Babysitting one month. date night the next month!

Those of you that have kids know that date night takes a lot of preparation: find a sitter, clean house, make dinner for sitter and kids, pay sitter (not always but sometimes) and you usually end up feeling rushed during your date night.

These are only few of the reasons why Brett and I decided to have date-night swaps with our good friends Benji and Abby Leverentz. This means that one month we have their kids overnight and they have the whole afternoon, night and morning to themselves and the next month they have our kids overnight and we have date night.

We love this deal because there's minimal preparation to take kids over to their house, we don't feel rushed during our date, it's free and the kids have a blast!!!

Last month we had the Leverentz kids over to our house and Benji and Abby had date night!

It just so happened that the night we had sleepover at our house, there was also a tornado watch and we ended up on the couch downstairs until it was safe to go back upstairs and finish watching Shrek 3.

Brayden is so silly! :)
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The kids slept in sleeping bags in the living room. Benson wanted to sleep on the couch like Brett.

Brett and Benson are buds!

Brett made pancakes for everyone the next morning! Thank you honey!

Aunt Kate was visiting us for the weekend and she was here during sleepover night!

Good buddies!

Colton, Brayden, Jackson and Benson

Playtime outside the morning after sleepover.

I think this is a brilliant plan and this month is our turn to drop off the kids and have a night all to ourselves! Wootwoot!!! ;)