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Showing posts with label date night. Show all posts
Showing posts with label date night. Show all posts

Friday, February 3, 2012

Date night with the boys!

I have a sign in my playroom that says: Little Boys Make Noise!

and they do!
While the dads and daughters were dancing the night away Jenna and I took the boys out on a date! We ended up at Old Chicago Pizza! They were wired and full of it...a little crazy but they had a ball!
 They laughed.....
 and giggled....
 and smiled!

Monday, June 27, 2011

Vacation nights


Vacation nights are the best...for so many reasons. The house is not your house so you don't feel connected to it...bound to it like you do your own...if there is a pile here...a pile there...who cares. I know I have piles at my house but they still bother me...but not on vacation. The nights are just an extension of the fun...and your time together...and I never want them to end. This vacation I had me a moma's girl in Lila Ray...

I loved holding her at the beach...taking in her warm, vanilla scent....and knowing she didn't want to be with anyone else but me...

taking in time with everyone...moments here...moment there....

and never knowing what moments will seep into your your memories as your favorites....sometimes the best ones are the ones your didn't expect...like walking down to the beach at night to find a garden of pinwheels!
or a sweet moment with my Autistic nephew Landon and his whole world....my sister.
It's just nice...to feel someone you love, warm and close when the vast, dark ocean is before you....especially when you have spaghetti sauce on your dress followed by it getting drenched by a wave.....and you want to be big and act like you don't care, but really do you...cause really you are still little.

This night the boys were chasing Landon...and everyone was laughing...because they couldn't catch him and believe me they tried!


This night we did a little night swimming too...which is so beautiful and so fun! It's like a whole new world swimming at night as the lights shine and glimmer beneath the pools surface.
I can honestly say that every night we went to bed knowing we had a full...fun...amazing day with no regrets...full of moments that seemed more nostalgic as we remembered our day at night.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Date night

I can't tell you the last time Jeremy and I went out on a date....and if you are talking about a date with just the two of us..forget about it!  The stars aligned tonight and Chris and Susan invited the boys and Kay-Kate over for a sleep over and mom took Lila Ray. Not only were we getting a night out, but we were going to come home to an empty house...just the two of us. We could not believe it...and we were so excited! We got all the kids where they needed to be and got ready to go out...but what to do?! Where to go?!

  Kid free.....well except for Jack-Jack!!!!

We decided on dinner and a movie...creative I know...but we really wanted to see Tron before it went out of the theatres because my brother, Jason said it was the best movie he had ever seen! We started at Martini's for wine and yummy food...we just talked and talked. It was so nice to be out and about in the world...and be together. We then headed off to our movie..which was in 3D so we got to rock out the glasses!

 

We headed home...giddy to be going home to an empty house. We got home abut 12:30 from our movie...put Jack in his crate..and started shutting the house down. At 12:59 the phone rang....it was mom telling us that Lila was up and crying. We got in the car..... and left our kid free house to go get her and bring her home...God love her!

So the three of us headed up to bed together. With Lila snuggled between us...I reached over and gave Jeremy a pat and told him I loved him. It had been an amazing night anyway. Date night number 1 of 6 complete...we broke away for the night and it felt so nice!