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- Read past entries from journals. Look at old photo albums and high school yearbooks. Learn about your spouse's childhood and teen years.

-Refinish a piece of furniture for your home.

-Plan a special midnight supper, barbecue, picnic (summer or winter), make your own pizza party, or candlelight dinner.

-Make a list of goals you want to accomplish in one, five, ten or twenty-five years. Seal these lists in envelopes with a 'to open' date written clearly on the front.

-Make popcorn. Watch a favorite television show, video, or athletic event.

-Read a book, the scriptures, or the Ensign together. If you prefer, read a book during the month, then discuss it in depth on your date night.

-Make cookies and take some to a neighbor's house. Place them on the doorstep, then knock or ring the bell and run to hide.

-Play a favorite board game such as marbles or jacks, and hopscotch.

-Design your dream house or dream yard. Sketch your plans, then share your ideas.

-Sing together, with or without a piano. Harmonize, blend. Sing rounds. If you have musical instruments, play a duet.

-Create your own recipe for homemade ice cream. Try it out.

-Plan an upcoming vacation or a second honeymoon-even if it's only imaginary.

-Plant a garden or a tree.

-Build a web page together.

-Hang out in a hammock together.

-Take a walk. No arguing allowed!

-Watch or listen to an educational program or readers' theater.

-Check out a library book about constellations, then go look at the stars.

-Prepare a tribute for each other, gathering letters of appreciation from those who know your spouse. Make it into a 'This Is Your Life' night.

-Plan for the handling of your estate.

-Dance to old records or to music on the radio. Learn new steps together.

-Wash the car.

-Go to the temple.

-Fly a kite.

-Paint matching T-shirts.

-Teach each other something new, such as a principle of geometry or a bit of foreign language.

-Make a big cookie (the size of a cookie tray) for each other. Decorate it to say 'I Love You!'

-Read or reread your patriarchal blessings to each other.

-Work together to finish one of these monumental tasks that you have put off forever; paint a room, wash windows, or something similar.