Surprise Package from Spain

My BESTEST friend Elder Shields sent me a package for my birthday and I of course screamed my head off when I saw this on my front door step when I got home from work...

Well this beautiful box came a week before my birthday which is COMPLETE torture to me. I have been DYING to know what is inside this box. Literally I would sit in my room and stare at it. I'd listen to a whole lecture online for school and at the end realize I didn't hear a word because I was staring at my box and wondering what was inside. Seriously majorly distracting!

Last night I had a dream about opening my birthday surprise and in my dream I opened it and Stanton had given me a detailed clay sculpture of his head... WEIRD! I didn't know what to do with it so I put it on a shelf in my room. (Don't ask how my mind comes up with these things). When I woke up this morning from that dream I decided it was time to open the package because it is seriously affecting my attention, school work and now dreams...

(Please excuse my morning hair and morning face in the following pictures- I know I'm just lovely)

I felt so bad opening it before my birthday that it took me a solid two hours to open the gift. I would cut a piece of tape then peak inside after ten minutes of staring, then cut another piece of tape. Really I'm pathetic. To make a long story short I know you are probable one-billionth as anxious as I was to find out what was inside. It was the one and only thing I told him I wanted him to bring me home before he left..

Excuse the dirty mirror too...

That's right... I have my very own Spanish jersey!!! YES!!!! You bet I immediately put it on and ran around the house! Honestly, he couldn't have possibly picked a more perfect gift! I can not believe he remembered or actually got me one! It was definitely a surprise and a wonderful one at that! I have to say I was a little disappointed that a huge clay head was not in my box, but a Spanish jersey will do :)

Basically, I have the most thoughtful and sweetest best friend in the whole world! I don't know which part was the best between the sweet letter, tape recordings, matching mugs, or jersey, but I do know that Stanton Shields is waaaay too good to me! Even from half way around the world, not having seen or talked to him for 19 months, he still makes me the happiest girl in the world! I am hands down the luckiest girl in the entire world! I love, love, LOVE that boy!