The way to my heart

Tomorrow is my birthday... I will be turning 28. For a few weeks now i've been trying to figure out what i would like for my birthday. A new dishwasher? nah... i'm fine hand washing the dishes these days... Books? mmm maybe. I just kept going all over the place trying to give my husband ideas, but nothing really felt right. I had settled myself to the idea that this was going to be another year of nothing special. I don't mind nothing special, and sometimes prefer it, but this year i felt like i wanted something bigger. I finally decided on maybe some time to myself alone in a clean house. But Matt had other plans that i had no idea of. It is not easy to surprise me. I can clue in fairly well to surprises. There has only been one time in our time together that Matt surprised me and that's when he flew to Minnesota to visit me over summer vacation while we were dating. Today was the second time i would say he successfully surprised me.
The story is this:
About 5 years ago Matt built a hovercraft and sold plans online. We had a random hovercraft sitting around his parents house and finally a year ago we took the engines off of it and took it apart. He saved the engines to sell someday and he recently found a buyer. He told me that he was going to drive down to Portland and drop off these engines and the guy who was buying them had a snow mobile that he was wanting to trade possibly for the engines. Matt told me that if the snow mobile didn't work like he wanted it to then he would take the cash. He asked me if i wanted a snow mobile for my birthday and i said yes, i thought that would be fun for the family. We had discussed getting snow mobiles in the future because we have boys and we live by the mountains so we thought it would be a good investment. So the past 3 days he's been talking about snow mobiles. Today he left to go pick up the snow mobile. He got home just as i was pulling out of the driveway to drop Daniel off at school. I stopped so that Joshua and Elijah could hop out and stay home with daddy... and i wanted to see if he did indeed get the snow mobile. I walked over to the van and i was in the middle of asking about a snowmobile when i see in the back of the van a LLAMA! NO JOKE... he said surprise and happy birthday, and then he said there is a second surprise... we are getting 2 llamas! we have been talking about getting more llamas for packing and we have been keeping our eyes open for young healthy llamas because they are hard to come by at a decent price. So in Matt's advertising to sell these engines he found a guy who had a few llamas and more specifically 2, 8 month old female llamas (exactly what we have been looking for) that he was willing to trade.
My older sister thinks i'm weird. And maybe i am, but my husband knows the way to my heart is through a farm animal....
and he picked such a beautiful sweet one...







I'm still trying to figure out a name for her... any suggestions?
We are going to go pick up the other llama on saturday, and I'm so excited! :)
I love how my husband knows me, and i love how he knows what will put a smile on my face and a song in my heart. I am so blessed by him and so thankful that he doesn't look down on my love for farm animals, but encourages it.