Date Night...Movie in the Park

I love summer evenings in Virginia! Having lived in Michigan for a few years, summer days in Virginia are just a little too hot for our liking. But the evenings are beautiful! A few times each summer one of our local parks hosts a movie night. Just bring a blanket and a few snacks! Cost? FREE! Bryan and I usually head out before dark and enjoy a walk around the park before settling in for the movie. Check your local Parks and Rec to find out if there are any outdoor movies in your area!

Date Night...Baseball

After two...count'em, two years of 40hour work weeks and 3 classes a semester Bryan is (almost) done with school! I'm so proud of him! I want to brag about his GPA and about how well things are going at his job and how lucky I am to have a husband who is working so hard for our family! But, what I really want... SOME ATTENTION! There have been many week nights and many weekends that I have had to stop myself from pouting as he's closed himself up in our room studying for hours on end. I have had to pray that my heart would be in the right place and that God would remind me that He set us on this journey, therefore He would not abandon me to a life of loneliness (yes, I could be a little dramatic about it).

Needless to say, we are ready for some date nights at our house! What's that you say? "Jayme, your having a baby in a month! Your date nights are numbered for a while!"

Oh! Trust me! I'm living it up! 

(at least as much as I can at 9months pregnant)

Over a series of posts I want to share with you some of the great date ideas that we've found, particularly some that are easy to pull off on a budget. My hope is that these ideas will inspire you to look for more ideas and carry those out!  

We are not big baseball fans in the Hable house, at all, but we love to head out on a Friday night (as we did this past Friday night) to a Richmond Flying Squirrels game! The Flying Squirrels are our local minor league team and play several home games in a row at a time. There is something fun about being downtown in a cheering crowd! I love that we can talk during the game and at minor league games there tends to be so much more going on besides the baseball game!

 I should say that this is a great family date idea too! Our ball park has so many things going on for kids (they don't HAVE to sit in their seats the whole game) and the games are always family friendly. I also admire how well the players conduct themselves compared to their Major League counterparts.

 At our stadium tickets are $6-8, parking is $3 (food is very expensive though).

This summer most league parks are participating in a special deal with  KRAFT FOODS! On Tuesdays bring a Kraft Singles wrapper and buy one ticket, get one free! Our park also has a million other offers and a ton of give-a-ways (if the game goes into extra innings they give you a coupon for free coffee at a local gas station, if a certain player from the visiting team strikes out you can use your game ticket to get a free taco from a local restaurant, etc).

So...find a night, make a plan, and enjoy each other's company! It's that easy!