Date nights

So I am sure most of y'all have seen this floating around Pinterest, but Mitch and I saw this the other day and thought it was such a good idea. We believe dates are so important, even if it is just a quick dinner. We like to have some time just to us. Ever since we started dating our freshman year in college, Mitch has always taken me out on a date at least once a week. We love carrying on this tradition, but never seem to know what to do beside dinner, movie, bowling. So we thought we would make a date jar!

Like I said, I am sure most have you have seen how this works, but you pick out different categories of dates and then think of as many things as you can for each category. Then, like us, on a friday night when you can't seem to think of anything to do, you decide what category of date you want and pick from the jar. Not only does it help with our indecisiveness, but its fun not knowing what your going to do!

So I thought I would share what we came up with so if y'all decide to make one as well, you can see some of our ideas. (I know some of these will vary depending on where you live).

Our categories our...
$$$ + planning ahead (we would only do these every once in awhile bc they are expensive)
Reg. out of the house dates
Stay at home dates

Here is what we came up with from each category...

$$$ + planning ahead
Bed and breakfast
Branson weekend/golf
Thunder game
KC weekend
Couples massage
Fancy dinner
Concert
Tulsa- dinner and stay @ The Mayo (where we stayed for the first night of our honeymoon)
Weekend in OKC (we LOVE okc!!)
Dallas trip

Reg. out of home dates
Dinner/movie (his choice)
Dinner/movie (her choice)
Razorback baseball game (we get discounted tickets to sporting events now that I work for the U of A!)
Naturals baseball game
bowling
minigolf
fast lanes- go carts and laser tag
Mall surprise (Mitch came up with this one and I thought it was such a fun idea. You get a limit of $20 and we go and buy something for each other)
Drive in
Mexican night (you could do this with any type of food, we just have an obsession with mexican food)
Dessert only date
Picnic
hiking
bike ride to get snow cones
Garage sale and breakfast
Walton Arts center-play
Pottery painting
Tennis
Golf


In home dates
fondue and movie
bake a dessert together
Seinfield marathon
Chinese take out/her choice movie
Pizza and his choice movie
hot dog/smores night
decorate sugar cookies

If y'all have done this, or decide to.. post your ideas and we can all share. The more unique the more fun!!