Project 52 Date #52

So with family coming into town, work, man trips and just life, we had to squeeze this one in. What we did was take our New Years resolutions from the beginning of our project 52 and see if we accomplished what we wanted to or at least made a dent into it! Very eye opening and motivational to see all that we wanted to get done 365 days ago and what really did get done! All in all a great way to finish up our Project 52! Thanks for following us along this year, and hopefully we gave you some great ideas on how to make simple ideas into great date times no matter what your situation (busy work, kids, etc) Happy New Year!

He says: So at the beginning of 2011 we both sat down and made New Years resolution lists and today we got those lists out to see what/if and how many of them we actually accomplished. I'm not going to lie, my list has rather humbled me. I barely crossed half my list off! Rather disappointed in myself for not making certain things priority this past year. Granted I did some pretty incredible things and those were on my list but some of the things for my personal life got left on the side of the road so to speak. So expect some internal inspection and a little bit of legitimate change from me this next year. Happy New Year!

Project 52 Date #51

So this date was alot of fun. It was a date night for Grami and Jocelyn and a date night out for JT and I. We got all of of Christmas shopping done, picked up of Christmas pajamas, sent out our Christmas Cards, had an amazing dinner out and narrowed down baby names, PHEW.

All in all we were pretty much done with our Christmas shopping but we had a little left to do and after we finished that, we did a little baby preparation shopping too :) Then we headed out to Luciano's for dinner. We had a gift card that some of my co-workers gave me and I just never got around to using it. The restaurant was beautiful and perfect for a dinner for 2. Part of the date night was to narrow down on some baby names. We have our boys name picked out but we were struggling to narrow down the last few names we had for a girl and we have less then 50 days to make a decision! So as we were picking out our meals, I asked our waiter what was his personal favorite between three dishes, he made an excellent suggestion THEN I gave him our three girls names and asked him his favorite as well.... What?? Everyone has an opinion so I figured I would give him a chance to give his :)

Anyway it was a great dinner and the environment was perfect for a quiet conversation between the two of us. After dinner headed home and my Christmas cards had come in, so we started addressing them and got them all out in the mail today, wahoo, better late then never and we loved how they turned out! So a great Christmas date and we can't believe that we are one date away from finishing our Project 52 commitment!

He says: Tonight's date was finishing our Christmas shopping and having dinner out together. We managed to hit Best Buy, Michaels, Toys-r-Us, Target, and Kohls....and have dinner at a decent hour. We went to Luciano's for dinner, one of the best Italian restaurants in town. Its usually quiet and cozy...and it was after the crazy lady at the table next to us finally left(lets just say a bottle of wine and being perturbed at your husband shouldn't be shared with the rest of a restaurant...) We spent dinner talking over baby names and eventually getting the list down to three that we really like. We grabbed a tiramisu(it was incredible!) to-go and got home to find our long awaited Christmas cards on the front porch. We caught up on one of our t.v. shows and stuffed envelopes so we could get our cards out the next morning. I really like Luciano's and who better to spend time with over a great meal! And we got our Christmas shopping done and our Christmas cards out! And we may actually have a name for Tidden baby #2...and wouldn't you like to know what that name is...

Project 52 Date #49

I've been looking forward to this one for a while. It was choosing a bunch of different ice creams and deciding which one it was that you could eat a whole bowl of. I had fun picking them out at the grocery store because you can now get the ones that are about 6 good bites and then its gone and I thought that would be perfect for us to try, BUT they didn't have alot of new flavors so we kinda mixed it up. I got some of the classics, some of our favorite and some of the newest flavors. Wouldn't you know it, the top two were ones that we have never tried before! The winner was Ben and Jerry's (and Jimmy Fallon's) Late Night Snack, it was the perfect blend of vanilla bean ice cream, salty carmel and chocolate covered chips! A very close second was Ben and Jerry's Red velvet, it was like have a cold melty piece of red velvet cake, it was amazing. So great date all in all!

