delightfully married: Harry Potter and Legos

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I'm not usually one to boast but I have to say that my husband is awesome.

When I approached him last Thursday about my ideas for date night he willingly and wholeheartedly jumped in. I couldn't have asked for a more eager participant.

Some of my plans for Friday had to be changed once the storm hit. Our electricity went out for a bit so I couldn't cook dinner like I had wanted. I called Chris in a panic (I hate storms) and he suggested we go get take-out from our favorite Italian restaurant, Rubios. We broke the no spending money rule, but I chalk this up to an unseen circumstance. In other words, I'll let it go this time! ha! On our way there, I asked Chris what his plan was for our night. He had come up with not one, not two, but four ideas! He put so much thought into all of them and I was so touched by his efforts.

-Build Legos

-Go driving (technically that would break our no spending money rule)

-Go walk around Wal Mart or Target and look at new games for our Wii

-Find a game that we could play together at home

My idea was to play a game together as well but after discussing it for a bit we realized we wanted to play something as a team, not against each other! At this point, we hit a snag because we just couldn't figure out what we wanted to do. We couldn't think of a game that fit our qualifications so we were stuck. But then, Chris had a great idea. Why not play Lego Harry Potter on our Wii?!

Well, that was exactly what we did! Chris and I spent about three hours playing the game together and had a lot of fun! We kind of got stuck a few times and definitely got a little frustrated but we still enjoyed ourselves.

But, the fun didn't stop there!

Technically, we had a date weekend. That may sound kind of odd but we literally did stuff together all weekend long. On Saturday we watched the German/France soccer game and tried to rebuild the Lego Fire House we broke when we came back home from Seattle. There was a lot of frustration building that piece because Chris didn't want to take it all apart and rebuild it from scratch. So, we spent the better part of two days trying to fix it.

Chris was very eager to get started! Can you see all the pieces that were already put together? Pain.In.My.Butt.

On Sunday we watched the Italy/England soccer game (go Italy!) and finished building the Fire House. I can't even begin to tell you how glad I am that building is out of the way. I just hope we don't accidentally drop it again because it was a pain in the butt to rebuild. The good news is that it looks great next to our Town Hall, and we can't wait to buy the Grand Emporium in a few months so we can add on to our collection!