Dinner with Ryan

Tonight was such a neat night. I came home from work not knowing what we were doing for dinner (not that unusual for me). Mike was not feeling the greatest and did not want to eat anything major and Ryan wanted to go out to eat at Hams. Mike ended up taking Lydia and Emily to McDonalds and Ryan and I went to Hams for dinner--just us. For those of you who don't live in Harrisonburg, Hams is a sports bar and restaurant. The restaurant portion of Hams is a Ruby Tuesdays type restaurant, but with LOTS of televisions around to watch the game. On Monday nights they have kids night. On kids night they have their kids meals for 99 cents. Their kids meals consist of the meal, a drink and an ice cream sunday and their TV's don't have sporting events (well a couple of them have a game on) they have cartoons! In addition, they have a magician there who makes balloon animals for the kids. We go there on Monday nights because it is so inexpensive for us to eat there:). Lydia and Emily love it too, but they are happy going to McDonalds with Daddy too.
This was such a nice dinner. Ryan and I hardly ever spend any time just us. It is usually Mommy with Ryan, Lydia and Emily and sometimes Mommy and Daddy with Ryan, Lydia and Emily. I take Lydia and Emily to work with me too so I spend right much time with just the two of them. Ryan told me all about his first day back at school from winter break and the exciting things they did--including sharing one item they received for Christmas. Of course there was the constant barrage of questions that come with Ryan not having to compete with his sisters, but it was worth it. We walked away not only having spent some great quality time together, but a balloon dog on a leash and a balloon cat to boot:).