He says:I love to eat and I'm really not very picky about what so I loved this date. & different ice creams all at the same time?! And allowed to eat em all at the same time?! Pinch me I must bedreaming!!! Anyways, yeah so 7 different flavors with the goal of finding out which one is the best. We took a spoonful of a flavor and then rated it before moving on to the next. It was a hard choice in the end. We were both torn between Red Velvet(it really does taste just like a piece of red velvet cake) and Late Night Snack, both Ben & Jerrys flavors. In the end Late Night Snack won out because it was something we would both actually eat a whole pint of. Good ice creams all of them, great date with my mate.

Project 52 Date #46

This date night was to play a video game of some sorts. We actually broke out a gift that we received a few Christmas ago which was an Atari game box to hook up directly to your tv. It was a blast. There was only a handful of games that I knew, but JT seemed to know alot more of them so I can quickly tell you who dominated in the best out of three challenges we had! Great fun and very simple!

He says: So the name of the game was to play a video game. Xbox was out because Mia's not very fond of Call of Duty or Halo etc. So I busted out an old school Atari console (not an original) that has something like 50 games on it. We played Asteroid, Pitfall, Outlaw, and Frogpad! It was alot of fun to go retro and play game where all you have is one button and a 4-way joystick. Loved it!

Project 52 Date #45

Desserts in Greece
So this date was done last week and for all those that think you are just to busy to find the time to do a daily date night, please read on! We spent the last 9 days in Thessaloniki Greece on a mission trip with the amazing A21 Campaign Another story for another time but it was a life changing trip! Anyway, every night the teams came together for dinner and of course there was always an amazing dessert. Our date night plan was to choose a few desserts and decide which one was the best, so it really didn't leave us much options. Also in most of the European countries dinner is much later in the evening like 9-10 pm, so even if we wanted to go get extra desserts it was much too late and the places were closed.
Except for one evening, we had a chance to get dinner on our own with the team and we actually went to TGI Fridays ( I know, but it was the only place that would take credit cards). We got some desserts to-go and went back to the hotel to have date night. Honestly compared to all the amazing Greek desserts that we had all week it was nothing to but it was good non the less.
As luck would have it, Jonathan was talking to one of the A21 Greece Team members(shout out to Phil for sending us there) at our last meal together with the team and he mentioned this amazing little dessert place that he referred to as a museum of desserts! Well of course a map was drawn on a napkin and the plan was set. So later in the evening we had some down time on our own and we had such a late lunch (5pm) that we really weren't hungry for dinner but desserts sounded fantastic.
So we grabbed Dee Dee, I mean you really can't leave anyone behind for this excursion, and off we went to brave the streets of Greece alone in hopes of fantastic desserts..... and we were not disappointed. Pictures do not do it justice but it was just amazing, so amazing that we saw these two older Russian women looking in the window and one was so intent on the desserts that she smacked right into the window pane. Of course she laughed it off and came in to get her desserts right away! So we started to pick, and I just couldn't pick one piece for each of us so we ended up with four...I mean think of the baby right!?! :) So we boxed up our desserts and went home to see if they were as beautiful on the inside as they were on the outside.





We were not disappointed. Jonathan's favorite was the white chocolate birds nest and mine was the lemon pie. But lets be honest, there wasn't a scrap of food left in those boxes when we were done! Great date night!



Jonathan Says: So Mia alreay explained that we were out of the country and short on available time for a date night due to our crazy packed mission trip schedule. We grabbed some desserts from a TGI-Fridays one night but it left us both feelings like we could have done better I think. It just so happens that at our last meal together with the Greece team that their fearless leader Phil mentions to me this bakery and dessert place called Ble and says it's something like a museum of desserts and draws me up a map of how to get there. And as luck would have it we had some free time that night and it happened to be right around the corner from our hotel. This place was amazing! Almost more art exhibit than bakery. Beautiful desserts under glass diplays like ones you see in a jewelry store. Soo amazing that one lady bent over to look at a dessert and hit her forehead on the glass! It took forever but we finally settled on 5 different sweets. We went back to the hotel and grabbed some forks and let the taste test begin! They were all very different from each other and amazing in their own right but we both finally settled on this lemon meringue square that was hands down one of the best desserts I've ever tasted. Cool date night idea that we were lucky enough to do at the coolest dessert bakery in Greece!

