Date 34 - Some Bunny Loves You!

Date: Saturday, April 7, 2012
Type: At-Home, Simple, theme
Cost: $
Planned By: Dani

Adam and I had a great time celebrating Easter on Saturday night in our new apartment in downtown Cleveland.

We started the night by coloring eggs. Neither of us have ever boiled eggs before so thank God for the internet.. they turned out fine. We only had seven eggs so we just prepared seven bowls of all different colors. It was fun because neither of us had colored eggs in years!


Next, we had an Easter egg hunt. We filled the eggs with some of our favorite Easter candy: Andes mints, peanut butter filled eggs, caramel filled eggs, jelly beans, and crispy chocolate eggs. We each got 6 eggs to hide for the other person. Adam chose to hide them in the bedroom and bathroom, so I was left with the living room and kitchen. Who ever found their eggs the fastest wins breakfast in bed. I did horrible. I only found two before I gave up. Adam found four so he won. He also cheated by hiding three of them up high where I couldn't see. He also hid one in the back of the toilet, then used the toilet and accidentally flushed the egg. We didn't realize this until after the hunt. It was hilarious. Fingers crossed that it won't block the pipes at all.
Finally, we ate all of our Easter candy while watching TV together. The next day we ate the hard boiled eggs for breakfast. Adam claimed this was the first time he has eaten one. He did not enjoy it at all. I guess I will have to finish the rest. This date was super easy and we were laughing a lot. We'll have to do it again next year!

Date 33 - Let's Go To The Mall Everybody!

Date: Sunday, April 1, 2012
Type: Simple
Cost: $$$
Planned By: Adam

So everyone remembers going clothes shopping for back-to-school and summer with their parents, right? Well, guess what... when you go in to the real world you don't get those opportunities anymore. Adam and I haven't really gone shopping since we graduated and decided it was time for some new clothes. The worst part about going clothes shopping in the real world is that you have to pay for it yourself. Gasp. I know right, crazy. That's probably why we haven't gone shopping in awhile, we are frugal.

So guess where we went shopping. No, not the goodwill like in Date 29, but another thrifty place.. T.J.Maxx! We also went to The Great Lakes Mall in Mentor and Shoe Carnival.

T.J. Maxx is a great store. If you've never been there I recommend it. They sell name brand stuff for super cheap. I got a few new shirts and a pair of shorts. I really wanted a new purse because those are also marked down quite a bit, but decided against it. Adam decided to get a bunch of really nice polos.

We had lunch in the food court. We had a hard time deciding what to eat because they don't have very many choices. We hadn't had mall pretzels in a while so we went to Auntie Anne's Pretzel shop. We each got a pretzel dog and shared a Cherry Lemonade Mixer. It was all good, but not very filling. While we were eating we people watched. The mall is a great place to people watch. Adam was surprised that he saw at least 5 pregnant ladies. That is kind of a lot, but he liked to mention it every time he saw one. There are a lot of fun things to do in malls like ride the money operated things and get candy!


We went to the Shoe Carnival and Adam got a new pair of Polo shoes and Nike running shoes. I didn't get any, but I got a pack of socks! Who doesn't like new socks? We got to spin the savings wheel and walked away with a $4 off coupon!

Going to the mall and spending our own money on things that aren't necessary isn't one of my favorite things to do, but we had a lot of fun together!

Oh and we also went and saw The Hunger Games, but I'm sure you'll see a Hunger Games themed date night sometime in the future since I'm currently obsessed with the series... you'll have to wait and see what I come up with.

Date 32 - Is it Morning or Night?

Date - Saturday, 3/24/12
Type - Simple
Cost - $
Planned By - Adam

Quick and easy date this week. We decided we wanted brinner (breakfast for dinner). We went to Denny's for dinner since they have breakfast all day. Adam was upset because they don't have sausage gravy and that was why he wanted to have brinner. The rest of the food was pretty good though. We quickly regretted not going to IHOP when a bagillion kids and their parents started coming in. We don't mind people with kids in restaurants but there was a crazy amount of kids in this place. We didn't know why until we walked out and there was a sign saying that kids eat from on Saturday from 4-8. So I guess we learned to avoid those hours at Denny's.

Every morning we have a green smoothie. So for this morning date at night we decided to try a new smoothie. We saw them on The Biggest Loser. Yoplait Banana Chocolate. They aren't very good. I do not recommend them.

That's it. Quick, easy and to the point date. :)

Date 31 - Lucky In Love!

