This past weekend was really fun. On Friday, Daniel and I headed out to Dallas Love Field Airport to pick up my best friend, Deanna. We basically spent the whole weekend shopping and loving every minute of it. Her brother and dad were in town for a lacrosse game and so we went to that on Saturday. It was my first lacrosse game and both Daniel and I thought it was a fun game to watch. The game was in a really nice area of Dallas (Highland Park) and so we drove around afterwards and looked at all the huge houses and expensive shopping areas. Then we drove out to Grapevine Mills Mall and did our shopping there...where we could afford to buy something. Deanna and I got some cute new shirts and Daniel ended up buying a suit.
Deanna and I were also looking for a cheap wedding band to go with our wedding rings. I want one because that way if I ever go out of town, I don't have to wear my expensive ring and take a chance on losing it. So we learned to never try to get a ring from one of those jewelry place set up in the middle of the mall. Deanna and I told the lady what we wanted and we could see that she didn't have anything at all that resembled what we wanted after a few minutes of looking but she would not give up. She just kept telling us to hold on and she couldn't understand what we wanted. You would think she would understand what a diamond wedding band looks like because she works in a jewelry store and she's a female. Finally after about ten minutes, we just said we had to go and basically walked away.
Late on Saturday night, we started hearing a loud truck behind our house. Well first let me explain. Daniel and I live in a new neighborhood and they are still building. We don't have many houses around us yet. And behind our house, they just put in a natural gas pipeline and so there is a big dirt path behind our house. Well I guess some guys thought it would be fun to go off road driving at 1am in the morning. There was no way I was going to be able to sleep with that loud truck driving back and forth right behind our house. So Daniel and I got up, grabbed a really bright flashlight and went out to the backyard. We got up on the fence and started flashing our light at him. Then he would turn on his brights because he thought we were trying to get his licence plate number. Well it didn't take long for him to decide to leave. We will see if he returns this next weekend. (pictures to come....Deanna took some with her camera of us trying to scare away the guy)
Sunday morning comes and the phone rings. The Bishop wants me to come in and talk with him before church but I couldn't do that because we had to take Deanna to the airport. So the Bishop calls me directly and releases me over the phone from 1st counselor in Young Womens. I am definitely going to miss my girls and women I worked with. I'm going to try to stay in touch with everyone and at least I will still see all of them every Sunday. It was by far the best calling I've had in the church. I will have to say that I wasn't in shock because I knew it was coming...well at least I knew they were going to be reorganizing the Young Womens presidency. So right now, I have no calling since they can't call me to anything over the phone. So when Sacrament rolls around, they reorganized the entire Young Womens, Primary and Relief Society presidencies. I didn't think the Bishop was ever going to stop calling names.
Thank you Deanna for coming to visit us. We had so much fun with you and we absolutely have to do it again soon.
