steppin' out & the freakin' weekend.

i feel like i blinked & the weekend was over.  seriously, we jam-packed so much into these last couple days & i am so not ready for a monday.

saturday i fit in a friend's baby shower, a maternity photo session & a date night with my family.  it was one of those days where you have about fifteen minutes to catch your breath between activities & then when it's all over you realize boom.  you just had a rad day.

our family date nights are pretty romantic... sam & i split a burger & ate our weight in steak fries.  parker barely touched anything in his meal besides ketchup-dipped apples.  and then this time?  we took it up a notch.  we went to cabela's to buy trigger locks for sam's guns.  that's how we do it.

parker was way more excited about all the taxidermy-stuffed animals than we expected.  the rest of the night all we heard was "elephant!  zebra!  fish!  deer!  more deer??"

looks like more trips to the world's most expensive outdoorsman's store will be in our future.

and sunday was lazy.  there were naps, leftovers & movies.  we watched "being elmo" & i may have cried some serious pregnancy-induced-hormonal tears because it was such an amazing story.  it's on netflix instant queue, so watch it tonight.

and lastly?  i blow-dried my hair & put on some heels for church-going.

here's a steppin' out fun fact for ya:  this dress/boots combo is the same outfit i wore on my very first steppin' out post back in october 2010.  but back then it didn't serve as a comfy maternity dress.  and i was blonde... ish.

and parker?  he's still pretty dang cute.  only now with a little more hair.

and then there's these two.  i like them.

happy monday friends!

{linking up for steppin' out saturday with mandy at harper's happenings.  it's fun, so do it.}

steppin' out saturday - date night edition

we braved stormy seattle weather on saturday to go on date night.  wanna know how many baby-free dates we've been on since p-ray's been born?  this makes two.  but i'm not looking for sympathy, we do most our weekend things with parker in tow by choice... he's a cool kid to have around.  but now that he's a bit older & easier to babysit we're gonna try & do monthly date nights.  just me & my mister.  swoon.

{linking up to steppin' out saturday at harper's happenings.  you should do it too.  you totally should.}

this is really the only picture i have to show our outfits... i'm not joking when i say lightning struck right before this picture was taken & the thunder rolled for about two minutes after.  so we were hurrying.  and it was raining.  so that's why parker looks a bit frazzled.

and i promise our outfits are much cuter than they appear here... so forgive me in advance if i wear it all in a few weeks & try again.  ok?  sweet.

amy:  shirt - american eagle, sweater - old navy, belt - american eagle, jeans - gap

parker:  hat - mariner's team store, shirt - target, sweats - babygap, air jordan's - nordstrom rack

and now on to the details of our date.  it was dreamy.  we went to our favorite local thai place & bonded over two heaping plates of noodles & spiciness.  and maybe we polished off both plates.  plus a bowl of sticky rice.  and fortune cookies.  and it was delicious.

i'm super excited about making this a regular thing... despite the look of anti-excitement in that picture above, we had a ton of fun.  since dinner only took an hour, we headed to the mall where we made fun of all the high school kids ridiculously dressed up for prom.  and why the freak were there so many of them at the mall?  we had no idea.

but seriously it was a blast.  i don't know why we haven't been doing this every month for the last twelve months.  i loved hanging out with sam just the two of us & pretending like we were just a couple of kids dating again.  and picking up our sleepy baby who jabbered about his night the whole way home until he passed out was pretty fun too.

two clicks if you love date night!  or, even if you don't.