Jonny's 33rd Birthday Celebrations!

Yesterday, August 26th, was Jonny's 33rd birthday! We are back to being the same age again, yay! :-) To celebrate, we had a surprise party for him on Tuesday night at our home, after he got back from work. It was Nena's idea and she cooked a banquet for him which was a huge blessing! We invited our friends from our neighborhood to join us and Jonny was completely surprised! See the video below of us waiting for him to arrive and then his arrival at home:





One of the highlights of planning this surprise party was that when Daniel found out in the morning that we were going to have a birthday cake, he talked about it ALL day! I had to keep explaining to him over and over again that we would only eat the cake after papai came home from work. It was so cute to see his excitement!

Here are some of the few photos we took that night:

Group photo

Jonny, Nena and Daniel

Daniel finally enjoying the oh-so-awaited-for cake!

Then yesterday, on his actual birthday, we went out for dinner to a really nice Indian restaurant with 3 other couples from our church, who are part of our "care group." We meet with them almost every week to share about our lives and support one another. We are so grateful for these friends who we are getting to know more and more. It is also really cool that they are quite an international bunch!

The four men from left to right: Ken (American), Victor (Indian), Marlon (Guatemalan) and our Jonny (Chinese Malaysian-English)!

Natalya (Russian) and Laura (American who lived many years in Turkey and is fluent in Kurdish!)


Evy (Belgium) and a Brazilian woman you may recognize! :-)

We had fun celebrating Jonny's birthday this year! He's thankful for the love he received from you too, loved ones!