SaturDATE

Saturday morning we let Eva go stay with my parents. Can I stop for a minute and say how incredibly THANKFUL I am that both of our parents live close enough for Eva to see and stay with them regularly? I am also grateful that all of her grandparents are wonderful people and that we love both of our families so much. I know lots of people don't have this benefit or great relationship with their families and I don't ever want to take it for granted. Mamy, Baba, Nana and Papa - you are the best grandparents our baby could ever have!!!! So....we sent Eva to my parents so we could have a fun "SaturDATE". That's my made up word for a Saturday filled with date time. You may use it :)

What did we do first for our big day of dates?! Umm, we took 15 middle school students bowling. Not exactly a date but we did have a good time. Bowling is fun. Students are fun. Why not, right? We had been wanting to do a middle school hang out and the timing worked out well to do it that morning.

Before I get to the romantic part of our date let me share the way Ryan and I come up with date ideas. We state the obvious choices (usually places we have gift cards for). We throw out the more adventurous ideas (like going to a Mavs game). We google date night ideas. We talk about how the weather can ruin lots of those ideas. We have a thorough one hour discussion of the pros and cons of each idea. We kill any amount of spontaneity. We remember that we are on a very limited budget. We decide to stick to our original list of obvious choices. We laugh and roll our eyes at ourselves for going through this process for the hundredth time in our relationship.

So we ended up going with the thrilling option of dinner and a movie! Yay! No, really, we were looking forward to eating at Brio for the first time and getting to see a movie we had been wanting to see since October. Dinner was good - Brio is definitely as yummy as people said it was! On to the movie....

During our time of pros/cons we decided to see 12 Years as a Slave. I was a bit hesitant because I don't always like seeing heavier movies on a date night but we went with it. We bought the tickets. And then we realized they only had front row seats left. NOT HAPPENING. We went back and exchanged the tickets to see Gravity instead. This was actually a great choice because it gave us a good hour to walk around the Southlake Townsquare while talking and listening to live music.
Gravity was good and pretty intense.

We really enjoyed our date. I got to spend a long amount of quality time with the love of my life. And if you are ever in need of someone to help you have a long detail-oriented conversation about planning a date, give us a call.