Giveaway- Another Date Night Jar

Okay! I know I've already given away a Date Jar but I love them and I want everyone to date their spouse so I'm giving away another one.


Like always, there are 3 ways to enter. 1-Be a follower of my blog 2-Post a comment on this post about the silliest date you've been on (mine was our DI and Dinner date) 3-"Like" my blog post on facebook. No entries after midnight.

Date with Nate- Ice Cream Tasting

Nate and I decided that Saturday would be our date night. We had picked Baking together from our Date Jar but the hubby came home with 6 mini ice cream containers and said that we should have an Ice Cream Tasting instead. I'm nothing, if not flexible, so why not do something the honey is interested in doing.
The only down fall was that there is nothing on regular T.V. on Saturday nights so I decided since we watch Indiana Jones last week we'd watch Twilight. It was great! Eating ice cream and watching a stupid romance. Now don't get me wrong, I think the 3rd Twilight is the best one. Romance, Battles, Vampires, and Bella's hilarious dad. Who could ask for more?
ANY WHO! after a couple tastings, I decided my order. #1-Ben and Jerry's Strawberry Cheesecake #2-(B&J) Chocolate Fudge Brownie #3- (B&J) Cherry Garcia #4- Haagen dazs Delce De Leche #5-(B&J) Cookie Dough #6- (HD) Vanilla. Nathan said that I must have REALLY liked the Chocolate Fudge Brownie because I got every drop but what he didn't say was that he ate it all and I had to SCRAP the bottom of the container.
All in all it was a great date with the hubby. Thanks Babe!

Date with Nate- Dinner and a Movie

I really loved doing the Date with Nate posts but lately, I've been slacking on dating my hubby. But I've made a promise to myself that I will get back into the swing of it. Last week we went to Dinner and a Movie with our friends, Jesse and Serena. My SIL, V, watched G for us and we went to see Rango. I've seen a lot about how they made this movie and I was really excited to see it. It was good, different but good. Johnny Depp was great as always and the animation was pretty cool. I give it a B.

After the movie, we went to P.F.Changs for dinner. Of course, we got the lettuce wraps and each picked an Entree and shared and at the end we even got dessert. It was really nice. I give it an A+. We had loads of fun with Jesse and Serena. We love hanging out with them and we always have a blast! Thanks guys for a great date night!

Jesse and His Triple Chocolate Mousse

Me and My Chocolate Cake

Serena, I think she was crying, it was so good.

Nate and His Strawberry Cheesecake
(He didn't believe me but I KNEW he was
going to pick this one. I know my hubby so well)

Date with Nate-Week 4

This weeks Date with Nate was...Drum roll please... A Wii Night! We love our Wii, I'm cheap but it was really worth the money we paid for it. I can work out, play games, see the weather, watch the news, and now you can even get netflix on it. Amazing! (Ok. Enough about the wii)

We bought a new game (used) at our local Game Stop to play tonight; actually we wanted a different game but this one got bought by mistake. I thought that since this was a completely stay at home date that I would have some fun by getting creative in my clothing. While Nate was putting G to bed I grab some old Halloween tights, my swim shorts, and a head band. Then with some interesting make up and hair styling, I was ready! The results are below...My alter ego, Crusher (If I was ever to be a roller derby girl, which I really want to be, this would be my costume and name!).

Nate love it and thought I was super cute! We popped in our new game (Carnival Games) and started the smack talk. I have to admit that I am more guilty of smack talk than Nate is but how can you not when you are dressed like the Crusher!

This is my Game Face. Grrrr....

A few things I learned during our Wii night. I'm a contender and Nate is a macho man. I can't shoot a basketball or throw darts. Nate is a dead eye when it comes to shooting ducks. I am a dunk master. This was a great date. Nate kicked my but by winning 12 games to my 6 but there was some gloating on my side when I actually did beat him at something. In the end, I had to scoop Nate's ice cream because he won but I didn't mind because it was great just to spend some one on one time with my hubby.

One of my gloats

Nate doing the strong man-like I said, he's a macho man

I really do love my hubby and it nice to be with him as just the two of us; a boy and a girl that love each other and want to spend quality time together. It's great to date your husband. There's no worry about if he likes you or if he'll think you are weird (because in my case, he already knows that I am and he loves me for it!).

Date with Nate- Week 3

This week's Date with Nate was... Frisbee Golf! Before little G was born, we would go play at least once a week. It's free, super fun, and you can act really silly while you play. This is a great park about 5 miles away in the town just North of ours with a great Frisbee Golf Course and we decided to go there. After dropping G off at "Bopba's" House, we met our good friends Jesse and Serena to double date with us.

Aren't we a cute couple?!

Serena and Jesse

Jesse and Serena are really fun and we had fun trying to out frisbee each other. We are good at all but when everyone equally suck it's really fun. There were "Pro" Frisbee-ers playing while we were; they had different frisbees for the distance they wanted to throw and one guy even had a golf bag that folded out to be a chair. They were intense.

Serena's first throw- It didn't go that far.

He should pose for a Greek Statue

It was raining earlier today and I thought we were going to have to reschedule but an hour or so before the clouds lifted and the grass dried and we were able to play. It was cool but once we started moving we warmed up real fast.

