The BEST double date night EVER!!

Our church sponsored a double date night contest on Friday night. The contest rules were to come up with a creative double date while spending the least amount of money. It was such a fabulous idea!! And then at 10pm that evening, we would meet up at our pastor's house to have dessert and share our dates. Our date ended up being the best date I have ever been on. I am pretty sure we laughed the whole time. So this is what we came up with....

...a Drop in Progressive Dinner!

It gave the traditional progressive dinner a twist by stopping by unexpectedly to people's homes for each course (appetizer, main course, etc.) The "unexpectedly" part was hilarious! Our targeted appetizer home was to a single former youth pastor who had just heated up his left-overs for dinner when we surprised him with a little "knock-knock." When he answered, we explained that we were in a double date contest and decided to do a "drop in progressive dinner" and we were here for the appetizer. It took a minute to register and then he burst out laughing. He was such a great sport! We had quesidillas, broccoli and cheese, and "stuff" on shingle. Appetizer down...on to the main course. I am not going to lie and pretend that we weren't nervous every time we knocked on each door. It is one thing to drop by someone's house unexpectedly, but it is totally different when you stop by AND ask for them to prepare and feed you a meal. SOO FUNNY! OK....back to the main course...so when the door opened to our next targeted home- a family favorite of Dave and I- we realized that we had woke them up from dozing off on the couch- woops! They also were equally AMAZING as our first home. You should have seen the look on their face when we announced that we were there for dinner. We got a blank stare and then a hearty welcome and they wipped up the best french toast. They even dimmed the light and lit a candle while waiting on us with a white towel around the arm. They wouldn't even let us clean up. Seriously, there was not one single moment when we weren't laughing. OK, so at our last stop, we seriously woke them up from REM sleep (it was only 9:30 but they fell asleep with the kids while putting them to bed). You know the marks you sometimes get on your face from sleeping on creased pillow cases or whatever...well, yeah they were visible from our sleeping victim. We were yet again welcomed in and spent the last 30 minutes with our last home. All in all, we spent $0, but yet had dinner and entertainment!! And thankfully all of our "hosts" had a great time as well.

Woops!

We turned Mikail orange- literally. Guess we need to hold off on all the carrots. I would post a picture but it wouldn't do her orange tint justice. The hilarious thing is that it isn't evident to only Dave and I...we have had several people ask us if her face needs to be cleaned off- like that she ate something and there is just alittle evidence from it left over on her. Funny story, but maybe we could just keep up the carrots for a couple of more weeks and she could be a carrot for halloween!

"What did we do before ______?

What did we do before the internet?
What did we do before cell phones?
What did we do before PODCASTS!!!!??

So the real reason for this post is not to be sentimental about "what we did before" but to talk about podcasts. I think that Dave and I are on podcast overload (and we love it!). We have been hooked on two great sermon series that we thought we would share---this means you should check them out :) ! The first is Mark Driscoll's series on the Song of Solomon: The Peasant Princess. And the second is Matt Chandler's series on Luke. Both of these guys are going through these series now. I don't think that there has been anything we have looked forward to so much since last seasons LOST. haha-anyway, if you check them out or have been already listening to them, let us know what you think.