Dating

One of our family goals this year was to start doing more one on one 'dates' with our kids. Fortunately there have been a few built in events that facilitate this. The first was the school's Sweetheart dance. It is darling. Aren't they a cute couple?!


It is a fancy affair with a yummy dinner, cotton candy machine, chocolate fountain, picture booth. Eliza's friend Rachel was there too with her dad Murray. Apparently last year Eliza often ditched John to go run off with friends, but this year she really wanted to dance with him.

Meanwhile, here at home we were having a mommy, daughter, daughter date. These two munchkins were my dates. We had a hot dog dinner (real gourmet, I know), with dessert pizza cookies after. 

Cutest little date!

Yummy and so easy, I had frozen sugar cookie dough, and some delicious strawberry frosting that was frozen as well. Top that with chocolate chips and fresh raspberries, and we have winner.

Making the pizzas was a fun activity too! After dinner and dessert, Miriam wanted to take a special bath with Holland, which they both LOVED! After the bath was movie time. Miriam was so darling and wanted to dress up as Rapunzel and watch Tangled. (Little girls are the cutest!)

We only have one Rapunzel dress (can you believe it??), but she wanted Holland and me to dress as close as we could, which meant pink and purple dress ups. Holland was so enthusiastic about it. They were just so happy about the whole thing. It really was adorable.

I love you...let me squeeze your head!

Sweet sisters!

Okay, I want to crawl away from you now.

Pretty little princesses.

It was my turn to go on a date with Eliza a little more than a week ago for women's conference. Since she just turned 8 it was her first one. We went to the Stake Center and out to dinner afterwards with other moms and friends. So fun! Eliza was absolutely adorable about the whole thing. She wanted to dress alike in our denim dress/shirt and do our hair the same. She was very attentive the whole meeting and took notes. She sung her little heart out during the intermediate hymn, which of course garnished a few kind comments from surrounding women. It was so fun to have one on one time with this sweetheart!

John had a special date at home with Miriam and Holland during this. I think there were hot dogs again. :) And I think they made some cheesecake brownies, which is about the best thing ever. I know they did another movie night too. So fun!

The married couple goes on dates too. :) We went to the new Beauty and the Beast at the theater, which was extra cool because our realtor rented out the theater for all his old clients so we got to go for free. The sad part was that we could have taken our kids for free too (and we even have a Belle dress that one of them could have worn!!), but they thought it would be too scary (which is probably would have been). They gave out a red rose to the couples too. Paired with Chipotle, it was a fun afternoon out. Our friends were so nice to watch our girls for that long.

Another fun date we did recently was a create-your-own cookie recipe. We made up cookie base and did a truffle filling and topped it with delicious morsels. We are pretty much amazing. ;) I love our little family!!!