Tomorrow Matt and I celebrate our 6 month anniversary and the gift this month is IRON! 

I GOT THE MOST PERFECTIST GIFT IN THE ENTIRE WORLD!  I couldn't even photograph it ahead of time because the company it came from had it wrapped so perfectly... but I can tell you it was made in Japan. 

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Matt loves Japan.  I love squares and worms and anything miniature and Matt loves Japan - thats how we do it in this relationship.  We don't love the same things but we love each other and that is what counts and what makes it work.

I can't wait to show  you what is in the box, but that will have to wait until tomorrow :)

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Last Sunday was our five month anniversary, Matty wasn't feeling well (I think this is a theme - remember how he was sick at the 1 month?) and I was busy with the renovation so I didn't get a chance to post these until now.  I totally was not good at 4 months - it was supposed to be fruit or flowers, I was going to get him some tulip bulbs (but why give a gift you can't enjoy for a year), then an apple tree ( but he beat me too it and gave me pear trees!)  so I ended up giving him a pair of Carhartt overalls to help him plant the fruit and flowers - but I felt so lame I didn't even wrap it of photograph it!

But not this month folks - this month it was WOOD and I surprised him with 5 wooden golf tees and a gift card to play golf at Nonesuch - around the corner from my house!   He loves golf but hasn't played in years and its something he could do out here in the burbs :)

No fancy tag this month - can I even find my tag maker???? But I did use 5 golf tees as part of the packaging to indicate five months :)

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  Next month: Iron - I go by this list  but I might start going by Wikipedia - except I have already deviated from that list in month four -hmmm all very confusing

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matty came home last night from a weekend at his grandparents and went to work planting the pear trees.  For those of you still waiting to see what I got him for our 4 month anniversary he is wearing them in this picture!  I kinda blew this anniversary.  I had ideas on what I wanted to get him and then never got it executed and then he got me these really great pear trees!

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So I got him something he has always wanted - a pair of overalls to work in the garden!  The way I see it he is using them to plan fruits and flowers!

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I think that is sweat rolling down his cheek....

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ext month the traditional gift is wood.... I am going to be a bit more prepared for that!

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Matt and I are going to celebrate our 4 month anniversary tomorrow (is that it?? it seems longer:)  And since he had the day off yesterday he took it upon himself to give me my gift early!

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So traditional gifts for  4 year/month is Flowers or Fruit - he gave me fruit!! He gave me 2 pear trees for the farm we are building:)   Now I have to admit it took me about 30 minutes to get the full extent of the gift.  When I got home last night I saw the trees and when I went up to them I saw this hanging in the tree...

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and as I said it was some time later when it dawned on me - he gave me a Partridge in a pear tree!  I love you Matty - you are perfect and your gifts are great!  I can't wait to walk around the back 40 and decide where we are going to plant these - they are a perfect pear just like us:)

Stay tuned tomorrow for what I am giving him :)

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OK - my postings about three months are a little off the hook but this is the last one I promise!  I am only posting again because I woke to gifts! HA!  Last night Matt cooked dinner and cleaned up the kitchen while I did some photography stuff - then I feel asleep on the couch and he left to go to Soccer.  I of course was passed out in bed when he got home - I tried to wake up to talk to him I did because I wanted to see if he liked his gifts but I just couldn't get awake!  So this morning at 5:30 I was talking to him about it and from the side of the bed he pulled this gift out for me!!  Its an Angela Adams bag!!!  I love it and feel like I should have known who she was but this is where Matt educates me.  I loved it for the print but researching online this AM I realized I love it because it is made of sustainable materials... ahh a man after my own heart!  I can't wait to get into work and show off my bag!

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Tomorrow is our three month anniversary... and the anniversary is leather so I am not sure I am posting the gift here - kidding!  But I did want to post more of the images that Erin took of us this weekend, full size and in color!  Thanks again Erin!

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Saturday was my two month anniversary with Matty!  Since the 2nd anniversary calls for cotton I purchased him as set of organic cotton sheet and pillowcases!  No pictures of the sheets but here is the gift - as usual I was wrapping it up while he was upstairs sleeping!

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Friday was our One

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M. came over Friday night with a gorgeous bouquet of flowers!  This is where he excels - flowers are something he knows how to pick out and this time my photographs do not do them justice

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