Date Night....and other stories

The other night Dave and I wanted to go on a date, cause its been a long time since we went on a real date. We thought it would be nice to invite people than we decided going alone was best because we needed that one-on-one alone time. You would think since we are married and don't have any kids except the one in our belly and the giant 4 legged one that we would get a lot of one-on-one time, but, thats not so. Married  life is complicated and working, with school and extra curricular activities doesn't leave us a lot of alone time.
So we took the bike (i'm trying to get as much riding time in as I can before my belly is too big) to Tepenyakies in Boise (my favorite), It is a Japanese Steak House and they feed you way tooo much really really good food =] than after that we were going to go to a movie but since my bed time is 930 I knew I would fall asleep, so we rented a movie. And it rained on the way home so that made a fun 30 min bike ride home! It was fun though and so nice to relax together! I'm very glad we got to do that =]
I always thought married life would be like having a live in boyfriend...super fun, all play, no work. But its a bit more complicated than that. I love it don't get me wrong, but its more work than kids think it is. So when I see young kids jump into it (and later get divorced) i'm like you have no idea what its like to look after someone before yourself and to pay bills and blah blah blah. I never thought about money when I was young, I had people hand it to me left and right, I always had the nicest things and got to go everywhere when ever. Now I have a budget,and I have to work for my money, this is why I tell my 39 nieces and nephews to not try to grow up so fast! Being a kid is way fun! And then I try to convince them to be nail technicians and beauticians and, you know, stuff that we could all benefit from.. =]]
I have some storys i'm not so proud of, and some I love to tell. I have one that I LOVE to tell but maybe I should not be so proud of it...hahhahah
About 6 months before I met David I met this random guy who was ugly inside and out (this makes me sound so horrible) but he had a lot of money, and he thought I was the most beautiful thing (cause I was), He knew I was mormon so I mislead him and turned that into I don't kiss, I don't hug, I don't sit on laps, I don't hold hands haha =] So he always bought me stuff and since he was always gone for work he would transfer money into my personal bank account and he gave me his credit card to max out....awwwwww it was heaven for a teenage girl, maybe not every teenage girl but for me it was. So I was always (everyday) getting tons of boxes in the mail and my mom was like 'how can you afford to pay for all this stuff and your brand new car??' ha =] I would just say 'I dont know'. I should not be happy I took advantage of this beast but I did, and its a good lesson for people... really it is! =] the lesson is DONT BE STUPID and DONT TAKE ADVANTAGE (even though taking advantage never had an ugly turn in this story) and I learned how to budget more after I 'dumped' him. Than I met my wonderful husband =] and my life was complete. He thought that I had a rich family cause I had nice things and a nice new car (thanks to Stupid), But I grew up on a farm style land. My parents house is very old (and very neat), it used to be a train depot back in the day so its right by the tracks (which I hate cause I got hit by a train once.....in my car...). Well thats a story for another time...

=] Laura

I literally carried wads like this in my purse hahaha (not all 100s, but still, awesome)