Date Night!

We kind of made a spur-of-the-moment decision and made arrangements for a date night this past Friday. Jesse has been working so much and I've been on toddler duty 24/7 almost entirely on my own and we both really needed a break.

SO, he called me from work one night and asked if I wanted to go see Dave Coulier / Joey from Full House do a comedy show at Improv - well, that's a no-brainer, right? ;) And since we are then right across from the movie theater, we decided to catch the last showing of "The Gift".

We dropped munchkin off at Granny's, and headed off. Improv was a blast! We ate fried pickles, laughed a bunch, and even got a picture with Dave!

Afterwards, we had to BOOK IT to the Theater across the street, grabbed a drink, and made it just in time for the movie. Jesse says it kind of fizzled at the end (and I do agree) but I thought it was pretty good. And the guy who played Gordo did an amazing job - so creepy! :)

Afterwards we went home to play video games, slept in and cleaned a bunch. Andrew stayed at Granny's longer than we had planned but it was so great getting him back. I missed that munchkin!!

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!! TTFN <3

♡Our weekend♡ 2.21.15

Because hubby worked Valentine's weekend, we had to make our date night the next weekend... well, it ended up turning into a date weekend, haha!

Saturday afternoon, we dropped Andrew off at Granny's and then headed to the movie theater. We saw

(And thought it was great! Everyone in the theater was laughing, it's actually pretty funny)

After getting home we relaxed a bit (I had made sure that all the housework had been finished that morning), we dressed up a bit and headed to Malios for a yummy steak and seafood dinner.

It was so nice getting home to a clean apartment, not having to be quiet or clean or make dinner... we opened a bottle of wine and curled up to watch FRIENDS, haha!

Sunday we slept in. As. Late. As. We. Could. Lol seriously, most glorious thing ever, not having to get up for Andrew- the puppy was outside and no hotel checkout time. SO good! We ate some muffins, turned on the pre oscars coverage, eventually got a ton of sushi 

and then got ready for Hollywood Night!

We had a lot of fun again this year at the Oscar's event but we both agreed that it might be more fun to have a viewing party next year :)

Photo dump from our awesome weekend :)

Whew! What a weekend. We had a blast running around.... Friday we did the usual grocery run and then we headed to the Tampa Bay Yankees "Back-to-School" game. They had the Tampa Kids Market in the concourse, $2 tickets, fireworks after the show and they won by one point at the bottom of the ninth. Slow start but awesome way to end the game!

YAY THEY WON! Andrew was crying because of the loud cheering.....

Saturday we headed to the Lowry Park Zoo's birthday bash for their one-year old Elephant calf, Mavi. We got to see her and her mother be released to their "Birthday Cake", had some actual birthday cake, and played in the splash park. 

A whole splash park, but he had to play with the stroller wheels, lol

Then he needed to ride the train....

Birthday cake!!

The Llama's expression. Priceless.

After lunch and a nap, we headed to an annual family party at USF for the Alumni Center Administration. It was SO much fun! They had a DJ, lots of games, some yummy food and lots of fun things to take home.

Once we arrived, Andrew saw the margarita maker and instantly freaked because blenders=smoothies, of course. Ha...Also, after finishing his hot dog he started a tantrum and no matter what we tried we couldn't figure it out. We tried feeding him multiple other things but other than A bite of my hamburger he would not eat or drink anything. After about 5 minutes Jesse got up and brought back a second hot dog. We cut it up and instant calm. He scarfed that one down too and then finished a good amount of his other food. Oh boy.

He also wet himself really badly part way through and we only had a onesie packed so he ran around in a onesie and sandals for about 90 minutes. We also made the mistake of showing him the fountain so long story short he went home with his whole front soaking wet haha.

Balloon artist made him a Minion :)

Loot!

Some ducks crossed our paths. A is smiling so big, while hubby is like "Keep your distance, ducks."

Sunday my mother watched the little man while hubby and I attended church, and then he surprised me with a movie date! We got a whole bucket of popcorn and hunkered down for "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes", which was really good.

Hope y'all had a great weekend full of fun! TTFN <3

Mama, daddy and baby date day... and the first ballet class in 3 years.

So we have been thinking about this date day for months. I kid you not, MONTHS. 

I read so many articles encouraging mothers to venture out to the movie theater with newborns but I just could not bring myself to do it. I know as a single woman I always loved kids and babies but it would annoy me if there were crying babies around with parents not really interested in being considerate to others. I am the kind of mom that I will let my plans get delayed if it means others don't have to be subjected to our kid's screams. SO it took me finding a kids movie, 2 months after it opened, at 10:35am on a Tuesday morning to agree to take Andrew. There was one other person (older man) but otherwise the theater was empty. Andrew did great! He watched about 2/3 of it, and slept for awhile in the middle.

Afterwards we window shopped through the entire mall (it is humongous). We found good places to shop for Andrew for Christmas, I became bent on visiting a Bath and Body works soon, and we also found an awesome tea shop where we want to purchase some tea, beet sugar and a set. Yup, we're turning into those kind of people ;-P

Sunday we relaxed and went to the beach with friends.

Here are some pictures of our week so far :)

Napping in his tent

Reading with Daddy

Loving being messy!

Sunset Beach

...at Sunset

Tuesday (the big date day) we went to Citrus Park to see a movie and window shop

He's getting SO BIG

Ready for the movie!

Intently watching the movie while gulping down a bottle

Making a "kissy" face

First time the little man has fallen asleep on me in a long time.

No pictures from ballet class but it was really fun! We went early, chatted with some of the dance moms, met the teacher, talked about how there will be a live screening of Carlos Acosta in Royal Ballet's Don Q here in TAMPA (!!!!!), and chatted a bit with the other dancers. Our friend never showed up but most of the other dancers were very nice and welcoming. The teacher reminds me of a teacher I had as a kid, Lydia - she was a lot of fun.

 By about the 4th combination I was drenched "glistening" with sweat, it's such a good workout! I was a little bummed that I didn't get any corrections, but afterwards the teacher told me about the Intermediate/ Advanced class days so I think that maybe means I did okay haha. I definitely want to stick in the beginning class for a while though, it's good to go back to the basics especially after not taking a class in three years. Also, I'm out of shape and semi un-flexy for the moment. I do, however, kind of want to try to go every week rather than once every other week.... we'll see if that happens.

Will have another update blog later this week about our very big/long/trying day that tomorrow will be.

TTFN! <3