Project 52 Date #44

JT Says: The assignment for tonight's date night was to create your own private drive-in movie somewhere secluded with just the two of you and a dvd player. I had to bend the rules a bit but we did end up in the back of my new truck on an airmatress under blankets with a laptop and what turned out to be a pretty good movie. I backed my truck up in our cul-du-sac under the big oak in our front yard. If you've never noticed it's pretty dark in our little roundabout at night. We curled up in the back of the truck and watched HANNA. The movie turned out to be much better than I thought it would be. And the weather was perfect(even if Mia was kinda going crazy with her hair blowing all in the breeze...). Super low key and really enjoyable date!

Mia Says: This was a really cute date that JT did up perfectly. I was toasty warm, comfy and the movie was good! He also set us up so that we were facing the house and had the monitor in hand just in case, made me feel even more comfortable! Great job honey!

Project 52 Date #43

Carving Pumpkins,
So we were a little late in the picking of the pumpkins but we both found some "Sleepy Hollow" worthy ones that we liked. JT's was huge and un-centered and mine was smaller and warty :)
I printed out some pattern during the week so that we would have plenty of options to choose from. Got out the carving utensils from the craft drawer and picked up a few new ones to add to our collection so we were all set to go.
I set up the room with two old towels for the actual disemboweling of the pumpkins because we all know how messy that can get. Next we picked our pattern and went to work! JT made some awesome chili to keep us well fed and I recorded a scary movie to be playing in the background. I was done pretty quick but if you know my husband, he is very detail oriented (home school) but I have to admit his pumpkin blew mine out of the water. This date was great fun and something we haven't really taken the time to do in a few years! Yahhh -Mia





Tonight we took Jocelyn to the pumpkin patch down the street for some photos and to pick out a couple to take home. Picking the right pumkin takes years to master so we're starting Jocelyn out early. You have to thump em in similar fashion to a watermelon but with a few differences. No I'm not telling you the difference, family secrets can't be shared. So once Jocelyn was in bed we got down to business. We picked designs and then diembowled our pumkins. Gutting a pumpkin takes awhile. Tracing out a design takes forever!!!!! Well really the more elaborate the design the longer it takes. Anyways, after some intense moments on my part making sure everything turned out right we were finally done. They both turned out awesome. We haven't carved pumpkins together since moving from the old house so thats like almost 4 years. It was a blast! I thoroughly enjoyed this one! -J.T.

Project 52 Date #42

Up With The Sun!

This date night was actually a date morning to watch the sun come up together. So that night we just relaxed and caught up on our shows. We woke up before the sun so we could get some things done for when Jocelyn wakes up. I made us some fantastic hot cocoa that went perfect with the chilly morning. We sat upstairs in a big ole chair and watched the sun come up over our neighbors roof line through our big guestroom window. It was a great sunset too, all purple-red-orangish colored. It was something very simple but something we take for granted and was really nice to stop and be still and enjoy the sunrise together.

Mia Says: When Jonathan and I were dating we used to drive out to the beach and watch the sunset all the time, so this was a great date for us! We enjoyed watching the sun come up together, sipping on some fantastic hot chocolate that he made for us! The sunrise was gorgeous and a wonderful way to start the day!

Project 52 Date #41

So this past week was crazy, every night was filled with either JT working or we were heading out of town, so we really had to work hard to squeeze in a date. Although all of our dates we have tried not to make it a movie, I couldn't resist this time. I REALLY wanted to go see Courageous and I knew that it wouldn't be in theaters for very long. So we got completely unpacked, Jocelyn settled and fed, and everything cleaned up in only an hour and a half, phew. Thankfully, we had a Grami that missed Jocelyn, so she watched her as we went to the movie.
Everyone should see this movie! The acting wasn't that great of course, but the message behind it was pure inspiration! Every guy should aspire to be that kind of father and that kind of husband that makes time for their family in meaningful and purposeful ways. Another movie that I saw recently was "I don't know how she does it" and there is a line in the end that wraps up everything. "There will always be another job but there will only be ONE family of mine!"
Anyway as I get teary eyed just thinking of these movie and the message behind them I encourage everyone to take the time for your family and spend it in meaningful and purpose memory making ways! Awesome date!

