Date of the Month Club

For Valentine's Day I made Dustin a "date of the month club" packet.  I found this idea on pinterest a while ago and was reminded of it when my BYU freshman Relief Society president from Love Actually blog announced that she was selling them for Valentine's Day.  But I wanted to do a "Bachelor" style packet so here's what I put together:

Every month Dustin gets an epic Bachelor proportioned themed date!  Ok, so we won't be traveling via helicopters or limos, but we will have a really fun date!  I also included bonus romantic "getaways" (see Love Actually's blog for ideas, really, she's awesome!), and a love coupon book (coupons like cleaning the bathroom.  Super romantic.)  The night before, or early if needed, Dustin gets a "Date Card" he can open and an envelop with everything needed for our awesome date!

I've planned out an entire year's worth of dates (once a month) and am so excited for them! 

I'll admit that February's date wasn't as cool as the others will be, but that's because we had a groupon for dinner at Multnomah Falls lodge that was expiring soon and needed to use it.  So I based the date off a waterfall theme. 

The Date Card said:

Dustin,

Falling for you is Paradise

Love,

Brianne

Inside the envelope was our groupon for dinner, a coupon for a "couples waterfall shower", and the movie UP!  We also revised our budget to save money (I said it was a lame date, right?) and add to a Paradise Falls fund to save up for that epic vacation we want to take this year.  So far our jar is not very full....

 As we drove up to the falls, all of a sudden there was SNOW!  Which was kinda exciting to see.  We don't get that here very often which I am very happy about, but it was fun to see that slushy white stuff.  We took a quick picture at the falls and then browsed the gift shop for a souvenir.  Dustin got a Multnomah Falls pocket knife and I got a magnet.

 Dinner was very very good.  I want to go back.  For breakfast.  And lunch.  And dinner.  We also had the best seat in the restaurant! A perfect view of the falls for a short while until it got really dark outside.

Then we headed home for our movie night and budgeting.  I told him it was a "non-rose" date so he didn't have to worry about being sent home.  hahaha. 

 March's date will be MUCH cooler.