As you know, Marc’s birthday was last week and what he didn’t know was that I had been planning a surprise get away for a month.  I had booked us a room at the Downtown Phoenix Sheraton and made all arrangements for the kids (Thanks Erma, you are the best Mom in law and Grandma ever!)  The surprise started Friday morning around 6:30 ish with an email I sent to Marc at work.  The email had a letter attached explaining that he had something coming up that afternoon and to look at his email at 2:00pm for further information.  This letter was coded like a secret agent and finished with the words “self-destruct”.  So, at 2:00 I sent him the next letter with the info of where he had to be and by what time.  He had to decode the location using the latitude and longitude coordinates (thanks Jonae for the idea, you are a GENIUS!).  Long story short, he found me in the hotel lobby and was very surprised.  We had a great night walking around downtown.  We ate at Majerle’s- best french fries ever.  Then we went to Civic Space Park.  There was a band with live music and the weather was great.  We were able to sleep in and not be woken up in the middle of the night by Carson (Again, Erma you are the best).  We had a late breakfast and then returned home.  It was a great time and I am so pleased that I was able to pull off a surprise for Marc.  He was pleasently surprised as well.  The above pictures are from the view from our room.

Saturday night was a pre-planned birthday dinner with friends.  We ate yummy dinner at Marc’s cousin’s fry bread restaraunt, Cafe Laguna.  It was great!  Thanks everyone for coming a celbrating with us.

He's reaching into a Victoria's Secret bag.Phew, that was close! Thanks Grohmans!

And the birthday week long celebration comes to an end.  I love you Marc (Agent 8-18).