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)