Date Night {Fort Worth Stockyards}

Sunday afternoon my love and I headed to Fort Worth for a date full of fun in the stockyards. The past few weeks have been hard and busy so when my mom asked if I wanted her to come over and babysit for a few hours so we could go out I said yes! We were definitely ready for a date night! 

I've grown up around DFW my whole life and have never visited the Fort Worth Stockyards. It was like stepping into the wild west meets modern restaurants and shopping.  There was so much to do and see, we definitely want to take Eva back in the fall so that we can do more of the family friendly stuff to.

For dinner we just wanted something small because neither of us were super hungry. We went to Trailboss Burgers and ordered the Western Quesadilla. Oh my goodness. This was the most amazing quesadilla I've ever had in my life. Yeah, that seems like a lot of excitement over a quesdilla but it was that good. It was made with shredded brisket and other western ingredients. We split one since we weren't that hungry....and then we attempted to stop back by at the end of our date to get one to take home....unfortunately they were already closed. I will definitely visit this place again! 

Somebody was like a kid in a candy shop! We stopped in to this place and it smelled so deliciously sweet! We didn't end up buying any candy but it was fun to see it all in huge barrels. They had everything. 

Then we headed over to Billy Bob's for some dancing. We used to go back in college but it's quite different to go early on a Sunday evening. Why did all my college friends always make me go late on a Thursday night? This was waaayyyy better. 

Since we weren't there to enjoy the bars (on an early Sunday evening....) we did take time to walk around and look at all the country music memorabilia. Then we hit the pool table. Hahaha, we had never played pool together and it was so much fun. We played by our own rules and laughed so much.

We had the dance floor all to ourselves! Seriously, we joked that this must be what it's like to be on a date on The Bachelor. There were other people there but a lot of the time we were the only ones dancing and other people were just watching us while the music played. It was fun and romantic and goofy all at the same time. I love dancing and going two stepping again was one of my things on my "before I turn 30" bucket list. Having the dance floor to ourselves at 7pm sure beats sharing it with a hundred other people at 11pm.

We really had such an enjoyable night and I'm so thankful that my mom was able to babysit. It's good to get a break from everything. Of course, just in case our life felt too much like a reality TV show, our little girl woke us up with a scary coughing attack about an hour after we had fallen asleep. She seemed like she couldn't breathe. It was one of those parenting moments when you aren't sure what is wrong and you don't know at what point you need to consider taking your child to the hospital. So scary. We ended up letting her stay in our bed all night long so we would know she was okay. Not much sleep was had. I guess that's real life. This morning she asked to take a nap at 10am (3 hours early!) so I'm keeping an eye on her today. So grateful for a wonderful evening of memories to get me through a possibly exhausting day.