Date - Saturday, 3/17/12
Type - At-Home, Simple & Creative
Cost - $
Planned By - Dani

Adam and I spent all day celebrating St. Patrick's Day together. I planned a bunch of fun things for us to do since we didn't want to go downtown.

We started the day off with Lucky Charms for breakfast. Yum.

Then we had a rainbow scavenger hunt. We took a walk around our neighborhood and had to find something of every color of the rainbow; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. It was beautiful outside so it was a great day for a walk together.

                     

Because I knew we would find every color there was a pot of gold waiting for us at the end.

When we go home we were both pretty hot and tired so we made some refreshing green beer. OK I don't like beer very much, but we tried the new Bud Light Platinum and it wasn't too bad.

Next, we had a typical St. Patty's Day dinner: corn beef, cabbage, potatoes and carrots. We also had a bottle of Sangria from Michelle that went quite well with the dinner. The corn beef and potatoes were pretty good, but I think we cooked the cabbage too long.

After dinner we watched Disney Channel's The Luck of The Irish that we had on the DVR. Its a cute movie that came out about 10 years ago, but we still enjoyed it.

We had a great day together, and we both know we're so lucky to have each other.

Date 30 - Not Here Not There Not Anywhere!

Date: Sunday, 3/11/12
Type: Simple, At-Home
Cost: $
Planned By: Dani

We had a very simple at home date this week. In honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday the other week we used Dr. Seuss as a theme.

First, we picked a few great Dr. Seuss books that became movies to watch. We picked the ones from our childhood not the more recent movies. We cuddled on the couch got the lap top and used YouTube to watch The Lorax, The Sneetches, and Green Eggs and Ham. My favorite is the Sneetches. I think it has a powerful message and its pretty funny. Adam's favorite was The Lorax because it was the only one he could remember from when he was a kid, and he really liked the Barbalutes.

After we watched all the movies we made green eggs and ham for dinner. It was incredibly easy. You crack however many eggs you want in to a bowl. Stir them to break all the yolks. Drop about 5 or 6 drops of blue food coloring (remember blue and yellow make green). Stir again and cook. For the ham we got a ham steak and spread a few drops of green food coloring on it. Microwaved it for 2 minutes.

 

 

The movies were really cute and the dinner was fun to make. Overall, it was a very easy date.

Date 29 - Won't You Take Me To Funky Town?

Date: Saturday, 3/3/12
Type: Group, Funny, Creative
Cost: $
Planned By: Dani - but inspired by The Dating Divas

I decided to have a big group date. My sisters were planning to visit me for my birthday and I thought it was a perfect opportunity. We couldn't celebrate my birthday until March. We invited some other couples to come, but no one else was able to.

This date was "funky" themed, super fun and a little embarrassing. You'll see why.

We started the date by going to the Goodwill. Everyone had to buy their partner a funky outfit to wear all night. We each had $10 to spend. Everyone had a great time looking at the funny clothes, and I know I even saw some stuff I would normally wear. You can see what we bought in the pictures.

Next, we made funky cups! We had to make our cup out of a plastic water bottle. Everyone was told to be creative. We bought some fun decorations like googlie eyes, fish stickers and pom poms. We also had funky straws to use.


For dinner we had Chipotle style pork burritos (made mostly by Michelle with a little help from me), buffalo chicken dip (made by Amanda and Zak), raw veggies (provided by Adam and I) , and lemonade with strawberry or cranberry flavored ice cubes (Again, from Adam and I). For dessert Michelle made mint Oreo cupcakes! Everything was delicious!

After dinner we played a fun rendition The Newly Wed Game! If you've never seen The Newly Wed game its a pretty simple game. One person answers questions and the other person has to answer them with the same answer to get a point. They usually use a white board or something, but I just typed up the separate questions and we answered them on a piece of paper. Some of the questions were pretty funny and the answers were even funnier. Adam and I won.. which makes sense since we're the only one that are married.. even though Michelle and Jim have been a couple longer. Because we won we got the Missing Tooth Award!


Now for the main event... bowling!! We haven't gone bowling in years so I was pretty excited. It was a Saturday night which meant the bowling alley was going to be very busy and we were dressed like crazy people. That's what made it so fun! We played two games one regular and one funky. The funky bowling consisted of using your left hand, sitting, bowling between your legs and other funny ways to bowl. We had a good time laughing at everyone. Jim won Funky Bowling so he won the Mommy's Special Helper ribbon.

For the rest of the night we all just hung out at our apartment. It was really nice seeing everyone and I'm glad they were as excited as I was to have a funky themed date!