January Date Nights

Similar to last January I made a "resolution" to go on a date night once a week for the month of January. We had to be a little more creative trying to find someone to watch all 4 kids for us. We did it! 5 dates in the 5 weeks of January. I only managed to get one picture but here are a few recaps of our dates. 

Our friends from church, the Hodos, watched all 4 kids on the first Saturday of the month.  They have 3 kids of their own so it was a busy house.  The kids love playing over there so we knew they were in good hands.   Brad and I went to see Les Miserables.   We both loved the movie and Brad thinks it may even be his favorite movie of all time.  

The 2nd week I asked my parents to watch the boys on a Saturday.  It was a cold clear day so I had the great idea of going to Alki and going for a walk.   We lasted about 10 minutes. 

Then we went here. 

And worked on a crossword puzzle.  

It sounds dull but so nice to relax and do something like that with my best friend. 

For date #3 we sent the boys to Grammy & Fafa's for the weekend.  We still had Darby so my friend Deanna watched her for one evening.  We took the opportunity to go see Lincoln.  We also enjoyed this movie.  It is too difficult to compare this with Les Mis because they are both so different.  Since we only had to get back to one kid (who we knew was already sleeping) we took our time to hang out with a Starbucks and watched people walk around the mall.

Date #4 - My parents watched the kids again and we went to IFLY.  

Lots of Fun

We squeezed in our last date on the last day of the month.  (Brad wanted to push it until next week but that would be breaking my rules and my reason for this idea.)  My friend, Jen, who watched the kids for date #1 watched Colt, Ollie & Darby for a little over an hour.   We simply went to Starbucks and took a little walk.  It was nothing fancy but another reminder of the importance of finding time for just us two.  

I'm thankful for all of those who helped us out with these dates.  I'm already looking forward to next January. 

(Between Sounders games, high school auctions and first date anniversaries there will be no shortage of other dates in our year.  But it is a little more challenging with 4 kids)