Pre Valentine's Day Surprise Date Night

So last week I jut took a week off from blogging because my weekend was whisked away while I was at a leadership conference for Young Life. I hadn't been feeling well for the previous week, so going in to this past week I was already defeated. However, I am feeling better (still not 100%) but enjoying the fact that I know I have off of work on Monday!!! So I am getting my posts back to normal :)

The guy in the picture is one of my best friends. In fact we always say that we aren't friends, but we are brothers. I have known Jason for probably 12-13 years, and we have been really close friends for about 10 of those years. He and his wonderful girlfriend, Bethany, decided that they wanted to do us a favor. We were so blessed that night, and are blessed to have people in our lives that care about us as much as they do... and so here is how things happened.

I have been trying to get Uncle Jason to go for a run with me for a couple of weeks now. We finally settled on a time that would work for both of us. Right before we took off to go for the run he asked if Renae could come downstairs because he had something special that he wanted to share with us. I honestly had no idea what the news might be...so I was really caught off guard.

He mentioned that after our run Bethany would be coming over. They had each chipped in to buy us gift cards for a date night down in the beautiful borough of West Chester. I was floored and couldn't really believe that they did that for us. So, we went for our run, while Renae made sure that everything was in order for Logan. Uncle Jason put one stipulation on the deal....we had to use them that night, or else he and Bethany were going to take them back and use them for their own date night. WOW! We weren't about to pass up this deal!!!

Here are some pictures from the night:

A little gift card to Kiwi...an amazing serve yourself frozen yogurt shop in West Chester...also happens to be one of Renae's FAVORITE spots.

Gift cards to Iron Hill Brewery...a great restaurant right in the center of the town of West Chester....great food!

I showered and Renae got Logan set. We left the little guy with Jason knowing that he was in good hands with Uncle Jason. And I could be wrong, but I think it was his first time baby sitting!

One thing I love about Iron Hill Brewery is that they have an awesome selection of hand crafted beers. I rarely drink out, and seldom have beer in the house...but when you are at a place like this you must have at least one.

They had a red lager which I had to try, and it was probably one of the best that I have ever had.

We meant to take pictures of our actual meals, but we were so hungry that we talked and ate, and ate and talked...before we knew it there was nothing left but garnish and a nibble of a bread stick :)

Now that dinner was done, we made our way down to Kiwi to enjoy some frozen yogurt.

One of the things we love about Kiwi is that you serve yourself. As the sign says, you choose your flavor then add your toppings and then you weigh and pay! It only costs 49 cents an ounce, which isn't bad depending on good of a judge on weight you are.

There were many flavors to choose from, some were new and some have been there for a while...but I was advised to choose one in particular from Uncle Jason.

So I chose the Milky Way...and man was I glad that I did. This bad boy was stellar (haha get it stellar, like outer space)...o boy

The hard thing was trying to decide which toppings would go best with the Milky Way flavor...none of these seemed to fit....

But hidden in this section was the Milk Chocolate Crunch, which I thought would go perfect.

Lol, looking at the topping now it kinda looks funny...but trust me after mixing it all in....this was an awesome dessert. As you can see Renae mixed a couple of flavors (mint and peanut butter...not mixed together) and then she topped them off with crushed Oreo bits.

 We were not thinking about doing anything this year for Valentine's Day because of Logan and finances. However, this little surprise came through and rocked our worlds. We are very grateful and thankful for what Jason and Bethany did for us that night. It gave Renae and I some time to just be ourselves and enjoy each others company as well as prove to us that we could probably run out more often like that in the middle of a week.

Thank you Jason and Bethany...we love you guys!