Beaten again and again

So Friday night is date night around Casa de Blundell. It’s been kind of inactive due to the holiday season.
So I think we both figured it was time to reenact this important piece of legislation.
The great thing about date night is there’s no requirements for what we do, where we do it or how we do it – just as long as we do it together – just the two of us.
We had a great time last night.

We made a huge dinner of homemade spaghetti and meatballs along with salad and bread.

Ok – it was homemade in that we put it all together for a full menu.
HEB had one of their great specials a week ago that I’m a super fan of. Buy a package of frozen meatballs, get spaghetti noodles and sauce for free. Awesome! $6 for the whole thing. Laurie bought some artisan bread and pre-packaged salad Friday evening and we put it all together. We also made a dipping sauce for the bread with crushed red peppers, olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

After dinner we talked a little more about the Casa de Blundell.com re-design and then headed to our local Starbucks to enjoy some hot drinks and reading.
She’s working on “Emily Ever After” that I got her for Christmas and I did some more reading in “Ragamuffin Gospel.”
Although with the girls working at Starbucks I found it hard to concentrate on what I was reading verses the latest gossip about their relationships.

We came home and I built the first fire we’ve had in our new house.

It was a rough start – hadn’t realized how small our fireplace actually was and the big log I put in never really got started. Glad we had some fire starters and Duraflame logs.

As the fire grew we played three rounds of Sequence. Laurie beat me again and again and again.

We started with one game, went to best of 3, then best of 4/5. Apparently she didn’t want to give me a chance to win ;-). That’s OK. She beat me three straight games. Everytime I started to get some offense built I had to jump over and play defense. And if I remember correctly I was usually three good cards away from beating her each game. But no excuses – 2nd place is the first loser :-).

After the games we had the pleasure of cleaning up after Presley and her upset stomach. We finally called it a night and crashed for the long night.

Great time! Doesn’t get much better than spending time alone with my life. I LOVE YOU BABY! Thanks for making my life fun and memorable.