dates x 2

Michael and I have been talking about it for a while, but we went on a real date for the 3rd or 4th time since David was born.  We hired a babysitter, had no other function to attend, and could stay out as late as we wanted since we did not have to rush back to the church to pick up children from Parent's Night Out.  It was spontaneous (decided that morning) and loads of fun!  Definitely need more of them... Felt like courtship days.  We went to an early movie-- saw "Now You See Me."  Other than a few brief scenes, it was clean and highly entertaining.  I liked the fact that all of the far-fetched magic/heist was explainable (even if a bit far fetched.)

After the movie (which was at Movie Tavern--we opted to wait for dinner), we went out to eat dinner at an old favorite: Cheeburger, Cheeburger.  Yum!  We filled our tummies while dining al fresco in the interesting Vintage Park shopping center.

Then we strolled to CoCo's Crepes and each had a dessert crepe.  It was lots of fun to sit at the bar and watch them furiously fixing the crepes on a busy Friday evening.

What a fun evening!
The movie was an extreme rarity.  That set a record for two movies in 6 months (we saw Les Mis at Christmas).  We normally are lucky to average one a year.

But we were not content setting just one record.  We decided to take in a 3rd movie yesterday.  We took David and Elizabeth to see Monsters University.  This was Biz's first movie in the theaters.  We intended to go to Alamo Drafthouse since kids under 6 get in free to the first matinee on Tues.  Unfortunately, the people right in front of us in line bought the last tickets.  We thanked the Lord though that he provided another eat-in theater nearby that was showing the movie only 25 minutes later.  We quickly headed over and found it far emptier.  Lunch was good (at least Michael and I enjoyed it...D and E were too enthralled by the movie to eat much until the movie was over--David then snarfed down his entire bowl of macaroni.  The movie was fine...not as good as the first one.  E did great the whole time since she could sit on our laps and hold her blanket.  (quick thinking on my part)

PS:  We came home to this on two children... Apparently, our sweet babysitter has been putting on diapers backwards her whole career (she is still in high school).  We have found this to be true as a rule as long as we have been using her.  She laughed about it after it came up this most recent time.  I will say though that with the littlest our current diaper escape artist, it might not be such a bad idea.  ;)  and PSS:  Bizbeth's nightgown just happened to be on backward this time too.