Monthly Dates

So some of you may remember that I gave Dan 12 surprise dates for part of his Christmas gift.  We have had so much fun finding out what the dates are for each month.  I have already forgotten the order of the dates so they have been surprises for me too.

In January, we went to the Dialogue in the Dark which was so great.  Details were in this post.

February was dinner and a movie at Studio Movie Grill which was perfect because it combines some of our favorite things, eating and going to the movies.  It was great timing because a Groupon came out the Thursday before we had planned to go so it only cost us $10 for two tickets and drinks.  I got to pick the movie because as Dan says, "you get to pick the movies the rest of the year so why would Valentine's Day be any different?"  Ha!  He is so right!  So I picked The Vow and I really liked it.  :-)

For March, I had picked something way out of my comfort zone...Rock Climbing!  We went to Stone Summit and took a 1.5 hour Belay class and I have to say, I really enjoyed it.  We learned all the proper ways to tie the knots to the harnesses and after we took a test to make sure that we wouldn't let each other crash to the ground, they let us start climbing.  I was so nervous and really didn't want to embarrass myself.  I was able to make it to the top and I was so proud!  Dan was amazing at rock climbing as I knew he would be.  I liked belaying him more than I liked the climbing.  The finger and foot grips were so tiny, I practically shimmied my way up!  I really recommend this place.  Although it smelled like stinky feet at first, the place was absolutely amazing and we had fun watching the professionals climb, it was really impressive what some of them could do!  Just a note, remember to take socks.  I was so busy getting things lined up for our kids while we would be away, I forgot to change shoes and I showed up in flip flops.  You rent the shoes and all I can say is that was the worst part of the evening.  Yuck!  This was such a fun date and it is hard to beat going on a date in your work out clothes.  Here are some pictures to document the date.

I told y'all it was a big place!  Do you see those "rocks" on the ceiling?  Yes, people were somehow climbing on those while hanging upside down.  Crazy!  Photo via their website.

This was right after I belayed down the summit!  If you pretend to speak the lingo, surely you know what you are doing, right?

The man with all the forearm strength in the world!  He flew up the walls.

Buggy Sharing

I finally was able to put both Ben and MB in the front part of the buggy together.  If only their enthusiasm could have lasted past the first few aisles!  Ten minutes in I was carrying Ben, trying to keep MB's flip flops on while she would rather walk around barefoot and pushing the empty cart.  Typical and so funny (now at least)!

Happy Easter!

My friend Merran made these amazing shirts for them, she is so creative.  I absolutely love them!  Happy Easter y'all!

Baby Tour

Some of our closest friends have had babies in the past few months.  They all live on the south side of town so we decided to go on a baby tour to meet the precious little ones and Ben's new friends.  All of the new babies have older siblings that are close to MB's age so she had a blast playing with everyone.  So fun!

 

Meeting sweet Liam.  He is five months younger than Ben and already weighs the same amount! (I look like I have never held a baby before in this picture.)

Proud big siblings.

Sweet Kendall.  Poor thing was sick but she was such a sweetheart.

Trying to get a sibling photo of this group was challenging to say the least.  You should have seen the other side of this camera.  Hilarious!

MB says get your baby under control.  :-)

More chaos!

Showing off some of her tricks.  I'm sure their parents were glad that we shared this one.

Wordless Wednesday (My World)

Bedtime routine with baby

I overheard MB putting her baby to bed a few weeks ago and I asked her to start over so I could catch it on camera. This is a good glimpse into her bedtime routine. She does the first and second verse of "this is the church, this is the steeple" and then she makes some crazy hand motions and then pretends to walk with her fingers like the parson does when he goes up the stairs to say his prayers. Finished by a prayer with some jibberish at the end (this isn't part of the routine, just something special for the camera). It also sounds like she says Amen, Oh man at the end which I didn't notice the first time around.