Valentine's Dates

 Last Saturday Hubby took out his daughters for Valentine's Dates, and I took Howard out for a Valentine's Date.  Hunter's date was a baby-sitter this year.

Hubby and the girls had lunch at Red Lobster and then they kind of wavered on their plans.  First Daddy thought he'd take them roller skating, but then he saw they have great family deals in the furture with roller skating so he decided he would take the girls to ride go-carts.  But then he realized Addallee hadn't brought a coat.  Our older kids are do well when she say, "Get your coat, and gloves and hat and boots and got to the car."  Lee Lee doesn't quite follow through with that whole laundry list of items and so she got to car with boots and not much else.

So instead of scraping go-carts, Hubby decided to try to shop for a coat and hat for Lee Lee at Once Upon a Child and Ross.  They finally found her a sweatshirt (which she now LOVES and will not take off!) but by then it was too cold and rainy to do go-carts.

They stopped for ice cream, and then ended up at the roller rink which also had an arcade and a big jungle gym. 

Howard and I had similar stops on our date, but (in true Mama fashion) I had one plan for the day, and I stuck to the plan -- very different from the way Daddy operates.

Howard and I had lunch at Texas Roadhouse, but then we swung by Red Lobster to drop something off for the girls.  Then we went to a Rock Climbing gym where Howard proceeded to climb everything possible for the next two hours.  I finally had to tell him that we had to leave otherwise we wouldn't have time for ice cream on our date.

We also did some quick shopping, but it was for swim suits and pajamas (not anything we needed on our date... just some fun shopping while we were in Junction), and we got ice cream.

At the end of our date, we swung by the roller rink for me to get money for the baby-sitter... and Howard ended up joining the tail end of the Daddy-Daughter date because they were going to stay out a little longer (since they had done so much running around in the afternoon) and Mama needed to get home to relieve the baby-sitter.

All in all it was SUCH a fun day with our little daughters and sons and we can't wait to go back to the rock climbing gym, and the roller rink as a whole family -- well, maybe not with Hunter again, but at least as one big group.

We also encouraged the kiddos to take home movies on our phones throughout he dates so we could tell their brothers and sisters about our time when it was over (and decide who had the better date).

Here are some pictures of our fun: