5th & 6th Anniversary Traditional Gifts

We recently celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary and I surprised my husband by continuing giving a traditional anniversary gift. I say surprised because every year he learns about traditional anniversary gifts for the first time (or so it seems).

 I also realized that I didn’t post about the traditional gift I did for our 5th anniversary (probably because I had a newborn) so I will include that in this post too. 

The traditional 5th wedding anniversary gift is wood. To celebrate I put together a breakfast board (on a wooden board) for dinner. To date, it’s probably the meal my kids have been most excited for. 

The traditional 6th wedding anniversary gift is iron. I purchased a cast iron grill to give my husband although I have enjoyed using it too. Pictured are the pumpkin french toast I made for breakfast the following weekend. 

Our wedding cake was a pumpkin spice cake so I feel like pumpkin flavoured items need to be part of our anniversary celebrations too. 

If you follow the tradition anniversary gift giving, let me know in the comments what gifts you have chosen or received. 

4th Anniversary Traditional Gift

If you have been following this blog for the past few years you might know that the Anniversary gifts I give my husband each year follows the Traditional Anniversary Gift guide.  

In October we celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary. The gift for this year was fruit and flowers. I bought a little plant with red flowers (Kyle's favourite colour) and some peaches and strawberries that I stuck into the plant with skewers.  Bananas are a fruit we almost always have in our home so I added a banana to the fruit and flower arrangement. I even delivered the arrangement to Kyle's office, which also happens to be in our house.

Kyle also participated in the theme this year and bought me a beautiful bouquet of roses in the prettiest colour. 

Want to see what gifts I have done for previous years? Click here. 

What anniversary gifts have you given that follow the fruit and flowers theme? 

3rd Anniversary traditional Gift

Last week Kyle and I celebrated our 3rd wedding Anniversary! It was pretty low key but at least we were able to spend the whole day together as we had an appointment in Calgary at the US Consulate. 

After our appointment,  we went to a bakery downtown where we enjoyed a slice of salted caramel cheesecake. Side note: a friend of mine and I recently started an Instagram account where we feature Bakeries we visit. Check it out @edmontonbakeries

Then we went to Deerfoot City mall to get dinner at Chronic Tacos (so yeah, we had dessert first) which is Kyle's favourite restaurant. He is super excited that they have started opening up locations in Canada. 

Last year, I wrote a blog post about how I follow the tradition of getting "traditional Anniversary gifts". Read it here and see what I did for our first and second Anniversary. 

The third Anniversary gift is leather. I asked Kyle what he would like that was leather but he started off by giving non-serious answers that involved a hypothetical motorcycle before confirming that there wasn't anything he could think of that he needed or wanted. 

My friend ( the same one I visit Bakeries with) suggested fruit leather. Genius idea! 

I borrowed a dehydrator and looked around my kitchen to see what we had. I found a bag of frozen blueberries in the freezer and a jar of applesauce in the food storage. 

I read a few recipes and I feel like what I did was simpler than the directions I read. I hope this will be the simplest recipe you can find: 

- put 5 cups of fruit in the blender (I used 3 cups of frozen blueberries that had been mostly thawed and 2 cups of apple sauce). 

- puree the fruit*

-spread on to dehydrator trays or onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. 

- in a dehydrator cook at mid heat overnight or about 8 hours. If you don't have a dehydrator, spread on the cookie sheet and bake at low heat for about the same amount of time. 

- You can check periodically to see how it is setting. Once it is no longer sticky, the fruit leather is ready. 

- Peal off or cut into strips (if lined with parchment paper, you can cut backed with parchment paper. 

- I rolled up each strip and tied with twine. I bought a big roll of it years ago when making a Thanksgiving turkey that I am pretty sure I have a lifetime supply.

*most recipes include adding a sweetener like honey but I didn't and felt like it was sweet enough. 

They turned out great and made for a yummy road trip snack. 

Have you ever made fruit leather? What flavours did you come up with? 

Traditional Anniversary Gifts

Yesterday, we celebrated two years of marriage. It was also Thanksgiving Day here in Canada so it was pretty low key. I spent the day running errands and getting stuff done around the house with Dominic while Kyle worked. We enjoyed a nice evening with leftover Thanksgiving dinner, sparkling apple cider and pumpkin spice macaroons (amazing!). If you live in the Edmonton area check out this amazing home bakery company: Cookies and Cake

I also realized that our wedding cake was a pumpkin spice cake so we carried on the tradition of a pumpkin spice dessert! But, do you really need an excuse to have pumpkin spice anything??!!

Kyle got me a beautiful bouquet of roses. I got him his favourite hand lotion from The Body Shop and matching socks for all of us from Woven Pear.

When I was planning our wedding, I came across a list of traditional anniversary gifts and thought that would be a fun tradition to have. The second anniversary traditional gift is cotton, 58% cotton socks count, right?

 

Instagram is definitely my go to place for inspiration for products to try. I came across Woven Pear socks on Instagram and loved the fun designs they have. When I saw that the hedgehog patterned socks came in womens, mens and kids, I thought this would make a perfect gift for the whole family. Now, I am thinking that I will need to buy the kids socks in the next size up so that our new baby can join in on the matching in about a year. 

I started this tradition last year on our first anniversary. The first anniversary gift is Paper. I got these printouts of "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" and "The Living Christ". Both documents from our church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The printout was ordered from Periwinkle Inc, on Etsy, as a digital download so it was super quick and easy to order and get printed and then framed. I love how they look next to our photo of the Vancouver Temple, which is where we were married.

Have you ever followed the traditional anniversary gift list to buy a gift?

Do you have any anniversary traditions?