JT: We definitely had a booked schedule this week between a visit with Mia's dad and my sister's weekend wedding. But we did manage to squeeze a date in to go to the movies. Mia's been wanting to see Courageous since first seeing the previews online months before it's release. I did too so we caught the 7:00 P.M. show. It turned out to be a really good movie. It doesn't have Academy Award winning acting, or John Woo special effects, but the storyline is really good. And it's not really a cop movie as much as it is a movie about family and what it means to be a good man and a good father. I really liked how the movie portrayed the struggles of father's and how support from other men is essential. I teared up pretty hard during several scenes, it was pretty emotionally moving. We talked alot about the movie on the way home and how they did an excellent job of getting the viewer to feel what the characters were feeling as they went thru things. Good movie and a really good date.

Project 52 Date #40

Tub-N-Talk was the name of the date, and you guessed we sat in a bathtub and talked. Now it obviously was a little fancier than just that. Bubble bath, 50 tea light candles(do you have any idea how long it takes to light and keep lit that many tea lights?!?) So after a very long day for both of us we eased into a very hot and bubbly tub(I overdid it on the water temp just a bit) in a candlelit bathroom and we just sat and soaked and talked. These days we only take a bath like once every six months so this was a special treat for both of us. We just sat and talked about our day and some future stuff going on and it was just really nice to sit peacefully and relax together. Obviously no great pictures cuz i haven't been working on my tan lately..... but I will show you one picture of my awesome setup.

She says: This was awesome! I am a huge bath person and just don't take the time honestly to do it often enough! It was even better to sit still, no phones, not computer, no tv, no distractions and just talk. Wonderful date babe!

Project 52 Date #39

So this weeks date was to teach my husband something he didn't know around the house, so I chose to teach my hubby how to be Type A. I found out early in our marriage that I am very type A and my husband is type A/B, but even more so that his type B'ness drives me to be more type A.

The Type A personality generally lives at a higher stress level. This is driven by

They enjoy achievement of goals, with greater enjoyment in achieving of more difficult goals. They are thus constantly working hard to achieve these.
They find it difficult to stop, even when they have achieved goals.
They feel the pressure of time, constantly working flat out.
They are highly competitive and will, if necessary create competition.
They hate failure and will work hard to avoid it.
They are generally pretty fit and often well-educated (a result of their anxiety).

The Type B personality generally lives at a lower stress level and are typically:

They work steadily, enjoying achievements but not becoming stressed when they are not achieved.
When faced with competition, they do not mind losing and either enjoy the game or back down.
They may be creative and enjoy exploring ideas and concepts.
They are often reflective, thinking about the outer and inner worlds.

So I decided to take on one area that I knew would help him out... the family calender. A while back I bought a huge office desk calendar and 4 markers and started filling it in. We each have a color, a color for together events and a color for Jocelyn's things. The purpose was to put EVERYTHING on there so we knew when we would need a babysitter and so Jonathan wouldn't forget things or be late to things. Also we use this calendar to make sure that we have a date night once as week as well. It was amazing to see how quickly our calendar got filled in but I think it put a reality check into Jonathan's mindset of how busy we are and where I need his help.

The calendar now hangs in the closet and we are committed to filling it a little more so that we can keep up with our busy lives and make sure to schedule in OUR time first :)


He says:

I suppose that I've been accused of being Type B often enough that i should believe it. The truth is Mia is infinitely more organized and structured than I am. So this was a good learning thing. It's not like I don't know how to keep a schedule and mark things on the calender. But having a giant wall calendar in the closet where its constantly seen helps curb most of my absent minded fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants-caused snafu's! We are insanely busy pretty much every day between both of us working, having an almost 2 yr old and another on the way, and attempting to keep a social life, and sneak in time with each other and maybe if we're lucky a little solitude as well. You get the idea, we're busy. Anyways, a shared calendar is pretty basic really. But it's definitely helping make life more streamlined for us. Good Job Baby!

