Date Night, Easter, and the Dino Baby.

We had our first official "date night" last Friday night. We had a couple of gift cards to Wingers so we went and had dinner. After that we headed to the dollar store to finish our Easter Baskets.

(At the dollar store we found a flamingo-which apparently we need for our house so we can be true "trailer trash." Alicia appreciated the effort in finding one-BUT we did not purchase.)

We were gone over Easter weekend in Utah and Shelley-Utah Friday night/Saturday afternoon for Heather Belle's baptism. We are so glad that we got to be a part of it! We are happy you made that decision Heather! Then Sunday was Jared's cousin Kendal's "leaving on a mission talk." Kendal did awesome! He will be a great missionary and we are loving that we can use Dear Elder to write him for free while he is in the MTC. It was great to see both sides of the family and not have the stress of the wedding.

Anyways, we had already decided to do each other's Easter baskets about a month before we got married; we just never finished them. So we shopped at the dollar store and headed home. We put our baskets together and then put them on the couch with a towel over each of them so that we couldn't see what was in them. Then we headed to Walmart and Broulims to get a few things. When we got back the Easter Bunny had been to our house!!! (The Easter bunny had visited us Saturday morning in Utah and Sunday afternoon in Shelley too!)

We opened our baskets and were excited about the things that we found for each other.

I was most excited about a new hand mirror because mine had broke.

Jared was most excited about the dino egg.

We played Connect 4,

Finger Bowling,

and then decided to excavate dinosaur bones.

The dino-egg was actually a lot of fun! We loved doing it-and were easily amused. We took turns doing the different "jobs" and getting excited over finding the bones. After we found all of the bones Jared put it together. We had our own little dino baby! It was a successful date night and we look forward to more in the future!

Enjoy the Journey.