Romantic Ideas: Birthday

#1 On My Hit List
My boyfriend turned 21 on the 26th of October last year, and I was really stuck for gift ideas. After a few days of trying to think of a great idea, a really good one came to me. I checked the Internet for the song hits that fell on his birthday for the past 21 years, and compiled him a CD of the number 1 hits of his birthday for every year that he had been alive. He really liked it, and even though he didn’t especially like every single song on the CD - each of them meant something special to him.

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"Meet Me" Birthday Hunt
On my husband's birthday, we were both working and were to meet up at home around 6:30 pm. I managed to get off of work around noon, so I decided to do something really special for him. I set things up with the local bakery, florist, and one of his favorite stores to make the night work. I went home and left a big note on the dining table - a place i knew he wouldn't miss. The note said that I would meet him at the bakery at 7:00. When he got to the bakery, the salesman gave him a cake and another note. This note told him to meet me at the florist, which was nearby. At the florist, he received flowers and a birthday card, as well as another note. The note said that I'd meet him at one of his favorite stores. When he got there, he collected his already-wrapped gift from the salesman along with his final note. It told him that I'd meet him at one of our favorite restaurants. When he reached there, I was waiting for him with candle-lit dinner. We had a memorable evening and he said he loved it!!!

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101 Patches of Love
My sister's boyfriend had been planning a surprise for her birthday and wouldn't let anyone in on it. He had been working on this surprise for four months and worked on it nightly. It was driving my sister crazy. Well, anytime my sister's boyfriend came to visit he would talk to my mom about quilts, and who made them in our family. So, when it came time to celebrate my sister’s birthday, he brought two big boxes wrapped up for her. When she opened the first box she found little gifts that he had been picking up from each place they went to, or if he saw something she liked he would buy it and put it in the box. Then the second box was what threw every one for a loop. My sister is in love with cows and the color green. So what her boyfriend had done is hand-sew a king size quilt! One side had cows and the other side was made of different green rectangular patches. At the top of the blanket it said her name and the underneath it said “101 reasons I love you because…” On each different green patch it had a different reason as to why he loved her. Reasons like (you make me smile, you think your shy, I want to grow old with you, only you can scare me, you blush when I compliment you) and in the center of the quilt in the brightest red fabric it said I love you! AND, he did it all himself! He made this entire quilt himself! He also made four matching pillowcases to go along with the quilt. How sweet is that? Needless to say there was a bit of elbowing going on and girls saying how come you never do that for me? It was funny. Now I see how much he truly loves my sister.

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'Our' Birthday
It was my birthday but by the end of the night it seemed like it was his. I planned this for awhile to surprise him even though it was my birthday and not his. It was an evening at home and I did the usual champagne, candles and snacks, etc. What I also did was write out about 30 love notes and coupons to my future husband, then roll them up and insert them into a balloon and blow them up. The notes were all different. Some told him to kiss me or rub my back. Some were coupons for him he could redeem at a later date, and some were just me telling him how much I love him. I placed them all over the place. In the tub, on the bed, in the sink, under tables, etc. I also dressed in a very sexy nightie and silk robe. When he walked in he was in shock. I handed him a pin and explained in order for him to know what to do he needed to pop a balloon. This went on for about 2 hours. He was having a ball looking for a balloon and popping it to find out his next mission. He was actually disappointed when they were all gone. It's months later and he still has all the notes. After that game he gave me a candlelight bubble bath and fed me champagne. I had hidden under the bathroom sink another even sexier nightgown that I changed into after the bath which made his eyes pop out. I also wrote on the bathroom mirror in lipstick that I loved him and he was the best present I could ever ask for. By the end of the night it turned into 'our' birthday. It was the most romantic, sensual night of my life and I'm already planning the next 'our' birthday when his comes up in October. It was just crazy fun. You can do anything with the notes. I even stuffed a few Hershey's kisses in some balloons (you stretch the balloon over the candy) and however many kisses were in it was how many times he had to kiss me. Plus the fact that the love this man and I have for each other made it even more special. I'll never forget it.

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101 Ways to Love You
Since my boyfriend’s birthday is two days after Valentine’s Day I took him away on a weekend trip and booked a hotel that was still running the Valentine’s Day special packages the following weekend. The package came with the suite, two bottles of champagne, a box of yummy chocolates. When we arrived, on the bed a heart was arranged in rose petals along with a heart around the chocolates and single red rose. The gift he loved the most, however, was the giant card I made that said on the front "101 Ways..." and on the inside it said "...to say I Love You!" On the left side inside the card I wrote out in red and black ink I love you in 101 different languages. I found a website on the computer obviously, but he absolutely adored it!

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2 Dozen Roses
For my girlfriend's 24th birthday, I told her to meet me at the mall. I told her I'd be in a store near the entrance waiting for her and wearing a red shirt. Instead, I stood on the other side of the mall with two dozen roses and waited until I saw her go into the store. Then I watched as people came into the mall. Every time I saw someone in a red shirt, I asked them to go into the store and give her a rose. I did that twelve times, and after the twelfth person came out, I walked into the store holding the other dozen roses. My girlfriend started crying when she saw me. She said it was the best birthday she's ever had!

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20 Rose Filled Memories
My boyfriend and I have a long-distance relationship, where we don't get to see each other for up to 5 months at a time. We don't get to celebrate either of our birthdays together because of this. For his 20th birthday, I wanted to send him something special, so I bought 20 plastic long-stemmed roses that looked like the real thing (I couldn't get real ones because I was afraid they would wilt before they got to him). Then I cut 20 small pieces of blue card stock. On each of the cards I stuck a different picture of the two of us together, including photos of us from when we were toddlers and also when we were classmates, because we grew up together. On the other side of each card, I wrote a little love quote and parts of song lyrics that have special meaning for the two of us. Then I tied one card to every rose with some string and put it all in one of those flat gift boxes and got it sent to him for his birthday. He loved the gift and still has all 20 roses sitting in a vase by his bed.

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21 Birthday Surprises
I wanted to do something really memorable for my boyfriend's 21st birthday. I told him to set aside an entire day for us to spend together. When he woke up that morning, I had already made breakfast. On the dining room table was a small card with the number 1 printed on the front of the envelope. I told him he would get 21 of these cards to go along with 21 presents throughout the day, but he wasn't allowed to open the sealed cards until the end of the night. There were presents everywhere; in my car, in his car, in the bathroom, closets, etc. The presents weren't big...the only expensive things were a shirt and a picture frame. He got his favorite candy, a matchbox truck (because he said he wanted a truck), a hug, a kiss, etc. It became like a game to him. After I took him out to dinner (present #17), we went back to my place where I finished up with a back massage (#18), a CD with romantic songs, and dancing in a candlelit room (to the CD). Finally, when the time was right, I handed him the 21st card, which was unsealed. The note in that card told him to open the other cards for a surprise. On each card I had written a single line to a poem I composed. I also gave him a copy of the full poem in a cute frame to keep. It took a lot of planning, but he loved everything and it was totally worth it!

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21 Ways You Drive Me Crazy
Before my now boyfriend turned 21 last year on the 21st of December, I wanted to show him how much I cared for him. So I decided to get creative and made twenty-one little notes saying how much he drives me crazy and stuck them into twenty-one fortune cookies. I put the fortune cookies in a bucket that I decorated with our pictures and surprised him with it at work on December 1st. I told him he needed to open one fortune cookie a day ‘til his birthday, read the notes, paste the notes on a card I made, and it would reveal a message on the last day (his birthday). He was a sport and played along, excited every morning to open a new fortune cookie. Until this day, he kept the fortune cookies and said he would never eat them because it is a memory of the first birthday I spent with him.

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24 Ways Birthday
The day before my husband's 24th birthday I went over to one of our friend’s house and handed him 24 birthday cards to give out to all of my husband’s friends. I arranged it so that about every 1/2 hour someone he knew would hand him a birthday card from me throughout the day! The morning of his birthday I put cards all around the house in places he usually went, like the mirror, closet, and so on. I also had a bunch of balloons delivered to his work. When he came home I gave him a card that told him to get ready because we were going out to our favorite restaurant. I then gave him 24 instant scratch-off lottery tickets. While we were gone, I had my friend decorate our house with all kinds of stuff. On his bed I had them use Hershey’s kisses to spell out "I love you" and a have a palm pilot wrapped next to it. He still talks about how special I made him feel that day.

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