Celebrations.....

It´s been a week of celebrations! 

It started with our 26th wedding anniversary on the 1st September. Where has the time gone?! 26 years married and 27 years together. I have now spent more time with Kristian than I have alone. 

Around 1.30pm on the 1st I got a surprise. A bunch of flowers were delivered to my work, especially for me. I was not expecting anything and this wee gesture from Kristian really touched my heart.

That evening we went out to dinner. We went to this Italian restaurant near us. The food was absolutely delicious! We had a 3 course meal before heading over to the cinema to see the new re-make of Ben Hur. It was such a lovely date evening.  We feel so blessed to have such a good marriage, something we don´t take for granted.  

On the 7th September Kristian turned 50!!! Can you believe it??!!!! 50!!!! haha I can´t believe my hubby is that old! (only joking!)  Kristian doesn´t really like big parties and being the center of attention but I really couldn´t let this birthday go by without some sort of celebration. 

So Sunday afternoon, on the 4th September, I arranged for Kristian´s family to come for hot chocolate, warm buns called boller (a Danish tradition)  and cake. They would also stay for dinner soI was busy in the kitchen getting things ready.... 

It was sooo much fun having Kristian´s family here. In Denmark they write a lot of songs for parties and so Kristian´s mum had brought a song along for him. 

 I had also written a couple of songs for Kristian.  One was in Danish and the other in English. After the buns and cake we sang the first Danish song which was soooo hilarious. We were in fits of laughter. 

I then had a quiz to see how well they knew their brother. It too went down a treat. We ate dinner and then between dinner and dessert this strange looking man turned up.  He had an English song with him for us all to sing. There was a lot of laughter and fun.

Kristian really enjoyed himself and he got some great gifts from the family.

Monday evening he was of at his go-kart shop, so I baked a cake that he could take down there and share with all his customers. 

Tuesday 6th September I had invited some good friends over for dinner. I hurried home from work to get the place all decorated and ready for another wee party for Kristian.

We had such a great night together. Once again there was a lot of laughter. We are so blessed to have such a great bunch of friends and a wonderful family.

On the 7th Kristian got his present from me - a zoom lense. We both had taken the day off work, Leah too. 

We decided we would go on a picnic and spend the day out in the forrest or by one of our lakes, so that Kristian could try out his new lense. Unknown to Kristian was the fact that Sara and her Christian would also be joining us for the picnic. They too had gotten the day of work and were driving for 3 hours to spend the day with us.

As we walked along the forrest path we suddenly bumped into Sara and Christian. My Kristian was soooo surprised!  

 We had a lovely afternoon picnic down by the lake and when it started to rain a little we headed home and watched a film.

Then we headed out to dinner. We were meeting Andrew and Camilla for dinner (they unfortunately couldn´t get time off to come on the picnic) but we had such a lovely evening together.  

At 8pm Sara and Christian were ready to make the long journey back home again. We were ready for home too. It had been a great few days of celebrating and Kristian really did enjoy himself. He has thanked me soooo many times for organising all the celebrations and has talked about how much he enjoyed the whole thing!

It was all a lot of work and planning - but sure, he´s worth it!