tuesday, july 15

what a great day...
it started with work, which besides getting up so early, is always a nice break for me. i really love my job and its nice to get out of the house and just be "me" once in a while. if work is the place that i need to go to accomplish that then so be it...thankfully i love my job and even most of the people i work with!
it continued with some yard work. this whole summer has consisted of transplanting plants, not only because they have become so over grown in their current locations, but also as a way of personalizing our yard and making it our own. we have added, modified, etc... to the landscaping that my dad had been maintaining for the last several years. and so far we are enjoying our improvements, we just don't seem to have enough time to keep all the weeds out!! they grow much faster than our time allotment allows for! but its getting there and for the time being i just have to be content in knowing that the weeds are part of nature too!
but it was tuesday evening that was really the greatest part of the day....
frank and i actually went out on a date! its something we havent done since well before the twins were born (they are 8 months old now!) - other than jess & jakes wedding. our dear friend bridget and her son zach (age-10) came over around 530 and took on the task of our three boys! i must say, getting in the car all by ourselves is a very strange thing to do and we have now done it two tuesdays in a row!! but we headed out to franks resturant where we enjoyed an amazing dinner and bottle of wine, and wait it gets better...it was on the house! a major perk to frank's current place of employment. his boss has offered for the 3 kitchen guys to come in for a date night every once in a while on their night off for dinner and a bottle of wine...so we took him up on the offer! the wine was amazing, the food even better, but the best part was actually spending time together.
all in all it was a very simple night, after dinner we headed to the other side of town to grab cheesecake from the cheesecake factory...reese peanut butter for frank, snickers for me and oreo for bridget and zach...then we made a few stops while we were in the area (bedbathandbeyond and joanns) and we headed home to enjoy our cheesecake and watch a movie all snuggled up on our couch.
according to bridget, the kids were amazing and not only did she write us the sweetest letter to tell us how the night went, but she also volunteered to do it again for us whenever we want!! of course it has to be after she and her kids get back from 3 weeks in Guam...but it certainly is an offer worth waiting for and one that we are more than willing to take her up on! hopefully we can work out an alternating month kind of deal, she watches our kids one month and we watch theirs the next...every couple deserves a night out and what better way to make sure it happens for both of us!
we truly are blessed with some amazing friends!