No Cost Anniversary Celebration

Matt and I had originally planned to go to Bricktown for dinner and probably a movie or something for our anniversary. That seemed like an anniversary thing to do. Well we have some cool stuff coming up and we had talked about costs and decided maybe we should just hang at home to save some dinero. I still wanted to feel like we were actually celebrating and not just another night at home. 

So I got creative with what I had. I challenged myself to not spend any money at all. For entertainment? We went back to the beginning. We met over a game of Monopoly so why not?

 

I won the centerpiece at the Salvation Army Luncheon that Matt's grandma took me to on Tuesday. Decorations? Check. I got out the wine glasses from our winery tours in Frederickburg for spring break 2012. I also got out the champagne glasses with our name and wedding date etched onto them from our wedding. I used them for sparkling water which we drank all the time during our Mediterranean cruise. I even used cloth napkins (fancy) that Savannah and Jaben got us as a wedding gift. 

 I put together an appetizer plate. I included the olives we bought in Greece and I had some Boursin cheese which we discovered on our honey moon in St. Lucia. Don't worry, this isn't three year old cheese. I used it in a recipe recently.

 We also  have been to New Orleans a couple of times together and I had bought this Beignet mix a long time ago meaning to use it several times by now.

 And we had bought this pasta in Italy. Funny story. At the same pasta shop they had pasta shaped like penises-- for what reason I'll never know. Well we thought it was hilarious so we bought some for Matt's parents. They never noticed but Lisa did put it in a casserole for her bridge group.

And I made a salad from our garden including authentic Greek feta cheese that Anna bought for us. I also used the bowl we bought on the beach in Costa Rica.

 And for dessert I warmed up chocolate chip cookies I made earlier in the week and topped it with the home made ice cream from Easter (it was still good--actually delicious).

And we opened a bottle of wine that we bought in Malta. If you know how to convert Euros to dollars you can tell that we're big spenders.

 And another bottle from a winery we visited in Lubbock.

 And like every year on our anniversary we watched our wedding video while tears stream down my face when Matt tells me his vows. Oh man. That's what life is made of.

I say it was a great anniversary. Everything turned out delicious. I made good use of things I already had and I HATE to waste food. We sat still and paid attention to each other without distractions. It was a wonderful night indeed. 

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