May, June & July Dates!

May: Thomas Lakes Hike & Smoke BBQ
This was one of the dates I was most excited about! You can probably see why from my new cover picture. The beautiful mountain & lake shot above? Ya, a real picture from our hike! Thomas Lakes is near our property in Carbondale, but we've never been hiking up there! So, we took a weekend & went up to Carbondale to remedy that. I absolutely love our short weekend retreats. No cell phone or internet service, no TV (maybe 2 channels on a good day), & God's beautiful creation staring you in the face. We went biking into town, & spent one whole day hiking. It was a bit windy, but was beautiful when we reached the lakes! One evening we went to one of our favorite restaurants up there- Smoke BBQ. Yum!

Getting ready to ride into Carbondale

Mt Sopris in the background

Getting comfy to watch a movie

Must have brownies!

On the way up to Thomas Lakes

The best we could do to capture both of us at the lake

Dinner at Smoke BBQ!

Yes we picked the right day to go hiking! Here's the mountain the next day!

June: Dinner & a Movie
A simple date, yet I'm sure one of Michael's favorites! Dinner at Texas Roadhouse (hello great dinner special!) & a movie with some discount tickets we bought from Groupon. Yes we ordered the Bloomin' Onion (the only onion we'll ever eat!) & being pregnant, I figure calories don't count. Plus, c'mon, it's date night!! Our next date will be to work out together to work off the Bloomin' Onion calories... ;-)

July: Dinner at Chick-fil-A & Shopping at Bed Bath & Beyond
We had a gift card to Bed Bath & Beyond from Christmas that we were waiting to use until we got into our new house. We got all kinds of fun goodies! A trash can (wa-hoo!), new wooden spoons (bye bye dollar store spoons), pie weights & shield (I call pie duty for Thanksgiving!), metal skewers, a memory foam kitchen mat (my feet love you), a drying mat (we got rid of our rack a long time ago, it takes up too much space), a tea ball for loose leaf tea, some hooks for our potholders & aprons, & some sink stoppers. I love shopping especially when it's free!! 
My plan was to get smoothies, but then we found a coupon for a free milk shake at Chick-fil-A, & if you know anything about my husband, you know it's hard for him to resist Chick-fil-A. So, we got a whole dinner & milk shakes! 

Wow would you look at that belly! Sheesh.

Chick-fil-A!

Our new goodies!