"Hot" Date Night

These past weeks I've been feeling a little down that we never do anything fun. We do go to BYU basketball games, but sometimes these are more stressful then they actually are enjoyable. I'm not a huge BYU fan. I go to the games because Ben REALLY enjoys going to the games. I keep telling Ben we need to plan to go to some Aggie games but that didn't happen this year. Hopefully we can make it to a few next year.

So I suggested to Ben that we start having a date night where we actually plan something to do and not just watch TV. Our date night was scheduled for Saturday night and by Friday morning we still had no idea what we were going to do. On my lunch break, I was watching the snow fall and I had an idea for our date night. We could have a themed date night and the theme could be Hot items. I was so tickled that I thought of this brilliant idea...I even had a whole night of activities to go with it. For dinner we would have hot Buffalo wings, dessert we would have molten chocolate lava cake (homemade) and then for our activity we would watch Pete's Dragon (he's a dragon, so of course there is fire).

The hard part was trying to decide what to have with the hot wings. (P.S. we didn't really have wings we used chicken tenders instead). I kept throwing out ideas and Ben kept shooting them down. He kept using the excuse that "it didn't go with hot wings". We finally settled on having a salad with our hot wings. Here is a picture:

These were pretty scrumptious. The only thing I would change would be to make the sauce a little thicker so it coated the chicken tenders a little bit better.

Us at dinner

I was super proud of the dessert idea. Honestly, homemade Molten Chocolate Lava Cake how could that be a bad idea. For those of you who don't know what Molten Chocolate Lava Cake is, it is a cake and in the middle there is warm chocolate. So when you cut into this cake warm chocolate lava comes tumbling out. It turned out to be very tasty. There is no need for us to go to Chili's when we can make our own Molten Chocolate Lava Cake and it was super easy to make. I always wondered how they made this delicious cake but I never dreamed it would be so easy to make.After dessert, we then watched Pete's Dragon. I had forgotten so much about that movie, especially the fact that it was over 2 hours long. I woke up Saturday morning at 6:30 so I only made it through half the movie before I fell asleep. I told Ben that I would need to watch the other half a different day. I was pretty bummed that I fell asleep.

Overall I think our date night was a success! One thing to work on is not falling asleep during the activity but other than that it was a definite success. I will have to think of another great idea for next week.