Date Night: Eclipse

Our Tenth Date

December 10, 2010

Dustin was in charge

Wow!  We've made it 10 weeks, with out any problems.  Neither of us has forgotten about date night, we have been consistent even if the dates weren't always what was originally planned.  I'm really proud of us!

Two weeks ago Dustin has casually mentioned that if I wanted to pick up a Red Box that night that Eclipse had just come out and he would watch it with me.  I hadn't realized that he had originally planned to watch for date night; we ended up dancing instead.

Dustin made sure that he reserved a copy for us and picked it up along with our Friday night family movie.  Now I need to explain something about me and movies.  First, I don't like to see series movies for the first time in different settings; example - the Twilight series.  I didn't see the Twilight in the theater because I didn't want to waste my money and be disappointed so I waited for the DVD.  Since Twilight was first viewed at home New Moon and Eclipse also had to be viewed at home.  I know I'm silly that way; it helps me to compare the movies better.

Anyway,  back to the date, my wonderful husband understands my movie....problem(?), and makes due. He also knew that I would want to watch it.  And per our Thankfulness date, he chose a movie to watch that he knew I would like.  It was nice to sit down and watch a movie together.  With the busy holiday season and Dustin's school semester coming to an end, we don't see a whole lot of each other.  We were able to sit down together and watch something - no distractions.

Date Night: Dance Competition

Our Ninth Date

December 4, 2010

Dustin was in charge

While there were no actual judges (aside from ourselves), we had a dance competition with each other.  We were playing the demo for Dance Central on the XBOX Kinect.  So really we just competed with two songs, but we did them over and over in an effort to beat each other or at least our own score.  We are getting pretty good! 

It was a fun night to laugh with each other and feel silly dancing the moves we were presented.  We are definitely going to get the game so that we can have more songs to dance to.  It's always nice to be able to spend an evening laughing together - well, at ourselves and at each other.

Who knows, if we have more date nights like this maybe we could be on Dancing with the Stars!  I know what you're thinking....we're not stars.  Well, we can be stars to each other and our friends.  Look out friends near by - you may be challenged to a dance off in the coming months!

Date Night: Travel Recovery

Our Eighth Date
November 27, 2010
I was in charge.

Nothing exciting this week.  We moved our date from Friday night to Saturday night to accomodate our Thanksgiving travel plans.  Little did we know just how exhausted we would be after so much driving.  After dropping my brother & his friend off at BYU-I, Dustin came home and we just sat on the couch to relax and watch the TV shows we had missed during the week.  I did my best to get the living room put back together after unloading the van and getting the kids bathed and put to bed.  All this was done while Dustin returned the rental van and dropped my brother & his friend off in Rexburg.

We enjoyed spending the week with family members.  We enjoyed celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday.  We enjoyed just lounging on the couch for a night, in relative silence.

Date Night: Thankfulness

Our Seventh Date

November 19, 2010

I was in charge

Being that it was the week before Thanksgiving and I had this incredible free download from My Computer is My Canvas, I decided we would take some time to be thankful.  I had originally planned on using the download as a family thing but it just kept getting put off.

Dustin & I each took turns naming things that we were thankful for and we put them on the list.  We then each chose a leaf color and on our leaves we wrote ways that we could express gratitude toward each other.  This was a really great time for us to really sit down and think about all the things we have to be thankful for.  We were able to talk about why we were thankful for the things that we were thankful for.  We were also able to tell each other how thankful we are to be together.  We talked about ways that we can express that gratitude and we are working on being more appreciative toward each other.