Project 52 Date #38

Bring on the comedy,
So last night I turned in our living room into a little comedy club! We had already had family dinner out, put Jocelyn to bed so our date night was a go to start! I set up our little chairs filled with a favorite beverages or snacks and had already pre-recorded a comedy show that I thought we would both enjoy!
It was really simple and alot of fun to laugh out loud for an entire hour! Like I said, super simple but great fun!

He says: Date nite! Mexican food, laughter, and junk food The End! Just kidding...so we went out to dinner which we haven't done in awhile. One of our favs is La Playa, gotta love that green salsa, so we had a nice dinner out just the three 1/2 of us(haha, sorry crack myself up sometimes).(That's a full belly of quesadillas not me being fat in the picture...) After that it was time for the main event. Mia set the living room up as our little mini booth for a comedy show and had a Comedy Central Roast dvr'd for us. Not gonna say who's it was but lets just say it was really funny, if a bit off color at times. Anyways, sweet treats and tasty beverages rounded the package deal out and we had a good time. And laughed alot, alot. Small on prep, big on fun factor! Good Job Babe!

Project 52 Date #37

This date night was to do a pub crawl. Yeah kinda hard to do by one's self cuz you're wife is pregnant and can't join in...so we adjusted accordingly. First stop was a place I've heard great things about lately but just haven't gotten around to checking out for whatever reason. It's called Harrison's Landing and it's a little joint down on the water downtown. They have live music and it's an outdoors setup. I was a little curious what tonights tunes would be like and ended up pleasantly surprised. The food is good but nothing to rave about, it's the atmosphere that makes this place rock. It's pretty much a porch with a roof over head right on the water. The nights music was a little bit of everything by a guy with a crazy beard and a guitar. His voice definitely didn't match his image and he really did put on a good set. We loved this place soo much that we actually never made it anywhere else. After dinner and several songs later we took a stroll down the pier to walk our meal off a bit and to enjoy the cool breeze. We finished the night off by stopping at Marble Slab for a cool treat on our way home. Good night, great music, and we might just make Harrison's our new fav downtown spot.

She says: This place was so cute and I've been dying to try it out but just haven't gotten around to it. I loved it and it was a great night of food, music and chit chat! Great job hon!

Project 52 Date #36

JT says: This date brought back some childhood board game memories! Subs n Submarines which translates to sub sandwiches and Battleship! I highly recommend the Chicken n Bacon Ranch from Subway cuz thats what I had and it was really good. When I was a kid I played a fair amount of Battleship and as decent at it so I was curious to see if I still had any naval warfare skills. I do, just so you know. Our first game I drew first blood and sunk Mia's patrol boat almost right away. After that it was game on! It turned out to be a pretty close game but I won. Game two proved much more challenging so luckily I put some thought into my fleet placement. At one point I'm getting totally killed by Mia and she drops what she thinks is the last shot on what she thinks is my biggest ship and then I say "hit" and go about my next move(cuz I had some slick surface warfare setup going on of course). She looks at me and says "don't you have something to say?" I say yeah "B7" and she looks at me like I'm nuts and then explains that she she sunk my ship. I say "no way Jose" and after much mischief and protest on her part we continue on. Turns out to be a really close game and it comes down to one move away from losing but I pull it together and manage to win just barely. I had fun playing an old childhood favorite and trying out a new sandwich too!

