"You and Me" Book

I've seen a lot of pins regarding relationships and date nights and whatnot recently, and there's just so much and I want to do them all! So, I figured out a way to :)

I'm putting together a "You and Me" book. On the first page I wrote a special note to my special someone. I explained that inside he will find notes from me, as well as pictures and other things of our time together.

Since I didn't start this right when we started dating, I decided to capture all of our past times together in an "ABC's of Us" section! Basically each page has a letter with something unique to our relationship. For example my D page is for Detroit Tigers, with the date, tickets, and a picture of us from the game.

My "You and Me" Book is a $2.50 notebook that I bought at Target years ago and never used. I plan on adding to it as we continue our journey as two, and giving it to him on our anniversary :)

Pinspiration at it's finest.

77 Date Ideas

I came across a 77 Date Ideas pin, and followed it to the home blog where I found this list. I highlighted the ones that we have done and crossed off the ones that we don't want to do. I included a picture if I have one and a small story to go with the ones we've done. Maybe someday we'll complete this list and add new date ideas!

1. Make chocolate covered strawberries
2. Paris night: get a baguette, French wine, and cheese!

3. Read your favorite books to one another

4. Bake cookies together

 We made sugar cookies, colored the dough, rolled it out and even used cookie cutters.

5. Watch the sunrise, then make breakfast together

6. Attend a local soccer game

7. Watch an entire season of your fav TV show
Yeah, he totally watched the whole season with me :-) Love this show!!

8. Go for a long drive

Although we weren't dating at the time, we went on a 9 hour drive up to Michigan Tech. Here is us on the trip home, on the ice by the Mackinaw Bridge!

9. Planetarium

10. Art gallery

11. Play board games

We've played board games, but this picture is from our "Hey let's buy crosswords and puzzle books and go to the lake!" date :D

12. Movie

13. Visit garage sales

14. Volunteer for a homeless shelter

15. Go dancing

16. Go to the driving range

17. Build a snowman

18. Ride go-carts

19. Rent a movie

It's free to sign up for Family Fun Video, and the first 30 days you get half off the already cheap prices. So of course we rented a ton of movies and watched... well most of them :) 

20. Have a carpet picnic
21. Go to an arcade

22. Play Frisbee

We played Frisbee at his cousin's graduation party.

23. Go kayaking

24. Go ice skating

25. Visit the pumpkin farm

He's never been pumpkin picking before! 

26. Go to a forest preserve

27. Go to ballet performance

28. Visit a place listed in an entertainment book

We love the coupon entertainment book :) We mostly use the coupons for food, but we've gone put putting.

29. Bike riding

So far our longest ride was 8 miles through the trails and part of the way around the lake at Stony.

30. Study social media marketing

31. Bowling

We've gone bowling with his cousin.

32. Haunted house

33. Out for coffee

34. Visit a flea market

35. Play bingo

36. Go to an opera

37. Swing by a bookstore

We took a pit stop to Barnes and Noble to buy a new bookmark and look at puzzles.

38. Visit another city

We've visited so many cities together! Here are some of the trips we've gone on this year: Cedar Point in Sandusky, Kings Island in Mason, Detroit for the Tigers game, Royal Oak for Arts, Beats and Eats, Silver Lake Sand Dunes, Mackinaw, Houghton, etc. etc.

39. Go hear jazz or reggae

40. See an NBA game

41. Play in the batting cages

42. Vegas anyone, lol?

43. Piano bar

44. Visit a nursing home and hand out flowers to everyone

45. Have lunch at a trendy new restaurant

46. Grab a fish fry

47. Grab a pint at an Irish pub

48. Chinese food and DVDs – the perfect mix

49. Attend a poetry reading

50. Attend an author reading from their latest fiction work

51. Go antiquing

52. Go out for drinks

53. Visit a winery

54. Attend a painting class

55. Visit an animal shelter

56. Go for a carriage ride

57. Visit the tourist spots in your hometown

58. Take a trip to the hobby store – pick out a project to work on for the afternoon

We bought an awesome 1000 piece puzzle at Hobby Lobby, but haven't got around to finishing it yet.

59. Take a walk – around a lake, in the moonlight, by the river, on the beach

We walked around the beach to watch the sunset together while at Silver Lake.

60. Go to a festival

We went to Arts, Beats and Eats over the summer.

62. Create a scrapbook

61. Go to a shrimp boil

63. Attend a matinee

64. Visit the zoo

65. Go see a local band

66. Have lunch at a church festival

67. Go camping

First camping trip this year was to Cedar Point. And then to Silver Lake :)

68. Go hiking

We walked to the top of a hill that overlooks the city, hiked through the woods and everything ;)

69. Go rock climbing

70. Play croquet

71. Attend a farmer’s market

72. Have dinner at a new place

We eat out so much! He's taken me to Carrabba's, I've taken him to Azteca :)

73. Try out a new cuisine

75. Take part in a community theater performance

74. Go strawberry picking or visit an apple orchard

We picked, apples, raspberries, gourds, green beans, and so much more at Blake's.

76. Attend a live, outdoor music night in your town

77. Go see fireworks

 We saw two different shows together this year. (Fireworks.... YEAH!)