date me!

"What do you wanna do?" " I dunno, what do you wanna do?"
Sound familiar? I made this date jar for B as part of his v-day gift so we don't spend half our night trying to decide what to do for date night (I'm banking on him not reading this post until after v-day).

Here's what I did...

I bought extra wide, wooden sticks and color coordinated them by type of date.
I wrote out all of the dates on the sticks (some of them are double sided so we can choose based on the season i.e. water park/sledding or if they're super similar i.e. park city outlets/traverse outlets).
Then I decorated a mason jar to store all of our ideas.

Here are some of the date ideas I used...

Plain : a date we can do at home
- homemade ice cream     - karaoke night     - themed night     - build a fort in the living room and watch movies     - takeout & redbox     - fondue night/BBQ     - picnic at the park/living room     - board games     - face painting & bubble bath     - make a bucket list    - do a pintrest craft     - play video games     - bake treats for the neighbors     - DIY spa date     - puzzles and pizza     - Netflix marathon & takeout     - plan a getaway     - high school music dance party     - go through wedding/birth photos/videos     - make a 4 course pintrest meal

Red : a date we can do with C
- just dessert out     - dino museum     - dinner at an old favorite     - dinner at a new place      - fashion place/south towne     - temple square/city creek     - tracey aviary     - riverwoods     - drive through the canyon     - tourists in our own town     - library/book store     -  drive in movie     - build and fly a model rocket     - house hunting     - dinner north of here     - dinner south of here     - look at cars     - batting cages     - her favorites     - his favorites     - provo beach resort     - decorate a room     - animal shelter     - visit an old dating spot     - ikea     - discovery gateway     - hogle zoo     - go on a hike     - feed the ducks at the pond     - watch the planes fly by at the airport     - go to the park and fly planes     - handball at the elementary school    - water gun fight/snowball fight     - 7peaks/sledding     - trip to the aquarium    - park city outlets/traverse mountain outlet

Purple : might take some advanced planning and get a sitter!
- art show/exhibit    - bowling    - couples massage     - paintball     - ice skating     - pedicures     - color me mine     - movies at the imax     - see a play/concert     - cooking class     - sports game     - volunteer somewhere     - laser tag    - classic skating     - 9 holes of golf    - bed and breakfast    - go to a store and pick one thing out for each other     - weekend in park city     - weekend in vegas

I also found this cute post on the PPB Blog about Valentine's Day recipes for a date night at home.

I'd love to hear yours! Leave a comment with some of your favorite date night ideas :)

ode to love day

Valentine's day is just around the corner! Here are some of the things we've done so far to celebrate...

T.P. roll heart stamped cards...
This was SO fun! C figured out how to stamp the hearts all by himself and made 7 cards before he was ready to move onto something else (I'd say that's pretty good for a one-year-old).

Here's what you need...

  

Here's how you do it... 

So it's pretty self-explanatory but just take your t.p. roll and pinch the top in a line all the way down the roll. Then directly parallel, pinch the bottom out all the way down the roll and it should make the heart shape. Then just dip, stamp, repeat!

 

 

**I highly recommend you use non-toxic, washable paint**

Clearly C had a taste or two of the paint.

My gorge mama friend, Jen, over at delightfuldeets.com made these cute v-day cards using heart shaped cookie cutters!

Valentine's photo shoot...
My lovely friend Sasha over at moiology.com helped me take some cute valentine's pics of C.
We're planning on sending them out (with C's heart cards) to some of our far-away-fam for v-day.

(They still need to be edited, but here are a few of my favorites)

Sugar Cookies baked with love...
We made a couple of goodie bags for our sweet neighbors that shoveled the snow off our driveway and porch TWO days in a row.
They included chocolates, cocoa mix, and these delicious sugar cookies!

Leave a comment or a link and let us know how you're celebrating love day!

Here are some other super cute ideas I found on pinterest that I'd like to try someday...

*52 Things I Love About You *Heart Strings *Love Notes for the Kiddos