I had to stretch for my big throw

Told you- Big Throw

There was a serious Frisbee Golf accident and Serena lost her leg, but she's ok now.

This is his sad face after a really bad throw

Serena finding her frisbee

We did have a few mishaps. A few frisbees went to far or high and got temporarily lost but in the end we found them all and were able to finish the game.

Stupid Tree got in my Way

Jesse threw his frisbee in this bush 3 times

We had a great time. Serena was First, Nathan and Jesse tied for Second, and I was Last but that didn't bother me. Winning wasn't the point of today, having fun was and man did we have a good time. We are really going to have to double with these guys again. If you have the time, try frisbee golf. It's great!!

Date with Nate- Week 2

Today was our weekly date night (the hubby is now on days at work, Hooray!). This week we grabbed a Cheese Tasting Date from the Date Jar. I got the idea from Moments to Live By. Now before you think, "A cheese tasting? Really?!" I need to tell you a little about my hubby...He loves Cheese! I can buy a one pound block of cheese and he will have it eaten (not on things, just cutting pieces off the block) in 3 days; so I added this to the list of dates as an ode to him. Love you honey!

We went to Harmon's and were treated like Kings (and in my case a Queen). We were just going to get an apple, some crackers, and some cheese but once we walked by the fresh bread area and the man started giving us samples we were hooked. We decided on a Fresh Baguette instead of crackers and then headed over to the cheese man. I have to tell you, I went a little over board. What can I say? Along with being a procrastinator, I'm also indecisive. The great guy at the cheese station, Steve, cut us tiny pieces and by the time we left the store, we had 12 different cheeses, an apple, a peach, a pear, roast beef, and the baguette.

We waited until G was asleep, jumped in the shower, got dressed up (I told Nate he couldn't wear Jammies since it was a date), and set the end table for a romantic night of cheese and talk.

The Spread

Our Cheese Plate

Our Fruit Plate

The Baguette

First, we tried the cheeses alone and then with bread and then with fruit. We had some Goudas, Fromager, Asiagos, a Cajun Cheddar, Havarti, and more. Some were good, some were okay, and one was terrible. These were ok to take a small taste of but I wouldn't be able to have a lot of them or have them on a sandwich. I've come to a realization; I like plain pre-packaged cheese. I like Colby Jack, Cheddar, Pepper Jack; which we didn't buy any of. We did get some great goat's milk cheeses from our neighbor that we really liked but I think I like cow's milk cheeses for texture.

Nate with the Havarti (he really liked that)

Me with the Dubliner (I hated it!)

All in all, it was a great date. We did spend more money on the cheese and crackers than we thought we would ($25) but we would have spent that much on a dinner out anyways. Give it a try! Go out and buy some cheese (though I suggest not 12 different kinds) and spend some time with your spouse. P.S. Don't get the Dubliner!!!!

Date with Nate- Week 1

A couple posts ago, I showed you my Date Night Jar and I got a great response from it. On Sunday, the hubby picked the first date. Spend $10 at a Thrift Store and pick out crazy outfits for each other. Thanks to my SIL watching G, we were able to go today. We went to Deseret Industries. To make it a little more fun we gave each other a time limit. We had 15 minutes to search the endless rack for something the other person would wear. After our allotted 15 minutes, we met up at the register. We had some scary looking outfits. I think the one I picked out for Nate was better than the one he picked out for me but I'll let you decide.

Before the Shopping Spree

Nate- Stripped shirt, Polk-a-dot tie, Blue sweater vest, and floral Hawaiian Hat

Jessica- Hot pink terry cloth jumper (that were shorts), couch looking skirt, and not pictured my lion purse.

After we changed our clothes we decided that we couldn't waste all this attractiveness so we went to the food court in the mall for lunch. School just started so there weren't too many people to stare at us but the people who were there really gave us a double take. This was a really great date and I am so happy that I was able to spend some fun alone time with my honey. I love you babe!

Date Night Jar

My husband and I have only been married for 3 ½ years truth be told, we don’t get a lot of dating/one on one time. So I’ve decided to make it a tradition to have a weekly date night. Since the hubs works nights, that can be difficult with a 21 month old but I have solved that puzzle. I made a Date Night (or in our case-Day) Jar. I searched for fun date ideas that we can do, either when G is napping or for an hour with a baby sitter. Every Sunday, we are going to pick an activity and then decided which day is best of us to do because for us a set schedule isn’t going to work. I’ll be posting most of the activities that we do but first, here is a tutorial on how I made my jar.

1. I search date ideas online and printed them out. I cut them into strips of similar size.

2. I found an old jar (mine was a pickle jar) and washed it out really good. Then I printed out Date Night and attached it to the jar with heavy duty tape and filled the jar with the strips.

3. I cut some tulle and ribbon about 2 feet long, then I tied them the jar to make it look cute.

4. I spray painted the top of the jar with some paint I had left over and put some cute scrapbook paper on it. The paint was still tacky when I put down the paper so I didn’t have to use glue but you could use Mod Podge to attach it.

It turned out really cute and I can't wait to start using it on Sunday!