An Anniversary and a Birthday!

We just returned from celebrating our anniversary and Evan's birthday all in the same weekend! Since our real 30th anniversary is next week on October 3rd, general conference Sunday, we decided to celebrate a week early in Galveston. We stayed at the historic Hotel Galvez which will celebrate its hundredth anniversary next year and is in the process of major remodeling.
We enjoyed walking on the beach, sunning on the sand and plenty of good food. (Obviously, that's the very thing I should not indulge in given my swimsuit picture!)

One memorable moment was when this showed up in our room after we were out for the evening and the front desk discovered it was our 30th anniversary. That's champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries!

Now look below to see what we really indulged in!




(Milk, chocolate chip cookies and those fabulous strawberries!)

It was a very relaxing mini vacation and the hotel was quite memorable with all its history and nostagia. It was so interesting remembering the 1900 hurricane that took the lives of over 6,000 people and it was amazing to see so many Victorian homes that were restored and so beautiful. We had a great time walking on the Strand (quaint little shops) and just driving around.

Thirty years is quite a landmark anniversary! We are so blessed to have each other!

Stay tuned to see how we celebrated Evan's birthday.....