He arranged for my parents to come over to watch the B-man. Typically he has a plan and certain places in mind to go to for our date night, and I
Like, spending hours at IKEA! Yup - I thought spending most of our date night shopping at Ikea would be ideal to do without B! This place is NOT a place for toddlers that need your total attention, get hungry and tired of watching you indecisively shop. Yup - when I get into that store I get overwhelmed and indecisive. Totally. It's terrible I tell ya. Plus, it's about a 40 minute drive from our house so having a toddler with us for a trip to Ikea would be bad bad bad.
In true "Cook Date Night" fashion, we took our pictures before we left. You know, for our memory book. :)
Yes, I am standing on my tipey toes. With my 5'0 stature standing next to a 6 foot stature I always feel like it's a must to get as tall as I can when I'm not wearing my heels. Maybe, just maybe, it'll make me look a little leaner and taller. One can dream.
So, remember when I said I usually ruin Jer's plans for our date nights? Well, he had plans to go eat somewhere good but since I wanted to get to Ikea as fast as possible we settled on Chicken Express since it was on the way! Oh M Gee (yea, I just said that, ha)....if you have never eaten at a CE (as we call it) you are missing out, like seriously, you are missing out. They have the best chicken tenders, gravy, fried okra, fried corn poppers, coleslaw and biscuits.....heck everything..... EVER!
IKEA!!! We made it. We got some good stuff which I'll post about soon. Let me tell ya, it was nice not having B there. I think we ended up circling the store about 3 times. We.took.our.time. Yes we did and it was great.
We couldn't end the night with out some more yummy-ness. Our favorite ice cream shop is Marble Slab. We always have the exact same thing when we go. ME: strawberry shortcake with birthday cake ice cream. JER: Caramel sundae with walnuts instead of peanuts. We are absolutely each other's enablers. But it works. :-)
Just to show you what I scarfed down so fast, so fast that we were in and out of that place within 15 minutes. From start to finish. Makes me crave this dessert just looking at this picture. Bad, Jeni, bad. 
After we left Ikea, Jer had originally planned for us to go see a movie that started at 10:30 but after this dessert, I knew I would have been "lights out" about 15 minutes into the movie. So we came home early and hung out with my parents.
It was lovely.
Thank you, Jer, for such a relaxing evening alone. Until next time....
TGIF!
xoxo,
~Jeni
7 comments:
This sounds like my kind of date night... And I'm so jealous that you live 40min away from an IKEA. Have a happy Friday!
Sounds like a fun night! Judah's such a people-watcher, taking him to IKEA works out well, but definitely by the end of our rounds through the store he's completely ready to get out of the stroller!
Holly - you are too cute. You need an Ikea close to you! Even though ours is only 40 minutes away, I can't ever make time to get there more than twice a year. :)
Shannon! Thanks, girly! Haha - Judah is so sweet and calm....so I'm sure you would have no problem taking him. B on the hand, he needs attention. Lol. :-)
Hi there, I am a new follower and your blog is so cute!
Oh how the times change after you have a babe. We debated on going to wal mart on Valentine's day to grocery shop because we figured it would be dead. Luckily we stopeed ourselve from being that pathetic. Now IKEA (swoon) if we only had one here.
I look forward to following along. I foudn you on Casey Wiegands page.
Hi, Alexis!! Thanks for becoming a new follower!! I recently went over to your blog and started following you, too. :) You crack me up - but I have to admit that if we didn't have plans, we too, might have gone to the grocery store. Ha.
We have Ikea dates too! Sometimes Target, but Ikea is definitely better :)
Target, we love us some Target, too!!!! :-)
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