Date Day

Well, the baby turned 6 weeks old last week, so Kev and I decided to have a date. This is no small feat for a family of five. In case you didn't know, it's a lot harder to get someone to babysit 3 kids than one (or even two) little rugrats...for free that is. So, Darni to the rescue! That's my mom. She's brave, plus she recruited my almost 12 year old niece to help. And we made things even easier on her by deciding on a late afternoon/early evening dinner. We were supposed to drop the kids off at her house at 3, but that turned into 3:55 by the time we got everyone dressed, accounted for, and loaded...not to mention all our stuff. And I say all our stuff because we thought it would be fun to get a hotel room for the night here in town. We aren't brave enough yet to try a full on vacation with all of us, but a night away from home sounded like fun. So, in the back of the 4-runner went a suitcase, toiletry bag, swim bag, bouncy seat, 2 diaper bags, and a pack and play. All for one night.

So, we dropped the kids off at Darni's and gave her some instructions that went something like this: thaw out the baggies of milk for Holland and give her a bottle around 5:30, and make sure Boaz doesn't kill the kitten.

Yea! Finally we are alone! We realized at this point that this is the first time it has been just the two of us since the night we headed out for the hospital. We decided to go to our favorite little Asian fusion place downtown and I'm super excited to have some seared tuna. Uh oh...it doesn't open on Saturdays until 5. Oh well, there is our favorite little bistro around the corner that has the most wonderful elk tenderloin...crap! It doesn't open until 5:30. Okay...what now? I really don't want to have date day at Golden Corral or Chili's. Napolis! It is a really good Italian place. And yea! They are open. We sat down and were looking at the menu when we started to notice a trend in the sparsely populated restaurant: all the other couples were old people! We had wanted to go in the afternoon so that we didn't fall asleep in our plates, and at that moment we realized the over 60 crowd had the same idea!

Dinner was great. Afterwards we went and checked into the hotel and had a little more alone time. The Kev left to go pick up the kids and I got to read a whole chapter in my book!

Bronwyn and Boaz had a blast at the hotel. It could have been in New York City for all they cared, they had so much fun jumping on the beds and tearing down the halls. Everyone except me and Holland slept through the night, and we even all made it to church on time the next morning. So, all in all, date day was a great success!