She says: This was great fun! we actually had to switch date plans but it kinda shows that you can make a great date in just 30 minutes or less of planning so thats kinda great to know! He did or course beat me at both games but we had alot of fun while I was losing! I take a little comfort in knowing that in the picture we took, he looks like a TRex, big head and little arms <3 br="">

Project 52 Date #35

This date turned out to be a hilarious disaster! The date was to draw each other, yep like a portrait. So I gather up the art supplies and I've got colored pencils, crayons, art paper, and even some artsy markers. We sit down across the table from each other and, with chosen medium in hand, start our masterpieces. I choose to go way old school with crayons while Mia goes refined and uses pencil. This turned out to be much shorter date than I thought. Probably because lousy artists draw fast....Anyways our pictures were so bad that we chose not to post pictures of them(taking a cue from Hollywood and not putting our dirt out on the internet). Lets just say Mia's drawing of me kinda looks like a police sketch of criminal(or maybe I just have beady eyes) and mine of her kinda looks like a hot zombie with huge lips...We never claimed to be artists people. Anyways we had quite the laugh when we showed each other our drawings. And my drawing of Mia might have been accused of having lips lips like Joker from Batman, but we had fun and laughed a lot looking at how silly our portraits turned out.

Mia says: This was a real short date because of the master artists that we are :) It was alot of fun laughing about them after but I think my favorite moment would be when Jonathan looked up to look at my face and I would look up at the same time too, but it was a moment of studying face and then back to drawing! Too much fun!

Project 52 Date #34

So sometimes life throws you a curve-ball, like planning a car wash date in the middle of a drought and all of a sudden a huge rainstorm comes in! But we tried to make the best of the situation! The date was to wash both of our cars and then go out to eat afters, so my plan was to take both cars and go to B&J's after, but it seemed like God had other plans, so we adapted!

We figured out that we could wash the cars but then they would just get extra dirty on the roads coming home, so we opted for vacuuming out a car. Well we got to the car wash place and wouldn't you know they had convenient little tarps over the vacuum place, SCORE! So the rain started to come down harder and we began to quickly realize that these tarps were not waterproof :) And that there was a 2 foot gap between tarp which allowed the sideways rain to wash the inside of our car too.

Plan B:
Since vacuuming went alot quicker then planned, and since we already had a babysitter for Jocelyn (Thanks mom) we opted to go see a movie that the both of us have been dying to see. We squeezed in a quick dinner of salads at Montana Mikes and then off to the movies we ran! All in all the night was great and full of laughter and "oh my goodness are you serious" moments :) We had a great time with the car, dinner was fabulous and the movie was great. Fantastic date night!



JT: So the date night was for us to go wash and clean out our cars together and wouldn't you know that the day we plan that is the one day in the last 100 days that it decides to rain! I'm not complaining because we needed the rain but it was kinda funny. So we get to the carwash place and it's raining lightly and as soon as we start cleaning out the car it starts raining harder. So we're starting to get wet because the tarp canopy roof they have isn't really offering any protection but instead has just enough gaps in it to let the rain get to us. So we hurry up and get the car all nice and clean and get outta there just in time, as soon as we got in the car again it started raining even more! SO now it's time to grab some dinner so we head over to Montana Mikes and kill a small mountain of cheese fries followed by a killer salad(yeah real healthy...). Then we top the evening off with a trip to the movies and watch Rise of Planet of The Apes! I highly recommend this movie, it was so much better than I anticipated. I'll warn you though, it may change your mind about that cute little pet monkey you've been wanting lately.......

Project 52 Date #33

This date was a combination of two because we were off by a date. Breakfast for dinner/Tower of Terror(Jenga)!

We made our favorite breakfast entree Swedish Pancakes, they're kinda like crepes. I used to make these for Mia almost every Saturday when we first got married. It's been awhile so we were pretty excited. Swedish pancakes with whipped creme and pears oh my! after we cleaned up the kitchen it was on to a game of Jenga. I made the mistake of asking Mia which table she wanted to use(we have 2) and after a long drawn out smarty pants thinking session she decided we will be sitting at Jocelyn's lilliputian table(if you don't know what a lilliputian is I really can't help you...)
So we get our first tower pretty high and then I loose my concentration and down it goes. Round 1 to Mia. Second time went down pretty quick and to Mia's hand, Round 2 to Jonathan. Best of 3 and I knocked it over again so Mia won. We love our pancakes and Jenga was alot of fun too!!!



