A Night Under the Clouds (6-10-11)

It was my turn to plan the date again! I wanted to have a romantic date night under the stars. I made a "date card" for Jeff (like from The Bachelor). I taped it to our front door the night before our date and I rang the doorbell. Then I ran up to our room to let him know his date card had just arrived. I think I'm going to start doing that for every date. It was fun.

I borrowed my parents' croquet set for the evening.

And I spiced it up by making a few rules of my own. I had my mom put together a list of quotes from all our favorite TV shows and then each time we went through a hoop we were read a quote and had to guess who said it. If we got it wrong, we lost the extra hit we would have earned from getting through the hoop.

I had forgotten Jeff basically lived a double life during college as a croquet champion and he blew me out of the water. It also didn't help that he's really good at remembering TV quotes. He had a major advantage.

Then Eli started crying and I got bored while Jeff was tending to our child:

Looking good.

We finished up our game of croquet and sat down to do a little star gazing. Then we noticed it was cloudy. And cold. And to top it off, we were interfering with a cute little baby bird learning how to fly. We decided nature was trying to tell us to go inside. We watched the bird from inside for a little bit and then we watched a few episodes of Arrested Development.

Jeff High - Beating me at croquet

Jeff Low - Shuffling through the quotes to find the right questions and answers.

Sarah High - Watching the baby bird flop out of the nest and learn how to fly.

Sarah Low - It was cloudy. So my starry date wasn't so starry.