Birthday & Anniversary

So this week was busy. Luke and I had our 3rd anniversary on Wednesday the 10th and then I had my 25th birthday on Saturday the 13th . 25! I know I am so old, like a quarter of a century old but I will always have the comfort knowing that Luke is older :-P

We didn’t really do anything on Wednesday for our anniversary. Luke was flying that day so he had to leave the house by like 5:30 am and didn’t get home until 7:00pm so time was short. I got up (at least for a few minutes) before he left and we opened gifts, on his insistence. Just because he wanted me to have something new to watch while he was gone! He got me the last season of Gilmore Girls which I needed to complete my series and I got him two more seasons of Family Guy (which I get to enjoy too!). So after he left I just tried to get back to sleep with no avail! So up hours earlier then I usually get up, I took Duke walking and did chores oh and made brownies which I then preceded to eat out of boredom. Luke got home and we ate leftover enchiladas and opened cards and such we had received. Pretty lazy, boring, normal day.

On Saturday, Kyle called me at 7am!! Who calls a person that early on their birthday!! Crazy kid! So I grudgingly dragged myself out of bed and talked to him and since I was awake and drug Luke out of bed, because if I had to be awake so did he, I got to open gifts! After that Luke made me breakfast and then later we went to base to go to a huge sale they were having there. Luke cleaned the house since we were having friends over; I supervised and helped (very little). I pretty much cooked all day so we would have things to snack on when people came over. I made some lumpias and bruschetta! We played Settlers and Cranium and our friends brought their kids over so the dogs got to play with them which was nice, it wore out the kids and the dogs! It was a fun day although I think I worked harder on my birthday then I normally do, that just isn’t right!

Pics of my new hair cut, Luke playing on the new mac and some of the pups.

Hail Hurts!

I think that is the lesson learned this weekend. The weather was supposed to be good all weekend. It was like summer had finally arrived. Saturday it was in the low 80’s which was super hot compared to what we are used to. Saturday Luke and I went for a bike ride. We rode through Breberen, Susterseel, Gangelt and back around to Langbroich. It was a nice ride, although a bit exhausting. I don’t ride enough to be used to these long like 15 mile rides.







Sunday started off nice. We were planning on going walking with Marita and Christian but put it off until the evening because it was so hot during the afternoon. So seven o’ clock comes around and we are getting ready to go and we look up and the clouds have gathered. We figured we would go walking anyways at the worst we would just get a little rain. We got to the other side of the fields about 20-30 minutes from home and it starts hailing on us! Not just rain but big pea size hail pounding us. I am not sure if I have been in a hail storm before but if so I don’t remember. The hail mixed with the wind was not a great combination, it really hurt, I think I have bruises from it! So we run home and there are people hanging out there windows laughing at us! The sad thing was that by the time we got to our house the sun was out and shining again and the hail was gone. Luckily none of us have gotten sick….yet.






Random pictures of a rainbow after one of our many storms. It was pretty so I took pictures.