Yes. It's my birthday. Yes I'm officially old. I'm cool with it.
I recently heard two high school girls at the salon discussing how "old" 30 sounded. Ouch.
In my defense, a guy asked me this weekend if I went to school in Austin.
Like currently, not like 10 years ago.
He may or may not have been blind...
So in honor of my 31 years of a blessed life,
I thought back through the last 12 months and chose 31 of my most favorite memories.
And you know what? It was hard to limit them to only 31.
That's a good thing, right? And you know what else?
They all have a lot to do with being a mom.
I tried to not make it all about that, but in the big picture,
that's pretty much my most favorite thing of the past year...
becoming a mama.
SOOOOO... in no particular order, my top 31 memories of the past year....
1. spending our 4th wedding anniversary watching Crazy Love & eating Minsky's
3. Long walks last spring to induce labor
4. Getting caught in a torrential downpour with Mat during the last of those long walks.
6. Spending my 30th birthday with my parents and Mat in KC
8. Watching the most amazing lightning storm with Mat the night I was induced at KU...while having the most intense contractions and listening to James Taylor on repeat on the ipod
9. Campbell & Parker's birth
10. The first night at the hospital with Campbell...pretty sure none of us slept a wink.
12. Introducing Campbell to her Uncle Marshall
13. Watching our friends DJ & Amy get married in Vail.
14. First post baby date night with Mat: Big Head Todd
15. Introducing Campbell to her aunts Cori, Carissa & Andrea
16. First Road trip. alone. with a baby.
17. Campbell's first trip to the pumpkin patch
19. Halloween & a bumblebee
21. Thanksgiving in Tulsa
26. The blizzard of 2011
28. Watching Campbell crawl for the very first time
29. Training for the Zooma Half marathon in Austin
30. Running the half marathon with Cori to celebrate Parker & Campbell.












Love this post. Love you. Happy Birthday!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday!!!
ReplyDeleteman, you've had a great year. 31 welcomes you. happy birthday!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to my best friend of 18 years!
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PS I didn't wash my hair today in honor of your bday.
love your highlights of the year.
ReplyDeleteyou are one hot mama! 31 aint got nothing on those legs.
Ah, happy, happy, happy birthday!!! What a great year:)...I hope that this one is even better:).
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