Happy Groundhog's Day!!...Oh and that other thing....

Today the groundhog saw his shadow and gave the forecast of 6 more weeks of winter. I also woke up this morning and saw the shadow of my 20's. Anyone who knows me, knows how much I love getting older. I think if I didn't have a child who wasn't so excited about my birthday, I would have seriously dug the hole I have been threatening to dig since I turned 25. Now I'm not going to make a list of what I've done the last ten years, but it was a very very busy 20's. Ten years ago I was working my buttocks off in Nursing school and waiting for my best friend to come home from a mission. Now at 30...I have served a mission myself, married the love of my life, gave birth to a very stubborn daughter, once again back to school and got my RN, had an overactive pooping son, became a labor and delivery nurse, had a self-discovery couple months, owned a house, become a mother to a kindergartner, a wife to a game warden and have a job where I'll be for a while. Okay I said I wasn't going to make a list and then something took over and my fingers just kept typing.So anyways....those of you who are still awake, let's continue. The thing that I do like about getting older is you obtain more memories and meet more people. I have had so many people in my life who I consider spikes on my running shoes while I have jumped over a few hurdles. So now that I have declared a mini obituary lets have a look at my day:

The main thing we as a little family do on each other's birthdays is pick out a cake. It is a big deal. Well this year Rustin hired two personal chefs to make or,I guess, bake my cake. As you can see he made sure everything was sterile. You know like: no feet on the counter, no licking the knife, and wearing hair nets over our beautiful blonde hair.

Here's the head chef himself. I got to be downstairs while they made me a "surprise." I had NO idea what it was, after all there was no evidence in the cupboard like cake mix, frosting and purple icing. It was really kinda sweet. Okay it was super sweet!

Instead of a happy birthday cake, they made me a Happy '30' cake.

Earlier this week, Sariah told me she had gotten me the most amazing gift. She told me I would LOVE it. She gave me details like "oh mom you will love it because it is your favorite color" and "Oh it is so snuggly you will want to sleep with it" and "it has the cutest bow tied around it's neck." I'm sure YOU have already figured out it was a purple teddy bear that we have had lying around the house for years. Considering I helped her "wrap" her gift while closing my eyes, I had NO idea what it was......So in this picture you can see the shock and astonishment in my face. I got to hold it while I ate my cake and Sariah went and tucked it into bed, until it woke up! I was like "C'mon Birthday (the bears name-duh!) can you just sleep for 5 minutes?"...oh it is going to be a looooong night.

Thanks for all the birthday wishes and calls. Thanks for the very yummy dinner Mom and Dad. I would also like to thank my husband for asking the waitress if they had 30 candles to stick in my sugar cookie. Gotta love the man!!! Well here's to the next 30 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!