SURPRISE BIRTHDAY!

So last Saturday (Oct. 25th) was James' 23rd birthday! I decided I would try to give him the Ultimate surprise.....I planned a week trip to Ireland behind his back and surprised him for his birthday! Believe me this was NOT easy! I am SOOO horrible at keeping secrets so this was soo hard for me! So a couple of weeks agoI called his boss and told her I was trying to plan a trip to Ireland and I asked her if she could give him the week off. She was soo amazign about it, and was able to approve the week off for james! At this point James had NO IDEA what was going on. I talked to Deborah and we both planned out the week in Ireland....we would be staying in Allen and Vi's Guesthouse!!! So I bought the tickets and told james that the weekend before his birthday we would be taking a weekend trip to New York because I found a killer deal on a hotel. His boss told him she couldn't give him any days off for his birhtday because he had not earned enought vacation hours :) he he so he was all bummed that we couldn't go anywhere big for his birthday like we had planned. So on Fri( oct 17th) I packed his bags and picked him up from the work and headed to the airport. This whole time James thought he was going to New York...and we did...we flew from Salt Lake to New York and arrived there Saturday Morning. We toured around New york, Went to manhatten, Serendipity and did all the touristy stuff. While we were at the M&M store I found a perfect opportunity to tell him where we were really going. There in the store was a disply of all the different flags in the world...there was a bag full of green, white and orange M&ms ( the colors of the flag of Ireland) with a little sign that said Ireland.







I pointed it out to James and told him I would love to go there sometime with him.




He sighed and said " oh yeah how cool would it be if we could go there....someday"




Then I said "SUPRISE!" Thats where we are going!" He thought I was joking ! It took a little bit of time to convince him! He was soo shocked!







So that night we boarded our flight to go to Ireland...we actually just got back yesturday! And can I just say IT WAS AMAZING! We stayed with deborah's parent-in-laws at their beautiful Guesthouse in Northern Ireland...they were soo good to us! and Ireland is such an amazing place! I feel in love with it! I''ll post pictures a little later on...we're still trying to settle down ;)