This is Us: 39 Years Old, 9 Years Married

Brian and I are 39 now!

This Is Us is still one of our go-to shows to watch after the kids are in bed, that and The Chosen!

We had fun celebrating our birthdays, which are less than 2 weeks apart.  In addition, we enjoyed celebrating our 9th wedding anniversary, which is 5 days before my birthday!  It's been a very celebratory time!

For my birthday cake we had to improvise with the candles we had... 

This is what happens when you have a 3 year old, 8 year old, and 1 year old... and your 5 year old (almost 6 year old) doesn't get his number candle on the cake!!

Everyone was happy when they ate the cake though!  I've learned to make cakes from scratch over here because boxed cake mixes are not a thing here - but nothing can replace the yellow cake mix from the USA - so that's what I brought back last summer to make for this occasion :)

Beautiful flowers from our friends for our anniversary!

For my birthday, I got together with my friends for cake and great fellowship!!  So thankful for these ladies!!!

For Brian's birthday, we got to go on a hike!  We started in the nearby town of Lunz am See, and hiked from the Lunz lake up to two other lakes on the mountain... Mittersee (which literally means "middle lake") and Obersee (which means "upper lake")!  It was a beautiful hike, concluding with a lot of snow at the top - but it was worth it to see the beautiful upper lake!  It was about 3.5 hours roundtrip.















































Here's to a great year ahead! :)