{Date # 2} Our Day Date

We certainly don’t get enough just “us” time.  Getting out twice a year just isn’t enough, so this year I am making it my goal to make sure we have a date of some sort once a month.  It didn’t happen in January, but a few nights ago we had a date night “IN” that I’m counting that as our January date.  I have a big list of different dates that we will spend the year checking off!!  Here goes Date #2....

I spent the day, Saturday, on a date with the hubby convincing him that a day date can be just as fun as the typical evening date.  Doesn’t that just get old?  We rarely go out, but when we do, we go out for dinner, it’s packed, so much is going on you get lost in what is going on around you and the focus isn’t on us.  There are so many distractions and when we don’t get much time to ourselves that bugs me!  

At lunch time we headed out to a little café that had some super yummy grilled burgers, a delicious sun dried tomato and artichoke soup (SO need to find a recipe for that) and their fries… oh yum.  It was messy and OH SO GOOD!  It was quiet, we sat in a corner booth right next to each other… no distractions.  (Besides the guy that kind of looked like my uncle Bob except with a mullet! Haha!)

After running a few errands (which we won’t do during a date again… ek… someone got grumpy), we bundled up and headed out to the woods where Matt hunted.  He had needed to take down some tree stands and a winter walk with him sounded wonderful.  When we got there we noticed that the field had a mostly plowed path and we headed down.  Into the woods we went, 13 degrees out and snow falling, loved it.

What a work out that was!  Snow went up past my knees.  One spot that he had a tree stand was in a valley.  It was STEEP getting down to the bottom.  We ended up sitting on our butts to see if we could just slide down and ZOOM!  I went flying down the hill after Matt.  Holy cow I didn’t expect that since Matt was hardly moving… my snow pants sent me sailing!

FUN.

We hopped back into the truck to head back across the field and what happens??  Oh yes.  We get stuck!  Haha!  The path that we came in on wasn’t exactly wide enough for us to make the turn to get back thru.  So Matt grabbed the shovel and started digging…

These snow banks were up to Matt’s waist… not sure how tall his waist is, but at 6’5 it’s up there!

Eventually we made it out :-)  Pedal to the metal and soon we were finishing our ride thru the field. 

FUN.

One good thing about a day date... it can last MUCH longer than a night time date!!  

BTW… today is my Grandpa’s Birthday!!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDPA!!!  We love you! (This post was written Saturday)  Haha!!  Looks like we had too many candles on that cake... all I see is brightness :-)