October Date Night

So we love hanging out at home.....a lot....so much in fact that it's pretty much the only thing we do outside of attending West Marshall football games. Now that those are over, I thought we needed to get out and do something different every now and then. We had our first monthly, specifically, date night. The catch is that we each have to take turns planning date night, since it was my idea I took October. Needless to say, I had a heck of a time trying to come up with something Jerod wouldn't scoff or roll his eyes at, so I decided to go with the Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maze in Cambridge.....that did not fly- Jerod guessed what we were doing and did NOT want to go. So we compromised, dinner at Thai Flavors in Des Moines (they have THE best crab rangoons EVER, hands down) and then we stopped at the Ankeny Walmart and picked out two pumpkins to take home and carve. It was really nice to get away from the television and just spend time together without worrying about lesson plans or the score of the game. I am looking forward to his date night plans in November....wonder what they will be??


JB looks like he's having a BLAST!
The finished products (Jerod's was only a 1 pumpkin difficulty- mine was a 4 pumpkin)

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Hey All!

This is a busy time for us as conferences for West Marshall run this week, and Carver's are next week. The big plus?? A couple kid-free days! We'll enjoy them now, since we don't have any little ones that have to be home with us yet:) We headed out to Sioux City this past weekend to see the Wyant family (it is still SO weird to not be a "Wyant" anymore). We hadn't been back to Sioux City since right before we left on our honeymoon in July, it was a long overdue visit, I missed my family tons. Also, Jerod gave the first two-armed hug to someone other than me that has ever been witnessed!! (GASP!!) My dad and I had to pick our jaws up off the ground when Jerod hugged my mom good-bye, he's coming around....

Jamie-wanna do something before the game on Friday? We can bring dinner this time, let me know (I can speak directly to you since you're the only one who reads this blog-haha)

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