First and foremost, Robby and I LOVE our dog, Blue. If you are a dog-lover like us and feel bad leaving him/her at home on Friday/Saturday nights, then consider taking your favorite pup on a cute date night with you! It also helps if your puppy is as well-behaved and handsome as Blue :)
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| Meet Blue! |
This date required a teensy bit of planning to get the notecards together, but since the kiddos were watching holiday movies and making ornaments on the last day of school [consider the achievement gap closed...we did it!], I had some spare time to make/print these. Of course, I didn't print them at school on the copier using cardstock I *borrowed* out of Charlie's office [oops?].
Once I got home from school, the first activity of our evening was of course, Crossfit. While Robby was taking his post-Crossfit shower, I set up the first little card for him to find, along with a snowman squeaky toy for Blue. [He picked it out at Petsmart himself! Aka he knocked about 5 of these off a shelf and it was time for us to go...]
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| Surprise waiting! |
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| Card #1 - Date Invite! |
Once Robby and I were ready, he got to open the second card to find out where we were going! Blue loves the dog park, so of course we had to stop in there first. More than anything, he loves to play fetch with tennis balls. [If we didn't stop him, I'm pretty sure he would play until he collapsed, but we have yet to test this theory.] Unfortunately, there weren't any other dogs at the park, but this didn't stop Blue from having a great time with the tennis ball.
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| Card #2 - Dog Park |
Once back in the warm car, the next card was ready! We actually made a last-minute change and decided to go to Barnaby's on Shepherd instead of Happy Fatz [we were starving by this point, and Barnaby's was closer].
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| Card #3 - Happy Fatz turned Barnaby's |
We enjoyed sitting outside under the heat lamps enjoying our bacon blue cheese and turkey avocado burgers [I'll let you guess who ordered which...]. Blue was a perfect gentleman and hung out with us while we ate dinner. He was befriended by a little girl named Maddie, who proceeded to sit down and hang out with us for about 20 minutes, telling us all sorts of random 7-year-old stories about her choir concert and boys in her class at school. Luckily, I managed to have her snap a picture of us before we left.
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| Thanks, Maddie! |
Last stop was Coco's Crepes in Midtown! We shared a nutella and banana crepe, which was amaaaaazing. Super Paleo, obviously. After that we headed home to snuggle on the couch and watch a movie [of course I promptly fell asleep 20 minutes into the movie]. All in all, a successful Friday evening with my two favorite boys! If you would like to borrow the card template to create your own dog-friendly date, you can find the word document here.
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| Card #4 - Coco's Crepes |
