Sunday, March 9, 2014

27, 3 & 19

It's all about the numbers these days.

Ray turned 27 on Wednesday. Yay! I pulled off throwing a surprise party for him. First my parents showed up, then a good friend of Ray's whom he works with, then some great friends from our first ward here, and finally our amazing neighbors who have three daughters that just love Ray to pieces. Our little apartment was crammed full of love- and all for Ray. We had so much fun eating spaghetti and banana cream pie, laughing, and of course playing some board games. I don't want to be too decisive, but I am pretty sure Ray had an excellent birthday.

This just also happens to be his third birthday while we've been married. I can't believe we're coming up on three years of marriage in June!

As for the 19... Well, we decided we should take advantage of the good rates right now, and book a cruise! We leave in 19 days from Barcelona, Spain! We then travel to Morocco, the Canary Islands and back to Barcelona. We can hardly wait. Yesterday we went shopping for some new bathing suits at our favorite discount stores in Saarbrucken (bless you Primark and TK-Maxx!). The sun was shining and just made me think of the 9 blissful days we'll soon be spending on a cruise ship. Best combined birthday presents and spring break vacation ever.

We had so much fun on Ray's birthday that we literally forgot to pull out the camera, so no documentation. But there wasn't too much change in Ray from 26 to 27... overlooking the new hairy mole on his nose... Just kidding!