What Do You and Your Significant Other do...Just to Have Fun??

We like to run, kayak, or ride bikes together. :) It's fun to go to a movie but then you don't get much of a chance to talk. We love also to go to a bookstore and coffee shop together. Live music at a small venue is always great too!

Usually we do our "dates" at home after the kids are in bed because a sitter isn't always in our budget. We cook a fun dinner together and watch a movie, play a board game, or sometimes play video games together which is the ulimate way to show love to my husband :). If we do get to go out, we like to go to a farmer's market, a book store, the movies, a walk by the river, to the beach, or dinner. One thing that I want to do sometime is to start our date with $10 with the rule that we have to eat and do something for entertainment with only $10. I think getting creative to go cheap would be fun and we might find something we really enjoy that we wouldn't have thought of otherwise.

On the rare occasion we have a babysitter, we like to go to a concert (usually small scale, like a small band or musician we like at a local cub), grab food to go and sit by the lake eating and talking, drinks with friends, shopping, movies, nicer restaurants...basically things that we can;t do with our little one.

Also, we have started date night at home! Once a week, after our little guy is in bed, we will have a planned date night at home, usually in our basement! Last week, we set up a blanket on the floor, munched on chips and salsa together and played board games. I guess we could do this any time, but calling it a date and all makes it fun! I don't know the layout of your house, kids' sleep routines, etc. but you could consider how to get them all to bed (maybe the 8 year old can have his own special movie night in his room with special treats or something while the others are sleeping) and you and hubby can have a fun night at home just for you! There's lots of cool ideas online for these at home date nights - check them out!

Our ex's have our kids every other weekend so we have NO kids and can do whatever we want! Our fav is to go to movies and to eat. We always go before noon to the movies because its only $5 and then we usually eat lunch somewhere. we have also gone bowling and in the winter when it isn't so hot here, I will make a picnic and we go lay at the park by the lake and make out. =)

we dont very often but we enjoy the batting cages. Hubby sometimes umpires at the park where they have them so sometimes they will just turn on the machine for us. Great for getting out aggression too!

Mini-golf
Hiking
Cook together
Amusement park - so much fun withOUT kids!!
Snuggle and watch a movie
Play boardgames
Strip-poker ;)

My hubby is in a band and about once a month I'll go rock out with them while DD has a sleepover with gramma and grampa! It's a win-win for all. We get to spend time together, sleep in and are that much more refreshed (though maybe a dinch hungover) for DD!

movies, lunch, dinner, drinks, music, bowling, baseball games, theater, and hiking, with the dog :)

GO to the bar, have a drink, shoot pool, play darts.
Dinner and a movie.
Drive up the mountain and makeout in your car.

We go bowling (mostly in the winter time tho b/c we love to be outside). In the summer we find places that have outside seating b/c again.. we just enjoy being outside.

Before kids we used to fish ALOT... point being maybe you guys should think back to before you had kids and what did you enjoy before. Try going back to what you guys did when you dated.

Enjoy it!

board games, card games.
Invite friends over
Look at the stars
go swimming at the gym (our fitness center has a pool)
dinner in We get a hamburger and come home to watch a movie on TV that I recorded earlier in the week.
Of course there is always the "adult" games you and your husband can "play." You can start with a drive in the country.

Good luck to you and yours.