Above Par Date Night

My parents and younger sister spent the last 5 days with us. We had a wonderful time taking the boys to the zoo, doing a little shopping, house hunting, and the girls all got lovely pedicures. Never a dull moment. 

Saturday, thanks to my wonderful parents, Chad and I were able to get away and have a night to ourselves. After screaming "FREEDOM" when we left the house and plotting to possibly never come back, we decided begin our date night adventure. We're usually content with grabbing dinner at Chick-Fil-A and running errands, but Chad and I made a pact that we would go eat somewhere we can't go to with the boys. Shogun's won, and we were not disappointed. 

After managing to get our overly stuffed selves from the table to the car, we decided to drive by a house and then head to Hobby Lobby. I know that sounds sad, but we'd been trying to go for weeks. It was nice to wonder around and look at whatever we wanted. After making our selections, we left and headed back to the car. We considered going to a movie, but as parents of 2 little guys who had been entertaining all weekend, we were afraid that a movie in a cold dark theater would just put us to sleep. Now, if you know Tyler at all, you know that it's not exactly abuzz with activity. We didn't want to walk around the mall or Target (our typical date night activities), and we didn't want to go home either. Then, it came to us. Like finding money in a coat pocket, we were thrilled to rediscover a wonderful childhood pastime- miniature golf! We spend the next hour and a half dodging water traps, putting while standing underneath the leaves of a huge tree, and enjoying Putt Putts 2 resident cats Addison and Zoe. My golfing techniques need a little tweaking...ok, I'm terrible, but that didn't stop us from having fun. We hadn't connected like that in a long time. We paid for 2 games and got the 3rd one free, and since we only played 1 game, we get to go back twice! Maybe next time we'll get egg rolls and the concession stand. We concluded our night away by satisfying my almost ever-present sweet tooth. Thank you Braum's!