anniversary recap

anniversary celebration was fun! i got home at 6 to find scott cooking up a storm in the kitchen - he had made me dinner! and not just any dinner, but the dinner that he made almost five years ago when he proposed - artichoke and curry appetizer, lobster tails, cream puffs. yummy. and he bought me a beautiful bouquet of flowers (which included a blue hydrangea - our wedding flower), AND he got us a nice bottle of wine! when scott told me earlier in the week that he had plans for us for dinner, i had had a fleeting thought that it'd be wonderful if he made me a fancy dinner, but realistically thought we'd likely be going out somewhere, so it was a perfect surprise. he said that he had thought about doing a restaurant, but he didn't think that really indicated any sacrifice or thought on his part. say it with me - awwwwww.

and then my gift to scott was an anniversary book! let me elaborate: a few years ago, scott's dad suggested that we write down what we do to celebrate our anniversary every year so that we can remember down the line what we did. and one of our traditions on our anniversary date is that we sort of recap the last year and talk about what we did, and what our favorite memories were, etc. so i've been looking for a book that's set up to write down both of those, and while i did find a few options, most were super cheesy, or only set up for 10 years, or had fill-in-the-blank questions ... they just weren't perfect. not to mention that i have told scott that i expect at least 75 years of marriage out of him, since we got married young-ish and people are living longer these days. an anniversary memory book shouldn't stop at 25 years, or go to every five years at that point - every year is important! anyway, i decided to take matters into my own hands and make one! this week has been super slow at work, so i got to spend a fair bit of time playing with fonts and formats and printed out a few options for us so that we can decide on the final product together. just to show you how on the same page we are, scott said he'd had a thought of doing something similar, except more as a recap rather than something to continue doing going forward - but he didn't have the extra time to work on it. so he really liked my present! i'll get some pictures of it on here when we have the final product done.