Thawnks Onyx808, works great! For those looking how to month or year, here is the list of formats – http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.createfromformat.php.
So if I input 10/24/2015 into the date picker, here’s the code to display “Saturday, October 24, 2015”.
<?php echo $dates->format('l');
echo ', ';
echo $dates->format('F');
echo ' ';
echo $dates->format('j');
echo ', ';
echo $dates->format('Y');?>