Friday Letters & Some Anniversary Mushiness

Dear Germany,

I'm enjoying the warm weather by doing fun things like this:

and this:

...but now that it's 90 degrees, I'm melting. 

Stop it, Germany. There's no need to try and be like the USA. You're an A/C-less country. You're not fooling anybody.

Dear flat tires,

You suck. 

Making us €300 poorer this week was not on my to-do list. Thanks for that.

(Hubs with his new Captain's present...the one we've only had 3 months and had to get new tires for. Yeah. Pissed is an understatement.)

Dear Cousin,

You've left us here in Germany alllll alone. I hope you enjoyed your time here studying abroad. We've enjoyed having you only 2 hours away for the first time in YEARS. Funny how we had to move to a foreign country for that to happen. Germany will miss you. We will miss you. Say hello to 'merica for us...oh and eat some good Mexican food. We'll live vicariously through you, kay?

Dear Self,

You've been rockin' it out in the kitchen lately. Waistline friendly stuff, too. 

Keep it up...and post these recipes so your friends can stop drooling.

Dear Hunk-o-mine,

It's our 5 year anniversary tomorrow. 

5 years of wedded bliss. My heart is so full! I can't believe it's been that long since we walked down the aisle, exchanged promises of forever, and I took you as my husband, I as your wife. It seems like just yesterday. I still get chills thinking about that day and all the wonderful things that have happened to us since then. We've built such a beautiful life together. So full of laughter and happiness, tears and growth. After almost 12 years together, never wavering, you are the only man I'd ever want. The only man I ever need. We were designed for each other by the hand of our Creator, He made you just for me. I thank Him everyday for that, too. Thank you, also, for all your sweet everyday nothings-they really aren't nothing to me. They're actually everything. You know my heart, inside its deepest caverns, the parts I'm always afraid to show...but you love me anyway. And I'm a better person for loving you. All my love, sweet husband. Here's to 100 more.