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Hi there,

This week’s date was a full afternoon/evening affair full of so much love coming from all directions.  Two of our close friends got married after having been engaged for a good long while.  We are so happy we could share this day with them, and a fabulous day it was!

The lovely bride, Jana, put so much work into all the details.  A really cool fingerprint tree guestbook, favours that she made, a garland backdrop.. she even made the groom and groomsmens’ ties!  woah!

Check out the decorations for the ceremony (which was at the prettiest little farm)

We have this amazing group of friends, many of whom have been friends since high school, so you can imagine the night together – especially considering the reception was “friends only.” SO MUCH FUN!  We danced (as seen above), we ate, drank, and we even surprise serenaded them with a song we’d practiced together!

See the singing?

All in all, a great date.  I definitely recommend weddings! 

To read others’ date nights or to participate yourself, check out Tiffany’s blog over at Simply Modern Mom.

Hiya, and happy Tuesday!

This past week was another tough one, as far as dates go for us.  Nathan had this lovely cold (and by lovely, I mean terrible.. he was nice enough to sleep in the other room so his coughing out a lung wouldn’t keep me up all night).  Any kind of date together was definitely a struggle.  We did have some friends over for one Canucks game.. then I headed to a Birthday party sans mon date.

So my solution?  A delicious dinner for us to enjoy while watching another Canucks playoff game.  Seeing a pattern here?

So the good stuff first!  I made these little gems for our dessert.  They’re delicious (and surprisingly light!) chocolate banana soufflés, courtesy of Gina’s WW Recipes.  Only 112 calories, ladies!

The main course was my very favourite.. Pan seared salmon with a grape salsa (best salsa EVER! Get the recipe after the jump), rice, and green beans.  Nathan, who apparently doesn’t like fish much, thinks this may be his favourite meal that I make!  Nice.  There’s so much that I love that he hates.. but hey, I’m the cook here, so he can live with it ;-)

Check out others’ dates for Project 52: Date Night over at Simply Modern mom!

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Heyya, so this week has been supercrazybusy! (new word).  I had a hockey tournament from Thursday to Sunday, with some work thrown in the mix.  5 hockey games later and I’m tuckered out!

So you can imagine how it was difficult to work a date in there.  Well, we did watch House together one night.. that’s sort of our thing.. but what I’d call more of a date is when I made a new recipe and we got to eat it together at the table.

The menu: cioppino – minus mussels because I couldn’t find any fresh ones at the grocery store.  So that and some delicious crusty multi-grain baguette.  YUM.

I like dinner dates because it allows us to unwind and talk about whatever strikes us.  Only problem with this one was that I was pretty tired, thus brain-dead.  I had a hard time keeping up any sort of conversation. The next date will be better, I promise!

Look at this delicious bread!

Check out Simply Modern Mom where Tiffany and others have posted their dates this week in Project 52: Date Night.

Heyya, this has been a very busy week, especially in terms of dates and things.

I have no need to ever complain that I don’t get out enough.  My mom, in fact bugs me that we go out too much.. hmm.  ‘Tis true.  Without the commitment of little ones around us (or in any of our close friends’ lives yet), we really do have a lot of time to see one another.

So you could probably say that we had a week of many dates, but I didn’t remember to bring along a camera until last night.  Wednesday was a coffee date with Nathan (decaf!), where we played a game of Crib.  Thursday we watched a hockey playoff game with a bunch of friends in a pub where we had delicious dinners to go with our beer.

Friday I left Nathan be and ventured out on my own with some old university friends. Saturday brought another hockey game, so we had a group of friends over to watch it at our place – complete with beer and some bacon wrapped dates that I’d made.

Finally, the source or the picture above.  Sunday we went out for dinner with a great big group of friends.. something like 14 of us!  We went to a very classy family diner style restaurant that has the best burgers.  Yum. That picture is of my good friends Nathan (not the husband one), and Jana.  She has a fun crafty blog.  Check it out!

All in all, a fun-filled week with many events that could be called dates.  I’m a lucky girl!

Check out others’ date nights over at Simply Modern Mom.