Well I'm officially back in Tacoma, ready to go for the new Spring semester (ok...back? Yes. Ready to go? Not so much. I'll get around to that eventually!)
I got back into town on Saturday, the 15th, and Dustin picked me up from the airport. The next day, we dedicated to celebrating our 1 year dating anniversary! Although our "official" date is the 17th, it simply worked out better to celebrate on the 16th due to our schedules. Dustin was picking up his brother at the airport and has choir later tonight, and just the fact that I have an 8:30am class tomorrow morning was enough reason for me to skip out on a night of celebration! Gotta hit the hay early, ya know?
So! Our day consisted of waking up and going to a delicious breakfast at Knapps in the Proctor district. While we've done breakfast at another local favorite, Shakabrah, I just wasn't in the mood for their rather greasy breakfasts! So Dustin suggested this new place. It was scrumptious!
Then we planned on seeing 'The King's Speech' at The Grand Cinema in downtown Tacoma. By the time we finished our 2 games of Cribbage (it's our new relationship bonding experience, although a match often results in one of us being unhappy while the other is elated by his/her win! Such is life) and found a parking spot, we were too late to obtain tickets at the tiny, local theatre. We simply went back to Dustin's apartment to think of Plan B.
Dustin mentioned a dollar theatre in Federal Way (a bit of a drive away, but oh well!). We looked up what movies were playing there, and saw 'The Social Network,' which we both wanted to see. So we popped in an episode of Glee to pass the time until we needed to leave!
The movie was great, but longer than we were expecting! Who knew they could make a 2+ hour movie about Facebook? haha. The best part of seeing that movie, however, was the price. 2 tickets for a grand total of $4? Yes please!!!
We got back from the movie and promptly got ready for our dinner out at THE MELTING POT! Mmmmm!
We cleaned up pretty nice, see?
We enjoyed a delicious dinner of Caesar salads, Wisconsin cheese fondue, and milk chocolate fondue, along with a beer and glass of wine (his and mine)...all for HALF PRICE because we ate in the bar and took advantage of all day happy hour on Sundays! Huzzah! We like deals!
I was the typical girl and asked our waiter to take a picture for us!
Once we got home, it was GIFT time! My favorite, especially since I was super excited to give Dustin the gift I had worked on endlessly for the past 2 days.
Here's what I made for him!
Having researched that 1st anniversaries typically entail 'paper' gifts (yes, I know this is traditionally for MARRIED couples, but shh...it doesn't matter!), I made him a paper bag scrapbook. Poor kid, he's probably entirely scrapbooked out since my mom just made him one over New Years, but oh well! I wanted to make him another one!
The book is quite literally made out of brown paper lunch bags. Simple as that! You fold them over, punch them, and tie them together. Then you go to town decorating the pages and filling the bag openings with goodies!
Each page is dedicated to a month of our past year, with highlights and pictures of those months! Pretty smart, huh? I kept the theme red, green, blue, and cream. I loved how it turned out! Here are a few sample pages of what I did...
The cover:
February:
March:
July (I think my favorite page):
September:
And December (a close tie for my other favorite page):
Then in the pages that had bag openings and could hold goodies, I loaded up coupons (that can be redeemed for things like a guys' night out or a back scratch, which he loves). I also added handmade lotto tickets that he can scratch off for more surprises, in addition to REAL scratch off lotto tickets (in the hope that he'll strike it rich!) I've also kept a journal of our entire relationship, and I printed off little excerpts to include in this present for him to read about (from my point of view) and remember our past memories!
I made him take a picture with his present...
Dustin's gift to me was a movie night kit! He found my most favorite wine, a delicious Riesling, our favorite chocolate pie from The Met, 'Meet the Fockers,' and my very own Cribbage set (huzzah!). He put it all in a very cute pink bucket (he knows me so well).
So that was our night in a nutshell! Happy 1st Anniversary to us! =)
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