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August 11, 2015

10 Ways To Keep Your Marriage Fun

10 Ways To Keep Your Marriage FunKevin and I have been together for 10 years now and married for a little over 4 years. I can honestly say that we have always had and still have so much fun together. He is my very best friend and the person who makes me laugh the most. I love that we have such a fun marriage and life together. Sidenote: I took the picture above last Thursday of our friends who got engaged! Congrats Cherie and Devon!! We can’t wait for your beautiful wedding. Okay, now here are 10 Ways to Keep Your Marriage Fun that we have practiced:

 

1. Surprise Date Night

Date often. Find fun things to do in your city to mix it up a bit like glow in the dark mini golf, the movies, game places, etc. Randomly go on date nights, unplanned ones are super fun. Just suggest a date night during the day and let the evening unfold. Planned ones are fun too, with a new baby, we have to plan a little bit in advance now.

 

2. Little Notes

Leave little notes around the house for each other. After a long day at work, I like to leave an occasional note for Kevin on the door of the garage before he walks in the house. I have also left them on the milk jug and in his lunch kit. Get creative people!

 

3. Day Texting

Kevin and I text a lot throughout the day. We also call each other. I love texting him about life throughout the day or just random stuff. I will send him pictures or emoji’s as well. He likes Brooke pictures the best.

 

4. Date Night with friends

Some of my favorite nights have been on double dates with friends. We like to have dinner and game nights with a few couples and we also like to BBQ at home with friends. There a few couples we always laugh like crazy with and it just makes life so much fun. Add in Colby’s margaritas for more fun.

 

5. Reminiscing 

Sometimes Kevin and I will just sit on the couch and look through old pictures or lay in bed and talk about the past. It is so fun to relive awesome moments in our life or even struggles that we have had together. Recently, we talked on the phone during the day about how fun it was to go to all my doctor appointments when I was pregnant, and just how exciting the day Brooke was born was.

 

6. Bring out your inner child

Run through the sprinklers. Buy roller skates and take a spin around the block. Have a nurf gun fight or better yet water gun fight. Play video games together. Do all the fun things you did when you were younger. So. Much. Fun.

 

7. Work on a project

Working on a project together can be so much fun. Paint a room in your house, wash your cars, do something together.

 

8. Roadtrip

We don’t get the chance to do this very often since Kevin works on Saturdays, but we love road trips together. We love driving home the most. We stop for lunch and listen to fun music along the way. We also talk and its just so much fun.

 

9. Explore

Go on a hike. See an outdoor movie. Explore around your city. Do something new you have never done before.

 
10. Host a party 

This isn’t my number one favorite thing to do, but it can be so fun. Have a movie night with friends, game night, bible study, whatever. Or, if there is a big game on, have people over. Good food is a must and socialize.

 

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  • Chelsea
    August 11, 2015

    Surprise date nights are the best! This is such good advice to remember long after the engaged days are over!

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  • Stephanie R.
    August 11, 2015

    These are great tips to keep the marriage fresh! I never thought of a surprise date night, I guess Im too much of a planner but I have got to try it! I bet my husband would just love it!

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  • Christine Everyday
    August 11, 2015

    I love surprise date nights! My hubby and I also love to watch older movies and make fun of them, or play video games. Anything a little out of the ordinary makes a huge difference!

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  • Keating Bartlett
    August 23, 2015

    Such a great list here! We do most of these and it definitely helps in keeping our marriage fresh and exciting. I love surprise date days/nights. We did that the other night, actually. We went out to dinner with family and then afterwards, my husband suggested he and I go out for a drink just the two of us. It turned into hitting up a couple bars in our hometown and then doing a drive by of our high school and the houses we grew up in. Although we grew up in the same town, we were never friends until after graduation so our memories are very different. It was fun to learn more about his childhood and share mine with him as well. It was probably one of the most perfect nights we’ve had together and it was completely unplanned.

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