-Movie Night In: rent a redbox or netflix a movie that either of you have seen. Click here to get some codes that you can use for a free night rental from redbox! You can even get treats that match the theme of the movie you picked out!
-Take advantage of some of the free activities in your community. Check local libraries, parks, and other community places to find out what they offer. Here is a link free things to do in Utah.
-Pack a picnic and go to a park or on a little hike.
-Go on a scavenger hunt throughout your house. On the list write down things to find such as 'something that reminds you of us when we were dating' and so on. Be creative!
-Go online to http://www.5lovelanguages.com/ and you and your spouse take the assessment to discover what your love languages are. Then spend some time talking about what you could do for eachother to feel more loved.
-Search online for local concerts that both of you would enjoy.
-Spend the night asking eachother questions like you would have done on a first date with eachother. This sounds cheesy but chances are the answers you gave when you were first dating have changed over the years...get to know eachother again and again and again! These questions can be as trivial as 'what is your favorite color?' to as personal as 'what are some things you wish you could change about yourself?'
-Take a trip down memory lane and watch your wedding video or look through photo albums of pictures of you two growing up and/or dating.
-Thrifty Date Idea: Buy a new game, movie, book, or sporting equipment that you could use on your date all for under $10. Visit a local thrift store and pick up some new activities. Have fun!
-Renting metal detectors and going up the canyon or to a beach to find some treasure!
-Build a fort to play a board game, watch a movie, or sleep in just like we did when we were kids!
-Recreate your first date together as closely as you can.
-Pick a letter of the alphabet to be the theme for the date. All the food and activities you do have to start with that letter.
-Make a homemade dessert together and it can be as simple or as hard as you like.
-Sign up for some sort of class that you can take together that will teach you a new skill. By learning something new together, it simulates those feelings you had at the beginning of your relationship. Some ideas of classes you could take would be: tennis, cooking, golfing, get CPR certifiede, home decorating/improvement...etc
-Create a dream board: Cut out pictures from magazines of things that both of you dream for in your life. This could be anything from vacations you want to go on, fitness goals, or how you want your relationship to look like with one another. Glue these pictures on the poster and hang somewhere you and your spouse will see everyday (like the back of a bathroom door) so you can be reminded of those goals and dreams.
-Look up personality tests online, take them, and compare.
Don't ever forget to make time for you and your spouse and remember to have fun!
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