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  • Christmas Shopping {Date Night}

    Christmas Shopping {Date Night}

    Have you finished your Christmas Shopping yet?  I didn’t think so.

    A great way to connect with your spouse is to go Christmas shopping together.

    Time: Plan on 4 hours
    Items Needed: A small notebook, pen, and a budget

    While we were visiting family last weekend, Mark and I took the time for a date.  Family is our ideal babysitter for the kids, and they also live closer to the stores we like to shop at …. Ikea …..

    We weren’t planning a date on Black Friday, especially since it was also my Dad’s Birthday, but it worked out that we were able to sneak away. We started the day off with a wedding (congrats Aunt Sandra!), and then moved on to our shopping. We headed up to IKEA in Draper. Ever since they opened a few years ago, it has been Mark’s favorite store. He often pleads for us to stop if we’re anywhere near. Since we had no kids with us and I am not currently pregnant, I was perfectly fine heading there.

    We decided we’d walk around the display area first. I may have coveted some desks and lamps on the way. Eventually we ended up in the childrens area. Our initial plan was to buy the girls a table and chairs, but none were the size I wanted. So we decided to grab some lunch with our free Ikea lunch cards (compensation for our cupboards being damaged when delivered, and having to personally make the trip to return and exchange them).

    We needed a plan of attack if we were going to do any shopping while we were out. So I grabbed the notebook I carry in my purse, along with my special pen.  We wrote everyone’s name down we needed to buy for. Then we proceeded to list what we would like to get them, what we had already purchased, and how much money we had to budget for it all.

     

    It was one of the most enjoyable lunches I’ve spent with Mark, and is definitely motivation to get back into weekly dates with each other. 

    We left lunch to grab the few things we could get there. Instead of a table for the kids, we got a double sided easel – chalkboard and whiteboard, with markers and chalk. From there, we perused the self serve items on the bottom floor, and checked out. We made a few more stops on the way back, and were only slightly past the time we gave my mom.  With the wedding included, we were gone about 5 hours. Just him and me, me and him.

  • Lincoln in Theaters Today! {Date Night}

    Lincoln in Theaters Today! {Date Night}

    It’s Friday Night Date Night!
     
    In an effort to date my husband more, I’ll be bringing date night ideas to you each week! 
     
    Tonight, Lincoln, the new Steven Spielberg movie, is open in theaters. I have been waiting all summer for this movie!!!  We would be at the theater tonight, except we have other things going on this week.
     
    Here’s my idea though, and if you’re headed out to see Lincoln this weekend, you can use these to make the night a little more special
     
    Dress Code!
    Ladies – curl your hair in ringlets and pull back into a net. Then dust off those hoop skirts! (or borrow one, or wear your fanciest dress you own)
    
     
     
    Guys – pull out those suits, vests and pocket watches! If you have a top hat, wear that as well.

    Dinner
    If you’re doing dinner before the movie, find somewhere that has a good cornbread, and enjoy civil war fare.  Or whip up your own batch of cornbread and Lemonade.
     

    Then head on out and enjoy the show!  I’m hoping we can sneak away for a bit next weekend for our own date night.

  • Funniest Wedding Photo can win you a 2nd Honeymoon!

    Funniest Wedding Photo can win you a 2nd Honeymoon!

    Ah yes, I just love this photo of the ONE bite of food I had the day of my wedding. Well, almost one bite. I mean seriously Mark, you never ate like that while we were dating, what gives?
     
    I’m thinking of entering this into the Modern Greeting 2nd Honeymoon Giveaway.
    Yep, that’s right, Modern Greetings is GIVING AWAY not 1 but 4 2nd Honeymoons!
     
     
     
    There will be 4 rounds you can enter into. The first of which, has actually already started. It’s the Funniest Wedding Photo round. You go HERE, enter your email, and then you’ll be redirected to Modern Greetings Facbook page. There you will enter your photo. Then get all your friends and family, and their friends to vote for your photo. The photo with the most votes wins!  So simple.

    I would so very much love this! We had an ok honeymoon. We roadtripped from utah to vegas and then to the nations capital and back home. Some nights were spent sleeping in the car. On top of that though I had an ….. well…feminine problem…. that I had never had before. With no insurance and no idea what was going on with me, we had quite the interesting honeymoon. I’d love a do-over.

    Again, you could win a 2nd Honeymoon to the Destination of your choice (up to $3000). You can enter all 4 rounds, but only win once. 

     
    I just hope you all have a sense of humor and got some funny shots from your wedding.
     
    What do you think?  Maybe I should enter this one instead
    awe, it’s a good thing I love this man. No worries, he went first, so I made sure to shove some cake up his nose. That pic just isn’t nearly as funny.
     
     
     
    *This is a sponsored post. I may have received compensation for writing this post. All opinions however are my own. Now, go vote for my photo 😉
    

  • Trailer for Lincoln

    I watched part of the presidential debate last night with hubs, but between cleaning, and kids, and baking, I didn’t see a whole lot of it. I did however catch the new trailer for Dreamworks Lincoln.  If you’ve missed my past posts on this new movie, well I’m sorry. Basically, I’m really excited for this. My love of all things history, and the few years I spent reading every book I could about Lincoln, just makes me thrilled to see this movie. Is it November yet?