Well hello there bloggy world! I must say before I get too far into this post that I've done GREAT with implementing and enjoying things from my
Favorite Things blog (all except #8 and 9 so far, which is HUGE)! I have felt so much more relaxed in the past week just knowing I've organized more "stuff" in my house, going to lunch with my mom, enjoying long talks, with friends, reading my bible more, and I can't leave out enjoying my peppermint mochas! If you recall though, my #1 was spending more quality time with Jared and not giving him the "leftover me." SO....this week, that was my main mission and although I failed a few times, I told him earlier this week I wanted to take him on a surprise date...something that I plan, pay for, and devote my time and thoughts to! So...it was on to brainstorming...I came up with the idea off of a cute website called thedatingdivas.com to have a gift bag and everything in the bag be theme oriented. Let me just say that coming up with a theme was the hardest part...but I eventually thought of pretending to be tourists and do tourist things. Throughout the night I kept filling the bag with different items that had a "clue" attached to them and although the clues weren't that great, it was fun coming up with them (the clues were all song lyrics that had the word of what we were going to be doing in them). So here are some photos to help tell the story....
First clue of the night...
That's right...we went to Margaritaville for dinner.
Clue #2- I forgot to take a picture of it but I had a white t-shirt with the clue "You look good in my shirt" attached. (Jared's face was priceless when he saw this one...I think he was afraid he was going to have to wear my white tank top and as I said, my clues weren't the greatest) but it was off to get tacky tourist spraypainted t-shirts.
This was probably the best part of the night. We spent quite a while trying to figure out which tacky design we wanted, laughed at some of them, questioned some of them, but when it was all said and done, this is what we left with (and we had our names spraypainted on the front...how tacky does that get?!?!)
Clue #3 (again I forgot to take a picture) was of a seashell with some lyrics about seashells (I already forgot the lyrics) and the idea was to go to that Everything's $1.00 store across from Walmart on the beach (but they were closed...next time I'll have to do some more resesarch before I plan our date).
And Clue #4 was some lyrics that said, "Beach baby, Beach baby give me your hand," and then something about walking by the shore under the moonlight. Again, I had to improvise and pull up a picture of the moon shining on the shore on my phone and stick my post it to that as the final clue BUT I did plan ahead enough to get towels and a blanket to go lay on the beach with and brought a cooler with ice (I was supposed to remember to get drinks when we got our t-shirts but forgot so we were left with a cooler full of ice and no drinks) but it made it even better us laughing over my poor planning skills! So off to the beach we went (and it was chilly) but there wasn't ONE person on the beach and the moon was beaming so bright you could see everything....it was PERFECT!! Here's a pic of my modest (yeah right) love modeling...
So there it is, my surprise date night and although everything didn't go according to plan, that's what made the night even better is us laughing about it all. Here's a few more pictures.
enjoying my fruity drink
The clues I'd given him laid out beforehand!
On the beach FREEZING!!
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