Love, Actually

This is honestly one of my new favorite blogs!  Love, Actually is awesome!  I love the date ideas and how she goes about putting them together for as cheap as possible.  She is so creative and it's helped me to come up with some fun date ideas for Dustin and me in the coming year.  Even if you don't need to find cheap date ideas there are some really good ideas here and you should check it out!

As Promised...

Dustin's Christmas present.  I got him a Date of the Month Club membership.  (The idea came from Love, Actually)  I put mine in a notebook with page protectors.  With his Date of the Month Club membership Dustin gets:

Vacation packages
Exciting Dates each month
Romance Reward Tickets (he made the ticket for me)
Kisses to exchange for a real kiss

I had lots of fun putting this together.  Dustin was excited to get it and pick out the dates he wanted each month, he had 20 dates to choose from - he gets to keep 12 of them.

Honestly, Dustin and I haven't been very good about continuing to date because there just hasn't been money for it.  However, all of this can be done at home for free or very, very cheap.  I'm excited and hope that it gets us back in the habit of dating again.  Some can even be done after the kids are in bed so I don't have to worry about getting a babysitter.

I did have lots of fun putting this gift together.  I had TONS of fun teasing Dustin about my "secret project" and deciding what the include in my Date of the Month Club package.  I hope I have just as much fun planning the dates.  Thankfully Dustin chose pretty easy dates for the months of February, March and April, since we'll have a new little baby.

A Fox!

Wednesday night (or was it Thursday?), nope it was Saturday night; I really have no idea which night it was.  We came home from doing some shopping to find a fox in our parking lot.  He had found a dead squirrel and didn't really care that we were there.  He stayed as we pulled into the parking space, as Dustin got out of the car to grab the camera from the house and even stayed put while Dustin took the pictures.  This fox must have been hungry or not willing to leave his meal.  David thought it was cool (Dustin and I did too) and I was able to see a fox closer that ever before.

Family Pictures 2009

Just before Thanksgiving we had our family pictures done.  A friend of mine, Rebecca Aycock, of RebeccaLynn Photography took them for us.  I wanted more of an urban feel this time so we headed to Old Town Fort Collins.  We spent an hour walking around in the alleys.

It was pretty cold and pretty early (for us anyway) but we got some great pictures and there weren't a lot of people around.

Rebecca did a great job capturing the character of our family and David.  These were great pictures and we love them!  We have been very lucky the photographers we have had - remember last year?  This year's are just as good.  Here's hoping that we can get just as lucky in Pocatello.

Now, here's my plug for Rebecca if you reside in or near Fort Collins - CONTACT her for your family pictures.  We had a great time, got awesome pictures and she's good with getting kids photographed.  She has two little ones herself and know that you gotta be fast to get their pictures done.

Thanks again Rebecca - we love them!