Harvest Date Night

Matt and I were planning on going to Estes Park this weekend and camping in the Mazda. But...they were calling for snow and rain all weekend in Estes Park so we stayed in the Springs. It was a much cooler weekend than we have been used to. So Matt built me our first fire!

At around 11 at night, at Wal-Mart, we decided to splurge and have a "date-night" inside. We will call it a Harvest Date Night just for the sake of a post title :) At Wal-Mart, we bought fire wood, apple cider, candy corn and peanuts, ginger snaps and the fixings for a pumpkin pie! Oh yes, and a movie at red box. We knew we would be pulling a late nighter and figured we could just sleep in the next day!

You see, a very generous, godly, wonderful couple in our lives, gave us some money before we moved out here to Colorado. We were instructed NOT to use it towards our school debt! So we are able to enjoy a date night each month for a while when we don't have to worry about where the money comes from because it is set aside for this specific purpose. We have been so blessed by this gift as we are by them so often. Sometimes that date night means a sporting event, a fair, dinner, or in this case...a "Harvest Night"!

Here is our living room...warm and cozy with the fire!

Hot Cider on the stove with cinnamon! Yum!






Enjoying the warmth of the fire and the warmth of my apple cider!











Everything is all set! Time for some Wii and a movie!

We had a fun night! Complete with sleeping on the floor by the fire.
We can't wait for the day when we can bless another couple like this special couple has blessed us.
We never did get to the pumpkin pie...we will have to save that for later this week!