Shawn's first play date & Cancelled Date Night

We are so thrilled that our good friends from Harding, Dannie and Shelley, have returned to Denver. They were living in Abilene, TX for a while during Dannie's enrollment in Graduate school. But they will be in Denver through the summer. Their sweet son, Elias, is two months older than Shawn. We decided it was time for a play date, so we had them over for lunch today. It was such a blast to reconnect and tell stories of the good ol' days at Harding. Bryan was Dannie's big brother in their fraternity (Knights) and so they had a lot to catch up on! :)

Some of the highlights of the playdate were:

~Shawn and Elias trying to explore the details of each other's face.

~ Shawn and Elias sharing toys with each other. It was so sweet to watch them share with each other.

~ Elias trying to chew on Shawn's toes! HA! It was so funny!

~Shawn and Elias both trying to slap each other, and Shelley and I trying to encourage them to "play nicely". This is actually a difficult concept for a 6- and 8-month-old to grasp.

Here are some pictures from our time together. Here are the boys laying on the ground together. I love Elias' smile! He is such a sweetheart. :)
In this one you can actually see Shawn swinging at Elias. We're going to have to work on playing nicely with other kids before our next play date! Elias showing Shawn the art of laying on your side. I think he was actually doing the scissors in this one. He is hilarious!
Here is the whole group: (L to R) Bryan, Me with Shawn, Shelley with Elias, and Dannie.

That night Bryan and I decided to sneak out and have an impromptu date night. We were going to go see a cheap movie. However, the weather decided not to cooperate with our plans. It started to snow when we were getting ready to go. Bryan went out to get the car started and brushed off. But it was snowing faster than he could clear off the car. He came in and had an inch of snow on his hat just from a few minutes. So, we called off our date night. Which was probably a good thing because it snowed about 4 inches in 2 hours and the weatherman said it was a "blinding snow". Only in Colorado! :)

Here are 2 pictures of the snow on Bryan's hat. I thought it was such a funny sight.