happy eid!

eid mubarak to all of you who celebrate! i hope your eid was as beautiful and blessed as ours :) this year, we celebrated our fifth eid together. i still can't believe my husband has been in my life for so long, and i'm looking forward to the million more we'll have together, iA :)

 ^^on the way for eid salah (prayer)

 ^^eidi from him! he gives me a card every year and i'm always most excited about it :)

^^family!

 ^^eid gifts from SIL's :)

^^eidi from my MIL and FIL. the drawings are so cute!

fancy iftar with the khan brothers :)

this year, we got together with saad's brother and hosted a joint iftar on the 26th, alhamdulillah! it ended up being a lot nicer than what we were expecting. the turnout was awesome and everyone really enjoyed. just thought i'd share some pictures from the evening :)

drinks bar, dessert table, and iftar food items already set up at each table :)

dress code for the guys was thobes. always saad's idea. and always taken to a whole other level by saad. haha i love him!

alhamdulillah for this beautiful month of ramadan, and for this amazing night!

five days at sea

yup, that's right. we did it again! this time last year we went on a five days bahamas cruise to celebrate our second anniversary. and this year, we decided to go yet another time. :) this time, we were celebrating our third anniversary! three down, a million more to go, iA ;)

we would be sailing from jacksonville this time around, instead of south carolina. we drove in on monday morning, and made it just in time for embarkment.

the next five days would be spent on the carnival elation, which we found to be a lot newer than the fantasy, which was our ship from last year. the first day at sea was spent getting familiar again with the cruise ship, finding our way around, and learning the schedule of events happening on board. 

elegant night is always my favorite! everyone gets to dress their best for a nice formal dinner. and they have photographers all over the ship to take professional pictures. :)

husband surprised me with this! a few free things for my birthday :) found this when we came into the room that night after dinner

 the third day of our cruise, we stopped at half moon cay for the day. this is a private island owned by carnival. it was the most beautiful lagoon. the water was the perfect temperature, and it wasn't very deep. there also wasn't crazy waves. for someone who is scared of water and can't swim, it was ideal lol. but just in general it was such a pretty little piece of paradise that i didn't want to leave. i'll never forget this day!
another cool thing was that our ship was anchored in the middle of the ocean and we were brought to the island on a ferry :)

day four was in nassau, bahamas. because we had already explored the city on our last cruise, we didn't spend much there. we walked around a bit and got some nice pictures but then it was back on the ship for us. the free pizza and ice cream was calling our name! ;)

 ^^the lido deck. our favorite spot :) we'd spend so much time here. during the day and lots of random late nights :)

 ^^cruise director and his assistant! these guys made the cruise that much more fun. they were so funny

 ^^life size chess, anyone?

^^one of the entertainment nights consisted of 'guess that song'  in which the cruise director, alex, asked saad to dance to michael jackson lol. this was such a fun night :)

i never thought i'd enjoy a cruise as much as i do. a lot of it has to do with saad. he makes it all so much fun :) i loved spending that five days with him, disconnected from the internet and just making some amazing memories together. i'm already wanting to do it again! maybe we will soon..iA ;)