It's Finished!

Woohoo!

I did it.

I finally came up with an idea for Tom's anniversary gift.

And I started it and finished it in one night.

Yes, I'm proud of myself too.

So what is it you ask?

It's a "Promise Book."

Allow me to explain...

It all started because originally I thought of doing a coupon book of coupons for him to use when he comes home from the mission. But then I realized just how lame that was. Everyone does coupon books. Plus, I'm pretty sure I've made a coupon book for him before. Anywho, so that just wouldn't do. Not spectacular enough for five years together.

Then I thought of promises. Not coupons, but promises. All the promises I could make to him for when he comes home and for the rest of our life together.

Then I expanded on that...a book of promises, filled with pictures and doodles to go along with each promise.

So I went out and got a blank book that I could fill with these promises. There was one problem: The book was huge. There were A LOT of pages. And while I could probably come up with enough promises to fill the whole book, I simply did not have the time to try to do so. So I got creative...

The first half is a promise book. It's filled with promises from me to him about the rest of forever together. The second half is a journal for us. Tons of blank pages for us to journal our lives together. We'll still have our separate journals for ourselves, but this will be one for us to do together. One to chronical our life once he's home and keep track of all our memories, experiences, and precious moments that we go through together as we grow old together.

Here's my final product (well, some of the pages anyway):



The final page before we begin our journal together.

So this is [part of] the final product! I'm also sending him the the sketches I made and talked about in earlier posts, and two anniversary cards (because I couldn't decide on just one), and a letter. It's not a very full package, but I think he'll like it just the same. I'm planning on doing more for him as a "real" celebration of five years together when he's home from the mission. Oh, and it's now Sunday which means it is officially less than two months till he returns!
59 days.