A month of Celebrations!

For us, we have a lot to celebrate from mid-May to mid-June!

On May 15th, we celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary! On the 15th, I made a delicious (if I may say so) meal of Chicken Crepes. It was hard at first finding a few of the ingredients, but we did it. We are still learning where the best place to buy certain things are. I will write more about our food differences on the Moscow Missions blog. Then, the next day, Mila, from church, babysat Canaan so that Dougle and I could go out for a special meal. This was the first time we left Canaan with someone here and he did great! Dougle and I went out to a place called Starlight Diner. It is like a 60's Diner, with delicious hamburgers. If you want to splurge, you can get a tasty milkshake...for about $10-$15. We skipped the milkshakes! But we had a good time being together, just the two of us. At this diner, the waitresses speak English and they have English menus. So that is fun too. After lunch, we checked out a nearby bookstore and just enjoyed being out together!

On May 27th, we celebrated Dougle's 30th Birthday!! My husband is getting sooo old! Ha. It didn't bother him in the least to hit the 30 mark. He just gets cuter and smarter everyday! Unfortunately, he had to spend most of the day at the airport (you can read about this on the other blog too). The next day, he spent all day at a hotel helping with LST registration. The next two days, he has spent sick with a sore throat and head cold. So, we hope to celebrate more properly next week. We are thinking about seeing if Mila will babysit again so we can go see Indiana Jones, in English!

My birthday is coming up on June 9th. I will be the very young and stylish age of....27. I keep thinking I am 23; Dougle keeps having to remind me that I am not a teenager anymore!

In addition, Father's Day and Mother's Day fall in this month time period. Of course, they don't really have these days in Russia, so it is easy to forget about them.

We've had lots to celebrate and be thankful for in this past month! We look forward to another year together, another year of life, and more time to serve and praise our Lord, if he wills. God has been so good to us over the past year. We give him thanks!