Saturday, December 27, 2008

Date Night and Vacation Destination

You see, it's been 5 months since my SIL and niece--hubs' sister and her 4 year old--shacked up with us in our basement. That sure does make it easy to have date night any time we choose. We just put the little people to bed between 7-7:30 and go on our merry way. Usually our merry way consists of a movie with a restaurant to follow. Last night it was surprise take out Chinese from daddy and a late showing of 7 Pounds.



We arrived 30 minutes early last night and were the first to choose our seats. No, hubs doesn't have those really cool self tinting glasses, like it appears in this snapshot. And yes, my hair wrap is the bottom strip of my polkadotty Gap maternity shirt that I snipped off yesterday. How did you guys guess?


And, before the movie started, while I munched on two favorite movie theatre snacks and snuggled with Mr. Marvelous--across the arm rest--we talked about going here:

This is what I unwrapped on Christmas morning confirming my guess to Sneaky Santa's riddle. The riddle he's had planned for the last 3 months.


I sure am eating my words after talking like this.

15 comments:

Lisa H said...

That is such a sweet surprise! And you are going to have SO MUCH FUN! :) When do you go?

gina said...

OMGosh!! How fabulous will that trip be?!!!!!!


Are you still going to Florida too or was that just to keep you quiet until you got your surprise?

Elyse said...

Does Mr. Marvelous have a brother??? JK!
~Elyse~

mrs boo radley said...

You're cuter than most people.

Homegrown Tribe said...

that is SO awesome! What a great hubby you have. :)

britt

Lindsay said...

Ugh, I wanna date night! 9mos and no date night...boo!
Hope you had a Merry Christmas!

Cute picture, too!!!

Kristin said...

Whoa Tiff...I am envious on several levels. Level #1: Date night is becoming a habit??? Wow is all I can say. We have to plan ours MONTHS in advance. Level #2: How super adorable to have the creativity make a headband out of a fave maternity blouse and then actually look good in it. Level #3: What an amazing gift!! Level #4 will be when you tell us that Mr. M has a babysitter all set up for you to go by yourselves.

Sara @ Domestically Challenged said...

What a wonderful surprise for you! I enjoyed reading through your last posts as well!!

Lisa H said...

Love, love, love the new header!

Your little girls look like such big girls in those pictures!

I love the explanation of your 4 under 3 too! :)

Lori said...

love the header!

gina said...

Love the new header- and colors. $ under 3 works well when you add the little footnote. :)

Michal Ann said...

I popped over from MckMamma's to enjoy your lively family. What a wonderful Christmas...even with the bugs you conquered! Go to YouTube and enter this:

The Twelve Days of a Large Family Christmas

You'll really enjoy it! ((Your own little 12 Days ditty reminded me!)

Happy New Year and Marvelous travels! Michal Ann

Liz said...

how fun! what a great hubby! maybe I should ask my SIL to move in...we could use a date night ourselves!

Leslie said...

AWESOME! When do you take your va-ca?

~*Michelle*~ said...

Poppin over from MckMama's blog and really enjoy your posts, and just general look at life. Gorgeous family......how blessed you are. :)

And I encourage you for those scheduled date nights.....they have kept my marriage together!

Peace
*~Michelle~*