dates, sushi and pokemon.

cory and i don't really have a set "date night". honestly, we try to make every outing into a date/quality time. since i can't drive, we run all our errands together and that's basically our alone time. and since we love food, most of our would-be dates involve going out to eat. we usually have friends that come along, like last night! i've been making an effort to be healthier so we haven't eaten out in about two weeks and i've been cooking all our meals. it's been good because i've loosened up on the idea that all meals have to be fancy and contain entree, fruit, vegetable, side dish, bread, a set table...etc. cory's low-keyness is starting to rub off on me. anyway, i'm trying to justify us eating out twice in two days.

we had a fab double date with matt and katie at the cracker barrel! basically, our fave place ever. lots of good food for a good price (under $10)! cory prides himself on eating six scrambled eggs along with the rest of his "country boy" breakfast. after, we played "wits and wagers" again (love it!) and watched "take it all"-this crazy show i have a hard time watching. so, yeah official date night accomplished!

aside-this is a really funny story, fyi. matt and adam were katie and i's home teachers my sophomore year. the first time they came, adam couldn't make it...and cory came instead. which is how we all first met! cory and i hit it off right away. i kept thinking, "is this real life?" and to make a long story short (or make for another blog post!) cory and i got married about eighteen months later and matt and katie got married nineteen months later :) and adam? yeah, he's marrying cory's little sister in two months!

saturday, cor had to shovel some more. i got straight across bangs (ahhhhhh!!!) and later we went out to my favorite sushi place, yamato. we like it cause it's decently priced sushi ($6-$15) and it's pretty authentic, at least according to trey and cory. and they both served in japan. we always get the yam roll, which is AMAZING, and the white or liz roll, which have salmon, cream cheese and apple or green onions...and an order of beef gyudon, rice, egg, beef and sauce mixed together. i love it. last night, trey came with us and thus, he and cory saw it as the perfect opportunity to play their gameboys. yep, you read that right. my 24 year-old husband and our 25 year-old friend have gameboys and play their pokemon game pretty much every other day or so. it started up last month. we have a pokemon game on our wii and all the boys became obsessed (reliving their crazy childhoods i guess). so to game stop we went and cory chose a gameboy as his christmas present from yours' truly. i'm so romantic. cory works hard to take care of our family-getting up at 3 am to work (shovel in freezing temperatures), and drive me places and play with pup and go to class and work between classes, so playing a little pokemon is not a big deal, right? my only hope was that people wouldn't judge because we were in a japanese restaurant, and the japanese invented pokemon...i love my life. really i do though :)

today was great because we went to our new ward at church-the family ward! it was crazy crowded but it seemed good! afterward, adam grilled some chicken in the frigid temperature outside and we all took long naps. we facetimed with cory's family simultaneously from four locations in the country via two laptops and a phone and ipad in our family room :)

anyway, LOVELY weekend in all. except for the fact that cor has a blog for his english class and it already has over 400 views and he keeps rubbing it in my face. rude.