Date Night and Clean Water

We promised ourselves we would keep up date nights once Ronan was born.  We would try so hard to beat the cliche.  I thought we were doing pretty well until I realized Valentines Day was the last time we went out alone!  Almost 7 months!  We enlisted the help of our super-awesome-willing friends, the Boone's, dropped Ronan off for the evening and headed downtown for dinner.  We had a gift card to PF Changs -yum, perfect. We sat outside, enjoyed a drink, had a long, relaxed dinner- it was beautiful.  There was an 8 month old at a nearby table. It was a little distracting at first (he sounded just like Ro), but then we were thankful that we were not the ones responsible for feeding and entertaining him :)  It helped me enjoy the night even more!  Our waiter teased us for taking SO long to get through dinner. But he understood :) 

After dinner, we just walked around, hung out, grabbed a coffee and sat outside at Starbucks. It was wonderful to just sit and talk with no distractions.  Ronan's a great baby, but it's just different you know? :)

Ronan did awesome.  I'm so thankful he's a happy baby.  We really don't worry about him with others and I knew he would have a good time with the Boones.  Rachelle and Josiah are patiently awaiting the day they get to bring home their babies from Ethiopia (you can read their story here: http://treasuresovertherainbow.blogspot.com/) and I know they loved the chance to love on Ronan and get a little practice in :)

When we picked up Ronan (sound asleep!), Rachelle was working on bracelets similar to this picture.  They are really cute!  Rachelle is raising money for charity : water to fund clean water projects in Ethiopia.  Let me know if you want to buy one. They are only $10 dollars and ALL of the money goes to charity : water!  Also, Josiah has a charity : water campaign online. You could win an iPad 2.  For just $5!! You better check it out because, what if you won? And what if you could help fund a well for a village? How awesome would that be??? http://mycharitywater.org/josiahscharitywatercampaign

Thank you so much Rachelle and Josiah for having fun with Ronan!!!