through the construction area downtown and she was stopping to take pictures of our "behinds" because she walks slower than us, and we were making fun of her for doing so, a very friendly construction worker said, "You can take a picture of my behind." Wow. Then my mom just couldn't even walk because she was laughing so hard!