Date Nights

Throughout our relationship Sean and I have always done the same thing when it came to spending time together, we watch T.V., movies, play video games and card games.  Don't get me wrong I love doing those things after a long day of work, school and of course hanging with Briggs all day its nice to have that lazy time where we don't have to get dressed up or do my hair and make up.  There are times though when I go crazy because we have done the same thing all week, but we still get into the same routine.  So I decided to come up with a date night jar to help us be creative for the times when we say, "I don't care, what do you want to do?"  We spent a night coming up with a list of fun activities which for the most part do not require us to go out and buy anything.  Here are a couple of things that we have done so far.

1.  Carved Soap
This is just as simple as it sounds.  We each grabbed a bar of soap and a knife and began to make some "art" with it.

2. Made a Fort and watched some scary movies.
I am a sucker for a good scary movie so it was fun to cuddle up in our lovely fort!  I know I said we were trying to avoid watching movies but this was more interactive as we made an amazing piece of architecture!

3.  Love Mugs
Ok so I don't really know what to call this so I just wrote the first thing that came to my mind.  We grabbed these mugs at the dollar store and began to write on them with sharpies.  Sean chose to write about our love story and I wrote the lyrics to our first dance together which is "Never Let Go" by Hanson ( I am so lucky that he was game for that!)  After we were done we baked them in the oven at 350 for 20 min.  Now we have these cute mugs.

4. Caramel Apple Spice Starbucks Copy Cat
So we got this amazing hot chocolate maker for Christmas and we put it to great use.  To make it you just combine apple juice, caramel and clove.  This bad boy mixes, heats, and froths it for us but you could easily do this on the stove.  Then top with whipped cream and more caramel.  Oh its so good!

5.  I don't have a picture for this but it was a fun night.  We went to a thrift shop and had a $10 spending limit and went out separate ways.  We each picked out a gift for the other.  Sean on this occasion found a super cute bread box and I scored a badminton set.  This was a very fun one.

Well there are just a couple of things that have come out of our date night jar.  I will post some more as we do them. Have fun shaking up your routine.