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We are similar. My DH's birthday was this past weekend and I gave him two small gifts and we had dinner out with our LOs and DH's brother who happened to be in town. We don't really do holidays either. Big celebrations for anything just aren't our thing.

DH and I dont do big for birthdays or anniversaries, generally just a nice dinner.

My family, however, is big on it and we generally get together for every holiday.

We're pretty low key. This year, Father's Day wasn't as big of deal as it was last year-being his first one. We usually just go out to dinner for most things like birthdays or anniversary. We celebrate holidays usually with family, but again low key.

I roll my eyes at people who post on FB about their six month wedding anniversary. Just seems to be too much for me.

@snowjewelz: Hmm interesting. We waited two years before trying for kids and didn't think that way. Our downstairs neighbor's wife posted a 6 month anniversary thing on FB. They're having their first kid before the first anniversary. She's also a couple years older than me while her husband is super laid back. To me, it just seemed childish. She's someone who I'm thinking is going to have a tough transition into parenthood based off of some of her postings.

My husband's family doesn't celebrate anything, and my family celebrates everything, so I think we're a happy medium. We don't do a lot now, usually just a gift on birthdays/Christmas and we'll go out for dinner or do something fun together for our anniversary. Although I think once our kids are here and they're old enough, we'll probably get a little more into some of the holidays.

Our family isn't very big into birthdays for us adults. As for the kids, yeah, we have birthday parties and such.

As for the adults, we don't really do anything-- no anniversaries, no mother's day or father's day. I text my siblings when it's their birthdays and they do the same for me. We don't need gifts and we are fine with that.

Christmas isn't that big either. For years we didn't give gifts to each other (adults). If it was planned, we might do a polyanna.

This past year, was the first year where we got gifts for each couple. It was the first year that all of us were doing well financially, that we thought gifts would be fine. I think that's the extent we would go. We don't need individual gifts. We put all our effort into celebrating for the kids. If any of us had trouble financially, I would certainly be fine with no gifts for the adults for Christmas.

DH and I don't really celebrate things with each other (anniversary, Valentine's Day, Mother's/Father's Day, Birthdays, etc), but we like celebrating with our families. So, we won't buy each other gifts, but we looove having everyone get together for a big Mother's/Father's Day bbq.