Last Sunday, Stephen, Isaac, Chelsee and I drove the scenic and ever so popular Alpine Loop. I was a little disappointed because it snowed in the mountains earlier in the week, so quite a few of the leaves had already fallen and the colors weren't quite as vibrant as when I did the drive last year with some JERU friends - but it was still a gorgeous day and a gorgeous drive with some of my favorite people. :)

...I hate to sound like a blogger-cop-out, but I really do think fall might be my favorite season. Although, I'd much prefer warm weather all year round - the fall colors of nature truly are breathtaking. Especially here surrounded by brightly colored trees dotting the mountainside.


Isaac and Chelsee's Polaroid camera added a special something to the outing as well. Polaroid cameras really might be the coolest thing ever.

On Saturday night, while the men were all at Priesthood Session, the girls went to dinner at Gloria's Little Italy.

Not only was it a blast to catch up with some of my cousins and my grandma and Aunt Lisa, I also got to cross something off my BYU bucket list!

One day (in the last month or so) Stephen commented on how he, "loves casseroles." I thought that was a very funny and relief-society-sounding thing to say. haha. It's amazing the things you learn about a person you thought you knew after you're married. (haha just kidding.) Anyway, he said that his mom makes a delicious Poppyseed Casserole that he loves. We texted her and asked for the recipe that she uses, but she was at the store and couldn't send it right then, and we were impatient, so I just googled one and decided to give it a go.

This is the recipe I used.

It was good! When the ingredients consist of: chicken, sour cream, butter, ritz crackers and cream of chicken soup....how could it be anything but good? haha.

My mother-in-law later sent us the recipe she uses and it was pretty similar, but looked even better because it has rice baked into it which would make it a lot more filling. (Her recipe also called for less sour cream and butter and cream of chicken which is a plus.)

Positives: Stephen was one happy husband and was singing praises to my name. It was delicious!

Negatives: Let's face it. It's not the most healthy recipe. ha. And, it wasn't super filling.

What I would do differently: Try the other recipe. (I'll post that recipe when I make it.) Also, I wish I had shredded the chicken instead of cutting it into cubes (which is something that the new recipe says to do).

SO, ya. I'm not sure how to end this post now. haha.

[Also, I recognize that it's weird I'm posting about a full meal and it's barely 9:00 am on a Saturday. Next time I'll try to post more appropriate foods for the time of day, I'm just currently at work and biding my time until General Conference starts!] 

The other day I was going through some "notes" on my phone and I came across one that had me laughing out loud. On July 24 at approximately 11:38 am Stephen wrote me a haiku poem. We were in the car coming back from Grace, Idaho. I was asleep and only semi-coherent at the time and I completely forgot about it until stumbling across it just recently.