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Ugly Sweater Party 2012

Date Info: Ugly Sweater Party Price: Cost of hot chocolate bar and snacks (I’d plan $20-$50) Location: Anywhere There’s just no group date like a couple’s ugly sweater party at Christmas. This was our 2nd year and luckily our sweaters we worked so hard gluing elements from the .99 cent store got to work it again! And… Read More

East Valley Mormon Choral Organization

Remember last Christmas when we were hooked up with tickets to see the East Valley Mormon Choral Organization’s Christmas concert? We got lucky again this year! My parents called the night before asking if we’d like to take their extra tickets. Man, I have nice parents and we must be living our lives right or… Read More

Christmas Baking Night

When it rains all day and the sun comes out for less than 10 minutes total, we typically have the urge to turn our oven on and to make sure our date involves some serious snuggles. This combined with Christmas inspired dating lead us to our traditional Christmas baking date which usually ends with one… Read More

Gingerbread House 2012

Don’t forget- one more day to enter TheAllredFrontDoor Giveaway! We’re definitely loving getting our Christmas on together, and enjoying some quality time and dates doing so! This week we went with one of our Christmas traditions- We love to make “gingerbread” structures out of graham crackers I particularly love this activity because watching Jacob’s… Read More

The Forgotten Carols

Every December we try hard to make sure we enjoy at least one holiday celebration of the arts. Last year we went to see A Christmas Carol, and we also have made it see choirs or other plays. This year I thought it may be fun to give Jacob a new experience and take him… Read More

Decking Our Hall

It took us a few extra days to get in the Christmas spirit this year, but don’t worry, we decided to make a date night out of it and get our act together! There’s something about decorating together that makes it so much more magical. When you become an adult I often feel like decorating… Read More

Thankful Dinner For 2

We were lucky enough to have Thanksgiving day off work, making Wednesday the new Friday. We actually have a date planned for tomorrow, but thought Wednesday was a perfect excuse to fit another one in! We opted in for a Thanksgiving based dinner at home. (Google and Mac aren’t integrating well, sorry for image issues!)… Read More

12 Months of Dates October: Pumpkin Carving

I feel like pumpkin carving is one of those things that never gets old! We are excitiede to do it every year, particularly when we get to double with our friends Tia and Brett! This was even part of our 12 Months of Dates, it’s always a fun, fairly inexpensive date for the month of… Read More

Halloween Costumes 2012: PBS Stars Julia Child and Bob Ross Costume

I feel like we went big with costumes last year, and we had a ton of pressure to try to be at least close to as creative this year. Inspiration came late, but we’d like to thank all the PBS songify YouTube videos for inspiring us to honor the heros of PBS. Introducing Julia Child… Read More

15 Halloween Date Ideas

Make a Halloween themed date night happen this October with one of these creepy Halloween date night ideas What to Do On Halloween I’ve heard many people ask for ideas of what to do on Halloween if you’re not invited to a party. Our first year as an official couple we were recently engaged and… Read More

Halloween Edition of Dinner and a Movie: Frankenweenie

When we first saw the previews for Disney’s new movie Frankenweenie and decided we’d pass. We’re not die-hard Tim Burton fans, and the ads seemed to cater to that. But then we went to CA Adventure, and we were able to watch an extended preview with an 8 minute scene. We both left saying “Wow… Read More

October Musings

We have more CA adventures to share, but I thought I’d take a break to celebrate that we are in the glorious month of October! This means some wonderful things 1. The weather turns from way too hot for way too long to Heavenly! Â OctoberÂ through March are gorgeous months is AZ! Â If Â you’re planning a… Read More