The Great Anniversary Challenge

I'm a dork and Seth married me, therefore, he goes with the flow when it comes to my dorkish ways. He chuckles sometimes, makes a teasing comment, but ultimately he goes with it. 

What does being a dork have to do with our anniversary? Well, because in the weeks leading up to our anniversary we kept bouncing ideas off of each other as to what to get one another that 1. we didn't already have and 2. was sentimental and anniversaryish.

We couldn't come up with anything. 

I mean, I can name plenty of things that I'd go buy for myself, and so could Seth, but none of them screamed, "Happy Anniversary!!!!" That's when it hit me that there wasn't anything he could buy in the store that was sufficient for celebrating our life together. That's when we came up with "The Great Anniversary Challenge," and yes, I came up with the dorky name…because I'm cool like that. So here's how it came about. 

We were laying in bed just a few days before the big day, when he asked what I wanted him to buy me for our Anniversary since we never came up with anything in our previous conversations about it. I laid there, with no answer, when all of a sudden my inner dork had an idea - we should 'create' something, make something that is special to us and only us, something personal, sentimental, sweet...something that couldn't be bought in a store. 

I'm Miss Craft-O-Rama so I own everything we could possibly need to create something with little to no money. Seth squirmed at the idea because he is the realist in this relationship (that's a nice way of saying he's not creative, he's by the book, he thinks long term, did I say he's not creative?) whereas I'm the dreamer (that's a nice way of saying I would paint and write, never hold a 9 to 5, and constantly live only in the moment if it weren't for him pulling me back down to Earth). We balance each other out. I asked him the other day (after I made him participate with me in something he would've never done on his own) what he'd do without me. "My life would be very boring," he said. And without him my life would be complete and utter chaos. 

So the last rule I implemented was that we had to use what we had around the house and if we needed a little something extra we couldn't spend more than five dollars; when Seth heard that last rule he said it'd be a challenge for him to come up with something for me. Hence the term: The Great Anniversary Challenge. 

Anyway, surprisingly, we each followed all the rules and our gifts were ready come anniversary night. 

Here's what my boo-ski came up with:

I just realized that the angle I took the picture at cuts out the left side of the frame that reads, 'Three.' The picture in there is the first picture we ever took together. Super cute. I've gotta hand it to my uncrafty Lovebug, he did well.

And here's what I made him:

I just took a deck of cards (get it? That's why there's 52 reasons), typed up my 52 reasons, printed them out on scrapbook paper, and used a little mod podge to adhere them to the cards. I punched a hole on the side and used one of our shower curtain rings to hold it all together. You may notice the second hole at the bottom and that's because I originally had two rings holding the deck of cards together (kinda like a book) but decided that I liked the one ring look better.

Below are a few of my 'reasons':

And of course I had to include how we met:

A few more of my reasons were:

#1 You take me as I am

#4 You've never given up on me - even when I've given up on myself

#12 You're my personal heater

#15 You're my future baby daddy

#17 You give the best pep talks

#22 We could probably write our own dictionary

#27 You're the flyest fly boy eva!

#28 Your memory is scary accurate. Seriously.

#32 I could have JT's love child and you'd still keep me

#43 You support my purse, shoe, and watch fetish

#44 You drink pop at 10a.m.

You get the point. 

So we plan to do this every year, the 'challenge' that is. Should be fun. And now we have all year to think of ideas, rather than having to whip something together just days before the big day like we did this year. 

Do ya'll buy the typical gifts such as jewelry, etc? Or do you do something dorky unique? Do tell.

Au revoir,

Lor