The CoRn MaiZe

I like to feed people,  I have come to accept this :) 

It seems like once a week at least we have friends or family over to eat and I realize I love it, I really love cooking for a big group of people and hoping they enjoy my food.   Monday night we had my brother and our friend Mike over for dinner, Thursday night we had some friends over for dinner and then they treated us to USwirl for dessert (Thanks Barney's!) ,  Friday night we went and met our friends Nycole and Christie for a movie we went out to dinner before the movie to celebrate 2 months of marriage Saturday we headed up to St George for the corn maze and dinner with my friend Fred and then yesterday we had my parents,  my brother and Ryan's parents over for Sunday dinner.  I enjoy when we have both my family and Ryan's family for dinner and it helps that our parents knew each other before we did so we always have good conversation.  Not that I dont love just having Ryan and I at dinner but I love a loud roudy table of conversation with friends and family.  I am sure once we have kids I will be wishing for the quiet of a dinner with just us two :)

I am on this kick about meal planning.  I got so tired of going to the grocery store every week  for little things here and there that I decided I was going 2 times a month and that was it! So we went on the 1st with our 2 week meal planner in tow and then Saturday morning I went through the freezer and pantry and made our next 2 week meal planner and I am happy to say I only have a list of about 9 things I need from the grocery store to last us the rest of the month.   Milk, eggs and rice are the 3 things we go through fast in our house.  We got a rice cooker for our wedding and I think we use it 2-3 times a week.

Saturday we headed down to St George to go to the corn maze and to stop by TaiPan for me for co-worker/neighbor christmas gifts.  We had a good time.  We got a late start because Ryan volunteered to clean the church and only him and one other guy showed up so I was grumpy on the ride up, but once we got there and got everything done we set out to do I cheered right up.  We went through 2 of the mazes and just walked around,  stopped at Tai Pan and then window shopped for cars before our dinner with Fred.  We would like to get a new car beginning of next year so we have 2 fairly new cars paid off by the time Ryan is out of school and we have to start paying student loans.  We haven't made a decision yet but we have narrowed it down. 

All in all it was a great weekend,   getting excited only two more weeks until we are in California for Halloween weekend! 

Hope all is well.  Until next time...