busy saturdays

A couple of Saturdays ago I participated in a "dancing with the stars" event with the dance studio that I teach at.  Arthur Murray helped with a fundraiser put on by the YMCA in our area.  Needless to say, this was an expensive fundraiser, but well worth it.  Jared came and supported which I was very grateful for!  The event lasted from 5 to about 1030.  We were both exhausted after all the dancing.  The instructors of the dance studio were the professionals and we had 20 lessons to teach our partner (who was an important "star" of the area).  This night was to show off our performances.  My partner, Tony Dale, is a state representative and did a fantastic job learning how to dance the ChaCha.

Here are all of my co-workers!

And the whole gang!

This last Saturday, Jared and I were able to again attend the San Antonio Temple with our ward.  It was wonderful and we all took a bus which was relaxing not to have to worry about traffic.  We spent the whole afternoon there and then went out to dinner at a wonderful restaurant that was generously paid for.  Another busy Saturday for us!  And they just keep coming!

our weekend

Friday night I worked all evening :(  Jared, however, had a nice relaxing evening enjoying coding here at home.  I got home about 11pm and was exhausted after dancing all night.  The next morning we got up at 730ish and headed over to our Church building and prepared for the ward breakfast that morning at 9am.  Let's just say it was a crazy morning and we didn't end up leaving the building until about 1130am because of clean-up.  Great turn out though for the breakfast.  When we got home we weren't really hungry for lunch so we just lounged around and after a little while I zonked for 2 1/2 hours.  After a nice refreshing nap, Jared and I thought we should probably go grocery shopping because we were running out of meal ideas.

We really wanted to go out and be social Saturday night, so we asked a bunch of friends to go to Gourdough's (gourmet donuts/doughnuts - I never know which spelling)!  They deep fry their own doughnuts and then top it with a bunch of various fruits, candy, anything.  We got the doughnut called the carney.  This doughnut is topped with apple pie filling and roasted peanuts.  DELICIOUS!  One is definitely enough for two people.

We'd never been and wanted to see what the hype was all about.  It was worth it, but little did we know . . . the BYU vs Texas game was on.  I was shocked when our friends wanted to go here over watching the game . . . (gourdough's must be really good we thought).  We decided to go downtown during half time.  Gourdough's was amazing!  BYU beat Texas 40-21.  Needless to say, it was a good night, but shhh don't tell people we were cheering for BYU . . . we don't want to get run out of Austin :)