My Date With Nate!!

It's not very often my husband and I get to go on a hot date...and an entire day for that matter! It was one of the best days of my life! I love my three children very much, but it was just a nice little break for the two of us to get away and have time with each other! We enjoyed nice conversation without being interrupted! We didn't have to get the kids in and out of the car a million times and drag them into stores! We didn't have to hear teasing or fighting!! Wow! We might have to do this more often!

We started the day by going to the temple. Almost ten years ago this year Nate and I were married and sealed for time and all eternity in the Salt Lake Temple. It was so wonderful to go back to the temple together. We hoped to get on a certain session but missed it by five minutes! So we did sealings first and thought we could do a session after--the sealings went longer than planned so we missed the session again! But that's okay, it was very special and quite spiritual to seal so many families together! We did names from back in the 1600s and many families from all over the world: Germany, Norway, America, Philippines....how grateful I am that we could have that opportunity to give the special blessing of being together as a family forever to those that have gone on before! It made me even more grateful that I was sealed to my husband and that we can be a forever family and live together after this life.

Next stop: Lunch at PF Chang's! Yummy! Not a place for kids so we were grateful we didn't have ours with us! We haven't been here often, but we like it. Nate received a gift card to PF Chang's a couple years ago and we've never used it! Nothing is better than a free lunch! Oh my mouth is watering for those tasty lettuce wraps already!

While we were in Salt Lake we had a few stops to make all around the city! How would it be to have any store you desire right where you live?! Maybe it's a good thing Price doesn't have all the stores! It helps us stay frugal and on our budget!

Message board for our kitchen: $30

Nothing! They didn't have what we were looking for! I love the way Nate and I shop! No browsing and dottling! We are in and out! We have what we are looking for and we are on a mission when we go into a store! We look. We find. We conquer! Or we leave the store without a purchase being made!

Two Reese's Peanut Butter 'BIG CUPS' and one Coke: $2.00!! Hit the spot!

2 tubes of caulking and 3 light covers: $15!! Sweet! Now maybe we can finish up the kitchen tile project!


One of my favorite stops of the day! Just going into this store makes me excited and anxious for the warm weather to arrive so we can go camping, hiking, and play outdoors! We needed new air mattresses or something to sleep on for our next camping adventure. Our last trip we slept on the ground because both air mattresses went flat and it's no fun sleeping on the ground while camping! After looking at all our options we decided to buy 2 Kelty brand air mattresses which happened to be on clearance! Now I'm ready to go camping! Too bad it's snowing outside right now, I think I'll wait for warmer temperatures!

Oh yes! What is a trip shopping without the good old DI!! I LOVE the DI! I can always find great deals and just what I'm looking for! The Sugar House DI was a new experience for us! I was very impressed--higher class than the one in Price! Excited about my $5 long pair of GAP pants--SWEET!

Our date wasn't over yet! Eating out twice in one day was WAY beyond anything we were used to! We barely eat out twice in one month yet alone the same day! Chili's is one of my favorite restaurants! We met Nate's family there for a nice dinner all together without the kiddos. It was kind of weird not having the cousins all together, but it was very nice to be able to visit as adults without spilled drinks, crying, and everything else that goes with eating out with kids!! I just couldn't get enough chips and salsa and my Quesadilla Explosion Salad was delicious!

Our whole reason for our date was to go to the Hale Theater and watch The Tale of Two Cities. All of Nate's siblings were given tickets for their birthdays and we all went together and enjoyed the play! It was the most amazing production. I really enjoyed it. I tried reading the book for book club but could barely get through it! So I read the young reader novel and liked it. The music, and dancing, and acting, and lighting and singing were just fantastic! What a great play! Thanks again Dan & Dyann for a wonderful night!

So that is our date in a day! We really packed it in! I sure missed my kids and was so glad to be able to kiss their sweet faces when I returned home! Thanks Mimi & Papa for watching Ty, Mara, and Caleb for us!! We sure appreciate it and hope they were really as good for you as you say they were!