A Native kind of weekend

Since Chris and I can't go on a date every weekend we've adopted the practice of putting kids to bed early and doing our own date at home. Last weekend we were reminiscing about when we were first married (a little over 2 weeks to be exact) we got Native New Yorker (best wings in Arizona), watched A Knight's Tale, and had a grand ol' time. Not that we have been looking but we haven't found a wing place up here yet so Chris said "let's make our own wings!" Then proceeded to tell me all the new exciting things he wants to do to them. I started to get a little nervous but what I'm learning with Chris is that 99.9% of the time his scary to listen to culinary experiments turn out awesome. So we made buffalo and sweet hot wings with a ranch/blue cheese dipping sauce and potato skins. Sooooooooooooo Good! I mean it's not Native but since I can't get those here Chris's are the next best thing. He's so cute he even cut up celery and carrots like Native does.

We set up our little picnic in our family room and watched A Knight's Tale.

My family has a rule where you aren't allowed to lick your fingers till you are done eating so I get nice and nasty messy eating wings. But Chris is OCD and won't play along. (Which I think he owes my family royalties for introducing him to the blessed love of wings! What say you?)

The kids are really funny about me and Chris. They get bummed when they can't join our stay at home dates. One time we made brownies after the kids went to bed and the next morning Jocelyn told us she could smell them while in bed and was hoping she could have some when she woke up. Yep, it was so dang cute she had them for breakfast. When we're eating dinner they will beg us to kiss and then say "ewwwwww...!" Or tell us to kiss and cover up. It's so fun. Well, Saturday morning before we got up Jocelyn drew a picture of us on our date. It's the back of our heads watching love I guess but I love it! (And I love that I always know who I am in the pictures because of the curly hair).

Saturday morning my landlord sent a handy man over to fix some little things. Asher would not leave the guy alone. It was so dang cute I loved watching him but I could tell the guy was getting frustrated while trying to fix the oven and Asher kept opening it for him. The guy ruined my picture by turning around.

I did a little thrifting with a friend and our brood and then Chris and I moved the TV upstairs after the kids were in bed and watched a pirated Knight and Day (which was a really entertaining movie. But Chris and I love Tom Cruise) and ate the rest of our yummy yummy wings.

While working on school Sunday afternoon Fiona got fussy and Jocelyn needed something to do so we passed the pad off to them to watch. It was too cute not to take a photo.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!