12 for 12: Celebrating Our Anniversary

In the past few years I haven't been very good about celebrating the holidays. No, I'm not morally opposed to Halloween or Valentines Day or anything like that. I'm just dead lazy. Unfortunately all of my non-celebrating has also extended to our anniversary. Last year I even tried to get Brian to agree to not celebrating it at all under the guise of saving money for our Sundance trip, but really it was because I didn't want to have expend any mental energy coming up with a creative gift.  He agreed to it and then he went and bought me Anne of Green Gables on DVD. No, he hasn't been forgiven for that one. So this year I was determined to make a better effort. I brainstormed. I googled. I even got out my hot gun, but thankfully I had the presence of mind to put it away again before I hurt myself. Do you know what the 6 year anniversary gift is? Wood. Fabulous. What am I gonna do with that? Buy a 2 x 4 and write I love you on it? I don't think that that would adequately express my affection for him. Unless I beat him with it.
Anyway, I ended up not making anything necessarily for him but instead I went with a nice, big, cheesy display of love. I made a mish mash of a few ideas I found on Pinterest. Brian was quite impressed. I just hope I haven't inflated his expectations for future years.

I made the banner and the hearts and the framed poster. Brian bought me the flowers and the print of one of our wedding photos.

Brian said that he spent 20 minutes reading all the little hearts and the pages of the banner thinking that there was some hidden message. No honey, I didn't put THAT much thought into it.

Brian printed this out. Much better than a sappy Hallmark card don't you think?

Brian surprised me that night by hiring a babysitter and taking me to dinner (seafood) and a movie (MI4). Sounds lame but since this was only our second date since Shye was born it was pure bliss. Tom Cruise's face sure didn't hurt either. :)

p.s. Craft and date-night for January: done and done.