Sunday, January 27, 2013

Comedy Club Date Night

We had a really fun date last night!  I got the idea from The Dating Divas website and adapted it.  They have so many fun ideas, but a lot of them are 'at home' dates for after the little ones go to sleep.  I like to try and make them 'go out' dates.  We went to the union grill and it was delicious.  It was busy and we did have to wait so we were glad to have our Mad Libs in Love book.  Do you guys remember those?  So much fun!  They kept us busy and laughing until it was time to eat.  Next we headed to wise guys.  A super sweet lady in front of us had a coupon for 4 and only had two, so she got us in!  It was SO NICE!  We did more mad libs while we were waiting and it was so fun to laugh together.  We got some treats and waited for the comedians to start.  Most of the jokes were really good and had us laughing out loud!  So fun  :)




Saturday, January 26, 2013

Family Pictures

It's been a while since we've had family pictures taken.  Groupon had a deal for family pictures at Target, and we did our sitting earlier this month.  We were pleasantly surprised at how great every single picture turned out.  The package came with some prints, but we loved them all so much we splurged for the CD.  It seems like Sophie never cooperates for pictures but the lady who was taking them did great and it was quick and easy.  Here are some of our favs!










Tuesday, January 15, 2013

New Year, New Dates!

I can't believe it's 2013!  I hope it's a great year for us all.

Kale and I have been trying to have more dates.  I made all these really fun date envelopes last year.  Each envelope has a date activity and a gift card for food.  I tried to make it easy so it's always in the budget and didn't require extensive planning.  We used a few last summer but then got too busy.  I want to make it a point to do dates more often this year.  At the end of December my mom watched Sophie and we went to Chili's to have dinner.  It was so fun!  The activity was "Do you know your Spouse?"  We got these books off Amazon:



We filled them out at dinner.  When we got home we sat down together and went through them.  I won by a hair!  It was fun (and sometimes surprising) to see what we DID and DIDN'T know about each other!  

We had family pictures at Target last week and afterwards got a babysitter so we could go on another date.  This one was a Bookstore Challenge.  We went to Layton and had Cafe Rio.  It's Kale's favorite! Then we went to the bookstore and did a little challenge:


It was fun to do something different.  I love Kale, he is such a great hubby.  It sure does make a different when we can do dates and spend time together, especially when it's more than just dinner and a movie.

We have quite a few fun dates planned over the next two months.  We've got one tomorrow and one next week!  And of course, we can't forget that February is the most romantic month of the year!  Stay tuned!

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

December 2012 Hawaii

We had fun in Hawaii.  We took a red-eye flight there.  Sophie was such a big girl and loved the plane ride.  She fell asleep before the flight for a nap and then she was up until about 2 am.  She finally fell asleep the rest of the flight and did great, despite the snoring man behind us and the shrieking toddler.  We were glad for our electronic devices.


We checked into the hotel and then got some breakfast.  We do a lot of walking in Waikiki because everything is close by.  We use the public transportation system a lot and its so wonderful.  We went shopping a bit that first day and spent some time at the hotel pool that evening.  Sophie must have been tired because she fell asleep sitting up with her hand in the goldfish bag!  It was so cute.

Sophie decided she wanted to potty train just 48 hours before, so we were relieved when she went all night without an accident.  We at at McDonalds and is was quite expensive.  A hashbrown was 1.69 and the pancake platter was 3.29.  We walked to the bus stop.  There are about a billion ABC stores on ever block, and Sophie soon learned that's where we got treats!  We stocked up and caught the bus to Diamond Head Crater for a hike.  It was a steep hike but Sophie did about 80% of it.  I was so proud of her.  She kept saying we were "climbing the mountain."  It was a lot of fun to say we did it and everyone that went pasts us kept commenting on what a good job Sophie was doing!  She did fall about three different times and had little skinned knees to prove it.  That was a frequent topic of conversation: her showing others/us her battle wounds the rest of the trip.    


After our hike we went to the beach.  This was our first time getting in and Sophie loved it and would shriek with joy every time a wave would come up.  It was kind of an overcast day so we didn't stay long.  We ate at Round Table Pizza, one of Kale's favorite places to eat.  Sophie looked so cute with little braids in her hair.  

The next day was a bit of a disaster.  We missed the bus we wanted and had to wait forever for the next one.  We had planned to go Hanauma Bay so we didn't take our phones (our sole source of figuring out other bus stops).  We got on a bus that we thought would take us there, but after riding for a while we realized it wasn't the bus we wanted.  We were about 30 minutes away from Waikiki.  Sophie had to potty and no gas stations had bathrooms.  We finally found bathrooms, and realized we missed the hourly bus back to Waikiki.  We finally made it, but let me tell you it was a stressful day.  We decided to go snorkeling another day.  I started to get sick and was coughing my head off and had the worst sinus headache.  So fun...  We tried the beach but Sophie HATED it and cried the minute she saw the water.  I can't figure out why she had such a change.  We kind of made her go in but she clung to us and cried most of the time.  So, we went to pool and then walked around Waikiki.  It's so much fun to just check things out.  Sophie fell asleep in the stroller though!


The next day we went to the zoo.  It is pricey but such a fun zoo.  Sophie loved the Monkeys, birds, and elephants the best.  They have a great playground there and a petting zoo that was a lot of fun!


It was a very warm day so we went back to the pool at the hotel (since Sophie hated the beach).  She likes to go back and forth between the hot tub and normal pool (that was freezing).  



The next day we tried the beach again but Sophie was still just as upset so Kale and I just took turns going out on the boogie board.  It was such a nice day.  Sophie liked playing in the sand (aka throwing sand) and was content to be on the beach.  We went back to the hotel and laid around, then when it was evening we went out to eat and walked around the beach street.

We had better luck at Hanauma Bay and made it there.  We found a great spot and we just took turns staying with Sophie since she hated the water.  She did like to play in the sand.  This is  my favorite thing to do so we went two days in a row!  Sophie had a nice little set-up on the beach...


We tried again but as you can see Sophie still hated the water, just as much!  


Kale and I had the opportunity to do a session in the Laie Temple.  It was such a neat experience!  Afterwards we went to this lookout point up there.  I don't know if it's well-known or not.  We found it last time by accident but it is so awesome.  There are lots of waves on the North Shore and this happens to be a place with HUGE ones that splash up on the rocks.  It was so beautiful!

 As our trip came to an end we were really sad to leave.  Staying over a week wasn't long enough.  We had such a great time despite little bumps in the road along the way.  This is a funny picture when I was packing and getting ready to go... Sophie (before her bath) climbed in the dresser drawer and thought it was a great place to watch TV with her toys and blankies!  She is such a funny girl, I just love her so much.


The flight home is a story for another day.  Let's just say it was probably the worst experience of my trip and involved Sophie having her first accident on a rude man's leg, he flipped out and caused a scene, and we rode almost the rest of the way home in soaked pee-clothes.  We got in around midnight so we stayed in Las Vegas before making the trek home.  Sophie and I flew home and my mom picked us up, and Kale drove the car home.  He's such a good guy!