Mia Says: This date was delicious, swedish pancakes are one of my favorite breakfast dishes and we seriously have not had it since before Jocelyn, so I was really looking forward to this date! Oh and we had whip cream and fruit as the topping which is a childhood favorite so it was double the awesomeness! Then JT asks me to choose my favorite table but won't tell me what for.... let me ask you this... do you have a "favorite" table? I don't, so when he MADE me choose, I chose the itty bitty Jocelyn table :) Jenga was a blast because at a table, that isn't made for your height, adds another element of "danger" Great date!

Project 52 Date #32

So last night's date got changed up twice but we ended up having a great night of take out from HuDat and then played a quick game of "Would you rather...?" Lots of fun questions and of course some surprising answers.

He says: Sometimes life throws you a changeup and you just have to go with it. So 2 trips to Hudat(the girl at the counter looked at me the second time i came in, in less than an hour :), and said "long time no see", and 2 Disney movies later and we were all set. We were going to play a board game but we had both had such long days so I got out the always ridiculous and sometimes inappropriate Would You Rather...? game and we played a mini 2-person game for a bit before calling it a night. Would you rather...parachute into the Superbowl naked or.....????

Project 52 Date #31

This date was to make a house of cards. Instructions were easy(yeah right) get a deck of cards and them make a house of cards. Neither one of u had ever done this before so this was a new and amusing experience for us. It's definitely not as easy as it looks...oh yeah sure you just stack em up and make like a 4 story mansion out of cards...no problem right? Wrong! we ended up busting out the Google on it and watching some pro do it like it was the easiest thing in the world. But it did help us get the idea of how it works down. At one point we did manage to get 3 levels built up but it fell before we could get a picture of it. I think we had a good stack going like a dozen times and then it would just all the sudden POW! and collapse. It made for some tense moments and alot of laughs. This was the simplest of dates and was alot of fun working together to try to get a house built.

Mia: So we decided to make our house of cards together which added a difficult element to it. Once we googled it, the first thing the guy on the video says is " do not start with a brand new deck of cards" Jonathan and I then stare at our brand new deck of card :) So that is why it didn't work the first time around. So we went and grabbed a old deck and it worked alot better that time around, even so that we were able to get a three level house of cards, but not before a camera got to it. Lots of fun on this date and lots of teamwork :)

Project 52 Date #30

So this date night was earlier this week, but life got in the way and I'm just now posting it, sorry :) Our date night was one that I was looking forward to for awhile! It was pretzels and puzzles. So I picked out a 1,000 piece puzzle (a little too big now that I look back at it) and got an awesome pretzel bite recipe.
So when JT came home we started making the homemade dough for the pretzels bites and even Jocelyn helped just a little as well. It takes about an hour for the dough to rise, so we had to do this part a little early. Then off the little munchkin went to bed and off we went to the kitchen to finish our cooking :) We also moved into the dining room and started setting up the puzzle.



Now as Jonathan phrased it... "I'm afraid you might be one of those people that would wear an adult diaper just so they could stay at the table longer to finish a puzzle"... it was a little extreme but I do like me a good puzzle :) So we got all our edge pieces out first and started working on putting together the frame. Our week had been so busy that we actually started talking tons and the puzzle become a welcome second to the date.
So we didn't finish, but the night was fantastic. On a side note, it got moved into the kitchen and now I get to put a few pieces in every day ! Score!!!


He says: Some of our best date nights are the low keys ones and this one turned out to be one of those nights! We started out with a little mixing action in the kitchen making pretzels with Jocelyn. She really loves helping and trying to be a big girl so this part was alot of fun. After that it was off to bed for Jocelyn and on to part two for us. We popped our pretzel bites into the oven and got our puzzle out on the table. This was one tough puzzle and it took us almost 30 minutes just to find all the edge pieces and get them hooked up in all the right places. Mia's pretty competitive even when working on a puzzle so I did my best to keep up. We had great conversation just catching up on the day and covering several things we needed to sort out for the week. It was really nice to just sit and talk and have the house all quiet and it just be the two of us doing something together.